Client Server News articles from April 2005

Client Server News archives from April 2005

HP hires NCR chief to clean up Carly's mess: appointment stirs dreams of Compaq spin-off.(National Cash Register Company)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
April 4, 2005... The fickle finger of fate has landed on Mark Hurd, the sales and marketing guy who's been CEO of NCR for the last two years, making him president and CEO of HP, a company more than 10 times the size of the one he's been running. Ironically...

Merrill Lynch, a bad news bear.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Merrill Lynch is predicting a slowdown in the server market later this year and next. It estimates that if revenue growth turns flat Sun's earnings will take the biggest hit, down close to 25%, followed by HP, IBM and Dell. The broker...

Potomac, twin castle launch comes off.
April 4, 2005... Intel expanded its 64-bit x86 portfolio Tuesday with five new sixth-generation Xeon MP processors for four-way or better servers. It's now "x64" from the desktop to the data center. Intel's newfangled Truland platform, Truland is supposed...

Microsoft RTMs 64-bit Windows Server 2003, XP.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Microsoft has released the 64-bit x86 versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional to manufacturing in the expectation of making them available through its resellers and OEMs in late April. At Intel's new Xeon MP processors...

RLX repotted with $9.1m more fertilizer.
April 4, 2005... RLX Technologies Inc, the blade pioneer now in its post-hardware, software-only phase, has moved its headquarters to a converted barn in Old Town Spring, Texas, a snug little place in the throes of preservation north of Houston. The move...

The little bastard finally gets a name.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Microsoft and the European Commission have finally agreed on what to call the cut-down version of Windows XP that the EC ordered Microsoft to provide in Europe. Microsoft, which has said it doesn't recognize it as Windows, originally...

Oracle strikes again.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Oracle said Monday that it had bought Oblix, the small nine-year-old privately held identity-based security house run by ex-Symantec CEO Gordeon Eubanks, for an undisclosed amount of money. Oracle is still digesting People-Soft and hasn't...

Groklaw has trouble sharing its toys while IBM tries to take SCO's toys away.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
April 4, 2005... Dear, dear, dear. Whatever happened to that share-and-share-alike philosophy that open source and its advocates are famous for? Groklaw and its followers got all exercised and bent out of shape this week when they discovered that the hated...

SCO may shake its scarlet letter soon.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... SCO thinks it's gonna file its belated 10K, covering the year ended October 31, any second now, maybe even today, having resolved those differences it was having with its auditor mostly over how to treat employee stock compensation. Once...

Red Hat numbers solid, stock price in the pits.(Linux Watch)
April 4, 2005... Red Hat's Q4 revenues hopped over the top of its guidance, coming in at $57.5 million when the company said the best it could do was $56.5 million. Guess it needs to wipe the fingerprints off its crystal ball. Revenues were up 56%...

GroundWork attracts VCs, claims it's a trend.(Linux Watch)(GroundWork Open Source Solutions Inc)(Venture Capital companies)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... GroundWork Open Source Solutions Inc, the two-year-old Emeryville, California start-up in the business of infrastructure management solutions such as network and systems monitoring, service desk management and IT dashboards, has picked up an...

Black Duck on-demand.(Linux Watch)(Black Duck Software)
April 4, 2005... Black Duck Software, the outfit whose software tracks down open source code developers may be using in a project and makes sure a company is complying with all the various licensing requirements, has gone into the on-demand business, crossing...

Ex-CSFB CIO named to OSDL board.(Linux Watch)(Credit Suisse First Boston)(Open Source Development Labs)(Chief Information Officer)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has named Frank Fanzilli, the former global CIO of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and an ex-IBMer, to its board. He retired in 2002 after pioneering the use of Linux at CSFB, which deployed one of...

Deutsche bain hops on the Linux train.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Novell says that Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway, is going with Linux as its strategic server platform and that its IT arm DB Systems is currently running mission-critical apps on 300 Intel server fitted out with SuSE as part of a...

FFII takes over NoSoftwarePatents.com.(Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is going to take over the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign to prevent the spread of American-style patents to Europe from its founder Florian Mueller so he can get back to work...

NASA to use Zend.(Linux Watch)(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)(Zend Technologies)
April 4, 2005... Zend Technologies, the PHP company, says that Lockheed Martin is going to use Zend Studio 4 to develop an object-oriented code-generation framework for NASA space exploration. The widgetry is being used as what is described as a critical...

Microsoft debuts online video service.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Microsoft has launched the promised MSN Video Downloads online video service that will offer TV programs and video clips that can be played on Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers and some Smartphones and Pocket PCs. The new service...

Lenovo takes on partners.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... IBM's new Chinese partner, the Lenovo Group, has sold off pieces of itself worth $350 million to three US equity firm the Texas Pacific Group (TPG), General Atlantic LLC (GA) and Newbridge Capital LLC. It needs the money to finance its...

Microsoft makes money on Sony's pain.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... A federal court in San Jose, California has ordered Sony to pay Immersion Corporation $90.7 million for infringing its two realism-enhancing touch feedback patents and to stop selling its offending PlayStation console and games, rivals of...

M'soft talks up Longhorn networking features.
April 4, 2005... Microsoft talked up Longhorn this week promising that the next version of the Windows operating system would have both enterprise and consumer networking enhancements. In an online chat the other day, Microsoft's corporate VP of its...

Pacifica rises.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Well, out little chip groupie Nathan Brookwood was right about Pacifica. The AMD virtualization widgetry, basically hardware support for the technology, is close enough to Intel's Vanderpool stuff that virtual machine suppliers like VMware,...

CA buys mainframe identity management app.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Computer Associates has acquired a mainframe identity and access management product from InfoSec that identifies and removes obsolete, unused and rogue user IDs and access rights automatically. Financial terms weren't disclosed. CA has...

EMC launches SAN change management software.(Drive Bay)(Storage Area Networks)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... EMC has introduced new software aimed at change management and ensuring the high availability of heterogeneous SANs. Dubbed SAN Advisor, the new software includes an automated data import engine that downloads detailed SAN environment data...

Zetta launches new data recovery software.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Storage start-up Zetta Systems has released a new application that promises to instantly recover email, database and file servers. Dubbed ZettaServer IR for real-time Data Protection and Instant Recovery, the software is designed to offer...

ExaGrid snags $13.5m B round.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Storage start-up ExaGrid Systems has raised a $13.5 million Series B round. The money, which came from existing investors Highland Capital Partners and Sigma Partners, takes the fledgling's total backing to around $20 million. ...

NetApp debuts multi-vendor virtualization gear.(Network Appliance Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Network Appliance has introduced multi-vendor storage virtualization widgetry under the V-Series moniker designed to support third-party storage systems from Hitachi, IBM, HP and Sun. An evolution of the older NetApp gFilers, the V-Series,...

Sanrad launches disaster recovery gear.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Israeli IP storage start-up Sanrad has launched a disaster recovery product built around its iSCSI V-Switch. Dubbed Global Disaster Recovery (GDR), the product is a turnkey hardware-software package that combines Sanrad's iSCSI V-Switch and...

Transmeta fires 25% of staff; names new CEO.
April 4, 2005... Transmeta, the down-for-the-count chip renegade, fired another 67 employees, about 25% of its staff, Thursday in a desperate struggle to survive after a lackluster fourth quarter. The Santa Clara, California concern also named its senior VP...

HP launches Truland servers.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Hewlett-Packard has launched two new servers, the ProLiant DL580 G3 and ProLiant ML570 G3, based on the new 64-bit Xeon MP Truland platform. The DL580 G3 is a rack-mount using the shiny new 3.33GHz Xeon MP (aka Potomac) with 8MB of L3...

Windows Server 2003 SP1 debuts.(Service Pack 1)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 to manufacturing, promising availability in the next 60 days. SP1 is supposed to have the usual security, reliability and performance enhancements. Besides a bunch of...

IBM promotes VMware.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... IBM is going to bundle six-month evaluation copies of VMware ESX Server, Virtual SMP and VirtualCenter with VMotion with its BladeCenter shipments worldwide. ESX is VMware's data center-class virtual infrastructure software for...

Intel folds in Japanese antitrust case.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Intel is taking the course of least resistance about the antitrust charges that the Japanese regulators made against it a few weeks ago. It's simply conceding and, without admitting anything or even agreeing with the facts behind the...

Remember, downloads are not commerce.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Sun said Monday that it had distributed "more than one million" registered licenses for Solaris 10 since January 31, when the code went up on Sun's web site. The company described the "interest" in Solaris 10 as exceeding its "highest...

BI shutters.(Billy Grams)(Business Intelligence)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Goldman Sachs figures that Microsoft may have spooked its rivals by highlighting the business intelligence features built into its next release of SQL Server the other day and may pressure other database vendors like Oracle and IBM to build or...

M'soft & the EC ain't getting along.(Microsoft Corp., European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposal for limiting the powers of the monitoring trustee who's supposed to oversee its antitrust order, according to Reuters, which quoted a snappy Microsoft as saying, "We have been waiting...

My dual-core's better than your dual-core.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... AMD figures its dual-cores will perform at least 20% better than Intel's dual-cores because they're better integrated. See, like most married people, Intel's Smithfield-style dual-cores, which are more like two processors inhabiting the same...

Ex-Newisys CTO joins AMD.(Billy Grams)(Chief Technology Officer)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Former IBM Fellow and former Newisys CTO Rich Oehler has joined AMD's Office of Strategy and Technology reporting to CTO Fred Weber. He's there to align AMD's multi-core enterprise-class strategies with the needs of the Fortune 1000. Oehler is...

Stock watch.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund, Microsoft's best friend on Wall Street, describes its stock as acting "like a runner in lead boots, down 10% year-to-date, but actually in line with the software group and broader tech sector and selling at...

Help wanted.(Billy Grams)(Cognos Inc. Recruitment)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Cognos is planning to hire something like 1,500 people in the next three years starting with customer service, quality assurance and software development. It's currently got 3,400, half of them in Ottawa where it's headquartered.

Darn non-competes.(Virtual Iron Software Inc., management)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Virtual Iron Software Inc, the virtual computing platform start-up in Acton, Massachusetts, finds itself shy one of its anticipated board of advisors. Ex-Novell vice-chairman, the guy credited with Novell's purchase of SuSE and Ximian, was...

Comdex is still dead.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Despite what may have been valiant attempts by its current owners to resuscitate Comdex, the show has been canceled again. There won't be a Comdex this year like there wasn't a Comdex last year. Show people predicted last year when it was...

Intel's hard-won Fujitsu alliance produces 'open' mainframe.
April 11, 2005... The momentous alliance that Intel cut with Fujitsu, Sun's long-time Sparc buddy, two years ago bore its first fruit Tuesday when Fujitsu unveiled a so-called "mainframe-class open system" based on the slow-moving 64-bit Itanium chip. The little...

Canopy reportedly selling Vintela.(Linux Watch)(Vintela Inc)
April 11, 2005... The switchboard at rumor central lit up the last couple days with scuttlebutt about Quest Software supposedly buying Vintela Inc, the Utah outfit financed by the Canopy Group and Microsoft whose widgetry makes Microsoft's widgetry support Linux...

Siebel hits the wall.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Siebel admitted Tuesday that it had badly missed its first quarter after gulling Wall Street into thinking it would make or exceed expectations. License revenues were down 41% year-over-year to $75 million, falling $45 million below the...

Microsoft moves to Defang EC.(European Commission)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Microsoft is trying to calm the wrath of the European Commission, which is ticked over how long it's taking Microsoft to put the EC's antitrust remedies in place to the point of threatening daily fines. In all the EC has a list of 26...

Microsoft rivals suit up for shootout at the OK corral.(European Committee for Interoperable Standards)
April 11, 2005... IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, RealNetworks and Nokia, all companies with knives out for Microsoft, have grouped together under the aegis the European Committee for Interoperable Standards (ECIS) and are asking to intervene in Microsoft's appeal of the...

Wintel & HP create SME Consortium.(Small and Medium Enterprises)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Microsoft, Intel and HP, which is rumored to be having a few doubts about Linux, have signed a memorandum of understanding expected to lead to the formation of a European Small and Medium Enterprise Consortium aimed at making Europe more...

CA to buy Concord Communications.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
April 11, 2005... In its first sizeable acquisition under its new management, Computer Associates is buying network service management software vendor Concord Communications in a cash deal valued at $330 million, or $17 a share, to strengthen its flagship...

Neoware makes another acquisition in bid to dominate thin client computing.(Qualystem Technology SAS)
April 11, 2005... Neoware Systems, which has been consolidating the thin client market in an attempt to become king of the hill, has acquired privately held Qualystem Technology SAS, the French ISV that develops and sells software that streams Windows and...

CA proposes template license.(Linux Watch)
April 11, 2005... Evidently Computer Associates wants to be considered a thought leader. Quickly despairing that Eben Moglen and the newfangled Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) will ever come up with a commercial open source license that the industry can...

Linux & Windows: both good enough.(Linux Watch)
April 11, 2005... The Yankee Group says that Linux is having trouble displacing Windows Server, XP and Office in both the SMB and enterprise markets, a finding that isn't going to win it any friends among the open source zealots, who tends to treat such...

Sun's Community-minded.(Linux Watch)
April 11, 2005... Sun has set up a Community Advisory Board (CAB) that's supposed to--in Sun's words--"steward the evolution of the OpenSolaris community towards self-governance." Whenever Sun starts talking about stewardship, people get edgy, remembering its...

Solaris killer expected or the tale of a better mousetrap.(Linux Watch)(Spliced Networks LLC)
April 11, 2005... A stealth start-up in Athens, Ohio whose name is Spliced Networks LLC is on the threshold of announcing a new Linux distribution that its young CTO John Buswell describes as "unlike anything currently on the market." It's supposed to...

Linspire claims to flood retail stores.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Linspire says the latest cut of its desktop Linux operating system, Linspire Five-0, is being sold at more than 1,000 major national retail stores, including Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center and J & R Computer World. It claims...

Red Hat claims bragging rights.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Red Hat brags that BPU Banca, the parent bank of Banca Populari Unite, Italy's seventh largest bank and the first cooperative credit banking group, is pulling out Solaris to install red Hat desktops and servers. The bank is yanking out...

CA Morphs into SBUs.(Small Business Units)(Computer Associates International Inc.)
April 11, 2005... Computer Associates has reorganized into five strategic business units like it said it would, figuring the new structure, an IBM import, will make it more accountable and responsive, two qualities CA needs given its past history. The SBUs...

IBM to OEM NetApp; dumps its NAS gear.(Drive Bay)
April 11, 2005... In what is regarded as an anti-EMC move, IBM plans to dump its NAS gear and OEM Network Appliance's entire storage portfolio including NAS, iSCSI, IP SAN, NearStor and software products. EMC recently tied up with Cisco and there's talk of...

Hitachi vows big NAS push in 2005.(Drive Bay)
April 11, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems is making an aggressive push into NAS with the release of an embedded NAS Blade for its high-end TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform SAN system. Hitachi says the blades are just a preview of an armada of new NAS gear...

Permabit gets new CEO; debuts upgrade.(Drive Bay)(Chief Executive Officers)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Storage archiving specialist Permabit has gotten a new CEO called Tom Cook. The Cambridge, Massachusetts outfit described him as a 20-year software veteran with experience in leading start-ups and multimillion-dollar technology companies....

NetApp buys start-up.(Drive Bay)(Network Appliance Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Network Appliance has acquired privately held Alacritus Software for $11 million in cash. Alacritus, which operates out of Pleasanton, California, provides Virtual Tape Library software designed to make disks emulate tape for large-scale...

Hitachi to launch new backup app.(Drive Bay)(Hitachi Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems plans to introduce a backup and recovery resource management application called Backup Services Manager later this year. It's leveraging Aptare's StorageConsole suite for the application. Hitachi said Aptare's...

What have the fates in store for Ingres?(Billy Grams)(Garnett and Helfrich Capital)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... The rumor mill claims that Terry Garnett, the ex-Oracle, ex-Venrock half of Garnett & Helfrich Capital, the $250 million Sand Hill Road management buyout firm chartered to find "broken and orphaned" businesses neglected by their parent...

Chris Stone finds a home.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Erstwhile Novell vice-chairman Chris Stone, who is believed to have left the company after falling afoul of the personal ambitions of Novell CEO Jack Messman and then the board of advisors of virtual computing start-up Virtual Iron Software...

Microsoft CFO-less.(Billy Grams)(Chief Financial Officers)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Microsoft CFO John Connors officially exited the company a few days ago to join his old cronies-turned-VCs at Ignition Partners without Microsoft naming a successor. His impending departure was announced in January and he stuck around for a...

Greenplum hopes for Greenfields.(Billy Grams)(Greenplum Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... A start-up by the name of Greenplum that's been flying under the radar since 2003 is pioneering the use of open source databases for enterprise-class business intelligence and data warehousing with a line of products called DeepGreen that...

AMD can't keep a secret.(Billy Grams)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... AMD is supposed to use Opteron's second-anniversary party in New York on April 21 to launch its dual-core Opteron chip thereby beating out Intel, which isn't supposed to launch its dual-core widget until May. See, it's tradition in the...

Huh-oh, another Microsoft delay.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Scratch Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition (CCE) for November. Microsoft has pushed its "x-64" HPC software, which is supposed to be a departmental-level thing at best, into the first half of next year in response to early feedback....

HP, where a bonus is a bonus.(Billy Grams)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... HP CFO Bob Wayman is getting a $3 million bonus for stepping into the breach when Carly was fired and taking over as interim CEO for seven weeks. Wayman will get the check, which covers a transition period, after May 1, according to an SEC...

Dell: $80b or bust.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Dell, which raised its limbo pole up to the $80 billion mark back in February, said at its analyst meeting Thursday that it thought it could reach that level in annual sales in three to four years. Wall Street likes the idea of three years, up...

Wonder of wonders.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Last Friday SCO finally managed to file its 10-K covering the year ended last October 31, a step on its path to rehabilitating itself with the Nasdaq, which has the company on its delisting watch list. Now it's got to post its first-quarter...

What about Larry's blood pressure?(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Salesforce.com's stock is worth three bucks more than Oracle's, which must irk Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who's very emotional about his stock price especially when it's bested by a protege like Marc Benioff.

IBM board shy a director.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... IBM said Monday that Carlos Ghosan, the cochairman and CEO of Nissan Motor Company, resigned effective immediately. IBM said Ghosan told IBM that he was stepping down because he is also going be president and CEO of Renault come May and his...

Linux the polymorph.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Red Hat executive VP Paul Cormier, the guy responsible for the Red Hat operating system, says we should disabuse ourselves of the notion that there's single Linux community. It's more like 1,600, he said.

Siebel CEO made to walk the plank: Wall Street roughs up successor.(Siebel Systems Inc.)(Tom Siebel)(George Shaheen)
April 18, 2005... Mike Lawrie, the IBMer who replaced Siebel co-founder Tom Siebel as Siebel's CEO last May to turn the place around, is out a week after the company said the first quarter had been a disaster, with licensing revenues down 41% year-over-year and...

Me first. No, me first. Ah, the perennial Intel-AMD chip race.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... So AMD figured it'd leapfrog Intel's dual-core Pentium announcement by launching its dual-core Opteron at an Opteron birthday bash on April 21. Only Intel started delivering its 64-bit dual-core Pentium 4 Extreme Edition chips a couple of weeks...

IBM blows the quarter.
April 18, 2005... IBM's first quarter lost its sizzle after a strong start when the bottom fell out in March and the computer giant had trouble closing deals, CEO Sam Palmisano said last night after the company rushed out the news of a shortfall in both sales...

Venture buyout firm buys into Wyse, promises huge growth.(Garnett & Helfrich Capital, Wyse Technology Inc.)
April 18, 2005... Garnett & Helfrich Capital, the venture buyout firm dedicated to finding "broken and orphaned" businesses neglected by their parents, finally got around to admitting its interest in Wyse Technology the other day. It's had one of its boys...

BMC to can 12% after lousy quarter.(BMC Software Inc. will restructure its management)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Following in the footsteps of Siebel, BMC Software Inc said Monday that things had really soured in its last quarter and that it would restructure to tickle profitability, "something," Bear Stearns observed, "that has become somewhat of a...

Microsoft experiments further with licensing IP.(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Microsoft, which has been dabbling in IP licensing, says it's cut IP licensing deals covering Windows fonts, a set of traffic-related technologies from Microsoft Research and Windows Connect Now widgetry with seven companies including start-ups...

Longhorn enjoined.(cases between Microsoft Corp., Alacritech)(Brief Article)
April 18, 2005... Longhorn, Microsoft's long-awaited, long-delayed next-generation operating system, isn't even out of the gate yet and already it's been enjoined--at least preliminarily--because of an action brought in a California district court last August by...

Tiger dreams of having longhorn for lunch.(enhanced product from Apple Computer Inc.)
April 18, 2005... Apple says it's going to unleash Tiger, its highly anticipated Unix-based Mac OS X 10.4 operating system upgrade, on Friday, April 29 at 6pm. The server version, which is said to integrate a hundred-odd open source projects and...

SCO claims Pamela Jones is not who she says she is.(case, Pamela Jones, Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
April 18, 2005... SCO CEO Darl McBride claimed during the company's Q1 earnings report Wednesday evening that Pamela Jones, aka PJ, the now-famous, albeit shadowy, voice of Groklaw, the web site that follows the SCO v IBM suit and has become a festering thorn in...

SCO loses money.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
April 18, 2005... SCO lost money in its first quarter ended January 31, a revelation that's going to come as no surprise to anybody. Complaining of "continued competitive pressures" on its Unix line, a thinly veiled reference to Linux, which is supposed to...

Wannabe Grid commercializer fields early access release.(Linux Watch)
April 18, 2005... ActiveGrid Inc, the two-year-old open source start-up with $3 million in funding from ex-Sybase CEO Mitchell Kertzman and ex-Apple product chief Jean-Louis Gassee, both VCs now, has got an early access release of its newfangled LAMP-based Grid...