Channelweb.com News Quiz -- April 2009
After 10 years, which manufacturer lost its No. 1 spot in U.S. PC sales in the first quarter of 2009, according to research firm IDC?
HP/Compaq
Dell
IBM/Lenovo
Apple
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It's important to know what you're buying. Which of the following is not a Sun technology that Oracle will soon acquire?
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GlassFish
JRockit
MySQL
ZFS
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After scooping up CompUSA last year, which company has now agreed to purchase Curcuit City's assets?
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Acer
Best Buy
Radio Shack
Systemax
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It was one of the most ubiquitous domains in the early days of the Web. Soon it will be gone. What site is Yahoo closing down later this year?
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AltaVista
Ask Jeeves
Geocities
Motley Fool
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What's the name of Dell's new premium, ultrathin notebook line?
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Adamo
Extensa
Latitude
Starbuck
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Launched in March, which company's 'Unified Computing System' has the company entering the blade server and virtualization markets?
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Alcatel
Cisco
IBM
Juniper
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When this company spun off Globalfoundries, it triggered a legal dispute with its largest rival, with which it has a technology cross-licensing agreement:
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AMD
Fujitsu
Infineon
Motorola
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Know your clouds: What's the name of Microsoft's cloud computing initiative?
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AppEngine
Azure
Blue Cloud
Elastic Compute
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Intel's new high-end server chip, launched at the end of March, will appear in new products from Sun and Apple. It's called:
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Haswell
Nehalem
Westmere
Penryn
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Jaunty Jackalope is the code name for the latest Linux distribution release from which organization?
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Canonical
Red Hat
Debian
Novell
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
Global PC Sales Fall In Q1, HP Overtakes Dell In U.S.
What Oracle Would Get With Sun Acquisition
Systemax Agrees To Purchase Circuit City Assets
Yahoo To Close GeoCities
Dell Adamo Goes Head-To-Head With MacBook Air
Blades of Glory: 5 Reasons Cisco's Blade Server Push A 'Game-Changer'
Intel-AMD x86 License Dispute Boils Over
Microsoft's Windows Azure Vision Taking Shape
Apple Unveils Nehalem-Based Xserve Server
Sun Intros Nehalem Servers At Partner Conference
Review: Ubuntu 9.04 Takes A Swipe At Microsoft