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[Day Permalink] Wednesday, January 29, 2003

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Apple server products gaining momentum: "Despite its nascent status, Apple Computer Inc.'s server division is gaining momentum among ISV partners and corporate users of its Xserve and OS X operating system." [Google Technology News]


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Apple Moves Boldly Forward: "Open source has opened a crack, even if it's just a small one, in Microsoft's grip on computing. So far, Apple's taken advantage of it with BSD, Samba, KHTML, X11 and more. Now let's see if Apple's willing to up the ante enough to make things truly interesting." (eWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]


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Mac OS X gets Infoworld Technology of the Year award: 'Apple gets credit for "a rapid fire sequence of updates" to address bugs and problems in Mac OS X, and for putting up with the complaints of open source advocates who claim that Apple's not open source enough, while still maintaining a high profile in that domain. Apple is taking steps to make Mac OS X "the best regarded Unix platform on the market," according to the review.' [MacCentral]


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Xbench 1.0 final released: "piny Software today announced the final 1.0 release of Xbench, its comprehensive benchmarking solution for Mac OS X..." [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-Minute Apple Mac News]


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Microsoft fails Slammer's security test: "Microsoft's policy of relying on software patches to fix major security flaws was questioned Monday after a series of internal e-mail revealed that the software giant's own network wasn't immune from a worm that struck the Internet last weekend." [Google Technology News]