A powerful new computing platform, more smarts for business and a Web office suite that promises to work offline are all in a day work (or two) at the Test Center. Say "Hi!" to a Phenom platform What happens when you marry a 64-bit quadcore Phenom processor with ATI graphics? Surprisingly you get Spider, a new platform from AMD that should catch more than just flies. In the words of Tom Yager the new platform is A powerful new computing platform, more smarts for business and a Web office suite that promises to work offline are all in a day work (or two) at the Test Center. Say “Hi!” to a Phenom platform What happens when you marry a 64-bit quadcore Phenom processor with ATI graphics? Surprisingly you get Spider, a new platform from AMD that should catch more than just flies. In the words of Tom Yager the new platform is “agile on any terrain” and “has exceptional vision”. It’s all in today’s Ahead of the Curve.Pervasive BI? To paraphrase the words of Gandhi, BI would be a very good idea. Like Western civilization, BI hasn’t exactly won everybody’s hearts and minds, which is probably why Microsoft is injecting more BI features in the upcoming SQL Server 2008. Read what Sean Gallagher has to say in Enterprise Windows. Not just online Q: What’s the ultimate challenge for a suite of Web office applications? A: Getting some work done also when a Web connection is not available. On a plane, for example. That’s where Randall Kennedy took Zoho Office for a test ride. Find out how Zoho Office performs when airborne in Enterprise Desktop. Technology Industry