Client Server News articles from August 2005

Client Server News archives from August 2005

Intel jiggles platform branding.(marketing)
August 1, 2005... Intel is changing the naming conventions used for its server and workstation platforms in anticipation of the dual-core Xeons and Itaniums that are expected to become standard Intel fare. The move is aimed at getting Intel out from under...

Microsoft to segment more.(company production forecast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft is going to segment Windows and Office to tickle growth. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the company's annual meeting with financial analysts Thursday that the company would add high-end versions of the products, a picture...

Firefox: 75m and counting.(the market share of the web browser)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft may be starting to find the Firefox Son-of-Netscape alternate web browser downright pesky. The Mozilla Foundation recorded the 75 millionth Firefox download on Tuesday. That's an additional 25 million downloads in less than...

Long Horn hits first beta.(new version of the operating system from Microsoft Corp.)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft, as you may have heard, released the first Long Horn beta on Wednesday morning, a week ahead of the schedule it gave just last week when it named the Long Horn client "Windows Vista." It's the only early thing that's ever happened...

Corel chases Outlook.(Corel WordPerfect MAIL)(new product)
August 1, 2005... Corel is going to try to take on Microsoft's desktop e-mail program Outlook by unbundling a standalone copy MAIL from its WordPerfect office suite, aiming it at the home and small business market. It's the first competitive move Corel has...

Cisco gags Black Hat speaker.(Cisco Systems Inc. filed a case against the hackers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Cisco went to federal court for a restraining order after a presentation Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas showed how hackers could bring the Internet down by commandeering Cisco routers by exploiting a known, some say...

Starter Edition count.(sell of Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft senior vice president, Windows Client unit Will Poole told financial analysts Thursday that the company has sold 100,000 copies of its low-cost Linux-and-piracy defense, the Windows XP Starter Edition. The disclosure is the first...

IBM & NetApp sharpen their anti-EMC axis.(Network Appliance Inc., partnership)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... IBM is going to integrate its storage virtualization technologies with NetApp's V-Series and FAS storage systems. They say they are going to exploit the synergies of their respective virtualization technologies to provide virtualization across...

That? Oh, that's not a mainframe. That only looks like a mainframe: Unisys.(enhanced product is introduced)
August 1, 2005... Unisys says it's repositioned its mainframes for mainstream computing, opened its ClearPath mainframe line to Java developers and introduced pay-for-service pricing to attract global ISVs. The old-line mainframer says it's adding new...

Big is beautiful: EMC.(new product)(EMC Symmetrix DMX-3)
August 1, 2005... Long about the end of August, the beginning of September EMC is going to start delivering a third-generation Symmetrix DMX-3 system that it says is the largest, fastest and most scalable high-end storage array in the world, ultimately capable...

CA buys Qurb.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Computer Associates has acquired three-year-old Qurb Inc, the privately held e-mail security outfit, for an undisclosed amount of cash. CA has licensed Qurb technology for its eTrust consumer line since last year. It will continue to...

Microsoft wins first round in Google poaching suit.(Kao-Fu Lee)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft defector and former Bill Gates confidant Kao-Fu Lee, whose head is supposed to be full of Microsoft's "most sensitive technical and strategic" secrets, can't continue to work for Google, at least not for the time being and at least...

SpikeSource branches out into made-to-order open source stacks.(updation of the computer stacks)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... SpikeSource, the Kim Polese-Kleiner Perkins open source start-up testing and certifying LAMP stacks, is branching out into free fully configured made-to-order stacks. Developers will be able to configure a stack from a virtual Chinese menu...

IBM starts Blade.org.(new community organization)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... IBM is starting a new Blade.org "community" in the name of interoperability and concocting new blade technology on behalf of its BladeCenter. Besides IBM there are eight founding member including NetApp, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel,...

Absoft to resell Intel compilers, libraries.(agreement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Absoft Corporation, which introduced the first commercial 32-bit Fortran compilers for the Mac, NT, Linux and HPC environments, is going to resell Intel's compilers, libraries, and other software development tools for Linux and Windows. It...

Good Lord, Sun made money!(earnings and maangement of Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Sun beat Wall Street expectations the other day and, thanks to a $190 million tax benefit, posted earnings of $121 million, or four cents a share, on fourth-quarter revenues down 4.3% to $2.975 billion. Without the myriad charges it took, it...

Sun acquisition impacts StorageTek earnings.(Storage Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... StorageTek, which is about to become a Sun satellite, posted its Q2 results Tuesday, beating revenue consensus but its earnings, which is what Sun needs, came up 12% short year-over-year. It cited $5.2 million in costs related to the Sun...

Siebel continues to twist in the wind.(Siebel Systems Inc. plans)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Siebel, which is trying to cut costs and grow at the same time--First Boston compares it to being between a rock and hard place--lost $50 million in Q2 thanks to a $74 million restructuring charge. Without it, it would have broken even....

CA to lay off more people.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
August 1, 2005... Battling its way back from an accounting scandal, Computer Associates is going to can another 5% of workforce, roughly 800 people, to save $75 million because new business is down, although profits doubled in its fiscal first quarter on...

Ariel Sharon sticks his foot in Intel's mouth.(the company will open a new plant at Israel)
August 1, 2005... Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon beat any Intel announcement to the punch Sunday when he claimed that Intel would be putting another Pentium plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. Intel has yet to confirm the news though it did announce...

Strategy? What strategy?(management of Mark Hurd from Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... George Colony, the president of Forrester Research, emerged from an interview with HP CEO Mark Hurd to tell the New York Times that Hurd doesn't have a strategy to deal with HP, explaining that Hurd hasn't been there long enough to formulate...

Oracle reported itching to buy again.(Oracle Corp. will buy few shares of Citigroup Inc. )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The Financial Times says Oracle is in talks to buy Citigroup's 43.1% stake in I-flex Solutions, the Bombay company that makes banking software and India's largest ISV. It says the SAP-trumping deal could be worth more than $650 million and...

AMD at 11% of the Server Market?(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Mercury Research, which counts industry standard chips, claims AMD's server market share went from 7.4% in Q1 to 11.2% in Q2, which, if true, goes a way to explaining how the upstart had a negative influence on Intel's ASPs last quarter as...

PTO cuts Trademark fees.(United States. Patent and Trademark Office)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The US Patent and Trademark Office's new Trademark Electronic Application System, aka TEAS Plus, will cut fees for users who file trademark applications online by 50 bucks. The system requires that the application and all subsequent...

CA housecleaning reaches a lump in the rug.(chief executive officers election in Computer Associates International Inc. )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Computer Associates' co-founder Russell Artzt, who shared that controversial billion-bonus with Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar years ago, an event that slipped a banana peel under the company's foot, won't stand for reelection to the CA board in...

HP user group dead.(Interex)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... As HP struggles with its future, the 31-year-old HP user group Interex has thrown in the towel. It has disbanded and taken its HP World expo with it. Its web site says folding was "financially necessary" and "unavoidable." The new HP-created HP...

Cyprus firm to resell Newisys gear.(ISA Hardware, agreement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Cyprus-based ISA Hardware, a computer component distributor, is going to resell Newisys' complete line of servers in Eastern Europe, the old Soviet Union, the Baltic and Nordic countries, as well as the Middle East and North Africa, altogether...

Intel proves 34% of US adults lead empty lives.(survey)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... According to a survey commissioned by Intel 34% of US adult computer users have vacationed with a laptop PC and 51% are likely to take a laptop PC on a future vacation.

Notorious spammer found beaten to death.(Vardan Kushnir)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Charles Bronson is apparently alive and well and living in the old Soviet Union. Russia's infamous spammer Vardan Kushnir was found bludgeoned to death in his Moscow apartment on Sunday. It is unclear whether his murder has anything to do with...

GM goes with Java ES.(enterprise system)(General Motors Corp. contracts with Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... During its earnings call Tuesday, Sun said General Motors is going to use the Java Enterprise System (Java ES) as an integrated software environment for its global IT infrastructure. The contract, whose value wasn't disclosed but could be worth...

Itanium worth 25% of power.(demand of Itanium based computers )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Intel, quoting IDC, figures Itanium is worth about 25% of the system revenue generated by IBM's enemy Power chip.

M'soft nail 230k UK desktops.(United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions, Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Linux flirtations notwithstanding and any discounts unspoken, Microsoft has nailed down 230,000 UK government desktops with Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The three-year enterprise...

Mozilla dons a suit, dances with the devil.(Mozilla Foundation forms Mozilla Corporation)
August 8, 2005... The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit open source descendent of Netscape, opened a new front in the decade-old browser wars Wednesday when it announced that it had set up a for-profit subsidiary called Mozilla Corporation. Ah, to think...

Good Lord, SCO recruits a heavy hitter.(Tim Negris appointed at The SCO Group Inc.)
August 8, 2005... Despite all the ominous portents about SCO's future that the open source radicals take from their entrail-readings, the beaten-up company has reportedly managed to entice ex-Oracle/ex-IBM executive Tim Negris out of semi-retirement to be its...

IBM buys DWL.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... IBM is buying DWL, a privately held customer data management software house, on undisclosed terms for its Information Management unit and its on-demand interests. DWL's Java-cum-SOA-based data integration middleware pull together data from...

Ballmer hires himself a COO.(Kevin Turner appointed at Microsoft Corp.)(Steve Ballmer)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Microsoft said late Thursday that it had hired Kevin Turner, the president and chief executive officer of the $37 billion-a-year Sam's Club, the Wal-Mart warehouse club operation, as its COO. Microsoft hasn't had a COO since April of 2002...

In a little different deal, Oracle buys majority interest in i-flex.(I-Flex Solutions Ltd.)
August 8, 2005... Well, the predictions were right. In the chess game Oracle is playing with SAP, it's just removed another pawn from the board. Continuing its buying spree, Oracle is buying a majority interest in publicly held i-flex solutions, India's...

HCL to make Starter Edition PCs.(product development by HCL Infosystems Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... We found one of those legendary bundled-only Windows Starter Edition machines, the thing Microsoft came up with for a third world rife with piracy and Linux. HCL Infosystems, part of the $2.2 billion-a-year HCL Enterprise, says it's going...

Low-end Opterons get ECC memory.(error-correcting code)(AMD Opteron 100 enhanced)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... AMD had expanded the kind of memory supported by its low-end Opteron 100 uniprocessor chips. Error-correcting code (ECC) unbuffered memory support is now standard. Dual-core 100s with ECC support are supposed to be available in 30 days....

The de-Carlyfication of HP continues.(Hewlett-Packard Co.'s reseller agreement with Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... The latest Carly innovation to bite the dust at HP is her famous deal to resell the Apple iPod, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company's new administration seems to be working backwards and undoing her most recent novelties first...

Novell sues SCO.(The SCO Group Inc.)
August 8, 2005... Apparently smarting over its second failure to get SCO's slander-of-title suit against it thrown out of court, Novell has upped the ante and countersued, hitting SCO with a raft of charges that, if upheld, would put SCO out of business. ...

Novell to cut EMEA jobs.(Europe, Middle East and Africa)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Novell told the SEC Monday that it's going to restructure its EMEA operation, reducing its staff by 120-150 people by the end of October "to improve its profitability and operating efficiency." The move is expected to cost $10 million-$ 12...

Linux trades old critical defects for new, reportedly less critical ones.(Red Hat Linux kernel 2.6.9)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Coverity, the source code analysis startup that analyzed the Linux kernel 2.6.9, the version used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, six months ago and found six potentially critical defects in the core filesystem and networking code, says that...

Carnegie Mellon proposes open source rating system.(Carnegie Mellon West's Center for Open Source Investigation)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... There are over 100,000 open source projects listed on SourceForge, CodeHaus, Tigris, Freshmeat, Java.net and Open Symphony. There are 375 content management apps alone. Some widely adopted projects have become high-quality software...

Russians offer Linux protection.(launch of Kaspersky Anti-Virus)
August 8, 2005... Kaspersky Lab, the Russian security house that opened a Boston office in February, is pushing its Linux anti-virus widgetry into the American market, having cut its teeth in Europe where Linux enterprise adoption is ahead of the US. The...

Novell validates HPC stack on HP hardware.(collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Co.)
August 8, 2005... Novell, which started treading on the toes of the open source start-ups SourceLabs and SpikeSource when it set up its Validated Configuration Program earlier this year, trotted out its first boxed offering Tuesday--an HPC configuration based on...

Palamida & Black Duck line up with Eclipse & SourceForge.(alliances with Eclipse Foundation and SourceForge.net)
August 8, 2005... Walking in lockstep and making mirror announcements this week, Palamida and its Black Duck competitor, the IP compliance rivals that SCO for all intents and purposes created, cut practically matching alliances with the Eclipse Foundation and...

Novell to support JBoss Middleware platform.(contract with JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Novell has become the first and only Linux infrastructure vendor to offer full enterprise-level support for JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), giving customers a single point of contact. Under the agreement, Novell is offering 24x7...

Novell claims lead in China.(market share)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Quoting an IDC study called "China Linux Market Analysis, 1H2005," Novell claims to have had the lion's share of the Chinese Linux server market in the first half of this year. IDC figures Novell had 32.9% of the revenue and 30% of the...

Scalix goes wireless.(Scalix Wireless Solution launched)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Scalix Corporation, which does enterprise e-mail and calendaring on Linux, has come up with the Scalix Wireless Solution, which is supposed to let people use the wireless devices and carriers they want. Scalix says it provides wireless...

OSDL gets a CFO.(Mike Temple appointed at Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs has gotten itself its first CFO. Mike Temple had been executive VP and general manager at Bioject Inc. He was CFO at Upright Systems, an Internet services and software development company, Instromedix and the...

Second service pack for SuSE out.(Novell Inc. launched SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Novell has released a second service pack (SP2) for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 that it says includes numerous security improvements, maintenance enhancements and updates for the most popular open source projects in the distribution. SP2...

Penguin blades go 64-bit.(Penguin Computing launches BladeRunner 4140 and 4130)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Penguin Computing, which has had a smaller, denser blade package than the big vendors since its BladeRunner system hit market, has upgraded the thing to 64-bit chips. It still claims lower power consumption and more gigabit Ethernet ports than...

Linspire hopes to get into high school.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Linspire says that Indiana high schools are testing desktop Linux machines in school systems across the state as part of a plan to provide every public high school student with a computer. If successful, the plan, called the Indiana Access...

EC leans SCO's way.(economic policy of European Union. European Commission)(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... In a move that SCO might exploit, the European Commission looks like it is proposing to criminalize the intentional, commercial use of IP-infringing software. SCO of course is suing the Fortune 500 AutoZone for running Linux, claiming it...

EMC upgrades CDL.(EMC CLARiiON DL310, DL710, DL720 and DL740)
August 8, 2005... EMC has four new models of its CLARiiON Disk Library (CDL), its 16-month-old disk-based backup and recovery solution. The new widgets are imbued with hardware and software capabilities that reportedly deliver up to twice the performance and...

NCR replaces Hurd.(Bill Nuti appointed)(Mark Hurd)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... NCR has poached Symbol Technologies CEO Bill Nuti, an ex-Cisco guy, to replace its gone-to-HP CEO Mark Hurd, effective August 8. Nuti's departure from Symbol, a neighbor of Computer Associates, stands in stark contrast to his predecessor...

EMC on the prowl.(company forecasts)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... We can expect EMC either to "execute a number of security-related partnerships or acquire relatively small private companies," according to Banc of America Securities.

Vista denounced.(beliefs of Vista Software Alliance and WorldVista)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Dear, dear, dear. The Vista Software Alliance and WorldVista, non-profit groups that promote and assist healthcare organizations with the Veterans Administration's VistA software, have literally "denounced" Microsoft for officially calling Long...

BEA the aggressor.(BEA Associates Inc.'s acquisition by Credit Suisse Group)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... BEA is eventually expected to get acquired but Credit Suisse thinks that before it does, it may pick up a few pieces itself that extend its application infrastructure platform.

What's in your wallet?(Document Security Systems Inc.'s case against European Union. European Central Bank)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Document Security Systems Inc, a Rochester, New York anti-counterfeiting technologist, filed suit in Luxembourg Monday claiming that all of the 30 billion euro notes in circulation infringe a patent that the European Patent Office issued in...

Loaded down with all that money, Gateway can't get out of the gate.(financial results)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Gateway has delayed its earnings release for the second time. It now plans to report on August 15. It was originally supposed to post the numbers on July 28, but put them off to get guidance from the SEC on how to account for its April...

Lee gets paid no matter what.(Microsoft Corp.'s case against Kai-Fu Lee)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... A court-unsealed attachment to the employment contract that renegade former Microsoft VP Kai-Fu Lee cut with Google anticipated trouble with Microsoft, which sued the day Google announced it had hired him to open a research center in China....

How utterly stupid.(cases against Daniel Tunnell of Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Daniel Tunnell, a former regional VP who used to be in charge of Computer Associates' Framingham office outside Boston, was charged in federal court the other day with filing false tax returns. Seems the boy got eight CA employees that he...

Altiris has HP troubles.(Hewlett-Packard Co. to restructure)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Altiris, the lifecycle management folks, says it will restructure and cut headcount by 10%, beginning this quarter, to lower its operating expenses in line with its revised revenue outlook. Its June numbers reflected an 11% decline in revenue...

Death on account of sex.(Vardan Kushnir)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Russian spam master Vardan Kushnir wasn't bludgeoned to death a week ago Sunday because of his Internet antics. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant he took three women he met in a nightclub home, they drugged him and were robbing him...

Vacations, paperwork, boycotts & rockthrowers.(Jim Hughes replaced by Eduardo Gutentag at Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Well, it seems that Oasis chairman Jim Hughes of HP, whose term was set to expire at the end of July, went on vacation and didn't put in the paperwork saying he was interested in keeping the job. So he's been replaced by Eduardo Gutentag of...

Intel to try to close AMD's window of opportunity: whips unexpected dual-core out of the air.(launch of Intel Xeon DP and MP)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
August 15, 2005... Smarting under the head start that AMD's dual-core Opteron got--and sick of getting taken to the woodshed over it--Intel is on the threshold of confirming that it's definitely moved up the volume schedule on its dual-core Paxville Xeon MP a...

Out beyond long horn & blackcomb.(research by Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... For maybe, oh, upwards of two years now Microsoft has had this research project go-ing called Big Top. Big Top, which falls into Craig Mundie's bailiwick, may or may not turn into a future operating system. It could also turn into...

Intel's antitrust trouble spreads to Korea.(investigation by South Korea's Fair Trade Commission)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Sounding exactly like complaints AMD brought to Japanese regulators, Intel told the SEC the other day that South Korea's Fair Trade Commission had asked it in June for documents related to the marketing and rebate programs that Intel cut with...

Prices hurt Dell.(financial results)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Dell turned in its Q2 results Thursday night, posting record earnings up 32% to $1.02 billion or 41 cents a share for the period ended July 29. But the market wasn't satisfied with its revenues or outlook and took it down a peg in after-hours...

VMware makes open source noises.(licensing of VMware ESX Server)
August 15, 2005... VMware said Monday that it was going to open its high-end ESX Server APIs and make the ESX source code available to partners, who it expects to influence the widgetry's direction and share its governance. We reportedly owe this development...

IBM makes Linux ready-to-wear.(production management of International Business Machines Corp.)
August 15, 2005... In what IBM called the "most significant realignment of its worldwide approach to Linux-related sales and marketing since it embraced Linux five years ago," IBM said Tuesday that it was aligning its Linux strategy by industry and building...

OSDL want to be a patent nanny.(services of Open Source Development Labs)
August 15, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which has been kicking this SCO-attributable idea around for a while, unveiled the OSDL Patent Commons Project this week at LinuxWorld. The consortium wants to be the central repository where...

Red Hat wants open source inventions patented.(formation of Fedora Foundation)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... The Fedora Foundation that Red Hat is trying to organize so it doesn't look quite like a capitalist running dog exploiting the masses is going to fund patent filings for open source developments "to provide a protective patent shield around...

No GPL 3 before 2007.(general public license)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... The long-promised update of the General Public License, GPL 3, is at least 18 months and an untold number of guerilla skirmishes away according to what Free Software Foundation (FSF) general counsel Eben Moglen was saying this week at...

Oracle Cluster File System to go into Linux kernel.(contract with Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Oracle turned up at LinuxWorld this week with a generally available copy of its open-source Cluster File System rev 2 (OCFS 2) under its arm and a deal with Novell in hand to include the stuff as a standard component in SUSE Linux Enterprise...

Oh, good Lord, now it's paravirtualized Linux.(production management of VMware Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... You engineering types never cease to amaze us. Where did you people rub up against the humanities? God knows we in the humanities didn't have much truck with engineering back in school. Anyway, VMware says that it's going to support...

IBM to market grid starter kit.(International Business Machines Corp. launches grid computing services)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... IBM is going to push grid computing, which are still something of an esoteric beast limited in use to those who can tame it, into the enterprise. It's come up with a packaged set of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow...

OpenSuSE lifts off.(production management of Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... In a bid to expand its modest orbit of users, Novell is going to try to cultivate a developer community around SuSE Linux Professional, the stuff it sell in retail stores, calling it openSuSE for the purpose. Red Hat's been trying to do the...

Siebel & Novell seek comfort from each other.(collaboration with Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Siebel and Novell, two companies whose stars are not exactly what you'd call auspicious, are looking to each other for some improvement in their business. Siebel's product development team is supposed to work with Novell's engineers to...

Novell greases NetWare-to-Linux move.(Novell Open Enterprise Server enhanced)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Novell says it's made it easier to move from its hereditary NetWare system to Linux. An enhanced Open Enterprise Server, its NetWare-Linux package, has performance advances and improved migration capabilities that it says simplify moving key...

Centrify raises $14m in funding.(investments by Invesco Private Capital, Mayfield and Accel Partners)
August 15, 2005... Centrify, the start-up that makes Microsoft's Active Directory cross-platform and extends Microsoft's authorization, authentication and group policy capabilities to Linux, Unix, J2EE and applications such as Apache and JBoss, has raised $14...

Potential Oracle nemesis starts shipping.(EnterpriseDB launched)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... EnterpriseDB, the open source start-up that could become a real thorn in Oracle's side if it applies itself, is out of the beta phase. It's made its eponymous version of the Postgres database, which can run Oracle apps and is a heck of a lot...