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 Friday, March 28, 2003
HP refreshes consumer PCs. The company has changed the look of four Presario desktops and has added faster wireless networking to two Presario notebooks. The new machines run from 499.99 to $819.99.  Not terribly exciting news, but the portable versions come with 802.11g -- an interesting decision based on the fact that the 802.11g standard has yet to be finalized. [CNET News.com]
4:17:36 PM    

HP, Brocade ally on storage virtualization. HP and Brocade Communications Systems will together develop products that use HP's VersaStor virtualization technology to make it easier to manage storage-area networks.  This is an integration with Openview CASA. ([keywords:"openview"]
9:36:16 AM    

HP Server No. 1 in Density. The article tells us that HP's ProLiant DL560 server holds the most horse-power per rack-inch.  It never ceases to surprise me the things people dream up to say, "We're number 1!"  eWeek Mar 28 2003 4:21AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
9:31:57 AM    

HP wins $100m Ireland e-learning contract. This particular link is from ComputerWorld, and is plagued by a very annoying full-screen pop-up.   You've been warned!  CW360.com Mar 28 2003 8:08AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
9:28:03 AM    

HSBC and HP Clear HK Offices over "mystery virus" threat. HP Ultimately sends 300 people home over fear that one of their employees contracted the deadly Pneumonia Virus we've heard so much about in the news of late.  Forbes Mar 28 2003 10:17AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
9:25:28 AM    

New NNM 6.2 Patches Available:   There are even more NNM 6.2 Patches that were announced this morning.
  • PSOV_03253 -- Intermediate Patch, March 2003. For Sun Solaris.
  • NNM_00984 -- Intermediate Patch, March 2003.  For Windows NT
  • PHSS_28878 -- Intermediate Patch, March 2003.  For HP-UX
  • PHSS_28877 -- Intermediate Patch, March 2003.  For HP-UX
It must be patch-day at HP!
9:07:59 AM    

New OVO Patches:  There are two new OVO Unix patches that were released today:

I know that there's some serious problems with the JavaGUI Client on XP, so I would expect a patch for that fairly quickly as well.
9:02:05 AM