Client Server News articles from December 2002

Client Server News archives from December 2002

Intel Accidentally Lets the Cat Out of the Bag.(Madison, the Itanium 2)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Intel's darling marketing people sent out a bunch of invitations to meet with the company at the ISSCC shindig in February and, although they reportedly weren't supposed to, managed to pre-announce the scared clock rate of Madison, the coming...

HP Turns Server Lead over to IBM.(IDC report)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Just as our thoughts were turning to turkeys - dinner that is - IBM sauntered by with the latest IDC numbers in hand and the news that it had ousted HP as world's biggest server vendor in terms of revenues - the only thing that really matters -...

Dell's Blade Rolls.(PowerEdge 1650)
December 2, 2002... Dell decided to release its first blade server on Monday, only a quarter later than it said it would in April when it first showed the box off to Wall Street and the press. It remains to be seen whether the delay means it catches a better wave....

Feds Nail Ex-Informix Boss on Side Deals with HP & Fujitsu.
December 2, 2002... The federal courts won't hear the civil and criminal fraud charges pending against former Informix CEO, president and chairman Phillip White for another year, according to SEC assistant chief litigation counsel Arthur Lowry. White was...

Solaris 9 x86 Out on Early Access.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Sun, which meant to kill the thing for the sake of belt-tightening, but had to relent to mollify users, has put out its promised test version of the new Solaris 9 x86. Sun also meant to restrict Solaris x86 to being bundled with its new...

IBM, Customers Debut On Demand Apps.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... IBM has teamed up with a bunch of ISV partners to roll out its first on demand applications for mid-sized businesses. The first applications from Blue and its partners include accounting, human relations and CRM programs. IBM Global...

Sun Provides Little Clarity.(fiscal forecast)
December 2, 2002... Sun Microsystems practically made the Iraqis look forthcoming during its mid-quarter Tuesday evening. CFO Steve McGowan was unwilling to give much more than his name, rank and serial number. Basically he would only admit to a "seasonal...

Comdex Reportedly Won't Be Spelled with an Umlaut.(Deutsche Messe AG will not take Comdex )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... We hear from ex-Comdex folk now working for this newfangled CeBit America show that's scheduled to take place in New York next year that there's no way CeBit owner Deutsche Messe AG will take Comdex off the hands of its current, near-bankrupt...

Siebel in Dutch over Reg FD.(SEC's Reg FD restriction prohibiting selective disclosure of market-moving news)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Siebel Systems Monday confirmed that it had become one of the first companies to have its chain yanked by the regulators for falling afoul of the SEC's newfangled Reg FD restriction prohibiting selective disclosure of market-moving news. ...

W3C Switches Hosts.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... After seven years, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is changing its European host from INRIA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, to the INRIA-founded ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics...

Microsoft Trumpets Xbox Live Kit Sales.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Microsoft is tooting its horn over the fact that it's sold 150,000 Xbox Live Starter Kits to online gaming enthusiasts in week one. Priced at $50, the kit includes a one-year subscription to the Xbox Live high-speed online console gaming...

CA's Investigation Problem Won't Go Away.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Computer Associates Monday issued a statement denying a story in the Wall Street Journal claiming the company has played fast and loose with how it reports its revenues, moving them from one sequential quarter to another as needed to gussy up...

EMC Backs the Guy It Sued.(Diligent Technologies Corp's CEO Doron Kempel )
December 2, 2002... Last November Doron Kempel was forced to step down as CEO of SANgate Systems after EMC, where he had worked for three years in senior positions, successfully sued him for violating his non-compete agreement by going to a competitor. Not your...

Are NetApp & HDS Cozying Up?(Hitachi Data Systems)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... In its continuing bid to take on storage giant EMC at the high-end, Network Appliance may be considering partnering with Hitachi Data Systems After a recent tour of West Coast storage companies, Merrill Lynch has a feeling that a...

SANgate CEO Quits. Hmm, Three CEOs in Two Years.
December 2, 2002... The corner office at storage start-up SANgate Systems is turning over again, making one wonder if the place is jinxed Patrick Courtin, the third CEO the Southboro, Massachusetts outfit has had in the last two years, has left under...

Tam Back as Vicom CEO.(Samuel Tam at Vicom Systems )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Barely six months after Samuel Tam stepped down as CEO, Vicom Systems Inc has brought him back. Tam left the storage virtualization outfit in May in what was then described as a mutual decision. He was supposed to stay on the board and...

Raidtec Launches New NAS File Server.(SNAZ E4 )(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Raidtec has launched a new 1U gigabit Ethernet NAS file server that simultaneously supports Windows and Unix/Linux clients on a LAN. Targeted at workgroups and departments, the new SNAZ E4 appliance comes with hot-swap ATA drives in 320GB,...

EMC Expands its Software Team.(Tony Marzulli made VP of open software marketing)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... EMC has named Tony Marzulli VP of open software marketing. EMC's open software marketing group is responsible for developing and accelerating the adoption of the company's storage management software portfolio. Marzulli was previously senior VP...

Iomega Debuts Data Recovery Services.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Iomega has introduced a data recovery service aimed at enabling businesses and consumers to recover data lost to hardware failure, file corruption or media damage. When a primary or backup storage system fails, Iomega says its Data...

Psst! Wanna Run All Windows Apps on Linux?
December 2, 2002... Suppose the 400 million people that Microsoft says still boot up Window 9x every day could run their Windows programs on Linux and take advantage of its vaunted stability, reliability, efficiency, security and manageability advantages over...

SuSE Gets its Fourth CEO in 16 Months.(Richard Seibt)
December 2, 2002... SuSE Linux named its fourth CEO in 16 months on Monday, replacing Gerhard Burtscher, who joined the company last December to turn the place around. Burtscher, who is described as a turnaround specialist, replaced SuSE CFO Johannes...

Mandrake Also Taps New Moses To Lead It.(Francois Bancilhon)
December 2, 2002... There must be something in the air what with two Linux ponies switching jockeys this week. No sooner had SuSE announced that it had changed CEOs than MandrakeSoft, its French neighbor, popped up with the news that Mandrake co-founder and...

Tiger Claims It's Selling 1,000 Lindows Boxes a Week.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... TigerDirect, the Internet box peddler with the $229 Lindows-based widgets, says it's been selling 1,000 units a week since it started moving the things a month ago and did indeed briefly run out of them last week, as reported, but is expecting...

Alan Kay Goes To Work for HP in Open Source.
December 2, 2002... HP has lured computer demigod Alan Kay out of semi-retirement to think great thoughts and presumably recharge its PC operation. Kay's the guy who envisioned the Dynabook, the Ur-Tablet, and led the Xerox PARC team that created the...

Rogue Xbox Media Player Under Development.
December 2, 2002... A team of programmers has released an early beta of an open source media player for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The rogue player, called the Xbox Media Player, is modeled after Microsoft's XP Media Center operating system, which is...

China Growing into Linux Haven.(Evans Data Corporation's Chinese Developer Survey, Volume 2)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... This news ain't gonna come as any great surprise given its politics and fears, but China is emerging as a Linux stronghold according to a new report based on interviews with about a thousand Chinese software developers. According to the...

More IBM Layoffs Reportedly Coming.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... IBM is reportedly preparing to lay off more people, supposedly more than the 15,000-20,000 folks it terminated in 2002. Internally they're using words like "huge" and "The Big One." IBM declined to comment. Insiders say the date...

CA Creates Linux Unit.(Computer Associates)
December 23, 2002... Computer Associates has just done something it's never done before, at least not in living memory. It's set up a Linux Technology Group and given it a cross-brand charter. CA isn't given to cross-brand imperatives and the company is...

IBM, Sun & Dell Come To Infiniband's Defense.
December 23, 2002... So Intel, Microsoft and now IBM Microelectronics can't find enough of an Infiniband market to service and have dropped out for wide-scale lack of interest. So what. Sun, Dell and IBM's server group effectively say it doesn't matter and that...

Intergraph Sues Dell, HP & Gateway for Patent Infringement.
December 23, 2002... Back five years and some $300 million in court-awarded damages ago, when Intel first got embroiled with Intergraph over whether it was treading on Intergraph- held patents, it struck a noble pose and claimed that it was taking the bullet for...

Whoops, Microsoft CRM Slips into 2003.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Microsoft has acknowledged that its vaunted CRM software will not see the light of the day this year. Targeted at small and medium-sized businesses and built on .NET technologies, the launch of the Microsoft Customer Relation-ship...

AOL Gets IM Patent.(instant messaging)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... America Online has quietly obtained a patent that appears to cover instant messaging, one of the fastest-growing segments in the online arena and an area being chewed over for dominance between AOL and its rivals. The patent - which...

IBM Thumbs its Nose at Rivals.
December 23, 2002... IBM figures it's squeezing Sun and Unisys and has got HP and Dell on the run. It's beating its chest over the fact that its expected 16-way Foster Xeon MP machine, the new high-end x440, is now shipping in volume while HP and Dell don't...

Now BEA's Tipped To Buy Borland.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... IBM's pending acquisition of Rational has fueled more rumors than any move anybody has made lately. Must be a slow news week on Wall Street. The latest speculation is that BEA Systems, IBM's WebSphere rival, will go after Borland, the last...

Massachusetts, West Virginia & Microsoft To Bicker over Bill.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... The nine so-called settling states that went along with the antitrust settlement worked out a year ago between Microsoft and the Justice Department have asked the judge who finally signed the darn thing this November for more time for the...

RLX Finally Upgrades its Transmeta Blade.(RLX ServerBlade 1000t )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... RLX Technologies has upgraded its low-end Transmeta-based blade to Transmeta's 1GHz TM5800 Crusoe chip. The RLX ServerBlade 1000t will re-place the exist ServerBlade 667, based on the 667MHz Crusoe. Of course this was something RLX,...

Curl's Still Got Enough Bounce To Attract Money.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Well, it looks like Curl Corp-oration, the sputtering attempt to reform the web and give rich clients rather than the server more prominence in the Internet paradigm, has narrowly averted the block and has finally raised the money it needed to...

Key 3Media Misses Payment.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Key3Media Group, the near-bankrupt owner of Comdex, couldn't meet the roughly $15 million semi-annual interest payment on its 11.25% senior subordinated notes Monday. It's got 30 days to come up with the money, but doesn't offer much hope and...

Microsoft Debuts WSE 1.0 for Visual Studio.Net Developers.(Web Services Enhancements)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Microsoft has launched Web Services Enhancements 1.0 for Visual Studio-.NET developers. Designed to support web services specifications such as WS-Security, WS-Routing and WS-Attachments and work with Visual Studio.NET and the .NET...

IE Usage Share 95%.(Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Internet Explorer's global usage share is 95%, according to web site analytics provider OneStat.com. Netscape, the numero uno browser before Microsoft ate its lunch by making its browser part of Windows, was number two with 3% usage share....

Oracle Shakes up Sales Force.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Oracle has reorganized its sales force to boost its applications business, particularly in North America. Under the new structure, Oracle salespeople will either sell applications or database products but not both. The company claims...

BEA & Sun Fraternize.(BEA's enterprise-class WebLogic application server )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... BEA and Sun are consorting. Despite Sun CEO Scott McNealy's recent threat to take out after BEA and Veritas, Sun is going to bundle a trial version of BEA's enterprise-class WebLogic application server with the administrator kit in Solaris...

MicronPC Changes its Name.(to MPC Computers )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... In an effort to put its inglorious past behind it, MicronPC is going to change its name to MPC Computers in the first half of 2003, a nice choice that means it won't have to pick the initials out of its personal linen. It's going to use both...

Matsushita & Sony Shun Microsoft, Launch Linux Digital Media Platform.
December 23, 2002... Consumer electronics biggies Sony and Matsushita have put aside their hereditary rivalry long enough to combine on an open source Linux-based digital media platform. They will be developing a purpose-built Linux operating system to use in...

Metrowerks Buys Lineo.
December 23, 2002... Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya Lineo, or what was left of it, was gonna get absorbed (CSN No 471). As reports have suggested, Motorola development tools subsidiary Metrowerks is picking up the battered remains of the embedded Linux...

Linux Desktops Infiltrate Wal-Mart Stores in Brazil.(Microtel, Tekneo's PR1100, PR1100 Plus)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Wal-Mart has so far resisted any impulse it might have to sell $199 Linux boxes in its US stores, reserving the little creatures for its web site where they've reportedly been such a runaway hit that supplies have been exhausted forcing...

Red Hat Breaks Even.
December 23, 2002... Linux major Red Hat reported a modest profit of $305,000, breaking even per share, on revenues of $24.3 million in its fiscal third quarter ended November 30. It lost $1.5 million on operations. Revenues were up 14% sequentially and 21%...

Linux Revenues Inch Up at SCO.(Santa Cruz Operation)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Linux-related revenues moved up slightly at SCO Group in its fourth quarter ended October 31. Of its $15.5 million in revenues the company reported, Linux-related turnover amounted to 5%, according to SCO executives, compared to 2%, or...

Toshiba Has a Piece of MontaVista.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... So MontaVista Software, the embedded Linux outfit, trotted out the news this week that it had gotten an equity investment from Toshiba America Electronic Components. Its press release made it sound like the ink on the check hadn't dried...

Veritas To Buy Precise, Jareva.(Precise Software Solutions, Jareva Technologies)
December 23, 2002... Continuing to expand outside its traditional storage stronghold, Veritas is acquiring ISVs Precise Software Solutions and Jareva Technologies for a total of $599 million. In the bigger of the two deals, Veritas is nominally buying Precise...

Egenera Gets NAS Support.(BladeFrame 2.1 )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Egenera has added NAS support to its Linux-based BladeFrame system making it work with both SAN and NAS environments. The new feature is part of the BladeFrame 2.1 release. Egenera worked with NAS vendor Network Appliance on the NAS support....

Penguin Debuts 1.2TB Storage Server.(Relion 230)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Penguin Computing has launched a Linux-based IDE server with up to 1.2TB of internal storage capacity. Dubbed Relion 230, the new Xeon-based server's IDE disk subsystem features six cold-swap hard drives in capacities ranging from 40GB to...

Hey, EMC Is Still Top Dog.(ITSMA census)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... It might have fallen on hard times, but EMC is still the number one brand for buyers of large-scale IT storage, according to a recent census by consulting firm ITSMA. ITSMA says buyers ranked EMC, IBM and Hewlett-Packard first, second and...

McData Bolsters Management Team.(Alain Andreoli, Jean Becker)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... McData has buttressed its top management ranks by adding Alain Andreoli as executive VP of worldwide sales and service and Jean Becker as senior VP of engineering. Andreoli was previously COO of web hoster Verio, which is owned by NTT....

HP Debuts New Low-End EVA.(HP's StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 2C2D)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... HP has launched a new entry-level version of its Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) disk array that targeted so far at the high-end enterprise. Dubbed StorageWorks EVA 2C2D, the new widgetry is designed to provide utility- like, grow-as-you-go...

You Suppose They Can Get Linux To Revolve around Sun?(Sun Microsystems to seek Linux development partners)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Well, the gossip says that Sun is starting to take this Linux thing seriously and realizes LX50, its contribution to date, ain't gonna cut it for them and that it's going to need partners. So its Linux strategists have reportedly assembled an...

Hmmm, So Who's Gonna Fall on their Sword?(Bear Stearns' 10 predictions for 2003 )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Bear Stearns came up with a list of 10 predictions for the new year and clearly the most provocation of the bunch was number nine - that the "CEO of a major enterprise hardware company is likely to leave during 2003." We imagine they must be...

The Wheels of Justice Turn Exceedingly Slow.(Microsoft antitrust settlement in Massachusetts, West Virginia)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... It could be February before Massachusetts and West Virginia file their appeal protesting the Microsoft antitrust settlement. Seems the two diehards can't do anything until the district court that signed the thing basically puts the case and all...

Dell Goes Shopping, Can't Find Anything in its Size.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Dell has negotiated to acquire a number of small professional service companies in the Intel-Microsoft-Linux space, according to its CFO Jim Schneider who said so at a supply chain conference last week. However, apparently the talks failed over...

.NET Server Price Hike Muted.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... InformationWeek claims that documents filed by several vendors with the Transaction Processing Performance Council to get the upcoming .NET Server 2003 benchmarked indicate that Microsoft intends to raise the price of two of the four planned...

Yet Another Committee at Oasis.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Oasis has now formed a technical committee to develop standards to automate the translation and localization process as a web service. Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, DataPower and the Limerick-based Localisation Research Centre in Ireland are on...

Sybase Database To Go 64-Bit.(Adaptive Server Enterprise)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Sybase and HP are developing a version of Sybase's Adapter Server Enterprise database for HP's Itanium 2 servers running Linux and HP-UX. Sybase may also put the thing on AMD's upcoming Opteron boxes.

Revolution Spotters.(HP)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... The Hewlett-Packard board has created a subcommittee to make sure the company doesn't miss any more big technological revolutions like, oh, the Internet. Its members include nuclear physicist George Keyworth, big-time Kleiner Perkins venture...

Slightly Less than Grossly Excessive.(Michael Capellas' compensation as WorldCom CEO)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... The court has pared what it called the "grossly excessive" compensation package that ex-HP president Michael Capellas was supposed to get as CEO of the rogue WorldCom down to a mere $20 million over three years - $8 million in cash and $12...