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IBM have won a 3 year contract with Nvidia to manufacture chips for their new video cards, including the new GeForce FX line of cards. Nvidia previous used Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer.

It will be interesting to see if in any way this deal will effect the contract IBM has with Sony to produce the new Cell CPUs for Sony for the upcoming Playstation 3 – Nvidia graphics chips are currently used in the XBox, a direct competitor to the PS2.

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Due to friction between contributing members of the W3C’s Working Group for the orchestration of Web Services, Microsoft have withdrawn their involvement with the group.

This could result in the eventual divergence of orchestration standards (or at least proposals at this stage), between IBM and BEA who are still working with the W3C, and Microsoft who may suggest their own mechanism and protocol for WS orchestration.

RedHat have announced they will release downloadable ISOs of RedHat 9.0 to subscribers of the RedHat Network, on 3/31/03.

From an email notification: “Beginning March 31st, paid subscribers to Red Hat Network will have
access to Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs – a full week before retail store and
Red Hat FTP availability.”

More info at their site here

Sun are offering their J2EE1.4 test compatibility suite to JBoss for the first time.

Up until this point, JBoss have repeatedly requested to obtain the test suite to verify that JBoss is J2EE compliant, but Sun has been refusing to give it to them. Why? Maybe they don’t want to admit that a fully compliant J2EE server platform can be obtained for free, especially as Sun are competing in the same marketplace with their SunONE server.

Read article here on new.com