Client Server News articles from April 2006

Client Server News archives from April 2006

EC tightens the screws on Microsoft.
April 3, 2006... The European Commission is digging its spurs deeper into Microsoft's flank by opening a new attack on the company's patented business model of bundling widgetry in its operating system. It is telling the company not to bundle certain...

Office 2007 stalled like Vista.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Microsoft has put the brakes on the next-generation Office 2007 just as it has the next-generation Vista operating system. After letting the Vista news wash over the industry, Microsoft said in a low voice last Friday that it would also...

Impact of Vista delay weighed.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Microsoft's failure to deliver the Marke t-tickling Vista operating system will cost the industry 2% in sales according to IDC, which still says that PC sales this year will grow better than 10%, a pace it expects to continue through 2008. That...

EMC & NetApp go to bat for Microsoft.(Network Appliance Inc., case)
April 3, 2006... Before Microsoft walked into the closed two-day hearing in Brussels Thursday that's supposed to decide whether it has, in fact, flouted the European Commission's 2004 antitrust order and should pay a few hundred million dollars more in fines,...

Quick, somebody get Meg some smelling salts.(Meg Whitman)
April 3, 2006... Well, here's a bit of news they managed to keep out of the papers for two months although we can easily imagine eBay CEO Meg Whitman bolting her hairdresser's chair mid-shampoo and running "streaming," so to speak, to her car when they called...

Microsoft forms counter-ODF cheerleaders group.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... There is now a thing called the Open XML Formats Developer Group that's supposed to be a safe haven for a community of developers interested in using Microsoft's newfangled Open XML formats, the stuff that Microsoft is pushing through the ECMA...

Apple loses Avie.(Avie Tevanian resigned from Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... The head of Apple software, CTO Avie Tevanian, who followed Steve Jobs from NeXT after Apple bought it and was responsible for its Mac OS X operating system as well as its march into iMacs and iPods, is leaving the company. Today's his last...

Intel develops the so-called community PC.
April 3, 2006... Intel's code names are generally educational. Right now it wants people to learn the Sanskrit word for "awakening." It's Jagruti and Intel is using it for an initiative aimed at entrenching it in the Indian market. Intel says it's developed a...

Microsoft appeals Korean unbundling order.(Korean Fair Trade Commission)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Complaining that the restrictions imposed on it are "more extreme" than the European Commission's decision, Microsoft has appealed South Korea's December antitrust order telling it to strip Windows Media Player and instant messaging out of...

Microsoft rebrands FrontBridge.(FrontBridge Technologies)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... The FrontBridge hosted messaging service that Microsoft bought last August, now a new best friend of its Exchange mail server, has been renamed Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) and given a new per-user per-month licensing model and a roadmap. ...

IBM & SCO coming down to the short strokes.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc., case)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... A hearing has been set for Friday, April 14, in the matter of IBM's motion to throw out roughly a third of SCO's evidence that IBM poached its IP, a key hurdle for SCO in its suit against IBM. SCO filed 294 examples of IBM pilfering its IP in...

Second Robertson program proves to be drawing.(Michael Robertson, ajaxSketch, ajaxWrite)
April 3, 2006... Michael Robertson, the guy who has set out to replace Microsoft Office and other Microsoft productivity applications--and for that matter other people's proprietary productivity software--component by component--with alternative, free,...

Start-up intends to commercialize ASP.NET-based DNN.(DotNetNuke)(FlatBurger Inc. gets funds to commercialize the business software )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... An East Coast start-up with "old school ties" to AOL and calling itself FlatBurger Inc, because it sees the world flattening out and having no borders that would prevent people from making a buck virtually, has gotten $1.75 million in seed...

Sourcefire acquisition blocked by US government.(Check Point Software Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Check Point Software has withdrawn its six-month-old $225 million bid for Sourcefire, because the US Committee on Foreign Investments (CFIUS), the Treasury Department arm that didn't see anything wrong with Dubai managing major American ports,...

Microsoft joins enemy standardization committee.(International Committee for Technology Standards)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... SCO nemesis Groklaw stumbled over the fact that Microsoft has joined the group inside the International Committee for Technology Standards (INCITS) that has a say-so over whether the OpenDocument format, the Microsoft nemesis, can move toward...

Red Hat loses ground after posting results.(Linux Watch)
April 3, 2006... Despite the fact that its quarterly profits doubled and revenue was up 37% on the back of a surge in subscriptions, Red Hat disappointed Wall Street with a forecast shy of expectations, which is apparently why its stock dropped over 4% in...

Red Hat pushes into the Middle East.(Arabtec Construction LLC)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Well, Dubyuh couldn't cut a deal lately with Dubai, at least not one Americans did gag on, but Red Hat did. It's got Arabtec Construction LLC, the company suggestively building Dubai Tower, the tallest tower in the world, to migrate its HP Xeon...

Well, they'll never go dry.(Voltaire has opened an office in the Germany)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Voltaire has opened an office in the German hamlet of Eltville on the Rhine smack in the middle of the wine district. (Eltville was the scene of local scandal about 15 years when it became the site of the first and only brewery on the Rhine in...

Jaluna joins Eclipse.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Jaluna has joined Eclipse and says it will develop a tool suite for its virtualization software based on the Eclipse platform to make its technology easily adoptable by the embedded developers familiar with the Eclipse environment. It's...

OSDL to give developers an allowance.(Open Source Development Labs)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... The Open Source Development Labs has set up what its calls the OSDL Fellowship Fund to provide financial support to software developers working on Linux and open source community projects "that don't otherwise have financial resources or...

OpenOffice make it into pictures.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Maryland-based Visibooks LLC says it's published the first textbooks on OpenOffice. There are four of them: one on Base 2.0, one on Calc 2.0, one on Impress 2.0, and one on Writer 2.0. And they're picture books. Large screenshots show...

Microsoft loses Bristol: a case study.(Bristol City Council contracts with Sun Microsystems Inc. for usage StarOffice software)
April 3, 2006... The city of Bristol in England is switching from Microsoft Office to Sun's StarOffice figuring it can save 60% of its software costs over five years that way. The Bristol City Council says the decision was taken after a full evaluation of...

OASIS to redefine interoperability.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... OASIS will be giving Peter Quinn, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' old CIO, now described as an open standards advocate, some airtime at its symposium in May to argue that interoperability mean more than getting the right network connection...

Centrify upgrades.(DirectControl Suite)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Centrify, the start-up using Active Directory to integrate Unix, Linux, Mac, J2EE and web platforms in the name of single sign-on, is about to upgrade its DirectControl Suite and leverage Microsoft's recently released Active Directory...

Evidently Fidelity has no delete key.
April 3, 2006... It seems that that confidential data on those 196,000 people that Fidelity irresponsibly had on that laptop that managed to get stolen on March 15 involves not only current and former HP employees, but current and former employees of companies...

Server revenues decelerating.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Merrill Lynch is expecting server revenues to decelerate this year, much as they did last year--ASPs nose dived 10% in Q4--and the broker says that given that the installed base on average is less than two years old and given waning replacement...

Eolas is screwing things up.(Eolas Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp., case)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Well, Eolas is having a disruptive effect as feared. Although Microsoft is appealing its patent infringement lose to Eolas, it's still changing the way Internet Explorer handles ActiveX controls related to rich content--impacting how...

First Linux server anti-virus.(BitDefender, BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprises)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... BitDefender, the Romanian golden boy, is going to be making a push into the enterprise with its next-generation e-mail security software for mixed Windows and Linux environments. The antivirus/ anti-spam BitDefender Mail Protection for...

AMD rustles Itanium developers.(Sam Naffziger appointed)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Sam Naffziger, the Intel Fellow that Intel picked up from HP when HP quit the Itanium scene and the guy responsible for the design of McKinley and the dual-core, dual-threaded Montecito Itanium chip that's been delayed by nearly a year due to...

More visas look likely.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... The Senate Judiciary Committee voted this week to up the number of H-1B visas handed out each year from 65,000 to 115,000 beginning next year. Given that non-profits are exempt, the move would effectively raise the number to roughly 300,000 and...

The stuff that dreams are made of.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 3, 2006... Microsoft's retired general counsel Bill Neukom, who was in place during the antitrust fiasco, has endowed a chair at Stanford Law School, his alma mater, to the tune of $20 million.

Intel creates Brazilian venture fund.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Courting one of the major emerging markets, Intel has created a $50 million venture fund earmarked for investment in Brazil, expecting to spread it around firms doing hardware, broadband infrastructure, WiMAX, local content, digital health...

Microsoft opens IE complaint department.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 3, 2006... Oh, my sainted aunt. After all these years Microsoft has finally opened a complaints department for IE. Okay, actually it's for the next-generation IE7. It's a public bug database much like Firefox has. It takes a Microsoft Passport account to...

Pity the judge.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 3, 2006... AMD and Intel have a date on April 20 in Delaware to figure out how to organize AMD's antitrust suit against the Goliath and its allegedly market share-crimping marketing programs and pricing policies. Their respective agendas are due April 7.

Paolini replaced at SAP.(George Paolini, Zia Yusuf)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... SAP has made Zia Yusuf executive VP in charge of platform ecosystem development efforts, replacing ex-Java, ex-Borland exec George Paolini, who joined SAP round about a year ago. Yusuf is chartered with continuing to build an open ecosystem,...

Centrino may be had quicker than thought: CSFB.(Credit Suisse First Boston L.L.C.)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Credit Suisse is betting that Intel lost roughly another two points of market share in Q1, following its four-point loss in Q4, but it also says that for AMD to keep eating away at Fortress Intel it's going to have to have OEMs for its high-end...

Red hat buys JBoss.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)
April 17, 2006... So Marc Fleury, having failed to cut a deal with Oracle, got his valuation and pledge of independence out of the usually tightwad Red Hat. Red Hat is going to pay a possible $420 million for open source middleware enfant terrible JBoss,...

Spoiling Oracle's spoiler.(Solid Information Technology, acquisition deal)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Solid Information Technology, the proprietary database house born in Finland and currently living in Silicon Valley, a few of whose people went off and started little Innobase Oy-the company whose storage engine is so crucial to MySQL that...

JBoss' gravy is in its bookings.(JBoss Group L.L.C. acquisition deal)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Red Hat got a bit more explicit about the earn-out terms of its already fabled acquisition of JBoss on Tuesday, the day after it announced the deal, at an analyst meeting that it held at its headquarters in North Carolina. There's an...

Microsoft to take its protocol beef to court.(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Microsoft intends to bring its gripe with the European Commission over its communications protocols to the Court of First Instance just as we expected it would. Microsoft's week-long appeal of the EC's antitrust verdict is scheduled to...

Sun cuts 200 server jobs.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Sun last Friday cut 200 people out of its Scalable Systems Group (SSG), the unit responsible for its high-end Sparc servers, including the stuff based on its eightcore Niagara chip. The number works out to about 7% of SSG. With most of...

SCO starts moving Open Server 6 in China.(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... SCO says it has started shipping Open Server 6, the latest rev of its Unix operating system, in China. Apparently a lot of China's biggest banks, the China Post, China Life Insurance Company and other institutions use SCO for their...

Underdog's results boast share expansion.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings)
April 17, 2006... AMD blew out Wall Street's Q1 earnings estimates Wednesday when it delivered $185 million, or 38 cents a share, in income on revenues of $1.33 billion, up 8.6% year-over-year. Consensus was for 29 cents. AMD said its operating income was $259...

IBM tests hybrid database.(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... IBM has launched an open test drive of its next-generation SOA-informed DB2 data server code named Viper prior to its release mid-year. IBM thinks it's got the competition beat hands-down with this rev. It says the widgetry is the...

Salesforce gets legs, buys Sendia.(Salesforce.com Inc.)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... The ink wasn't even dry on the Salesforce.com press release saying it had solved its increasing chronic problems staying up-or at least that it had succeeded in staying up last month-when it went down again late last week, costing it points on...

Microsoft could be shunned in Minnesota as well as Boston.(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... The state of Minnesota may skip down the same path as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and legislate against Microsoft and in favor of the OpenDocument Format (ODF). A bill requiring state agencies to use ODF has been introduced in the...

Sun to open source 'jewel'.(Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Enterprise Pack)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Sun says it will open source major elements of Java Studio Enterprise, which Sun calls the "crown jewel" of its development tools, as a project on NetBeans.org. The new project will be released as the NetBeans Enterprise Pack. The IDE...

Novell wants stay in SCO case citing UnitedLinux contracts.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Well, here's an interesting maneuver. Novell has asked the federal court in Utah to put SCO's original slander of title suit against it on a peg because "SCO's claims raise issues that are subject to arbitration under the UnitedLinux contracts...

IBM claims security breakthrough.(development of a new product Secure Blue)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... To deal with all the eavesdroppers, spies and old-fashioned thieves who inhabit the Internet, IBM has come up with a mainframe-inspired strong encryption technology for chips that it's code named Secure Blue. The do-hickey is supposed to...

Vinod Khosla invests in db4objects.(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Star VC and Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla has written a personal check out to db4objects, the open source object database engine start-up already backed by folks like Veritas founder Mark Leslie and VMware president Diane Greene. Khosla is...

Sybase reported in play.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 17, 2006... Rumor has it that Sun considered buying Sybase but went with StorageTech instead and that now Sybase might be fodder for the great Oracle consolidation machine. Its market cap on Tuesday was $1.88 billion.

Kumar's trial delayed.(Sanjay Kumar from CA Inc.)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Ex-CA CEO Sanjay Kumar's criminal fraud trial, which was supposed to start on April 24, has been pushed out two weeks until May 8 because Kumar and his co-defendant, ex-CA sales chief Stephen Richards, complained that they needed more time to...

Nasdaq buys a piece of the London exchange.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 17, 2006... The Nasdaq, which wanted it all, has settled at least for the time being - for 15% of the London Stock Exchange. It'll pay roughly $782 million. A $4.2 billion takeover attempt went down in flames a fortnight ago, with the Nasdaq striking out...

Ingres finds a channel.(Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., contract)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Ingres, the new reconstituted open source database company, has cut a deal with Cognizant Technology Solutions, the IT services house, to provide the database and services to enterprise customers. Cognizant is supposed to create an Ingres...

Ah, but can you run vista.(Microsoft Windows Vista cannot be run on corporate computers)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Gartner has decided that about half of all the corporate PCs out there won't be able to run Vista if and when it finally gets here because Vista will require at least 1GB of RAM (throw in another 512MB for virtualization) and a graphics card...

Sun upgrades its Opteron wares.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 17, 2006... Sun said Tuesday that it had upgraded its Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Ultra Workstations to the newest, highest-performing single-core Opteron Models 156, 256 and 856. Nobody else has used the 156. Sun supports Solaris, SUSE and Red Hat Linux,...

Lenovo cuts deal with Best Buy.(Best Buy Company Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd.)(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Lenovo is arranging more shelve space and courting SMEs, a strategy that is not in IBM corporate-focused mold. It's cut a deal for Best Buy to sell its ThinkPad laptops and ThinkCentres and the new line of Lenovo-branded 3000 desktops online...

Ya gotta watch those dangling participles.(BILLY GRAMS)
April 17, 2006... A rumor started by a badly written internal memo last Friday had AMD CEO Hector Ruiz stepping down in favor of recently minted president Dirk Meyer after the market closed-and only a few days before AMD's quarterly results. Hector was shaken....

Red Hat & Xen source???(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... In exploring the potential fallout surrounding the Red Hat-JBoss combine Merrill Lynch observed that if Oracle, IBM and BEA stalk off and don't cooperate with Red Hat, they could "implicitly strengthen the hands of Microsoft, which is already...

Yes but Larry already owns a Linux distribution.(Larry Ellison )
April 24, 2006... The world rolled out of bed Monday morning to learn that the ever-acquisitive CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison wants his own Linux operating system so he can have his own complete stack and that he's thought about buying Red Hat or Novell but can't...

McNealy reportedly on the way out.(Scott McNealy leaving Sun Microsystems Inc.)
April 24, 2006... Sometime between now and the end of Sun's fiscal year in June, its CEO Scott McNealy, the longest-serving CEO in the industry, is supposed to step down in favor of Sun's pony-tailed president Jonathan Schwartz. That's what the buzz in and...

Old NetIQ team back in the game.(Symphoniq Corporation)
April 24, 2006... A start-up called Symphoniq Corporation that's been keeping a low profile for the last three years while it got its latest product into shape is about to surface promising to pinpoint any performance issues with any web-based applications, a...

Bloodied Intel on the walking wounded list.
April 24, 2006... The worst thing that could have happened to Intel on Wednesday happened. It hit its Q1 consensus numbers, its worst in four years, which has caused it to launch the first company-wide analysis since the mid-1980s. CFO Andy Bryant...

Novell buys e-Security.
April 24, 2006... Novell has bought e-Security Inc for $72 million, a move it figures will make it a pioneer in delivering a single view of security and compliance activities across the entire enterprise. It could also help soothe some of the stockholder...

Apple reports its first Intel sales.(Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Apple, which is in the midst of its historic transition to Intel, sold 1.11 million computers in the March quarter, up 4% year-over-year with Mac revenue up 5% to $1.57 billion. The company said most of the Macs were Intel-based, making...

Burst dings Apple for $zoom.(Burst.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., case)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Tiny little Burst.com, which got a $60 million settlement out of Microsoft last year on the courthouse steps that stopped it from pursuing the highly entertaining patent infringement suit that alleged, as a sidebar, that Microsoft had destroyed...

MySQL to flood the place with storage engines.(Oracle Corp.)
April 24, 2006... MySQL's answer to its Oracle crisis--the one induced by Oracle buying Innobase Oy, the company with the storage engine crucial to MySQL--the crisis MySQL denies exists because it signed an InnoDB deal with Oracle on the same terms as...

The IRS tells Symantec it owes a billion dollars in back taxes.(United States. Internal Revenue Service)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Symantec has gotten a dunning notice from the IRS telling the company that it owes a billion dollars in back taxes--and that's not counting penalties and interest. Symantec says it's going to protest the assessment, which covers the years 2000,...

Double-Take stakes virtualization claim.(Double-Take Software plans to develop a new software)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Double-Take Software said Tuesday that it was going to develop a native VMware ESX Server-based replication solution. It doesn't have a beta or a customer or anything but it wanted to get the word out to position itself as a player in...

Pillar to resell everything Brocade & McData have got.(Pillar Data Systems)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... The Larry Ellison-funded Pillar Data Systems, the five-year-old outfit selling Axiom, the solution that integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform potentially scaling to hundreds of terabytes, is going to resell the full...

IBM servers had a rough quarter.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... IBM came in with Q1 results of $20.7 in revenues, earning $1.08 a share. The company did not set Q2 revenue targets. Hardware sales were up a modest 3% year-over-year (6% in constant currency) to $4.4 billion and were generally...

HP forking out billions on Itanium.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... HP, which is spending a billion dollars a year to promote its Itanium-based Integrity servers, is celebrating its Integrity sales into the BRIC markets, where, it says, the boxes had triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth. That billion...

Blade.org swells to 60 members.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... The IBM-spawned Blade.org is now up to 60 members, up 20 new entrants including Azul and ClearCube. IBM this week also announced what it calls "the first products developed by collaboration within the community." DataCom Systems has...

US courts turn cold shoulder to Microsoft.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... A Boston federal court has nixed Microsoft's bid to get it to order Novell to fork over its secret communications with the European Commission, the same stuff that the EC denied Microsoft copies of claiming confidentiality. Microsoft...

T2 tapes out.(new product UltraSparc T2 from Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Sun says that last month it taped out the next-generation UltraSparc T2 chip, aka Niagara 2, the 64-bit follow-on to the T1, the eight-core processor that Sun open sourced. The device is supposed to come out in systems the second half of...

Massive stock buy-back covers EMC shortfall.
April 24, 2006... EMC made $272.5 million, 11 cents a share, up 1%, on first-quarter revenues of $2.55 billion, up 14% year-over-year. The revenues might have been a record but the numbers didn't quite make EMC's previous projections or Wall Street's...

Oracle to buy Portal, shareholder objects to price.(Portal Software Inc.)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... While Red Hat was busy buying JBoss, Oracle, which evidently refused to pay JBoss' price, was busy buying Portal Software Inc, a vendor of billing and revenue management software for telcos and media firms for roughly $220 million cash. At...

M'soft nicked for $115m.(z4Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp., case)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Microsoft has been nicked for $115 million by a federal jury in Texas that found XP and Office and Autodesk's AutoCad program infringed two anti-piracy software patents held by an outfit called z4Technologies Inc to prevent copying. The pair is...

Google upgrades corporate search.(Google OneBox for the Enterprise)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... In a prelude to pushing Gmail in the business world up against Microsoft, Google wants to search your business software even if keywords may not be the deftest of surgical instruments. It has gotten Oracle, salesforce.com and Cisco to kick in...

IBM tries to limit its SCO exposure.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc., case)
April 24, 2006... Forty million dollars evidently doesn't buy as much lawyering as it used to. I say that because I took myself to Utah on Good Friday for a hearing in the infamous SCO v IBM case and SCO has paid the great and famous Boies Schiller Flexner...

Dell came that close.(contract with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Informed sources say that Dell came that close to going with Opteron in a four-way server some months ago but when the decision reached the topmost echelons it was nixed as bad timing. Otherwise, the place is reportedly like a Western saloon...

Microsoft appeal to start.(European Union. European Commission, case)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Microsoft's appeal of the European Commission's two-year-old antitrust verdict begins on Monday April 24. The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg will be putting on the Ritz, as they used to say in our grandma's time, trotting out 13...

Microsoft up $1.6b.(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... Now that the larger Chinese vendors--at the direction of the Chinese government--are gonna start pre-installing Windows on the PCs they make rather than have people rip it off, Microsoft stands to be up $1.2 billion in the next year from Lenovo...

How true, how true.(views of Larry Ellison from Oracle Corp. about open source of Linux)(Brief article)
April 24, 2006... "There's a lot of romantic notions about open source. That just from the air these developers contribute and don't charge. Let me tell you the names of the companies that developed Linux: IBM, Intel, Oracle--not a community of people who think...