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Market dynamics: the battle for enterprise Linux.
June 25, 2003... Event Summary On March 7 2003 The SCO Group Inc launched a $1bn lawsuit against IBM, accusing the company of misappropriation of trade secrets, tortuous interference, unfair competition and breach of contract, and alleging that IBM had purposeful destroyed the value of the market for Unix...

Intel readies HPC variant of Madison Itanium 2. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... Intel Corp will announce a special version of its forthcoming "Madison" 64-bit Itanium 2 processor aimed at the special needs of the high-performance computing market, according to Rick Herrmann, manager of Intel's HPC segment. The company has had a taste of success in the HPC market in...

Red hat plans open source Java, prepares Linux Desktop. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... Red Hat Inc is in discussions with Sun Microsystems Inc about launching an open source version of Sun's Java environment, according to Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based Linux distributor is also lining up a slew of product launches including its...

Microsoft acquisition shakes anti-virus market. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... In a move long feared by the anti-virus software market, Microsoft Corp announced it intends to buy an AV firm, second-tier Romanian developer GeCAD Software Srl, and will start offering AV products and services. The move created immediate ripples of concern in the industry. Shares in...

Microsoft fights spammers, spam laws. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... Microsoft Corp announced, with much fanfare, that it has filed 15 lawsuits in the US and UK against individuals and businesses it believes are spammers. Critics said the move was a PR smokescreen aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the company was simultaneously trying to...