Client Server News articles from August 2002

Client Server News archives from August 2002

Microsoft OKs Windows Media Clone on Linux.
August 5, 2002... Well, well, well. Fancy that. In a fit of uncharacteristic liberality Microsoft's digital media people have actually countenanced a clean room implementation of their Windows Media technology that runs on Linux and Free BSD. Chalk it...

Microsoft Puts Squeeze on Intel over Linux.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Microsoft ain't kidding when it publicly admits to being spooked by the "formidable challenge" Linux is posing for it in the marketplace. Insiders say that Micro-soft is exerting so much pressure on Intel that any Linux initiatives the...

Will Itanium 2 Just Be a Next-Generation PA-RISC?(Intel's Itanium microprocessor)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Market analyst Illuminata rates Itanium 2's prospects as "mixed" because it's not strategic to any of the top-tier vendors except HP. Not Dell, certainly. It's not using it. And not IBM. Even Intel, which once claimed IPF would replace its...

Microsoft & AT&T in Corporate Wireless Deal.(to provide wireless data services)
August 5, 2002... Microsoft and AT&T Wireless have joined forces to provide wireless data services to corporations. The alliance aims to provide mobile workers with wireless access to e-mail, information and location-based services via Windows-powered...

Ex-Microsoft President Turns Up at Quantum.(Quantum has hired Rick Belluzzo as CEO)
August 5, 2002... Quantum has hired Rick Belluzzo, Microsoft's ousted ex-president, as CEO effective September 3. He will succeed Michael Brown, who's going to stick around the storage house as chairman. Belluzzo, who spent most of his career at HP and came...

IBM Buys What Carly Couldn't - PwC Consulting.(definitive agreement to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers)
August 5, 2002... Told ya so. Told ya so. IBM said late Tuesday that it had a definitive agreement to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Consulting for a relatively cheap $3.5 billion in cash and stock. Funny that - and not just because...

Neoware Segments; New Box for Old IBM Users.(Neoware Systems Eon 4300 network computer)(Product Announcement)
August 5, 2002... Little Neoware, which has been one of the few bright spots on Wall Street lately, is going to try market segmentation now that the company's business development is in the hands of long-time IBM veteran Howie Hunger. The thin client house,...

Microsoft Upgrades Windows CE.NET.(Windows CE.NET 4.1 operating system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 5, 2002... Microsoft delivered itself of what it termed a "minor update" to its real-time embedded OS Windows CE.NET on Wednesday. Enhancements in Windows CE.NET 4.1 include support for Internet Protocol version 6, Speech API 5.0, file viewers for...

Licensing Deadline Passes; Microsoft Still Standing.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... That momentous day when Microsoft's licensing policies changed has come and gone and the rebels outside its gates left the palace still standing - at least for now. Somebody's got to go around and assess the damage and figure out who's still in...

DOJ Cut In on AOL Probe.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Microsoft's great enemy, AOL, is now being investigated by the Justice Department as well as the SEC for allegedly fishy accounting practices that exaggerated its revenues in 2000 and 2001.

Stratus To Resell NSI's Double-Take.(Stratus Technology as a reseller of NSI's Double-Take network software)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... NSI Software, which claims its replication engine is the de facto standard, has picked up Stratus Technology as a reseller of NSI's Double-Take line on its Windows 2000-based fault-tolerant servers. NEC, a Stratus OEM, is not part of the...

US Server Biz Manages 10% Growth.
August 5, 2002... Buffeted by the lousy economic climate, the global server business barely recorded any growth in the second quarter but the US market managed a second consecutive quarter of pretty positive growth, according to preliminary estimates compiled by...

.NET Outsourcer Funded.(Attenda raises another $14 million)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Attenda, a UK Internet outsourcer that focuses exclusively on .NET infrastructure with a product called Attenda MO that it claims ups the security, availability, reliability and performance of .NET apps, has raised another $14 million (9...

Microsoft Offers Users Quickie W2K Blueprints.(Microsoft now has a Systems Architecture training program)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Microsoft now has a Systems Architecture (MSA) program that's supposed to simplify implementation and minimize the cost of integrating Windows 2000 into corporate infrastructures. It's put out a prescriptive guide, called Microsoft Systems...

Veritas Takes Linux to its Bosom.
August 5, 2002... Linux has graduated to a tier-one operating system at Veritas. The move is expected to help propel the alternate platform into the enterprise just as Solaris once stood on the key ISV's shoulders. Veritas figures it's timed its...

Egenera Jumps the Pond.
August 5, 2002... Egenera has established a beachhead in Europe ahead of schedule. The blade start-up said it activated plans early because of the multinational financial institutions that are its core customer base and are installing its systems in the...

Linux Cluster Specialist Gets Backing.($6.15 million in Series A money for Linux developer Qlusters)
August 5, 2002... Qlusters got a pat on the back for its high-performance Linux cluster technology. The eight-month-old start-up got $6.15 million in Series A money. Benchmark Capital US and its Israeli arm and seed investor Israeli Seed Partners...

AMD To Show its Four-way Hammer Prototype.(IBM's DB2 8 has been ported to the 64- bit side of its Opteron chip)
August 5, 2002... On Tuesday AMD, for some reason or another, admitted ahead of LinuxWorld in mid-August that IBM's DB2 8 has been ported to the 64- bit side of its newfangled hybrid Opteron chip. Of course, it wasn't much of a secret that they were going to...

Open Sourcers Forced To Eat Crow.(Trojan lurking in the source code for OpenSSH)
August 5, 2002... Stinking chunks of crow was shoved down the throats of open source advocates yesterday after loyal FreeBSD user Edwin Groothuis discovered a Trojan lurking in the source code for some popular security software called OpenSSH. The Trojan...

MandrakeSoft Cuts Losses.(to $780,000 from $3.08 million)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... French Linux distribution house MandrakeSoft cut its operating losses in its fiscal third quarter ended June 30 to $780,000 from $3.08 million year-over-year. Its net losses dropped to $980,000 from $2.99 million year-over-year. ...

UniTrends Takes Another Stab at Linux Recovery.(Linux Crash Recovery)(Product Announcement)
August 5, 2002... After failing to make much headway with the first iteration of its crash recovery program for Linux boxes, UniTrends Software Corporation has introduced a new version of the kit. The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina concern says its new Linux...

IBM, Opera To Build Multimodal Browser.
August 5, 2002... IBM and Opera have teamed up to develop a multimodal browser based on the XHTML+Voice (X+V) specification. Multimodal technology is supposed to permit the interchangeable use of multiple forms of input and output such as voice commands,...

Okapi Holds the iSCSI Key, Literally.(Okapi Software iStorageController)(Product Announcement)
August 5, 2002... Stealth storage start-up Okapi Software dropped its veil Tuesday enough to introduce its first iSCSI products. Dubbed iStorageController, the widgetry is targeted at early adopters of iSCSI network storage. The San Diego, California...

Strong Demand Seen for Enterprise Storage.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Demand for enterprise storage will grow at 90% through 2004, according to the Meta Group. Its findings, which are based on a survey of 328 senior IT professionals, also indicate that 60% of IT organizations will turn to enterprise storage...

Inrange Changes CEOs - Again.(Inrange Technologies, Kenneth Koch)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Storage switch vendor Inrange Technologies has named Kenneth Koch president and CEO replacing Sherrie Woodring, who resigned. Koch is Inrange's third CEO in seven months. In December, Gregory Grodhaus left "to pursue other interests" and...

SANgate Debuts Data Migration Appliance.(SANblaster 1000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 5, 2002... Storage start-up SANgate Systems has introduced a data migration appliance to simplify data movement among heterogeneous or homogeneous storage subsystems. Dubbed SANblaster 1000, the new device is supposed to let IT administrators move a...

BakBone Trims Losses.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... BakBone Software, the storage management ISV, lost $2.9 million, six cents a share, on revenues of $3.6 million in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30. In the year earlier period, the San Diego outfit lost $5 million, or 14 cents a...

Gadzoox Withdraws Delisting Appeal.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... SAN switch vendor Gadzoox Networks has thrown in the towel and withdrawn its appeal from Nasdaq delisting. The San Jose, California concern says the steps required for compliance with Nasdaq rules would create a distraction and diminish the...

Fujitsu Softek Gets a Fillip.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Storage management software vendor Fujitsu Softek got a boost with parent company Fujitsu Ltd and its group companies agreeing to expand the portfolio of Softek products they will sell in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to...

IBM To Walk in Lock Step.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... IBM's four server operations aren't paying enough attention to their synergies. So the company has quietly seconded its server group marketing chief Mark Shearer over to a new job crafting an integrated cross-platform marketing plan. One thing...

Sun Linux Launch Set.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Sun CEO Scott McNealy is gonna be at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco the morning of August 12 to launch the company's anticipated new edge-of-network general-purpose two-way Linux servers. That's the day before Linux-World starts and the news...

.NET vs Solaris.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Microsoft is going to position .NET Server against Solaris 9, positioning the new Sun operating system rev in the process as the gold standard of Unix. Microsoft will claim better features. It will at least claim a two-year jump over Sun in...

It's EMC & Dell Against HP.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... BusinessWeek says, on August 12 EMC and Dell will bring out new storage family aimed at HP.

What It Will Take To Get Web Services Off the Ground.
August 5, 2002... The Sand Hill Group says it talked in depth with 100 leading enterprise software decision makers and did a detailed analysis of 60 on-going web services projects at Global 2000 companies and found that web services adoption will depend on three...

Buy a Terabyte, Get one Free.(EMC Clariion FC4700)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... So you thought "buy one, get one free" was only for one-topping pizzas, CDs and ice cream cones. Not so. Storage giant EMC, as pressed as anyone in this lousy market, has dreamed up a special come-on where customers who buy a Clariion FC4700...

Homeland Security & OpenOffice.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... There's rumor that the federal government's new Office of Homeland Security may go with the free OpenOffice. It's supposed to be a matter of 170,000 seats.

Red Hat Said Nyet to Wal-Mart.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Microtel Computer Systems, the California vendor whose Linux PCs are selling on Wal-Mart's web site, says Red Hat turned it down when it approached the North Carolina company about offering its distribution through the giant retailer's web...

Reports Say Dell To Play Hardball with iPaq.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Carly better look to her iPaq defenses. Bear Stearns repeated what it read in Digitimes.com and said Dell has gone to Taiwan and placed an order for 1.1 million PDAs for Christmas. Evidently the widget will launch at $299, undercutting HP's...

Is Microsoft Dumping Avanade?(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Accenture is about to acquire Avanade, the consulting concern's two- year-old joint venture with Microsoft, according to the rumor mongers on F*&%#*company.com. Avanade is a technology integrator for Microsoft products in the enterprise.

HP Says It Ain't Scared.(Brief Article)
August 5, 2002... Since HP pulled its printer supply contract with Dell, Credit Suisse has been talking to HP's printer chief Viomesh Joshi and HP apparently figures that however Dell decides to enter into the printer business, it "would not yield a significant...

Newisys Breaks Cover.
August 12, 2002... Newisys can't hide in the bull rushes anymore hoping Intel won't notice it and, cunning devil that it is, poison the water for the rival start-up with the first-line OEMs so it dies of thirst. Newisys - and let's get its name straight -...

EMC Buys Cereva's Corpse Cheap.
August 12, 2002... EMC has picked up the remains of failed Cereva Networks for under $10 million. The irony of the situation is that two or three years ago when EMC looked the joint over as a possible acquisition, Cereva, which ultimately raised a whopping $157...

Red Hat Close to Hammer Deal.
August 12, 2002... At press time, Red Hat had reportedly dipped its pen in the inkwell but had not yet signed a proffered AMD contract to support AMD's counterculture 64-bit Hammer chip. Sources close to the situation were expecting the last-minute...

Wyse Spins Off Software.
August 12, 2002... Wyse Technologies has spun off the management software part of its business, the stuff it got when it bought Netier Technologies Inc in late 2000, into an independent company called Rapport Technologies Inc. Rapport wants to turn the software...

The New Robber Barons.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... The Financial Times wet its pencil and figured out that the top management of the 25 biggest US corporate collapses since January of last year, the guys it dubs the "barons of bankruptcy," pulled a total of $3.3 billion out of share sales,...

Microsoft's Hand Gets Walloped by FTC Ruler.
August 12, 2002... Microsoft has been made to sign a 20-year consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission for exaggerating the security and privacy features in Passport, its widely loathed .NET single sign-on authentication system. The slap on the hand...

Bell Labs Wades In on the Great Authentication Debate.
August 12, 2002... Bell Labs figures it's got something to contribute to this single sign-on debate that's flamed so gloriously into the Microsoft Passport-Liberty Alliance standoff. Whether anybody pays any attention remains to be see. Bell looks at...

Warburg Figures Services First.(UBS Warburg)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... UBS Warburg says it rates IT services the "number one sector, not because fundamentals are good - or even improving - but because services should be the initial beneficiary when enterprise IT spending does finally turn. Expectations have been...

Sun Looks for Change in Sofa.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Credit Suisse says Sun is focused on reducing costs by increasing outsourcing, dynamic bidding and linking management of supply chains, customer relationships and distribution channels, in other words, driving other sources of long-term...

Cornell Gets $60m To Make Windows HPC Clusters into a Business.
August 12, 2002... Intel, Microsoft and Dell will kick in $60 million in resources over the next four years to the Cornell Theory Center (CTC), Cornell University's Microsoft-fancying high-performance computing (HPC) research unit, to get it to develop products...

RLX Gets Another Round.
August 12, 2002... RLX Technologies says this blade thing is catching on. At least it has since the blade pioneer switched from Transmeta to Intel and started focusing on clusters and the bioengineering set. CEO Pat Collins says the company currently has...

Microsoft To Charge Developers To Interoperate.
August 12, 2002... This is the same story we sent out on Monday. The controversial and widely disparaged antitrust settlement worked out between Microsoft and the Justice Department in November opened a Pandora's box Monday morning when Microsoft said that it...

Tatung Starts Moving its Blades.(TUD-2016)
August 12, 2002... It seems a dog's age since Tatung and its US subsidiary Tatung Science and Technology pledged to get into the blades game on the back of Amphus Inc, the start-up that traded its Transmeta-based reference design for an Intel one with a little,...

Softricity Gets Third Round.
August 12, 2002... Softricity, the Boston start-up that can supposedly turn applications into web-enabled services without changing the source code, picked up a $14.6 million third round bringing its total investment to a nice round $40 million. It was reportedly...

Linuxcare To Play to IBM's Weakness.
August 12, 2002... When Avery Lyford was brought in last year as CEO to rehabilitate Linuxcare, the now four-year-old Linux service pioneer whose image has suffered from a mess of highly publicized self-inflicted injuries, he decided that what the joint needed...

United Linux Beta Imminent.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... At LinuxWorld the folks behind the United Linux initiative are supposed to announce that the common Linux operating system they supposed to get behind has moved to beta. United Linux 1.0 is reportedly on schedule for a Q4 launch. United...

Is Open Source Limited?(Gartner analysis)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Gartner researchers say it's still unclear whether the fabled open source process works higher up the food chain in areas such as high availability, clustering, systems management and transaction middleware. They say it's worked well at the...

Users Angry But Immobilized.(Yankee Group report)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... The Yankee Group says Microsoft users are more disaffected than ever, dissatisfied and resentful over its "perceived monopolistic practices, hyperbolic marketing, ongoing security woes and habitually slipping ship dates of major new product...

MySQL Fires on All Cylinders; Sees Revenues Tripling.
August 12, 2002... Who says all open source ISVs are doomed? As the IT industry reels under the worst blow it's ever taken, MySQL AB, the Swedish company behind the MySQL open source database, is gung-ho about business. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos sees...

ShaoLin To Debut Linux Compression File System.(ShaoLin Microsystems' Cogo File System)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... At the upcoming LinuxWorld, Hong Kong-based Linux systems and solutions provider ShaoLin Microsystems plans to launch a high- performance stackable compression file system for Linux. Dubbed the Cogo File System (CogoFS), the new product is...

Linux Sales Up Again.(IDC study)(Statistical Data Included)
August 12, 2002... After falling 5% to $81 million last year, Linux operating system sales, which include maintenance software patches, is projected to grow to "a little over $100 million" this year, according to new findings put together by IDC analyst Al...

Rice University To Build Linux Cluster.(Rice Terascale Cluster)
August 12, 2002... Rice University has gotten funding from Intel and the National Science Foundation to build a Linux-based supercomputer. When fully operational next year, the Linux-based Rice Terascale Cluster (RTC) is expected to consist of at least 70...

IBM's Linux Juggernaut Pushes On.
August 12, 2002... IBM is tooting its horn that 10 new customers are moving to Linux with its assistance and that of its business partners. The new accounts include Air New Zealand, Deutsche Telekom, 7-Eleven, Wolfermans, Westport River Winery, Satellite...

Dell Beefs Up HPC Offerings.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Dell plans to extend its high-performance computing capabilities by offering software from Platform Computing with its PowerEdge servers. Platform's software is supposed to enable Dell customers to distribute processing workloads more...

Tricord Goes Chapter 11.(Tricord Systems)
August 12, 2002... Tricord Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, August 2. The failed NT house, which has been peddling a NAS appliance called Lunar Flare NAS and a Lunar Flare Application Appliance for hosting content-hungry apps, said it...

XIOtech Debuts Backup & Restore Services.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Seagate Technology subsidiary XIOtech has introduced backup and restore professional services centered round its hardware and software. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota concern said supported backup methodologies include LAN-free backup,...

Movers & Shakers.
August 12, 2002... Hewlett-Packard has named Robert Schultz the VP of marketing of its Network Storage Solutions team. Schultz joins HP from Adaptec, where he was COO. Prior to joining Adaptec, he spent about a decade in Compaq's storage and server...

CA Betas ARCserve Backup Upgrade.(BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9.0 beta)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 2002... Computer Associates has put out a beta release of its next rev of its BrightStor ARCserve Backup application. Release 9 is supposed to reduce the workload of storage administrators through a new scheduling feature that automates a range of...

YottaYotta Insists It's Healthy.
August 12, 2002... With Cereva Networks dead, one wonders if rival YottaYotta is headed for the morgue too. YottaYotta's storage widgetry is a year behind schedule, analysts are extremely disdainful about it, its core market has been bludgeoned to death and...

Microsoft May Be Out Shopping.(for CommVault Systems)
August 12, 2002... Industry sources suggest that CommVault Systems Inc, the enterprise- class backup and recovery software house whose roots are in Bell Labs and got bought from Lucent Technologies by its management six years ago, is in play. Supposedly Microsoft...

Red Hat & Conectiva Could Come to Blows.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Not that this has anything whatsoever in any way to do with the fact that Conectiva is a member of this newfangled United Linux alliance and therefore part of what Red Hat regards as the enemy camp, but Red Hat is hinting around that it may sue...

D'ya Think Sun Knows BEA's Defecting?
August 12, 2002... The IBM-Microsoft contingent is supposed to roll out a high-level web service workflow proto-standard Monday and BEA is going to bolt the rival Sun camp to throw its weight behind the stuff. IBM and Microsoft were a little slow in combining...

Does Sun Have Any Friends Left?(Big Bear Linux server)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... People will be watching to see whether Sun's new general-purpose Linux server, supposedly code named Big Bear, is cute enough to have inspired important ISVs to come out in support of its so-called Sun Linux Red Hat-derived operating system....

IBM Sharpens its Blade.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Observation posts with their binoculars trained on IBM's anticipated BladeCenter reckon the thing will try to knock Egenera out of the data center as a warming-up exercise. IBM is supposed to have dual- processor blades to start the line this...

Corel Recruits Sales Heavyweight.
August 12, 2002... Well, now, fancy that. Corel has recruited the ex-general manager of Microsoft's global accounts organization David Roberts to be its VP, enterprise solutions. Roberts will work out of Dallas, not in Canada. Gee, and Corel's trying to get some...

Huge Meltdown at HPQ.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Under Hewlett-Packard's administration, Compaq's plans for two post- Marvel Alpha-based high-performance systems, the ones that were code named Avalanche and Snowball, have melted away and are now a mere puddle on the ground. Marvel is the...

The N1 Watch.(Sun Microsystems' N1)(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... Merrill Lynch, which is gaga over Sun's N1 scheme, has been talking to Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos again and says that the "rocket science behind N1 is mostly done and elements of it will appear in the next nine months." The brokerage then adds...

Sun Laptops.(Brief Article)
August 12, 2002... We were fascinated to read in InfoWorld that Sun is going to put out a "reference architecture for Solaris on Intel-based laptops." Wonder if that's what we were hearing when we repeated widely diffused gossip about Sun maybe working on a...

Sun & its Red-headed Stepchild.
August 19, 2002... A commonplace Intel white box, a low-end 1U server running a repurposed version of Red Hat Linux, got an awful lot of high-level attention the other day because the 14-cent nameplate on the thing read Sun. Sun CEO Scott McNealy had to...

Sun on the Desktop.
August 19, 2002... Told ya so. Told ya so. Three weeks ago we reported hearing a rumor that Sun was working on a Linux desktop. It appears that it's true. Sun CEO Scott McNealy and its software lieutenant Jonathan Schwartz started voluntarily...

Mainsoft Makes Visual Studio.NET Cross-Platform.
August 19, 2002... Mainsoft has made Visual Studio.-NET, the key to Microsoft's company- betting .NET and web services strategy, cross-platform. Well, most of it anyway. They left out the C# part and the CLR stuff and the ASP.NET, all the so-called managed...

Microsoft's Rebellion in the Ranks.
August 19, 2002... The post-mortems are starting to come in trying to assess just how badly Microsoft has poisoned its own business with those gouging new licensing terms - otherwise known as its cash-flow insurance plan - that went into effect the first of the...

Sun's New Software Czar Plays the Market - Badly Apparently.
August 19, 2002... Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's latest Great White Hope, apparently took a little flyer in the stock market, playing with money he apparently didn't have. Lucky for him, Sun proved an indulgent employer and bailed him out, lending him $4 million to...

IBM, M'soft & BEA Push New Web Services Specs.
August 19, 2002... Those two web services standards buddies IBM and Microsoft - this time in company with BEA who's defecting from Sun's rival WSCI initiative - have published specifications that push higher up the stack and collectively describe how to define,...