Client Server News articles from April 2001

Client Server News archives from April 2001

Zelerate Hits the Wall; Its Failure Raises Serious Questions about the Viability of Open Source.(Company Operations)
April 2, 2001... Zelerate Inc, nee OpenSales Inc, that testament to open source development, is toast. The three-year-old ISV is down to just five people from a height of 96 during those heady days of just a few months ago when venture capitalists and...

Uh-oh, Hang On to Your Patents, It's Trouble.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Bruce Perens, the open source founding father who hired on at HP as a strategic advisor in December, is planning to hold the collective toes of the computer establishment to the fire over the issue of open sourcing their precious patent...

MSN DSL Subscribers Face the Night the Internet Died.(NorthPoint Communications discontinues services)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft Network (MSN) customers who use DSL access were unceremoniously unplugged late Wednesday night, along with an estimated 500,000 other customers in 163 cities including 100,000 businesses, when bankrupt backbone provider NorthPoint...

Schmidt Buys into Google.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Novell chief Eric Schmidt must have some time on his hands now that he's turning the job of being Novell's CEO over to Cambridge Technology Partners CEO Jack Messman as part of Novell's acquisition of the consulting operation. Anyway he wants...

Fujitsu Regroups for Storage Software Push.(Fujitsu Software Technology (ala Fujitsu Softek))(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Fujitsu Software Technology, a new pretender to the storage management software throne, has come into being as the result of a complicated bit of footwork that was part leveraged buyout, part asset transfer and part VC underwriting, the sort of...

Windows XP Beta Finally Arrives.(desktop versions)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft finally got the second WinXP beta out the door on Sunday, about six weeks later then most recently expected. Internet Explorer 6.0 got out too, along with a new cut of Windows Media. The beta release is only for the desktop...

Windows Developers Ticked at XP Beta Schedule.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Despite the months of preparation, Microsoft's release of the XP beta 2 managed to tick off one of the company's most important constituencies, the software developers who pay thousands of dollars a year to subscribe to the Microsoft Developers...

Curl Hits the Beach Running.(Curl Surge 1.0)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Curl is out. The well-financed, heavily credentialed start-up - well, Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the web, is one of its founders - describes its new Curl Surge 1.0 software environment as simply "one of the most important new...

Bill & Judy: Variations on a Think Tank.(Bill Carrico and Judy Estrin spin-off company)(Company Operations)
April 2, 2001... Packet Design, the networking technology incubator founded last spring by ex-Cisco CTO Judy Estrin and her husband ex-Cisco senior VP Bill Carrico, the duo that previously did Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices and Precept...

Same Old, Same Old.(Wall Street Journal's opinion of Microsoft Hailstorm marketing strategy)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... The Wall Street Journal spent part of its time Monday tsk-tsking over Microsoft's ill-conceived decision to give the "first concrete plans" in its critical web strategy the "malevolent," bullying code name HailStorm. After calling...

Micron Quits PCs; Gambles on ASP & Hosting.(buys Interland, merging it with HostPro)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Micron Electronics is getting out of the PC business to stake its future on becoming an ASP and web hosting company. It's putting all its eggs in one basket by buying Interland for $130 million in stock and melding it with its own HostPro...

IDC Wades In on Blades.
April 2, 2001... IDC has delivered itself of the opinion that this blade stuff will garner "a small but respectable share relative to the rack-optimized market by the end of 2001, effectively setting up the segment to explode in 2002 as the adoption becomes...

Gadzoox Cuts Staff on 33% Sales Shortfall.(Company Operations)
April 2, 2001... SAN maker Gadzoox, which a quarter ago thought it was finally getting the traction to eventually turn profitable, became the latest victim of the economic slowdown Thursday and said that it's going to miss sales estimates by a mile and lay off...

Microsoft Publishes New Publisher.(Microsoft Publisher 2002)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft on Wednesday released a new cut of its 10-year-old Publisher program to manufacturing. The hallmark features of the release, named Publisher 2002, are HTML support, an Office XP "look-and-feel," tighter integration with Office...

Corel's Linux Chief Named CTO.(Rene Schmidt)(Company Operations)
April 2, 2001... Corel has named executive VP Rene Schmidt, the head of its on-the- block Linux operations, CTO. Derek Burney was CTO before he took over as president and CEO after Corel founder Michael Cowpland got bounced last August. The Schmidt move...

Intel To Build Spanish Web Terminals.(for AOL and Banco Santander Central Hispano)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Intel is the company that's going to manufacture a batch of 250,000 Internet access terminals for AOL and Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano, according to a Reuters report. AOL and the bank signed a pact in October, but never said who...

How To Get From "Atlas Shrugged" to Microsoft.
April 2, 2001... One of our better-read subscribers wrote in to say that the name - apparently it's a code name - of WebTV inventor Steve Perlman's next great thing, Rearden Steel (CSN No 393), is completely derivative. He recalled that one of the main...

L&H Survives Bankruptcy Court Skirmish.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Bankrupt Lernout & Hauspie avoided what might have been sudden death on Thursday when a bankruptcy court turned down a motion by the founders and former majority shareholders of L&H's speech recognition subsidiary Dragon Systems asking the...

Legato Gets New Chairman.(David Wright)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Legato CEO David Wright has been named chairman following the resignation of Lou Cole, who recruited Wright out of Amdahl as his successor as chairman and CEO.

Microsoft's Rx for WebMD: More Money.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft is going to plow an undisclosed amount of money into WebMD as part of a deal for the medical dot.com to take over responsibility for health programming on the Microsoft Network (MSN). WebMD will, of course, swear eternal fealty to...

AMD Reportedly Get IBM's SOI Sorcery for Hammer.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... AMD has licensed IBM's silicon on insulator (SOI) technology for its prospective 64-bit Hammer chip, according to the Financial Times. Rumors that Hammer will be built with SOI technology have been floating around for months, but the source of...

Windows Batch Scripting Kit Upgraded.(Wilson Windoware's WinBatch 2001)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Wilson Windoware has gone to market with a new version of its WinBatch scripting language for Windows, a little number that's been around so long it almost part of the furniture. Wilson's got a corner on the Windows-specific batch scripting...

Acer Adopts Split Personality.(company splits PC business into two units)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Oh, look, Acer split its PC business in two and hardly anybody noticed. The split into separate units for Acer-branded PCs and private label business happened on December 26, when most folks had other things on their minds. Acer chairman...

OTG Buys CD/DVD Specialist.(Smart Storage Inc)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... OTG Software is buying CD/DVD storage management software specialist Smart Storage in a stock deal worth about $25 million. OTG ticked off a string of reasons for the acquisition ranging from picking up technology that it needs to broaden...

Novell Revs GroupWise.(version 6.0 for NT/2000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Novell has released a new rev of GroupWise, the aging collaborative software kit that has been badly squashed in the battle between Lotus Domino/Notes and Microsoft Exchange/Outlook. Truth be told, Novell would rather rid itself of the...

Trio Trumpets Tape Backup Bundle.(StorageTek, Veritas, McData)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... StorageTek, Veritas and McData have gotten together to configure a pre-configured SAN backup solution that Avnet Hall-Mark will distribute to VARs and systems integrators. The kit includes StorageTek's automated tape system, McData's ED-5000,...

Orr Turns Up at MobileAria.(former SCO executive Mike Orr)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... It seems that Mike Orr, the guy who would have been president of Tarantella Inc, all that will remain of the Santa Cruz Operation after it sells its Unix operating systems to Caldera, forsook the old girl a couple of weeks ago to become CEO of...

Disk Quota Server Gets Web Front-End.(Northern Parklife Quota Server.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Swedish utility house Northern Parklife has released an upscale version of its flagship Quota Server for Win2K/NT, adding chi-chi web-based management and reporting to the kit, which allocates disk space to corporate network users. The new...

eMachines Fights Nasdaq Delisting.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... eMachines said on Tuesday that it will fight the Nasdaq's decision to delist its shares because their price has fallen so low. Shares in the troubled PC maker, which lost $129 million on sales off more than 50% to $134.8 million in the...

Microsoft Opens Silicon Valley Tech Center.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft has opened its 26,000-square-foot Technology Center in Silicon Valley. It includes a lab, provisioned with Compaq and Unisys machines, 200 application servers actually, to forward the .NET cause and let customers do scalability...

Veritas Supports Procom.(in NetBackup package)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Veritas is now supporting Procom Technology's NetForce NAS file servers and Miracom's Internet messaging servers in its NetBackup backup and recovery kit. NetBackup, which already handles NAS devices from Network Appliance, EMC and Auspex,...

Motorola Releases CompactPCI Win2K Kit.(Hot Swap Kit)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Motorola's Computer Group unveiled a pair of Win2K software kits for its CompactPCI embedded computer line including one that lets users hot-swap peripheral boards in a running system and another to let multiple computers communicate via the...

IBM Posts Java Multimedia Tools.(for Java Media Framework 2.0)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... IBM has posted development versions of a "pure" MPEG-4 video decoder for the Java Media Framework 2.0 and a Java kit that combines video and audio analysis, speech recognition, an information retrieval engine and artificial intelligence to...

Gilder to Webcast Conference.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Influential futurist George Gilder, whose mere utterance can move markets, is going to webcast his first storewidth conference. Rather than trot out to the dear, mellow Ritz Carlton in Laguna Nigel in southern California on April 11-12, for...

Microtech Computers Buys What Remains of Atipa's Hardware Business.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Atipa, one of the oldest and largest of the Linux box makers, has sold off what's left of its Linux hardware interests to its Lawrence, Kansas neighbor, Microtech Computers Inc, a profitable 15- year-old white box shifter twice Atipa's size...

OEone's Done, Now It Needs To Sell the Thing.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... OEone Corporation, the outfit started last year by former Corel Computer president Eid Eid, has finished work on its promised Linux- based "operating environment" for Internet devices and is now out scouting for go-to-market partners willing to...

Caldera-SCO Deal Finally Gets SEC Approval.(acquisition of Unix business)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Caldera has finally gotten SEC clearance to acquire SCO's Unix operations eight months after the deal was initially cut and six months after the pair originally thought it would close. It's one of the longest times anyone can remember an...

VA Secretly Shows Two-Way AMD Server at CeBit.(VA Linux Systems' 760MP chipset)(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... Well, well, well. It seems that VA Linux Systems, which had Intel among its early investors and has toed a straight Intel line since Linux came to prominence, has been off dabbling in AMD waters. We trust it has alternate supplies of Intel...

Red Hat Wins Market Share Study by a Country Mile.(Company Business and Marketing)(Statistical Data Included)
April 2, 2001... Red Hat has a Microsoft-like market share of 77.2% among developers, according to a survey of more than 300 of them done last month by Evans Data Corporation. SuSE and Mandrake tied for a distant second at 21.8% each; Caldera was a hair...

SuSE Unveils Enterprise Linux Offering.(SuSE Linux Enterprise Server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... SuSE has gone to market with an "enterprise" version of its distribution, touting it as "extremely fail-safe" and suitable for mission-critical applications. The fail-safe piece, however, appears to be SuSE's support service, not the...

Lion Attacks Linux DNS Servers.(open source domain name server)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Hackers last week finally started taking advantage of a known security flaw in BIND, the open source domain name server (DNS) that, running on Linux, powers a majority of the Internet. Network administrators whose servers were hacked by a...

World's First Cross-Platform Linux-Windows Virus Appears.(W32.Winux)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... The first virus that can infect both Windows and Linux computers with equanimity has been created apparently by a Czechoslovakian hacker group. The hackers, who e-mailed the virus from a Czech address to anti- virus vendor Central Command,...

Linux-Powered PDAs on Hand at CeBit.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... This week's CeBit fair in Hanover, Germany was almost a Linux PDA- fest as companies big, little and unknown came crawling out of the woodwork with prototypes of Linux-powered handhelds. How many will make it to market is questionable, and...

Debian Gets New Chief.(Ben Collins)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Debian has elected itself a new leader, a 26-year-old self-taught programmer working at the NASA Langley Research Center who nominated himself for the job of Debian project leader and won because the chads fell his way. NASA Langley Unix...

SGI Discounts Farms.(Linux-based technical compute farms)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... SGI, saying that there's finally enough electronic design automation (EDA) software available on Linux, is trying to kick start sales of its Linux-based technical compute farms with massive discounts of $9,000 to $23,200 per farm. The...

Vividata OCR Kit Gets New ScanSoft Engine.(optical character recognition)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... ScanSoft and Vividata Inc have extended the pact under which ScanSoft provides Vividata with its optical character recognition (OCR) technology for the Linux and Unix markets to cover ScanSoft's latest technology. The ScanSoft code, which is at...

Ximian Hires CFO.(Todd Miceli)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Ximian has recruited ex-Viveca Inc CEO Todd Miceli as its CFO. Miceli has been VP, finance and a founder of e-Steel Corporation, VP, business development at GE Capital Mortgage, VP, Corporate Finance Group at Jefferies & Company and a principal...

Internet Store Kit Shopped for VA Linux.(from Kurant)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Kurant Corporation has released a version of its StoreSense e- commerce kit for VA Linux servers. The kit is a suite of e-commerce tools and services to build, manage and maintain Internet storefronts. It's sold by subscription only. The VA...

NEC's Biglobe Seeks Salvation in ASP Business.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... NEC Corporation said on Thursday that its Biglobe ISP operation was suffering from new competition from Japanese telephone companies and that it's decided to shift more of its focus to the ASP business. About 35% of Biglobe's revenues...

LivePerson Lays Off More of its Live Persons.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... ASP LivePerson Inc, after bragging about how it just signed up the 1,000th paying customer for its HumanClick product offering, shut its New York R&D labs in a move to conserve cash. The move makes macabre logic in the ASP business, as the...

FutureLink Aims at Health Clubs.(Legend Information Systems, Belmont Financial Services, FitnessInsite.com, BookingPlus, First Credit Services)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... FutureLink, leveraging off its experience providing ASP services to Gold's Gym, has put together a six-way partnership to create an end- to-end fitness club management solution. The deal mates FutureLink with Legend Information Systems,...

Dell Pops $684 Server.(PowerEdge 300SC)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Dell on Monday replaced its lowest-priced small business server with a new model that's 13% cheaper, weighing in with a list price of $899. There's only one catch. There's no operating system at that price. Win2K Server with five...

Microsoft's Penmanship.(pen-based Tablet PC)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft made it quite plain at Comdex last fall that it was close with a pen-based Tablet PC reference design and Transmeta leaked it conspicuously enough that folks cottoned to the fact that it was one of Microsoft's little playmates. But...

Life is Getting Too Confusing.(IBM x-series 430)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... No wonder that machine looked familiar. IBM's "new" 64-way Intel box, the x430 (CSN No 393), is actually the old IBM i410, which before that was Sequent's NumaQ. It's just got new Xeons in it. IBM has been reorganizing and moving so-called x...

How Dense is Dense?(Compaq's Quick Blade)(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... It seems that Compaq's idea of a hyper-dense server as represented by this newfangled Quick Blade thing it's working on is 280 blades per rack. Let's see. Given a 42U rack, its neighbor and rival, the start-up RLX Technologies, should be...

Odd Hiring Freeze.(Microsoft)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft observers who spend a lot of time in Redmond claim that Microsoft is interviewing like crazy - the local hotels are doing a bang up business - but it's all a farce. There's basically a hiring freeze on although Microsoft is reportedly...

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.(Amdahl)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... It appears that Amdahl is now pretty much reduced to a holding company for the new Softek, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, its old customer service arm and DMR.

Sun Suffers from Mozilla Syndrome.(OpenOffice)(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... Sun is supposed to be very disappointed over the lack of support OpenOffice has gotten from the Gnome set. Sun expected them to flock to help with its development. They haven't and it's suspected it's because they don't trust Sun. Sun...

Tivoli CTO Goes to Dell.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Tivoli's ex-CTO Pete Morowski has turned up at Dell as VP of software development at the company's server unit. He's supposed to lead the team that Dell quietly formed in January that's responsible for operating systems, systems management,...

Can't Get 'em into Court.(Compaq/RLX Technologies case.)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... The court hearing in the interesting case of Compaq v RLX Technologies, the Trans-meta-based dense server start-up that's chockablock with ex-Compaq executives, has been delayed for a second time reportedly trying to get all the depositions...

Got Anything in a Common GUI?(Insignia)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Insignia is going to try to coax the embedded Linux contingent into standardizing on a common graphical user interface. It says it doesn't particularly care which one but it would rather one or two out of all the proprietary ones take the point...

Big Talk out of Intel.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Speaking at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering (WinHEC) this week, Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger predicted that hardware junkies will be slobbering over what he called the "Giga PC" by the end of the year. Such a beast, he said, will be powered...

Is Eazel Next?(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Tongues are wagging that Eazel, the Linux desktop GUI house that's having trouble landing a second round and had to cut staff recently, may hit the same wall as Zelerate. Eazel's business model is nothing to write home about.

Wind River Buys BSD/OS.(Berkeley Software Design Inc)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... So Berkeley Software Design Inc, popularly known as BSDi, the 10- year-old attempt to commercialize Berkeley Unix, a dicey proposition from the very beginning, has collapsed into the arms of RTOS maven Wind River Systems. BSDi reportedly...

SourceXchange Dies.(Collab.Net shuts down service)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Another great open source experiment has bitten the dust. Collab.Net's SourceXchange, which was set up to match open source developers with companies willing to pay for their work, has been shut down. It couldn't find enough companies...

Wyse Makes Layoffs.(layoff)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Thin client leader Wyse, citing the economy like everybody else, has quietly trimmed staff by about 10%, eliminating 28 jobs. The company called it a "staffing adjustment," rather than a layoff, made "to bring operating expenses in line...

DSL Disaster Deepens.(Company Financial Information)
April 9, 2001... Psst, wanna buy a good modem? They way things are going you may hear a lot of that. DSL users may be forced to trade in their widgetry. DSL backbone provider Rhythms NetConnections has hired investment banker Lazard Freres to explore...

EC Measures Microsoft for Noose.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Microsoft may be out of the antitrust frying pan here in the states - everybody seems pretty confident that the Court of Appeals will give it a pass at least on breakup when it finally rules - but the noises coming out of Europe suggest that...

GraphOn & Citrix-Insignia Patch Things Up for Cost of Patent Recognition.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... That lingering little legal contretemps between GraphOn on the one hand and Citrix and Insignia on the other over whether Insignia ripped off some GraphOn technology disclosed to it under NDA in 1996 and later sold it to Citrix when Citrix...

Microsoft Sets Office XP Price Schedule.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Microsoft on Monday set out the official price list for Office XP and said the new kit would be on retail shelves May 31. It also pitched its previously announced marketing trial scheme that will let people play with the suite for 30 days for...

ASP King Teeters on the Brink.(Company Financial Information)
April 9, 2001... After all the ASP hype, it's increasingly clear that the emperor has no clothes. FutureLink, the would-be king of the ASPs, has admitted in a delayed quarterly report that it's nearly broke and doesn't have enough cash to last the year....

Apache 2 Finally Hits Beta.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... The Apache Software Foundation finally went to beta on Thursday with the long-awaited Apache 2, which has been under development for two years. There's still no predicting when formal release will finally come for Apache 2, the first...

Intel Progresses with Production Innovation.(0.12-micron technology)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Intel has said it would spend its way through any recession but that's because it needs to get to the next place in line, 0.13- micron chip production. Monday it reported that its D1C wafer development fab in Hillsboro, Oregon had produced...

Israeli Wireless Broadband Gear Makers Merge.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Israeli high-speed wireless equipment vendors BreezeCom Ltd and Floware Wireless Systems Ltd are merging in a deal that will create one of the world's largest point-to-multipoint broadband wireless vendors. The deal, which will father a...

API Flaunts HyperTransport Bridge Chip.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... API NetWorks Inc, the Alpha chip people, says it's got the first HyperTransport-to-PCI bridge chip, which shouldn't be much of a surprise considering that API is supposed to have co-developed the high-speed HyperTransport bus (CSN No 387) with...

Microsoft Makes Music.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Microsoft waded into online music Tuesday, going to beta with a portal that promises to deliver a choice of 100 customizable pseudo- radio stations. Given the Napster flap, online music is both hot and controversial right now. Microsoft's...

Astrum Aims To Keep a Lid on Storage Costs.(Astrum Software StorCast Storage Performance Manager)(Product Development)
April 9, 2001... Astrum Software will go to beta in a few days with what it ballyhoos as the industry's first storage performance management kit that can help companies figure out their true storage performance and needs. Astrum is promising that its kit...

Gateway Starts Shutting Stores.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Gateway has closed down 37 of its Country Stores, including all 10 of its Canadian outlets. Gateway said it may abandon some or all of its 45 other non-US stores. The closures are part of a forced belt-tightening that leaves Gateway...

Sun Reacts to Top-Level Defections.(Company Operations)
April 9, 2001... What with the head of Sun's service provider and telecom business John McFarlane bolting to router start-up Nexsi Systems as CEO a couple of weeks ago (CSN No 393) - well, ISPs are shoveling the dot.coms on the funeral pyre and telecoms are...

Nematron & Optimation Back at the Altar.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Windows-based industrial controls specialist Nematron Corporation and Optimation, which Nematron has been trying to buy, have kissed and made up. Optimation walked away from the acquisition in January for reasons it never mentioned (CSN No...

No Magic in Magic's Quarter.(Magic Software Enterprises)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... In the current economy, even Israeli software house Magic Software can't find a financial rabbit to pull out of its hat. Magic, which is still struggling to transform itself from a tools house to an applications company, said that it will...

Gadzoox Aims 2Gb/s Slingshot at Competitors.(Slingshot 4218 SAN switch)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Gadzoox Networks has taken out after competitors with a slingshot, a new 2Gb SAN switch called the Slingshot 4218 that it calls the first third-generation gismo in storage networking. The way Gadzoox tells it, Slingshot supports new open...

WinCE Gets a Voice.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Microsoft has bought a license to text-to-speech technology from SpeechWorks International. The SpeechWorks text-to-speech engine, called Speechify, is commonly used in telephony applications such as "reading" e-mail, news or other content...

Sybase To Miss Estimates.(Mar 2001qtr)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... It was Sybase's turn on Tuesday. It said that it's going to miss analyst estimates of 28 cents a share, and report only 23 cents-26 cents for the March quarter on sales of $227 million-$231 million, about $25 million less than expected. ...