MarketWatch: Infrastructure articles from June 2003

MarketWatch: Infrastructure archives from June 2003

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SEC looking at IBM transactions. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... The US Securities and Exchange Commission has asked IBM Corp for information about transactions at its point of sales unit, the IT giant revealed. IBM said it had received notice "of a formal, nonpublic investigation by the Securities and...

SCO ups ante against IBM. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... SCO Group Inc is raising the stakes against IBM Corp, by seeking over $3bn for alleged misuses of its intellectual property and potentially drawing the US government into its fight. The company has told a US court it is seeking wide-ranging...

SuSE targets the enterprise with Linux Desktop. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... SuSE Linux AG has launched its attack on Microsoft Corp's enterprise desktop monopoly with the release of SuSE Linux Desktop, a desktop operating system aimed squarely at the needs of enterprise business users. The Nuremberg, Germany-based...

Microsoft dips on Ballmer's Linux warning. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... Wall Street suffered an adverse reaction to Steve Ballmer's warning that open source and Linux software presents the company with a competitive challenge. In an annual state-of-the-union company wide email to employees, Ballmer said the...

Platform says grid computing will rejuvenate IT. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... The drive toward grid computing could rejuvenate the technology sector, according to grid software specialist Platform Computing Inc. The company has been focused on the core technologies that make up grid computing--distributed computing,...

Torvalds joins OSDL to give Linux his full attention. (Infrastructure News Review).
June 25, 2003... Linux creator Linus Torvalds is finally working full-time on the development of the open source operating system after joining the Open Source Development Lab as its first OSDL Fellow. Having created the Linux kernel while studying computer...