Client Server News articles from December 2006

Client Server News archives from December 2006

IBM sues newfangled 'open systems' mainframe wannabe.
December 11, 2006... IBM, sounding both hopping mad and sorely offended, has sued newfangled PCM start-up Platform Solutions Inc (PSI), the outfit trying to build servers that run IBM's z/OS mainframe operating system out of Intel's Itanium chips. It claims PSI...

HP settles spy rap with California.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
December 11, 2006... HP has managed to wriggle off the hook with the California Attorney General's office as far as its silly headline-rich boardroom-directed spying adventure goes. It's cut a deal to avoid prosecution on the civil charges that the AG has been...

Sun & StorageTek sued for software piracy; StorageTek users could be named.
December 11, 2006... Toolmaker Netbula LLC is suing Sun and StorageTek in the federal courts in California for copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract and unfair competition. The 39-page suit, filed Monday, charges that StoregeTek's LibAttach...

Note to Yahoo: Souffles have a tendency to fall.
December 11, 2006... Yahoo has reorganized its upper echelon out of fear of Google gobbling up the world and being punished some more by Wall Street where it's given one of the year's worst performances, its stock down 30-odd percent and its earnings drooping even...

Justice Department probes ATI & Nvidia.(ATI Technologies)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... AMD and ATI Technologies, its pricey new $5.4 billion acquisition, aren't the only ones to get served with a subpoena by the Justice Department. Nvidia did too. It's unclear exactly what the DOJ is investigating; AMD and Nvidia both said...

Partial IM peace accord brokered.(International Business Machines Corp.'s instant messenger market f)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... That rarified group of folks who use IBM Sametime's instant messenger can now talk to AOL AIM and Google Talk users, with Yahoo Messenger interoperability reportedly just around the corner according to IBM, which figures that will let Sametime...

IBM software buys 'auditor in a box'.(acquired Consul Risk Management Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... IBM Software is buying privately held Dutch-based Consul Risk Management Inc for its Tivoli operation on undisclosed terms. Consul majors in compliance and security audit software that helps track, report and investigate episodes of...

Cops toss IBM's Moscow headquarters.(Russian Ministry of the Interior criminal investigation IBM Russia)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... IBM's Moscow headquarters was searched Wednesday along with the offices of two Russian system integrators. Initially the AP said Russian news services put it down to a graft investigation at the Russian Pension Fund. Reuters later reported the...

Dell intros extreme RAID array.(Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Dell has introduced an external RAID SAS array saying it's the first from a tier-one storage systems company and claiming it will make customers look at direct attached storage differently. The thing is called the PowerVault MD3000 and it's...

OSDL contorts, restructures, thinks small.(Open Source Development Labs)
December 11, 2006... Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the non-profit industry consortium brought into existence in 2000 by the suits to see that Linux reflected their interests and insure they could sell it to their enterprise customers, has been losing the...

Looking ahead to Red Hat's case against SCO.(SCO Group Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... In April of 2004 the Delaware judge who drew the Red Hat v SCO suit (remember that?) stayed the case, which Red Hat filed in the summer of 2003 a few months after SCO sued IBM, on the theory that the SCO v IBM suit in Utah would decide whether...

No fix for Novell until 2008, its CEO says.(Ron Hovsepian, chief executive officer)
December 11, 2006... Novell, which is attracting far more attention than it usually does because of its deal with Microsoft, earned $25 million, or six cents a share, in its fourth fiscal quarter on revenues down 15% to $245 million. This time last year it lost $6...

Novell to support Microsoft's Document Format in OpenOffice.(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Novell is going down a path just cleared by Coral and says it's going to support Microsoft's Open XML file format in its edition of OpenOffice. Coral said last week that WordPerfect would support both Open XML and the OASIS Open Document...

Novell recruits new services chief.(Colleen O'Keefe)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Novell has named Colleen O'Keefe senior VP of services, pointing out that as an open source company, service is what it sells. Novell plucked O'Keefe out of NCR, where she's been general manager of its Payment Solutions Division. Before that...

Amazon backs Wikia.(Amazon.com Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Amazon has put an undisclosed amount of money into Wikia, a start-up ad-based commercial wiki site put together by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wikia is supposed to appeal to niche communities like comic book fanciers and "X-Files" fans....

MontaVista gets more money.(MontaVista Software Inc., Siemens Venture Capital)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... MontaVista Software picked up another $21 million in funding from Siemens Venture Capital, which led, as well as NEC, Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners and Aplix. The new money means somewhere between $90 million and $100 million has gone...

Red hat claims to bask on the costa del sol.(strong growth in Spain and acquired Arsys and Union Alcoyana)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Red Hat, which needs to find all the good news it can scavenge, says it experienced strong growth in Spain recently. It claims Spanish companies are broadly rolling out open source "to benefit from a complete open source architecture."...

Gateway puts Firebrand on board.(Firebrand Partners managing member of Scott Galloway)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Gateway is going to put a member of an activist shareholder group that owns 10.7% of the company on its board to avoid a proxy fight. In return, the profitability-minded investor group agreed to a standstill deal through the end of next year....

Intel to compete against OLPC box.(One Laptop Per Child)(get contracts with Brazilian government)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... The Brazilian government has agreed to a runoff among MIT's now $150 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) device, a $400 Intel "Classmate PC" and a dark horse from an Indian firm next year, according to an AP report out of Sao Paulo. It quoted Intel as...

Just how naughty has Dell been?(Dell has been at the sharp end of an Securities and Exchange Commission investigation)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Freidman Billings Ramsey analyst Clay Sumner thinks the reason Dell has been at the sharp end of an SEC investigation is because it's been manipulating and overstating its earnings by under-accruing its warranty costs and overstating its gross...

The Google bubble.(Bear Stearns put a $600 price target)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Bear Stearns put a $600 price target on Google after the issue crossed the $500 mark then fell back on reactions that it was overvalued. Bear contends it's "nowhere near a bubble." Meanwhile, Google's biggest Chinese competitor Baidu.com said...

ATI down.(ATI Technologies Inc. lost market share in every category)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Graphics maven Jon Peddie says Q3 PC graphics shipments show ATI lost market share in every category. While the overall market was up 5% quarter-over-quarter and up 11.2% year-over-year to 76 million devices, ATI, still the second largest...

One million Zunes or bust.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 11, 2006... Microsoft expects to sell a million Zunes by the end of the first half. The subsidized $250 music player, rival to the iPod, was introduced in mid-November and is currently sold only in America.

PCs on a diet.(personal computers)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Merrill Lynch says Vista's client and bandwidth overhead favors server-based computing with thin-client virtual desktops. In a survey of 100 CIOs it found that 4% of them have adopted thin client alternatives to PCs and another 28% are...

Missing wife still missing.(Linux filesystem writer Hans Reiser being held for murdering his wife)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... The lawyer for Hans Reiser, the Linux filesystem writer being held for murdering his wife, claims the evidence against his client is "somewhat flimsy" and with a court hearing set for Monday, December 11, to assess whether there's enough...

Wonder if they'll call it the HP act ...(Hewlett-Packard Co. pretexting for federal crime to obtain someone's phone records )(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... In the wake of the HP kerfuffle, Congress is moving toward removing any ambiguity and outlawing pretexting, making it a federal crime to obtain someone's phone records without his permission. According to the Wall Street Journal the legislation...

Transitive will be in Davos ... mingling.(World Economic Forum contracts with World Economic Forum)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... The World Economic Forum (WEF), which created and runs the annual Davos meeting of top business leaders, political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists, has named Transitive Corporation, inventors of Apple's Rosetta PowerPC-to-Intel...

Did Oracle flub the quarter quarter?(BILLY GRAMS)
December 11, 2006... Lehman Brothers hung a profit-harvesting sell sign on Oracle's stock Wednesday fearing its core database sales may miss Wall Street expectations when it reports its second fiscal quarter on December 18. It thinks Oracle has had problems closing...

Linux apps-on-Power count.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 11, 2006... IBM has counted the number of native Linux applications available for its Power chip again and gets 2,500 on the nose. It claims it's the fast-growing new IT ecosystem, up 200% in two years. Power and Linux are used in BladeCenter, System i and...

Dot.com lawsuit bursts.(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... A three-judge federal appeals court panel has gutted what the American Lawyer calls the biggest consolidated securities class action in US--representing thousands of case. It stripped six test cases over allegedly rigged dot.com IPOs of their...

BitTorrent picks up $20m.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 11, 2006... BitTorrent, the hysterically popular P2P file sharing software whose downloads represent a good chunk of the traffic on the Internet, has gotten $20 million in B Series funding from Accel Partners and existing financier DCM-Doll Capital...

Backdating watch.(BEA Systems Inc. open its own investigation for account backdating)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... BEA is the latest company to admit to a backdating problem. It says it's going to have to restate although it didn't give any details or speculate on the tax consequence. The board's audit committee found material non-cash stock-based...

Okay, now what? How do you grow revenues & keep a few hundred thousand high-paid consultants employed?
December 18, 2006... Now that the big systems integrators have milked billions out of customers for their ERP implementations what do they do for an encore? Hmmm, well, let's see, well, it might be nice to modernize them before they stumble over their whiskers....

Google's new glueware.(employee recruitment plans)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Google is going to try to make itself stickier as far as employee recruitment and retention goes. It is currently hiring or trying to hire a reported 1,500 people a quarter. Anyway, beginning in April it will have an internal market where...

Google eclipses.
December 18, 2006... Google has joined Eclipse as an add-in member, the middle ground between strategic members (IBM) and associate members (IDG Japan).

HP reportedly dumps Sonsini.(Hewlett-Packard Co. ends contract with Larry Sonsini and Tom Perkins quits from Board of directros)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... HP has apparently dropped an expected shoe. In a widely picked-up story the New York Times said Thursday that HP has sent the highest of high-powered Silicon Valley lawyers, Larry Sonsini, packing, severing his long-standing advisory ties with...

AMD finally names new CPG chief.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Computing Products Group)(appointed Mario Rivas)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... AMD has named Mario Rivas executive VP of its Computing Products Group (CPG), responsible for the development, strategy and management of the company's MPU operation. He reports to the Office of the CEO, in other words, CEO Hector Ruiz and...

Dell refocuses.(appointed Steve Schuckenbrock)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Dell is reshuffling itself into business and consumer halves instead of enterprise and client--consumer being its weaker half, bringing in less than 20% of its revenues. Dell is doing one of those two-in-a-box management things and putting...

Regulators probe LCD pricing.(liquid crystal displays makers)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... South Korean, Japanese, US and European regulators are looking for evidence of pricing fixing by LCD makers, including Samsung, LG Philips, NEC, Sharp, AU Optronics and ID Tech. Samsung was one of the companies nailed for fixing DRAM prices...

HP buys Knightsbridge Solutions.(Hewlett-Packard Co., Knightsbridge Solutions Holdings Corp.)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... HP is buying Knightsbridge Solutions Holdings Corporation, a 700-man privately held services firm that specializes in business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration and information quality. It focuses on the Global 200 and says it...

IBM thinks post-flash, hey, maybe even post-hard drive.(International Business Machines Corp., phase change memory)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... IBM says flash memory may be toast and that its successor may be a thing called "phase-change" memory that looks to be faster and scales smaller than flash, which is supposed to encounter significant scaling problems soon and leak all over the...

IBM & Yahoo offer business free search.(launched 'IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition', internet search software)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... IBM is going to offer free, downloadable, entry-level search software that looks like Yahoo to businesses so they can find information on the web or stored internally. It's called IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition and it can riffle through a...

IBM & Intel push big boxes for virtualization.(International Business Machines Corp., multiprocessor servers)
December 18, 2006... IBM and Intel are holding hands now over an initiative to push virtualization on multiprocessors, saying larger, more expandable MP servers deliver the best return on investment. To prove their point, they've come up with a new...

HP & Microsoft pledge $300m to new front.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
December 18, 2006... HP and Microsoft trotted out a minimal $300 million-over-three-year pact late Wednesday to what sounded like a pretty empty hall, pledging to unleash their combined forces against the worldwide business establishment, particularly their 20,000...

HP--a company in search of the next laser printer.(Hewlett-Packard Co. acquired Knightsbridge Solutions and forecast growth plans)(Bob Wayman retires)
December 18, 2006... HP is going to be the first Silicon Valley to bust through the $100 billion barrier, according to what HP told its analyst meeting Tuesday morning, which is not to say that it doesn't need to find the next laser printer to boost revenues--it...

Novell tries to justify Microsoft deal; coded message sent to Red Hat.
December 18, 2006... Nine-to-one customers support the inflammatory Microsoft-Novell pact that has many a pair of open source knickers in a twist, according to a survey done by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates and paid for by Microsoft and Novell. Because...

Sun releases Java SE6.(Sun Microsystems Inc., Java Platform Standard Edition 6.0)(Application development software)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Sun has released its downloadable next-generation Java Platform Standard Edition 6 and no it's not open source, even if it's the first Java developed closer to the open source way, a process of supposedly open review, weekly builds and the...

Red Hat pile-up: oracle, Microsoft & now Fleury.(acquired JBoss Group L.L.C., Marc Fleury resigned)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Six months into his $350 million Red Hat adventure and JBoss head Marc Fleury, middleware's outspoken bad boy, is on three-months a-heck-of-a-time-to-take-it paternity leave--with the usual speculation that he's not coming back--after he...

OpenLogic adds stripped-down open source library.(OpenLogic Enterprise Library Edition)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... OpenLogic has upped the number of open source projects pre-certified by its flagship OpenLogic Enterprise widgetry from 160 to a round 200 and new versions of about 100 packages it already supported like Eclipse and JBoss have been added. ...

Intalio to open source BPMS code.(business process modeling software)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Intalio, the open source BPMS house, is going to put its BPMS Community Edition out under the Mozilla Public License amended with the Generic Attribution Provision submitted to the Open Source Initiative earlier this year. It's targeting Q1....

Novell fills EMEA slot.(Linux Watch)
December 18, 2006... Novell, which has been moving its senior management around, has named Volker Smid, who's been serving as GM for Central Europe for the last 18 months, president of Novell EMEA. He succeeds Tom Francesese who was tapped to run worldwide sales in...

Ho, ho, ho: Intel to AMD.(Intel plans for cut prices on its products)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Lehman Brothers, which thinks that AMD is capacity-constrained, also thinks that Intel may be aggressively pricing products and quotes China-based Commercial Times, which cites PC OEMs as its sources, as saying that Intel may again cut prices...

Ho, ho, ho: AMD to Intel.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. forcast its growth in processor market share)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... AMD expects the processor market to grow 10% next year and it expects its MPU revenues will grow twice that. It made the forecast at an analyst meeting Thursday morning in New York, sending a nice upward shimmy through its stock. Its ATI...

HP CFO to finally retire.(Hewlett-Packard Co.' chief financial officer, Bob Wayman)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... It's hard to remember now how many times HP's CFO Bob Wayman, 61, was gonna retire but this time it's actually supposed to happen. He's to step down at the end of the year and will be replaced by the company's treasurer Cathie Lesjak, 47....

Symantec & McAfee cast as merger meat.(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... There was loose talk about HP buying Symantec. Hard to imagine but there you have it. It was hard to imagine even before HP CEO Mark Hurd indicated Tuesday that with his $4.5 billion purchase of Mercury Interactive still to digest, HP would...

Rackable sales chief gone.(Rackable Systems, Thomas Gallivan)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Rackable VP of worldwide sales Thomas Gallivan has resigned for no given reason, effective January 5. The company is looking for a replacement. Meantime CEO Tom Barton will oversee international sales while president Todd Ford tends domestic...

Exchange RTMs.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 18, 2006... Microsoft patted Exchange 2007 on the rump last Thursday and sent it down to manufacturing, the last of the Vista-Office-Exchange triumvirate to RTM.

EPA to take on server warming.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 18, 2006... Before it went home for Christmas, the US Congress passed legislation directing the Environmental Protection Agency to study and promote the use of energy-efficient servers. The White House has to sign it. The legislation assumes a 50% increase...

Zune curse?(Apple's iTunes sales)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Well either Apple's iTunes sales the first six months of the year were in the toilet or they weren't. According to Forrester Research, they were down 58% and the size of the average purchase dropped 17%, meaning Apple's monthly revenues plunged...

'And visions of sugarplums danced in their heads'.(Microsoft forcast for revenue growth of Microsoft Windows Vista sales)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... An IDC study done on Microsoft's nickel says that Vista will generate $70 billion in revenue and create 157,000 new IT jobs next year. Sounding like the stuff Microsoft told the European Commission, it says for every dollar Microsoft sees from...

Yahoo's Panama project inches forward.(BILLY GRAMS)
December 18, 2006... Yahoo has reached the point that it's ready for outsiders to test its promised new advertising platform code named Panama that supposed to put it back in the running against Google, AOL and Microsoft. Existing customer have been testing the...

Backdating watch.(Securities and Exchange Commission investigation for backdated option)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... Uh-oh. After a statistical review, currently in draft, an SEC economist figures the obverse side of all this backdating business is that the scheme was sometimes used as a tax dodge, according to a front page story in the Wall Street Journal...

Shugart dead.(Alan Shugart)(Obituary)(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... PC pioneer Alan Shugart has died of complications following heart surgery at the age of 76. Shugart was an inventor of the first disk drive while at IBM, started floppy-disk developer Shugart Associates, got ousted, went broke, opened a bar,...

Amazon countersues IBM, citing WebSphere: calls big blue a patent troll that wants to tax the Internet.
December 25, 2006... In response to the whopping great suit that IBM filed against Amazon.com in October, the one that lays claim to God knows how many hundreds of millions in damages for alleged infringing a handful of utterly fundamental e-commerce business...

Apple delays 10-K.(Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Apple is going to be late handing in its an annual report to the SEC because of its backdating investigation, which has so far resulted in its ex-CFO Fred Anderson leaving the board and casting its ex-general counsel in a bad light. Apple's...

SCO may be warming up to get the judge recused.(The SCO Group Inc., International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... SCO has gone back for a second time trying to get its decimated suit against IBM restored. In papers filed last Wednesday that surfaced the other day, it asked presiding Judge Dale Kimball to reconsider his order of November 29 upholding...

Amid government probe, Dell replaces CFO.(appointed Donald Carty, chief financial officer)
December 25, 2006... Dear, dear, dear, now this doesn't look good. Dell, which is waist-deep in investigations into how it did its bookkeeping, paralyzing its ability to get its numbers out, has suddenly lost its long-standing CFO Jim Schneider days before...

Gang of two pleas guilty to rare economic espionage charge.(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Remember back in, oh, 2001, when a couple of engineers were nabbed at San Francisco Airport just before boarding a plane to China and had their grips searched and out poured all these confidential trade secrets from Sun Microsystems, Transmeta,...

Oracle's retro-rockets sputter.
December 25, 2006... Twenty billion-odd dollars later and Oracle's fiscal Q2 numbers Monday were up 26% on the revenues side to $4.2 billion and up 21% on the earnings side to $967 million, or 18 cents a share, but a little light on new database and applications...

Symantec, McAfee get draft Vista APIs.(application programming interfaces)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Microsoft Tuesday gave security vendors like Symantec and McAfee, who two months ago very publicly complained of being locked out of Vista because of Microsoft's new "you-can't get-to-the-64-bit kernel" PatchGuard widgetry, draft APIs that are...

Hey, these IPO things actually work.
December 25, 2006... Somebody's gonna have a very merry Christmas--once they sober up. Clustered storage start-up Isilon Systems Inc went public last Friday nominally pricing its shares at $13 although the broad market never saw that price--it opened at $25...

AOL restructuring--again.(America Online Inc. )(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... There's blood on the floor of AOL's executive suite. Three top executives are leaving and will officially be gone in March: AOL International chairman Joe Redling, who also doubles as the president of AOL Mobile; executive VP of programming...

Intel takes discovery hit in AMD suit.
December 25, 2006... Well, it looks like AMD may get the foreign discovery it wants in its US antitrust suit against Intel. The special master assigned by the presiding judge to look into the issue says it should. Whether Intel decides to buck the decision...

Panasonic promises better battery.(Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, rechargeable lithium-ion battery)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Matsushita Electric, also known as Panasonic, claims to have come up with a better rechargeable lithium-ion battery that unlike Sony's infamous lithium-ion batteries, which sparked the largest recall in computer history, won't start fires. ...

Embarcadero merger fails.(Embarcadero Technologies Inc., Thoma Cressey Equity Partners)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Embarcadero Technologies' chance to go private has gone down in flames. Its acquisition by Thoma Cressey Equity Partners affiliate EMB Holding for about $234 million was cancelled over the weekend for reasons that are still unclear. No...

Seagate buys Evault.(Seagate Technology L.L.C.)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Seagate Technology Thursday said it's buying privately held online backup house EVault Inc for $185 million in cash. The company's metier is SMEs, a market Seagate says is worth $1 billion a year and is increasingly being forced to meet the...

HP buys Bitfone.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... HP is buying six-year-old Bitfone, a privately held ISV specialized in mobile device management for wireless devices. It does over-the-air repairs and upgrades. Terms were not disclosed. The company, which will be folded into HP's Handheld...

FSF sets up mudslinging anti-vista site.(Free Software Foundation)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Go check out http://BadVista.org. The Linux-loving Free Software Foundation (FSF) launched a Groklaw-inspired site over the weekend to expose "the harms inflicted on computer users" by Microsoft's new operating system and to promote free...

Red Hat foils Oracle, Microsoft so far.(increase its fiscal Q3 revenues)
December 25, 2006... Red Hat managed to increase its fiscal Q3 revenues a hefty 45% compared to last year but its earnings took a 37% dive. The company, which is under fire from Oracle and Microsoft, did $14.6 million, or seven cents a share, on revenues of...

Samba leader quits Novell in protest over patent clause in Microsoft deal.(Linux Watch)
December 25, 2006... Lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison is the new open source folk hero. He has quit Novell because of the patent clause in the company's controversial seven-week-old alliance with Microsoft under which Novell pays Microsoft royalties and in...

Microsoft moves its first Linux subscriptions.(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... Novell claims Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies, part of the big insurance company, are taking advantage of the infamous Microsoft-Novell interoperability pact. Microsoft is supposed to provide them with SUSE subscription...

IBM & US universities embark on open source research.(Linux Watch)
December 25, 2006... American universities--well, some of them anyway--make a lot of money off IP thanks in part to laws that let them hold patents on federally funded research and license the widgetry. Whether it's liberal guilt or not, seven of them, nudged...

db4objects releases rev 6.0.(open source object database software)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... db4object has got a production-ready release of db4o 6.0 that it says is 10 times faster and 90% leaner on memory consumption than version 5. The new open source object database rev also supports a new server-side cursor technology for...

Linux-on-mainframe apps up 100%: IBM.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
December 25, 2006... IBM counted noses and says there are now nearly 1,000 Linux applications that run on its mainframes, a 100% jump over this time last year, a fact it attributes to virtualization and basic mainframe performance. IBM recently reported a 390%...