According to the Miami Herald, one of the biggest churches in its fiefdom, the 8,000-member Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale, is moving out of its present warehouse and into Harris Corp’s 75 .5 acre Computer Systems base in Fort Lauderdale, paying close to Harris’s $21.3m asking price for the property. The two buildings on the land are occupied by Harris Computer Systems Corp, disappearing into Concurrent Computer Corp once shareholders approve the deal, and may rent a small amount of space from the church.
IBM Corp reminds us that its Power Parallel brand statement means there is no such animal as a SP2 any more. The current model and all future models are called RS/6000 SP and so there is no longer any numbering scheme. The new SP2 switch is officially called SP Switch. The old switch is called the High Performance Switch or HPS. Is that enough to confuse you?
Hewlett-Packard Co is saying that it will be at least a year before it presses its Convex Computer Corp acquisition’s ccNUMA Coherent Toroidal Interconnect into action as a commercial system technology.
Funny – other people are saying that it is so overloaded that it will collapse altogether later this year… Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said at an Acer Inc bash in Taipei that the Internet had now reached the critical mass of acceptance that will expand it into every sphere of life, adding that it and the personal computer were more important than the invention of the telephone and television.
No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition but they may well be subjected to it anyway at www.pythonline.com from July 6 when Monty Python and his Flying Circus take to the Web.
So that’s where it’s all leading – Intranets, says the Seattle Times enable employees to fill out requisition forms, do inventory searches, find available meeting times and rooms and even share uploaded digitized pictures of their pets on their own corporate home pages.
