Sales of Windows-based servers has pulled even with those of Unix-based boxes for the first time ever, according to first quarter 2005 sales figures from researcher IDC.

In an overall up server market, IDC counted $4.2bn worth of Microsoft Windows server sales on the back of 12 percent growth. Total Unix sales also hit $4.2bn in the period, IDC said, on 3 per cent revenue growth. Those totals left Microsoft and Unix systems holding 35 per cent of the server market each.

Dialcom’s Spontania video plug-in is designed to be integrated with any 3rd party Internet-based communication solution.

Dialcom selected Skype, the leading VoIP solution, as the first integration candidate.

Spontania video4skype is Firewall, NAT and proxy friendly it has End-to-end encryption and supports Full-screen mode.

Borland has announced their technical roadmap for JBuilder. Later this year Borland will ship JBuilder 2006 which will add shared code and shared debugging features. In the first half of 2006, JBuilder will ship a new version, code-named “Peloton”, which will be completely Eclipse-based and add better dependency analysis features.

The shared code and debugging will allow developers in different locations to participate in shared coding and debugging, as though they were sitting down together in the same room.

Source: The Server Side

Google gave journalists a glimpse of its next generation machine translation system at a May 19th Google Factory Tour. “Google Blogoscoped” offers an excellent overview of the presentation. The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. This corpus is some 20 billion words worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages. Apparently it was successful where the current version had failed in translating certain phrases.

Source: Slashdot

Intel today formally committed itself to bringing its EM64T 64-bit processing extensions down into the Celeron D line of low-cost desktop chips.

At the top of the list is the all-new 351, clocked at 3.2GHz, while the 326, 331, 336, 341 and 346, clocked at 2.53, 2.66, 2.80, 2.93 and 3.06GHz, respectively, supersede the current LGA775 Celeron D line-up, with a ‘1′ added to the model number to indicate the effect on EM64T. Intel is expected to ship a 3.33GHz Celeron D 355 next quarter.

Source: The Register

Advanced Micro Devices plans to release its dual-core desktop chips in Taiwan on Tuesday, and manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Lenovo Group will discuss how they will use them in their product lines.

At the Computex trade show, AMD plans to launch four dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors–the 4800+, the 4600+, the 4400+ and the 4200+. Dual-core chips, which contain two separate processing cores, can run more than one application at once, or run many single applications much faster.

Source: News.com