He then went on to be chief executive of Cobalt Networks, a server appliance company that made it cheap and easy for companies to go online.

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Dataquest, a San Jose research firm, also predicts big things the operating system, saying Linux will account for almost a quarter of worldwide server appliance revenue by the year 2003.

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Samsung Electronics' award-winners include products in the TV, home theater system, mobile phone, tablet, home appliance, server, software, and computer component categories.

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The Hot Desk technology also enables the rendering of the application execution on the server, sending it down to the Sun Ray 1 appliance.

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The Mini was launched a year ago as a scaled-down, blue version of Google's bright yellow Search Appliance--essentially a rack-mounted server that businesses could plug into their network infrastructure for searching up to 100, 000 shared files and Web pages.

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This software will allow a vendor to use a server containing a Fusion-io ioMemory flash card into a shared storage appliance.

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