Client Server News articles from August 2003

Client Server News archives from August 2003

'Chicago 7' may try to stymie SCO.(Linux International case against The SCO Group Inc.)
August 4, 2003... Rumors are afoot that an indignant Linux International (LI) may be drawn into the SCO imbroglio in defense of the Linux-using enterprises SCO is threatening to tax. There's talk that LI, which regards SCO's designs as nothing more than...

Microsoft, Whidbeys & Orcas.(software development tools )
August 4, 2003... Microsoft this week looked down the long corridor of time for the benefit of its developer set and said the next rev of Visual Studio .NET, a thing code named Whidbey, currently circulating in something resembling alpha form among Microsoft's...

Sun buys another piece of its N1 puzzle.(CenterRun Inc)(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Sun is buying another piece of its crucial--albeit ambitious and still white board-level--N1 management scheme, according to CNET. It's got a letter of intent and the deal should close next month. It's supposedly plopped down a check for...

IBM prices its Opteron box.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... IBM announced its anticipated two-way 64-bit x86 Opteron server Wednesday ahead of LinuxWorld. It said it is going to develop an Opteron-based workstation that it will deliver next year. As expected, the new 1U machine has been dubbed the...

Opteron prices cut.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s cuts prices)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Well, that didn't take long. AMD is already jigging with its Opteron pricing and the widget's still warm from the oven. It cut prices 35% on the 144, its top-of-the-line uniprocessor Opteron, and 13% on the 244, its top-of-the-line Opteron for...

Oracle waits on DOJ before trying to crush PeopleSoft's poison pill.(Department of Justice)
August 4, 2003... Oracle has a lot on its plate at the moment not the least of which is the Justice Department's ongoing appraisal of the legality of its hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft now mushroomed to $7.25 billion, up another $1.2 billion, to accommodate...

Ballmer tries to shore up financial management.(Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Inspired by what Jack Welch did at GE, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer apparently spent much of the last 18 months wrestling the sprawling behemoth into seven self-contained business units--Ballmer called it the "Big Bang" move--for better...

Pesky protocol problem put to bed.(MIcrosoft Corp.'s royalities)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Microsoft has--according to a Justice Department lawyer--"come a great distance in revising the structure of royalties and the royalty amounts" that it's willing to charge for those protocol licenses it's required to offer according to the...

Web services standards race crowds up.(Web Services Composite Application Framework specification from Arjuna Technologies Ltd.)
August 4, 2003... Iona, Sun, Oracle, Fujitsu and a middleware outfit from Newcastle upon Tyne called Arjuna Technologies Ltd have delivered themselves of a Web Services Composite Application Framework specification, abbreviated WS-CAF, that apparently overlaps...

Microsoft settles touchy-feely suit.
August 4, 2003... Microsoft, which is known to be good for a touch once in a while, especially when it's been, ahem, naughty, has settled a "sensational" suit filed against it in February '02 by publicly held San Jose, California-based Immersion Corporation...

Sun as zombie.(Sun Microsystems Inc.'s linux offerings)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Operating systems just don't stay dead at Sun. The company killed off Solaris x86 and look how it rose from the dead. Now Sun Linux, which when last seen in April was a dated version of Red Hat's free software, is being resurrected before it...

IBM to build mammoth Linux grid.(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... IBM says it's going to build the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer out of AMD's newfangled 64-bit x86 chip, the Opteron, for Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The beast is supposed to be...

Sun joins OSDL.(Open Source Development Lab)(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... OSDL, the so-called Open Source Development Lab that wants to become the heartbeat of the Linux movement and hired Linux creator Linus Torvalds to prove it, has persuaded Sun, the only big vendor OSDL was missing, to join. The announcement...

SAP copies Oracle.(SuSE and SAP AG team up to support joint customers worldwide)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... In a ringer for Oracle's Unbreakable Linux support scheme, SuSE has teamed up with its big German neighbor SAP to support joint customers worldwide. Since SuSE isn't a worldwide operation and SAP is, or close to it, it's evidently meant to be a...

Sun does the obvious.(Sun Microsystems Inc. partners with Red Hat Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... In a deal like the one it cut with Red Hat Sun is going to peddle SuSE's distro. When Sun decided to trash Sun Linux, it said it would go with two commercial distributions on its x86 servers starting with Red Hat, the market leader....

Lindows play DVDs; creates $169 box.(digital video disks)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... In what is heralded as a breakthrough for Linux, Lindows.com, the Linux-on-the-desktop pioneer, says it's got a DVD player with a fully licensed decoder that will play DVDs on its Lindows 4.0 operating system. It says the thing plays CDs...

Who, us worry?(SCO Group and Red Hat's case)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Red Hat's public position on the SCO matter is that it ain't scared of and hasn't been impacted by the fracas. However, it did happen to mention to the SEC in an S-3 filing on July 7 that "While we are not a party to any legal proceedings with...

Red Hat puts Taroon out.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Taroon, the beta of Red Hat's 3.0 version of its Enterprise Linux code, due this fall sometime, is out and about. The widgetry will give Red Hat platforms for Opteron and all of IBM's server lines as well as the x86 and Itanium, bringing the...

Make that OpenServer on Unixware.(SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 from The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... In the midst of the seething industry melee over the SCO Group's IP claims, the company, which once intended to give Unix a Linux face, has taken the technology it was using and given UnixWare 7.1.3 a so-called OpenServer Kernel Personality...

Swapping Linux for FreeBSD.(Letter to the Editor)
August 4, 2003... To the Editor: Star date 21 July 2003. I am switching to FreeBSD today... Why? Because: 1) I only use the server anyway. My experiments with Red Hat and a lot of time invested convinced me that only Apple has a good desktop...

HP & Dell jostle for server leadership.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... The server results for Q2 are out and according to both IDC and Gartner Dataquest Dell owns the US market as far as Intel servers go with a 31.8% share, either two or two-and-half points ahead of HP, which is still the worldwide champ although...

Opteron gets showcase Chinese design-win.(Dawning Information Industry Corporation Ltd. contracts with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... A few months ago Chinese outfit named Dawning Information Industry Corporation together with the country's National Research Center produced a three-teraflop machine called the 4000L and believed to run Linux that was supposed to be the largest...

Gates buys into Mexican TV.(Cascade Investment and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation bought shares of Grupo Televisa S.A. de C.V.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Bill Gates via his investment arm Cascade Investment and philanthropy arm the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has bought 4% of the Mexican media outfit Grupo Televisa, roughly a $250 million deal. The Wall Street Journal, which knows more about...

NetApp sues BlueArc.(Drive Bay)
August 4, 2003... Network Appliance has sued high-profile NAS start-up BlueArc in a Delaware court charging it with infringing on three of its patents. The suit was filed July 14 around the time BlueArc announced a $47 million funding round and shortly after...

StorageNetworks to liquidate; couldn't find buyer.
August 4, 2003... Storage management software provider StorageNetworks announced a liquidation plan Thursday and fired most of its staff. The Waltham, Massachusetts concern said its board okayed the plan and that it would file a proxy statement seeking...

EMC beefs up DMX line; new replication apps bow.(Symmetrix DMX3000 computer storage devices)
August 4, 2003... EMC has strengthened its Symmetrix DMX line with a new high-end product, a new entry-level configuration of the DMX800, native iSCSI support and a bunch of software extensions. The new top-of-the-line DMX3000 comes with up to 576 drives and...

Sorenson to oversee access & recovery at EMC.(EMC Corp., Mark Sorenson)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... EMC said Monday that HP defector Mark Sorenson had been named to the newly created position of senior VP, information access and recovery software. Sorenson, who will report to his old boss at HP Mark Lewis, will manage the development and...

Storability buys ProvisionSoft SRM app; to broaden system support.(Storability Software)(storage resource management software)
August 4, 2003... Storability Software said it has acquired ProvisionSoft's DynamicIT storage resource management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. ProvisionSoft, which was a CMGI-owned company, shut its doors a few months ago. It launched...

Revivio lands $21m.(Globespan Capital Partners)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Storage software start-up Revivio has raised $20.7 million in second-round financing taking its total backing to $30.5 million. The Lexington, Massachusetts outfit said a new investor, Globespan Capital Partners, led the round, which also...

EMC bolsters OpenScale on-demand storage.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... EMC has given its OpenScale on-demand storage offering automated billing capabilities. OpenScale lets business access pre-installed storage capacity and other storage resources to meet expected and unanticipated needs. OpenScale has...

CA, Iomega debut NAS backup bundle for SMBs.(Computer Associates International Inc., small and medium-sized businesses)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Iomega and Computer Associates have teamed up to offer a NAS backup bundle to small and medium-sized businesses. The bundle will include Iomega's Windows powered NAS server with up to 1.28TB of capacity and CA's ARCServe backup and eTrust...

Rainfinity debuts RainStorage upgrade.(RainStorage 2.0)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Rainfinity has upgraded its RainStorage data migration appliance. Key features of RainStorage 2.0 are support for the CIFS protocol, clustering and self-monitoring with automated recovery/restart. Other enhancements include a webbased...

Unisys rolls out new business continuance services.(Drive Bay)
August 4, 2003... Unisys has expanded its portfolio of business continuity services with two new offerings, Recovery Plan Audit and Business Impact Analysis. Recovery Plan Audit involves assessing an organization's disaster recovery strategies and making...

Data Domain gets new CEO.(Frank Slootman, chief executive officers)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Storage start-up Data Domain has brought in Frank Slootman as its new CEO. Slootman was previously senior VP of products at Borland. Before Borland, Slootman worked at Compuware, Burroughs and Comshare. He replaces acting CEO Aneel Bhusri,...

SCO & the SEC.(The SCO Group Inc., US Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... SCO enemies have reportedly sent a tipster along to the SEC to call the agency's attention to the fact that some SCO insiders have been cashing out their stock holdings in light of the heroic rise in SCO shares since the company sued IBM in...

SCO as Microsoft pawn.(Al Joller of International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... A report out of Australia has IBM iSeries general manager of sales Al Joller telling the company's Asia Pacific Strategic Planning Conference that the SCO crisis is all Microsoft's doing. "A set of forces," he's quoted as saying, is conspiring...

Irving's hex.(BILLY GRAMS)
August 4, 2003... IBM's Linux missionary Irving Wladawsky-Berger is supposed to keynote LinuxWorld and say something about how we all stand of the shoulders of giants, a cautionary statement that's supposed to be directed at the SCO Group and read as referring...

Siebel's next gambit.(Siebel Systems Inc. plans to launches Customer relationship management software)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Within the next quarter Prudential expects Siebel to come up with a new hosted CRM solution aimed at the lower end of the midmarket, where it's bound to tangle with Microsoft, whose CRM ambitions extend way beyond the low end. Pru figures the...

Red Hat loses marketing veep.(Mark de Visser )(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Red Hat has lost its marketing VP Mark de Visser to Sequoia-backed Java testing software start-up Agitar Inc in Silicon Valley. De Visser says he was never comfortable living in North Carolina though he hates walking away from his stock...

Gartner say $1b will be wasted on web services.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Gartner figures that by 2007 enterprises will have wasted nearly a billion dollars on software licenses for web services provider platforms that they wouldn't have bought if they had an overall web services implementation strategy. Naturally...

DISA becomes a LSB convert.(Defense Information Systems Agency)(Linux Standard Base)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... The Free Standards Group is tickled to death. It's about to officially announce that the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is incorporating Linux Standard Base compliance into its Linux procurement policy. The move comes on the heels...

Longhorn server back on.(Microsoft Windows Longhorn )(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Cripes, you turn your back for a minute and things rematerialize. Something Microsoft is calling the Longhorn server is back on the roadmap as the next major release of the server operating system after having been sent to the butcher's back...

Intel loses Dell design-win.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Dell's never had a knack with eight-ways--or the customer base--and so, while we were out, however briefly, Dell went and killed off its intended eight-way Gallatin Xeon MP box, preferring to cluster more profitable and manageable two-ways and...

TCO doesn't sell Linux.(Linux is reliable, scalable, secured etc)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Computer Associates asked its top 2,500 accounts, folks that include GM, Bank of America and Unilever, what it was they find so enticing about Linux. If the company expected the answer to be the TCO, it was disappointed. The answer that came...

Concurrent unit rechristened.(Concurrent Computer Corp.)(Integrated Solutions Division )(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Concurrent Computer Corporation has changed the name of its Real-Time Division to the Integrated Solutions Division (ISD). That's the outfit, recently enamored of Linux, that using it in Xeon-based symmetric multiprocessors--it's Red Hat with...

Just call us Dell, thank you.(BILLY GRAMS)
August 4, 2003... Dell shareholders have okay'd the company's name change from Dell Computer Corporation to Dell Inc signaling its expansion from its PC roots to areas such as storage, printers and PDAs.

The Midas touch.(BILLY GRAMS)
August 4, 2003... BusinessWeek figures that Microsoft $50 billion cash stockpile is growing at a rate of a billion dollars a month.

IBM countersues SCO seeking to bring it down: the GPL will have its day in court for only the second time.(Linux Watch)
August 11, 2003... IBM has countersued the SCO Group seeking an injunction that would prevent SCO from voicing any claims over Unix and Linux anymore and compensatory and punitive damages stiff enough to put cash-poor SCO out of business. Throwing everything...

Amphus claims to lead blade management.(ManageSite, server management software)
August 11, 2003... Amphus, one of the last of the surviving blade server pioneers--it's a survivor because it got out of hardware and turned ISV--has gotten its third OEM. Long-standing Taiwan-based white box maker Nexcom International has licensed Amphus'...

High-end two-way Opteron debuts.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s microprocessor)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... AMD has made a new high-end 246 Opteron part available as expected (CSN No 507). IBM is using the 246 widget in its newly announced eServer 325, its first Opteron box. The two-way 325, not due in volume until October, is already slated to...

AMD buys Nat Semi's Geode chip.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(National Semiconductor Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... AMD has agreed to buy the bulk of National Semiconductor's Information Appliance unit, which consists mostly Nat Semi's low-end Geode x86 business. The unit, which accounts for less than 5% of National's revenues, has been on the market since...

EU trustbusters finally say what they want from Microsoft.
August 11, 2003... Puffing out its chest, the European Union's antitrust unit issued Microsoft a third Statement of Objections the other day and let it be known to all who would listen that it's collected additional evidence against the software giant from...

Wall Street Journal defends Microsoft.
August 11, 2003... The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal lost patience with the uppitiness of the European Commission and took umbrage at its chief trustbuster Mario Monti's latest run at Microsoft this week, calling his shenanigans an attempt to "force...

Oracle may have to soothe 30 states.(hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. under investigation)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Thirty states including New York, Texas and California have quietly agreed to cooperate in investigating Oracle's now $7.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft, according to the Wall Street Journal, which thought to follow up and find out where...

HP taunts IBM over blades.(Hewlett-Packard Co.'s blade server market rises)
August 11, 2003... Hewlett-Packard has upgraded its blade servers to faster processors sniffing that at least it can do that without gutting the units' base infrastructure, something it claims IBM can't do. HP VP James Mouton said IBM had been able to jack...

Gateway launches four-way.(Gateway 995 )(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Struggling PC vendor Gateway has launched its first quad server as expected (CSN No 505). The new Gateway 995 comes in an ultradense 4U chassis and should be good for high-end database applications and e-mail. It supports up to four Xeon...

Red Hat's tie-up with Bull to make it more webby.(Linux Watch)
August 11, 2003... Red Hat can carve another notch on its gun. It's signed an OEM agreement with Bull, a deepening of their existing relationship and a clear move on SuSE's European stronghold, not to mention a swipe at MandrakeSoft, which Bull, being French...

Novell buys Ximian.(Linux Watch)
August 11, 2003... Novell of all people has bought Ximian on undisclosed terms. A source close to Novell says the price for the four-year-old Linux GUI start-up amounted to somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million-$20 million in cash. Novell said the payment...

Veritas expands Linux offerings.(VERITAS Software Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Veritas has ported its Foundation Suite to Linux on IBM mainframes. Foundation Suite, which includes Veritas' File System and Volume Manager applications, is a heterogeneous online storage management offering for Windows, Unix and Linux. It...

SuSE gets hall pass to roam government corridors.
August 11, 2003... SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 has been certified as meeting the ISO-recognized Common Criteria Security (CC) standard on IBM's Intel boxes, raising the pair's aspirations about selling into government up against Microsoft and into some of the...

My God, they're like tribbles.(Silicon Graphics Inc. testing Linux to run on workstations)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... SGI's efforts to get a single instance of Linux to run on a record 128 Itania are going to be site-tested at national laboratories and leading universities, with results of the stress tests expected in early September when the beta wraps up....

Metrowerks launches toolkit for Linux PDA.(Sharp Application Development 1.0 for Zaurus PDA)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Metrowerks, a Motorola subsidiary, has launched a development toolkit for Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDA. Dubbed CodeWarrior Development Studio for Sharp Application Development 1.0, the IDE is supposed to let developers write code on a...

Opera growing but still way behind IE.(Opera Software A/S)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Norwegian browser house Opera says it's experiencing strong growth in all regions, particularly in Europe, US and Japan, the biggest markets. The Oslo outfit claims that so far this year a record 10 million copies of Opera have been...

RealNetworks, Linux developers work on Helix Media Player.
August 11, 2003... In yet-another gambit to push Microsoft out of the way and take control of the streaming media player market, RealNetworks has officially launched a Helix Player project whose goal is to develop an open source media player for Linux, Unix and...

A complete Linux system for $449.(computer system from Lindows)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Lindows is now on a thing called the KooBox, a complete computer system with a flat panel LCD monitor that's selling for $449. It's made by MicroTron 2000 Besides a 14-inch monitor and a 1.2GHz AMD Duron processor, KooBox includes a 20GB...

HP expands Linux management, cluster apps.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
August 11, 2003... Hewlett-Packard has expanded its Linux portfolio for enterprise customers by adding a bunch of new management and clustering products. The new widgetry is aimed at enabling rapid deployment of multiple Linux and blade servers, performance...

Dell to bundle Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES.(enterprise system)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Dell plans to start packaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES with a bunch of PowerEdge servers to create hardware and software bundles for small and medium-sized businesses. Targeted at entry-level and departmental server applications,...

Red Hat sues SCO.(The SCO Group Inc.)
August 11, 2003... This is the story that broke Monday. It hasn't been changed since then. Red Hat filed suit against the SCO Group Monday morning asking the district court in Delaware for a declaratory judgment that Red Hat has not infringed any SCO...

SCO CEO threatens to retaliate against Red Hat in court.(The SCO Group Inc.)
August 11, 2003... On Monday, immediately after Red Hat sandbagged the SCO Group and surprised it by filing suit against it--well, filing suit so quickly anyway--legal action has obviously been simmering on the stove--SCO CEO Darl McBride sent Red Hat CEO Matthew...

SCO prices licenses.(The SCO Group Inc.)
August 11, 2003... On Tuesday, a day after Red Hat up and sued it, the SCO Group up and disclosed how much it's going to cost companies to run Linux legally given that SCO contends that Linux infringes on its Unix copyrights by copying whole sections of Unix code...

SCO ignored.(The SCO Group Inc.'s case)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Evans Data says its survey of Linux developers indicate they are overwhelmingly unconcerned with the SCO case. Evans polled 400 developers focused on Linux and more than 70% of them said that SCO's claims won't impact their companies' decision...

Food fight, food fight.(Letter to the Editor)
August 11, 2003... Linux International chief replies to ex-SCO VP who wrote last week that he's dropping Linux for BSD. To the Editor: When I was at Digital I sometimes used the term "Bad customer on device." I think you have found one in Mr Righter. "1)...

LightSand raises $7m to acquire SANcastle.(LightSand Communications)(SANcastle Technologies Inc.)
August 11, 2003... SAN gateway products vendor LightSand Communications is acquiring privately held storage start-up SANcastle Technologies and raised $7 million as part of the transaction Dallas-based SANcastle provides Fibre Channel over IP switches while...

McData debuts new low-end switch.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... McData has introduced a new entry-level Fibre Channel switch that can be configured with four, eight or 12 ports. Targeted at small enterprises and the edge requirements of larger outfits, the new Sphereon 4300 switch includes McData's...

Pericles ships.(Astute Networks Inc.'s processor)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Storage start-up Astute Networks says it's started production shipments of its Pericles processor. The chip is designed to enable storage OEMs to build systems that provide new storage services such as virtualization, redundancy...

Dimension Data debuts storage service.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Dimension Data has introduced a new storage and server assessment service so clients can manage infrastructure consolidation. The London concern's Server Storage Surveyor service assesses a company's storage and server infrastructure,...

No big surprises here.(EMC Corp.'s annual meeting)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... There were no real surprises at EMC's annual meeting with analysts in New York City on Wednesday. Top EMC executives including CEO Joe Tucci droned the company's mantra of information lifecycle management--from creation and use to...

Oops.(Correction Notice)
August 11, 2003... In the last issue of ClieNT Server News, the starting price of the older configuration of DMX800 storage systems from EMC was inaccurately reported as $284,000 due to an editing error. (Mea culpa, mea culpa.) That figure actually represents the...

God, let it be true.(BILLY GRAMS)
August 11, 2003... "There's good economic news on the horizon these days--the challenge is getting anyone to believe it.... This revival is led by IT spending, despite worries that earlier over-investment would preclude a recovery for years."--JP Morgan...

Now that's odd.(computer industry cases )(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... When Red Hat filed suit against the SCO Group the other day, its CEO Matthew Szulik publicly made much of his desire to see this business of Linux and SCO brought to a head before it festers and fatally infects the Linux market. Yet nowhere in...

IBM as joiner.(International Business Machines Corp. joins HyperTransport Consortium)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... IBM has quietly joined the HyperTransport Consortium (HTC), not exactly an unnatural act for the chip arm of an AMD Opteron groupie though the PowerPC might benefit. Along with TI, National Semiconductor, Network Appliance and EMC, the...

Lindows CEO starts another company.(SIPphone started by Michael Robertson)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Michael Robertson, who made a killing selling MP3.com to Vivendi two years ago, then started Lindows.com, has now launched a new company called SIPphone that's supposed to provide free Internet-based phone service. He's CEO. Both the caller and...

Microsoft brought down.(BILLY GRAMS)
August 11, 2003... Microsoft.com was hit with a denial of service attack for an hour and 40 minutes last Friday.

AMD taps 3Com CEO for board.(BILLY GRAMS)
August 11, 2003... AMD has named 3Com president and CEO Bruce Claflin, who's got problems of his own, to its board of directors. Claflin's the guy credited with IBM's Think Pad who went to DEC, became pretty much its number two and didn't make the jump to Compaq...