Client Server News articles from December 2005

Client Server News archives from December 2005

Sun throws in towel on open source debate; 'frees' its software.(Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Enterprise System )
December 5, 2005... Sun has decided to chase the open source model and make its software "free"--and ultimately open source--on the theory that "open source is the future" and that it's not too late for Sun to amass volume. With Sun open source isn't a...

GPL price-fixing case dismissed without prejudice.(Linux Watch)
December 5, 2005... Daniel Wallace's pro se antitrust suit against the Free Software Foundation and the GPL charging price-fixing was dismissed Monday without prejudice for failing to allege the proper kind of antitrust injury. The judge gave Wallace 20 days...

Microsoft sends XML file formats to ECMA.(European Computer Manufacturers Association)(extensible markup language)
December 5, 2005... Circumstances--like the state of Massachusetts throwing its unqualified support behind the rival IBM/Sun-created, Oasis-blessed, OpenOffice-supported OpenDocument Format (ODF) and threatening to toss Microsoft out on its ear--has pushed...

More softies headed to sensitivity training.(Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust training for employees)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... In the wake of getting caught out sending media player makers a supposedly draft contract restricting whose software they could bundle, Microsoft is sensitizing more of its employees to antitrust basics and has asked a former antitrust official...

Symantec, McAfee under attack.(security management of the companies)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... The lives of Symantec and McAfee are slowly turning into a living hell. Not only have hackers tired of harassing Microsoft and turned their attention to incapacitating Norton and such but now Microsoft has moved its threatening Windows OneCare...

Co-founder abandons Cray ivory tower for Microsoft Sandbox.(Burton Smith)
December 5, 2005... Cray co-founder and chief scientist Burton Smith, a big wheel in HPC circles, is jumping ship to go to Microsoft in a role that has yet to be described other than calling him a technical fellow but Microsoft needs any HPC help it can get to...

NEC & Stratus tighten their links.(Stratus Technologies Inc., partnership)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Stratus Technologies and NEC, already joined at the hip, have signed two 10-year pacts covering joint product development and a long-term hardware purchasing arrangement. NEC also has committed to increase its equity position in Stratus to 3%...

Intel & Micron form NAND venture.(IM Flash Technologies LLC, Micron Technology Inc.)
December 5, 2005... You have of course heard that Intel and Micron Technology are going into the NAND flash memory business together, kicking in roughly $1.2 billion each in cash, notes and assets to start and at least another $1.4 billion each over the next three...

Judge tells Larry to pay his own bills.(Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. acquitted in securities fraud)
December 5, 2005... The judge hearing that civil case accusing Oracle CEO Larry Ellison of insider stock trading abuses in 2001 is making the billionaire pay his own legal bills. Ellison, who agreed to donate $100 million to charity by way of restitution for...

Cisco chases video.(Cisco Systems Inc. acquisition deal with Scientific-Atlanta Inc.)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Cisco, one of the biggest patchwork quilts in the industry, is paying roughly $6.9 billion to buy Scientific-Atlanta, a move deemed brilliant so long as set-top boxes remain a digital media centerpiece. Cisco, which hasn't been in the...

The countdown to GPLv3 starts.(Free Software Foundation's General Public License 3.0)
December 5, 2005... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) said Wednesday that it would begin circulating its long-promised update of the famed General Public License (GPL), the hearthstone of the open source movement--the thing Steve Ballmer once called a...

SCO gets $10m 'vote of confidence'.(forecast on the market share of The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... The SCO Group, the industry's favorite whipping boy, sent a message to IBM Wednesday saying it wasn't about to disappear. It said it had completed a private placement and sold $10 million worth of new stock to a half-dozen existing...

SCO reportedly wins mock trial.(The SCO Group Inc. vs. International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... The following message appeared for instant Thursday morning before it disappeared from Groklaw, the SCO hate site. "I work in Salt Lake," it said. "A co-worker's spouse participated in a mock jury trial simulation for a law firm; by...

Novell names new CTO.(Linux Watch)(Jeffrey Jaffe, chief technology officer)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Novell has named Jeffrey Jaffe chief technology officer, responsible for the company's technology direction as well as its product business units. Jaffe has been at Lucent Technologies for the last five years as president of Bell Labs...

Novell looks better than it has in a long time.(revenue report of the company)
December 5, 2005... After writing off $38 million in restructuring charges and another $2 million in impaired investments and intangible assets, Novell lost $5 million, a penny a share, on revenues that were relatively flat at $320 million in its fourth fiscal...

Sun worshippers' advisory.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 5, 2005... The first couple of servers based on Sun's newfangled eight-core Niagara chip, a k a T1, are due to hit the street on Tuesday, December 6.

Intel could be America-free.(Intel Corp. plans to build semiconductor plant in Israel)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Intel Thursday finally admitted what we already knew thanks to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. It will build a 300mm wafer fab at Kiryat Gat in Israel in support of its 45nm process. The $3.5 billion plant, Intel's second 45nm factory and...

It's ugly in the Time Warner board room.(Time Warner Cable's decision about America Online Inc.)(Carl Icahn views)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Hedge fund activist Carl Icahn is threatening to sue the Time Warner board--personally--if "they give away AOL the wrong way for the wrong reasons." What exactly would please Mr. Icahn, aside from the immediate departure of Time Warner CEO Dick...

HP's software boss quits.(Nora Denzel)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... HP has lost its software chief Nora Denzel, who reportedly resigned for personal reasons. OpenView general manager Todd DeLaughter will replace her for the time being. Before software, Denzel, who came to HP from Legato, ran HP's storage...

Will Intel up guidance?(chipsets)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Although Lehman Brothers thinks Intel will stand pat, Bear Stearns thinks Intel is going to raise the mid-point of its Q4 guidance range at its mid-quarter update on December 8 because PC builds have been tracking better than expected. The...

Intel name-drops.(forecast on ViiV digital home platform technology)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Back in August when Intel wheeled out its newfangled ViiV (rhymes with five) digital home platform technology, it said it had a bunch of camp followers in train to get the widgetry to market. Wednesday it identified 40 of them, including TiVo,...

PTO high.(Patent and Trademark Office received high number of patent applications)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... The US Patent and Trademark Office got a record 406,302 patent applications in the year ended in October, up 7.4% and passing 400,000 for the first time, according to its annual report. It granted 165,485 patents. Because applications are up,...

Mexican bundle.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 5, 2005... Corel is going to bundle Spanish-language versions of WordPerfect Office 12 on Blue Light desktop and laptop computers sold by Mexican retailer Elektra, which has something like 1,100 stores, many of them in low-income neighborhoods

XML Catalogs standardized.(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards XML Catalogs 1.1)(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Oasis has made XML Catalogs 1.1 a standard, calling it a big step forward for interoperability of XML documents. XML Catalogs is the widgetry that defines mechanisms to facilitate machine processing of XML entities associated with external...

Ah, politics.(Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML file formats )(Brief article)
December 5, 2005... Massachusetts appears to be warming a bit to Microsoft. Its governor, Mitt Romney, said the other day that the state was "optimistic" that Microsoft's Office Open XML file formats will ultimately meet its procurement policies. The softening is...

Sun to open source Niagara chip.(development of new product from Sun Microsystems Inc.)
December 12, 2005... While it was busy launching its new Niagara-based servers in New York Tuesday, Sun Microsystems said it would open source the UltraSparc T1 processor that was code named Niagara and is underneath the widgets. It's calling the project OpenSparc....

Oracle temporarily adjusts pricing for Niagara.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Oracle, Symantec, BEA and a bunch of other ISVs threw their support behind the newfangled Niagara-based T1000 and T2000 that Sun unveiled on Tuesday hoping to change its bad luck. In fact, Oracle, which would love to count every core on...

Korean trustbusters find Microsoft guilty of tying.(South Korea. Fair Trade Commission)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... What Microsoft feared would happen has happened. Southern Korean regulators have found it guilty of tying and told it to unbundle its Windows Messenger and Media Player from Windows. The company has been told to produce two versions of...

Waiting for long horn, Microsoft RTMs Server 2003 R2.
December 12, 2005... Microsoft has released Windows Server 2003 R2 to manufacturing. It's the first major upgrade of the code since the spring of 2003 and Microsoft expects it to be generally available in 60 days in standard, enterprise and datacenter editions for...

Microsoft revs its CRM engine.(Customer relationship management software)
December 12, 2005... Microsoft has put Dynamics CRM 3.0, the new customer relationship management suite that works within Office and Outlook, on the market in hopes of staving off hotshot salesforce.com and making progress against Oracle and SAP. The Office...

Intel plans heavy investment in India.
December 12, 2005... Intel is going to move significant operations to India, backed up with an $800 million investment in its R&D center in Bangalore where it already employees some 3,000 people. It intends to spend the money over five years. The decision,...

Microsoft salts governments' tail.(Microsoft Government Leaders Forum at Asia in New Delhi)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... At the second annual Microsoft Government Leaders Forum (GLF) Asia in New Delhi Monday, Microsoft said that it's going to create a global network of 90 Microsoft Innovation Centers (MICs) to foster strong, self-sustaining local software...

Intel pulls in its horns.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Intel Thursday night pulled in its fourth-quarter projections, abandoned its notion of doing $10.8 billion and said it would do somewhere between $10.4 billion and $10.6 billion. CEO Andy Bryant also admitted that if AMD delivers on its...

Niagara falls on floating point.(development of new product Sun Fire T2000 from Sun Microsystems Inc.)
December 12, 2005... Sun CEO Scott McNealy has been telling the press that Sun would ship 5,000-10,000 Sun Fire T2000s this quarter, the first of the Niagara-based machines to become available. The smaller T1000 apparently won't be ready to go until March. By...

IBM & HP torment EMC.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... IDC released its Q3 numbers on disk storage vendors and it looks like IBM's revenue growth outpaced EMC's by 13%. That's the second time in a row IBM's managed that. IBM puts it down to market adoption of its TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000...

Xen 3.0 ready for qualification.(Linux Watch)
December 12, 2005... The Xen project released a third cut of its virtualization software earlier this week, its first major release in over a year, and XenSource, the folks that are commercializing the open source VMware competitor, claim that this is the stuff...

Red Hat responds to SourceLabs, Spikesource, goes into the stack business.(Linux Watch)
December 12, 2005... Fending off Spikesource and SourceLabs, who are in the business of validating, integrating, productizing, certifying and supporting LAMP stacks, Red Hat said Tuesday that early next year it would provide three certified open source software...

Red Hat takes over its venture in India.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... In a week when Intel and Microsoft said they were going to pour small fortunes into India, Red Hat bought out the 40% of its Indian venture that it didn't own for an undisclosed sum. It plans to invest $20 million in India over the next few...

JBoss buys Arjuna Widgetry.(Linux Watch)
December 12, 2005... To expand its open source middleware platform, JBoss is buying electronic transaction technology from HP and HP spin-off Arjuna Technologies for some undisclosed amount of money. The deal includes Arjuna's second-generation Transaction...

Whose 10m?(Linux Watch)(The SCO Group Inc)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... According to an SEC filing, the institutions that put a $10 million private placement into the SCO Group last week in return for new shares with no special rights included AmTrust Financial, CP Management LLC, Eton Park Capital Management,...

Novell Identity Manager 3 on the threshold.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Novell Identity Manager 3, the company's flagship cross-platform provisioning and identity management solution for security and compliance, is due out December 13. The upgrade is supposed to enhance the product's workflow and approval routing...

Centeris recruits Microsoft & Samba gurus.(Linux Watch)(Krishna Ganugapati and Gerald Carter)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Centeris, the start-up that's a near neighbor of Microsoft and filled with ex-Softies, the company that's making it possible to install, configure and manage Linux servers from the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), has recruited Active...

EnterpriseDB & JasperSoft team up.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... EnterpriseDB, the opens source company commercializing an Oracle-compatible version of Postgres, and JasperSoft, the open source reporting firm, said they have jointly developed and released JasperReports DBA Dashboard for EnterpriseDB so...

Siemens joins OSDL.(Linux Watch)(Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... OSDL has reeled in its latest big company. Siemens AG has joined the consortium and will participate in its carrier-grade initiative, mobile initiative, and the data center initiative. The new $93 billion-a-year recruit brings membership in the...

Microsoft to invest $1.7b in India.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Not to be outdone by the billions in investment that Intel and Cisco have earmarked for India, Microsoft bellied up to the bar the other day and said it was going to expanded its Indian operations to the tune of $1.7 billion over the four...

Kenai eXamineSOA enterprise GAs.(new product from Kenai Systems Inc.)(general availability)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Kenai Systems Inc, the Web Services/-SOA vulnerability assessment and policy compliance start-up, is supposed to put its flagship software, eXamineSOA Enterprise, stuff that made DEMO some weeks back, on the market December 12. Enterprise...

Intel figures Moore's Law is good beyond 2015.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... In the face of mounting market pressure over performance per watt, Intel said Wednesday that it and QinetiQ have come up with a sexy prototype transistor that's ultra-fast, yet very low power and uses new materials that could form the basis of...

AMD opens R&D center in Seoul.(Korea Technology Development Center, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... AMD has opened a Korea Technology Development Center (KTDC), an R&D resource at its Korea headquarters in Seoul for local customers and partners to create embedded processor platforms for advanced digital consumer devices such as WiPro...

New index pending.(Forrester Research Inc., Information Technology Association of America, contract)(development of Technical Sector Index)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... On December 12, the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and George Colony's Forrester Research are supposed to come up with a comprehensive quarterly yardstick by which to measure the health of the American tech sector. The...

Dell on shelves.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 12, 2005... Dell, the direct sales Internet master, has cut a deal to sell older model PCs through Costco's physical discount chain.

New small business server by Q2.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 12, 2005... By Q2 Microsoft is planning to ship an updated Small Business Server 2003 R2, a bundle that includes Exchange and SQL Server 2005 that's based on the brand new Windows Server 2003 R2.

Whither thou goest.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 12, 2005... Microsoft is internally beta testing widgetry called Fremont that's supposed to be like Google's new Base offering and let people post listings of just about anything. It's meant to be part of Microsoft's new Live.com portal and the Fremont...

What's Hurd gonna do?(BILLY GRAMS)
December 12, 2005... HP has an analysts meeting set for December 13 where its CEO Mark (the stock is up 40%) Hurd might finally lay out his plan.

CTOs don't come cheap.(salary details of Jeffrey Jaffe from Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... According to an SEC filing from last week, Novell's shiny new CTO Jeffrey Jaffe could make $1.65 million year one. He's getting a base salary of $450,000, a signing bonus of $300,000, another $600,000 for lasting a year, a minimum bonus of...

SAP buys Callixa.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 12, 2005... SAP has owned up to buying Callixa, a maker of enterprise information integration software, a few months ago on disclosed terms. SAP will use Callixa's software to facilitate distributed query processing, so queries can be divided into...

IE7 beta almost in sight.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 12, 2005... A public beta of Internet Explorer 7, with its RSS support, reinforced security and tabs, is due sometime in Q1, Microsoft says. The code is for XP and ultimately Vista.

AOL watch.(acquisition deal of America Online Inc.)
December 12, 2005... Long about Tuesday, leaks to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times were reportedly saying that Time Warner wasn't going to sell anybody a piece of AOL and that the potential deals on the table were more about whether Microsoft would...

HP CEO makes the status quo look sexy.(Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard Co.)
December 19, 2005... HP CEO Mark Hurd is beguiled by HP's technology. When he got to the company eight months ago, he told Wall Street analysts the other day, he found way more technology than he ever imagined. Of course overwhelming Mark with technology may be...

Wikipedia could be staring down the muzzle of a class action suit.
December 19, 2005... Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit--whether they know what they're talking about or not--is going through a decidedly rough patch. First, it was discovered to have libeled John Seigenthaler Sr, one-time aide to...

New blackberry alternative sues Microsoft for infringement.
December 19, 2005... Visto, the nine-year-old wireless e-mail house, has sued Microsoft in the Eastern District of Texas, a reputedly IP-savvy court, for infringing on three patents that Visto holds on mobile access to e-mail. It claims Windows Mobile 5.0 is in...

Oracle doesn't make numbers despite acquisition binge.(revenue)
December 19, 2005... Oracle reported its fiscal Q2 numbers Thursday hitting GAAP revenues of $3.3 billion, up 19% year-over-year, and earning 15 cents a share, or $798 million, down 2%. The revenue was below Oracle's predicted range of $3.37 billion-$3.46...

Evil empire commits to 'irrevocable convenant' not to sue.(International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp.'s Open Document Format for Office Applications )
December 19, 2005... IBM, as one might expect, is throwing its weight behind the Sun-created counter-Microsoft Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) that Massachusetts is backing, pending review. IBM said Workplace Managed Client 2.6, due early...

IBM opens its patent portfolio to pet start-ups.
December 19, 2005... IBM, which collects a small fortune in patent royalties each year, said Tuesday that it would open its entire patent portfolio--some 40,000 patents--to pet VC-backed start-ups on cheaper, simplified terms under a new IBM Ventures in...

Mandriva aims to be the alternative Linux.(Linux watch)
December 19, 2005... Paris-based Mandriva (nee Mandrake-soft) has ambitions. It wants to be a player. It wants to make the Linux scene into a three-horse race and apparently isn't put off by the fact that Novell, a company with way more resources than the...

Sun puts open Java DB in Java Enterprise System.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Sun on Tuesday made the open source Java DB, the Sun-supported distribution of the Apache Derby Project, part of its Java Enterprise System stack, saying the move reinforces its position that Solaris 10 is the best platform for database...

Novell wins big Swiss Linux deal.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Novell said Tuesday that it won a public tender let by the Swiss federal government, which will be converting upwards of 3,000 servers to SuSE Linux. No one would say what they're moving off of. An official said it was the Swiss...

Business Objects & MySQL expand partnership.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... MySQL AB has signed a new OEM referral agreement with Business Objects so the two can jointly sell integrated solutions combining MySQL's Network database subscription service with business intelligence software from Business Objects. They say...

Linux goes looking for oil.(Chevron Corp. is using International Business Machines Corp.'s 1U eServer 326 servers )(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Chevron is looking for oil with a Linux-run IBM-built cluster of Opteron-based 1U eServer 326 servers. IBM says Chevron has been able to process depth imaging data up to seven times faster, enabling it to make quicker, cheaper, more accurate...

Quanta to make Negroponte's $100 laptop.(Linux Watch)(Nicholas Negroponte)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Quanta is going to make those ruggedized $100 Linux laptops thought up by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty at MIT's Media Lab to leap the Digital Divide in the third world. Their One Laptop per Child non-profit announced the contract...

IBM opens Power Spec to researchers.(International Business Machines Corp.'s PowerPC 405 core )(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... In a move that smacks of Sun open sourcing its multi-core Niagara chip, IBM says it's going to make the PowerPC 405 core specifications freely available to researchers and academia and do it naturally enough through the year-old Power.org. ...

Jaluna lands big phone deal.(Philips Semiconductors)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Jaluna, the French embedded OS house spun off by Sun and co-founder of the Linux Phone Standard (LIPS) Forum, is pushing Linux into the heady land of smartphones, a place it hasn't been at all until just recently and a segment that's growing...

Microsoft launches Windows Live Local.(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Microsoft has released Windows Live Local, another service under its newfangled Windows Live.com initiative. This was supposed to be the satellite imagery for its retired MSN Virtual Earth service but it never made it. Reminiscent of...

Fabric7 gets money.(Fabric7 Systems Inc. earnings)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Fabric7 Systems, the three-and-a-half-year-old server start-up that claims a fundamental breakdown in enterprise SMP design, got a $13.4 million third round of venture capital funding. The amount wasn't quite the $15 million$20 million that...

VMware delivers VMware Player.
December 19, 2005... VMware Monday announced the general availability of VMware Player, the widely expected freebie product that should let anyone to run, evaluate and share software in a virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player installs like a...

M'soft cuts office deal with Autodesk.(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Design information from Autodesk applications is going to available to Office, Great Plains and Axapta users compliments of new Autodesk DWF Design Web Format) widgetry that's come as part of an expanded alliance between AutoDesk and Microsoft....

Microsoft pairs with MCI on VoIP.(voice over internet protocol)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Microsoft and telecommunications maven MCI, soon to be part of Verizon, have cut a multi-year partnership covering the software and services that will let users call from a PC to almost any phone in the world, including cell phones, pitting the...

Reprieved!(standards from European Computer Manufacturers Association to Microsoft Corp. software)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... From first reports it sounds like Microsoft has dealt itself a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card by taking its new Office formats to ECMA. Following a hearing by the Massachusetts State Senate that Sun and IBM showed up at Thursday, state CIO Peter...

MTV-Microsoft get the URGE.(MTV Networks Inc.)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Viacom division MTV Networks and Microsoft are developing a digital music service called URGE that will be out next year. Microsoft will build it; MTV will own and operate it. It'll be part of the next-generation Windows Media Player and offer...

IMs connect.(instant messaging)(new product Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access, a webified enterprise communications client based on the chi-chi Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technologies for Office Live Communications Server 2005, has been released to manufacturing. It'll...

Eckhard surfaces at HDS.(Eckhard Pfeiffer joined Hitachi Data Systems Corp.)(Brief article)
December 19, 2005... HDS has named former Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, who bought DEC, to its executive advisory board to advise it on strategy and go-to-market activities and offer guidance on various new initiatives. Pfeiffer is currently chairman of Accoona...

Intel loses round in AMD antitrust case.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 19, 2005... Intel has suffered a setback in the antitrust suit AMD has lodged against it. A Tokyo District Court ordered that evidence found in 2004 raids on Intel Japan and Japanese OEMs be turned over to AMD so it can use it in its case. The evidence was...

Symantec hints about service.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 19, 2005... Symantec has been dropping hints that it may start offering its consumer anti-virus widgetry as a service.

Next BrainShare set.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 19, 2005... Novell has scheduled what it calls its "first unified global" BrainShare Conference on March 19-24 in Salt Lake City.

SAP pegged for Microsoft patent familiar.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 19, 2005... Florian Mueller, the software patents activist, says that he thinks SAP is now Microsoft biggest political ally in Europe on the patent front. They co-founded the European Software Association this summer and previously co-financed the...