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Business Profile: TIAA Investments, a division of TIAA-CREF, $265 billion in assets, New York. Web site: http://www.tiaainvestments.org/ Lines of Business: Fixed-income investment products. Vendor/Technology Solution: ON Technology Corp.'s (Waltham, Mass.) ON Command CCM and iCommand multi-platform management solutions. Technology In...
August 22, 2003

The move will create administrative challenges because "Linux doesn't really scale beyond four CPUs," asserts Dvorkin. "So what you do is, instead of getting one big box, you wind up with a lot of small boxes. The value of the ON Technology solution is that those boxes will look alike, and in fact will have the same versions of software on them, from a central source, in the same manner we're able to manage desktops."

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