Client Server News articles from February 2001

Client Server News archives from February 2001

OneOrg Anyone?(Sun Microsystem's .NET-fighting Jupiter plan)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Oh, oh, oh. We just heard that Sun's legendary management by contention has finally up and fixed on an architecture for its .NET-fighting Jupiter plan, mere days before the company is meant to trot the scheme out to dazzle the financial...

.NET Revisited.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... The Gartner Group Looks at Microsoft's Vaunted New Internet Platform Strategy & Move To Treat Software as a Service Six Months after It Was Announced By David Smith, Gartner Group VP, Internet Strategies The .NET initiative is Microsoft's...

Apparently Marco Still Has a Job.(Marco Boerries of Sun)(Company Operations)
February 5, 2001... None of Sun's official mouthpieces were anywhere to be found on Monday - nor were they answering their cell phones or pagers - and calls to Marco Boerries' office were met with voice mail but finally Marco' executive assistant returned our call...

IIS Scalps Apache.(Microsoft's Internet Information Server )(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 5, 2001... Microsoft's Internet Information Server has experienced its first major market share gain in almost a year, according to the January survey by Netcraft, stealing almost 2% away from the market leader, the hysterically popular, free Apache web...

Bank Bestows $5m Middleware Bonanza on Software Industry.(Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein releases Openadaptor)(Company Operations)
February 5, 2001... Multinational investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has decided to give away $5 million worth of custom software that it's spent the last two years developing. That's practically like the bank handing out free samples of money as far...

Intel Hits Infiniband Milestone.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Well, it seems that Intel is bearing down on this Infiniband stuff. It has samples of the key enablers of the next-generation server architecture out with OEMs. The only two accounts it specifically mentioned were Compaq and IBM, both of...

Bertelsmann Hires Klein.(Company Operations)
February 5, 2001... Microsoft nemesis Joel Klein, the feds' former antitrust chief, is going to work for German media giant Bertelsmann AG as strategic adviser to CEO Thomas Middlehoff, a friend of Klein's. Klein will also be CEO of Bertelsmann Inc, the US arm...

IBM Discovers S'ware Breaks.(invents Software Rejuvenation)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Gee, whoulda thunk it? IBM says that it has discovered that software can fall prey to degenerative diseases by being used a lot. Didn't everybody already know that? Blue's come up with a tool called Software Rejuvenation that only...

Evans Study Gives Oracle Slim Lead over M'Soft in Database Race.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Oracle's lead over Microsoft and SQL Server is thinner than Larry Ellison would have the world believe, according to a new survey by Evans Data Corporation. The research house said that, in a study of 600 database developers done in...

Microsoft Hires Akamai as Its DNS Bodyguard.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Having learned its lesson the hard way when access to its web sites was blocked a week ago by technical glitches coupled with a denial of service attack, Microsoft has hired Akamai Technologies to provide it with four backup domain name servers...

HP to Fire Marketers.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Well, it seems that HP as part of a now-continuous search for exactly the right chemistry will can somewhere around 1,700 marketing people worldwide by the end of April. It's not sure of the exact number yet. The pink slip will be handed out...

Ex-Disney Vice-Chair Goes to Compaq Board.(Sanford Litvack)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Compaq has named Sanford Litvack, a lawyer and the former vice- chairman of Walt Disney, to its board. Compaq, which cut a showcase three-year $100 million hardware deal in December with Disney and its web sites (CSN No 378), calls Disney "one...

Compaq Turns to Intel To Plug Holes in Appliance Line.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Compaq has turned to Intel to plug admitted holes in its server appliance line in a deal that looks to have been put together with unusual haste. Under the terms of a marketing pact Compaq will resell Intel's NetStructure XML Traffic...

Commerce Server Test Lab Opens.(VeriTest's Commerce Server 2000 Partner Integration Testing Laboratory)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Lionbridge subsidiary VeriTest, under contract from Microsoft, has opened the doors to a Commerce Server 2000 Partner Integration Testing Laboratory in Los Angeles. Compaq, looking to grab pride of place in the Commerce Server market, has...

eMachines $399 PC Gets Faster.(eMachineseTower 633is)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... eMachines has upgraded its $399 PC, fielding a 633MHz Celeron- powered widget with a $474 price tag and a $75 company rebate as the new entry-level model in a lineup of cheap new systems. eMachines' PR folks, using a pitch one would expect...

Waitt's Back.(Gateway exchanges incumbent CEO Jeff Weitzen for old CEO Ted Waitt)(Company Operations)
February 5, 2001... With Gateway turning utters up, or at least giving a good imitation of it, incumbent CEO Jeff Weitzen has been put out to pasture and the company's old CEO, its founder and still-chairman Ted Waitt, is back to wrestle with Gateway's particular...

Interesting Timing.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Either it was a slow news week, or Microsoft was desperate to divert a little attention away from LinuxWorld in New York because on Tuesday its spinmeisters began trumpeting an IDC report that shows Microsoft with 59% of enterprise thin client...

Microsoft at the Bar.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Microsoft filed its last papers in its appeal Monday, its rebuttal to the government's case. It's going to sink or swim on what it's said in this and the brief it originally filed around Thanksgiving. The upcoming oral arguments at the end of...

TAC Launches 3-Cent-a-MB NAS.(TAC Systems' NAS-Turbo network-attached software)(NAS-Turbo)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Storage house TAC Systems has gone to market with a NAS system promising up to 4.5 terabytes of storage at under three cents a megabyte. The widgetry, TAC's only magnetic disk offering for the NAS market, is called the NAS-Turbo and serves as...

ASP Corio Cuts Losses, Boosts Sales.(December 2000 quarter)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... In yet-another financial report illustrating that the ASP business still has a ways to go before it's viable, Corio, which Microsoft owns a chunk of, reported a $19 million net loss, and an operating loss of $18.6 million, on sales of $14.1...

NEC Wheels Out New 8-Way.(Express 5800, 180Rb-7 server)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... NEC on Monday unveiled what it calls its "enterprise platform," a new model of its Express server powered by up to eight Xeons and Intel's Profusion chipset plus an OEM'ed EMC Clariion FC4500 storage system equipped with up to seven terabytes...

L&H Lawyers Fired.(Lernout and Hauspie fires Loeff Claeys Verbeke)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Lernout & Hauspie's new CEO Philippe Bodson has fired the Belgian law firm that helped do the internal audit that found that L&H may have improperly recorded a third of its revenues, $277 million, between 1998 and the middle of last year....

Turbolinux Weighs Canning IPO.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... The official Turbolinux-Linuxcare wedding banns are likely to be posted in the next few days when the pair comes to a definitive takeover agreement. Then all that's left is the usual series of approvals and the two will become one. ...

Corel's Linux Spin-off Delayed.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Corel chief Derek Burney was hoping to clinch the anticipated spin- off of Corel's Linux operation in time to trumpet it this week at LinuxWorld in New York. Alas, the deal hasn't come off yet and Burney said Thursday morning that it could be...

MandrakeSoft Abandons Idea of Linux as Moneymaker.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... MandrakeSoft swears it's not getting out of the Linux distribution business, but has decided its future lies in applying open source methodology to education. Once again now: Mandrake's not getting out of the Linux distribution business....

Veritas Enters Linux Backup Server Game.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Backup software giant Veritas has entered the Linux market, designating Linux as one of its strategic platforms and releasing its first servers designed to run on Linux. These entrees into Linux by major players are a heartwarming...

SGI Pinches Another Red Hat Exec.(Company Operations)
February 5, 2001... SGI, which has never gotten over Red Hat's uppity initial negotiating demands and the fact that it gives SGI support requests low priority even though SGI found it before SGI's bigger rivals did, has made its second raid on the Red Hat...

NeTraverse Targets Citrix with Multiuser Linux-to-Windows Kit.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... NeTraverse has gone to beta with a 25-seat multiuser version of its Win4Lin kit, which lets Linux workstations access server-based Windows apps, joining the ranks of the Citrix wannabees. Win4Lin is the latest incarnation of the software...

Borland Predicts Linux Apps Explosion as Kylix Ships.(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Borland has gone to market with its long-expected Kylix rapid application (RAD) development kit for Linux, software that will become cross-platform later this year when a new version of Delphi is released that lets both Windows and Linux...

Linux 2.4 Gets its First Dose of Insecticide.(Product Information)
February 5, 2001... The buggy Linux 2.4.0 kernel, as expected, has proved to be highly short-lived. Linux 2.4.1 was posted for download a few minutes before midnight on Monday with no public announcement whatsoever, not even a "by the way" or "here it is"...

IBM Throws Another $300m at Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... IBM on Wednesday said that it will plow another $300 million into the development of Linux services over the next three years. This came from IBM president Sam Palmisano, not CEO Lou Gerstner, who made the last Linux budget statement, so you...

Compaq Reorps Linux Unit.(Company Operations)
February 5, 2001... Compaq is raising the profile of the Linux Program Office (LPO) that it set up in late '99 in one of the very first attempts by a mainstream company to come to grips with open source and the alternate operating system. Internally LPO may have...

Blue Boasts of How Big It Is in Linux Software.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 5, 2001... IBM went to LinuxWorld with a little white paper designed to prove that it's got the largest selection of Linux-based software in the world. The message was almost deja vu - a repetition of what industry veterans heard not many years ago...

IBM Promises 64-way Linux eServer.(Product Development)
February 5, 2001... IBM on Wednesday said that it's working on a 64-way Linux server to be designated the eServer x430. The box, whose architectural details were left undisclosed although reports suggests it's a Sequent ccNUMA, would be the first Linux server...

Merlin Readies Linux Appliance Market Debut.(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Canadian house Merlin Software is about to enter the hardware market with a set of Linux-based appliances running its fax server, file/print server and backup software. Merlin's not going to build its own hardware, says Merlin marketing VP...

Mighty Cray Bellies Up to the Linux Bar.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... The clutch of big and little companies rushing into the Linux supercomputer business are about to get some unexpected competition from the company that started it all - Cray. Cray's been quietly working on an Alpha-powered Linux version of...

Ellison's Linux Start-up Turns To Israel's Menta for Access to Windows.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Larry Ellison's New Internet Computer Company (NIC) has contracted with Menta Software, the Israeli start-up that's got a kit for accessing Windows apps remotely that's a lot cheaper than Citrix' stuff, to add Windows access to NIC's $199...

DevelopOnline To Start Charging Online.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... DevelopOnline, the Intel spin-out that's gone into the business of providing developers with online access to hardware that would normally be unavailable, is about to launch the so-called "premium" stage of its business - premium as in...

Linux International Reorganizes, Plans 500% Membership Fee Boost.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 5, 2001... Linux International (LI), the would-be dominant vendor association in the Linux camp, has reorganized and re-launched - and is about to raise its membership dues by as much as 500%. LI's mission is supposed to be evangelizing Linux outside...

Becker's Better Beowulf Bows.(Scyld Computing's Scyld Beowulf network software)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Scyld Computing, the company put together by Beowulf co-author Donald Becker, went to market Monday with its promised "next- generation" Beowulf clustering software. Like most things open source, there are no secrets to what Scyld's done...

Storm Hits Foul Weather.(Company Financial Information)
February 5, 2001... Storm Linux, one of only two companies that have tried to commercialize the Debian Linux distribution, has apparently filed for bankruptcy. The other company using Debian is Corel, which is trying to sell off the ruins of its Linux...

Lineo Makes Another Acquisition.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Lineo is buying proprietary real-time operating system specialist Embedded Power Corporation, on undisclosed terms, in a move that broadens Lineo's market reach into the 8- and 16-bit embedded market where Linux doesn't play. Lineo gave no...

Agitprop 101.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 5, 2001... So Microsoft says it wanted to come along to LinuxWorld as an exhibitor but that the show organizers at IDG discouraged it. What wimps. Microsoft seemed game enough. It talked about maybe setting up a dummy of Bill Gates and letting the...

SEC Bogs SCO-Caldera Deal Down; SCO Bedeviled.(Santa Cruz Operation)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... SCO blamed the economy, the SEC for the delay in selling its Unix operations to Caldera and customers for holding off purchases while the Caldera deal is in limbo - in short everybody but itself - when it posted a horrid little quarter. The...

How About a Little Eye Opener?(News Briefs)
February 5, 2001... The CFO of a would-be rival of these companies who would prefer to remain nameless put these numbers together for internal use. They are based on the most recent public information available and may be revealing both in the particular and...

Terra Hires Apple's Linux Guy.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Terra Soft Solutions, the Colorado outfit doing Yellow Dog Linux, the PowerPC distribution, has poached Apple's Linux technology manager Kevin Shortell, Apple's liaison with Linux developers. He's going to lend a hand to wrap up Yellow Dog 2.0,...

Red Flag Joins Gnome Club.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Red Flag, the Chinese Linux distribution with some powerful Chinese government backing and a strong yen to upset Microsoft's rickshaw, has joined the advisory board of the Gnome Foundation. Red Flag says it will lead an effort to localize Gnome...

Zeus Claims Nearly 2x Speed Boost on Linux 2.4.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Zeus Technology says that its flagship Zeus web server is running more than 85% faster on the Linux 2.4 kernel than it did on Linux 2.2.x. The Cambridge, England company attributes the performance gain to the new SMP capabilities in Linux 2.4,...

SGI Promises Itanium Cluster.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... SGI is going to replace the current Beowulf cluster at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) with a new Itanium-based 146-CPU cluster that it brags will be the first production cluster delivered using Intel's hard-to-get IA-64. SGI said that it's...

Traveling Linux B2B Showcase To Crisscross Europe.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... German high-tech show promoter LogOn Technology Transfer has put together its third annual traveling B2B Linux showcase that will skip across the continent stopping in a dozen cities during May and June. The series, called Linux@work, is...

Python Upgrade Sent to Alpha.(Python 2.1 )(Digital Creation's Python Labs)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... The first alpha of a point upgrade to the Python open source scripting language has been released by Python.org. The soon-to-be Python 2.1 has what Python progenitor Guido van Rossum, these days director of Digital Creation's Python Labs,...

Corel Corks Wine.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Developers working on the gently aging Wine project mean to put Windows apps on Linux say Corel's contributions to the program have dried up. That's no surprise, they say. Corel was in it just for the code it needed to get its WordPerfect and...

Solectron Selects Lineo To Get into Linux Clusters.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Solectron subsidiary Force Computers has turned to Lineo to help it jump into the Linux cluster market. Solectron's signed up to use Lineo's HA Arbiter board at the heart of a cluster to be sold as the Force Availix Platform 8-i500, an offering...

Tower Previews Itanium JVM for Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Tower Technology Corporation has begun an early access program for its TowerJ JVM running on Linux on the Itanium. Tower, which has this habit of consistently coming up with server-side JVMs that are more advanced and faster than the best Sun...

Century Upgrades Linux Web Pad Kit.(Century Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... On February 5 Century Software will go to market with a major upgrade of its Operating Environment and Development toolkit for embedded Linux, meant to help build Linux-based PDAs, web pads and Internet appliances. Version 1.1 of the stuff gets...

ADS Puts Linux StrongARM To Sleep.(Applied Data Systems)(StrongARM SA1110)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Applied Data Systems is in the final stages of developing a sleep mode for its StrongARM SA1110-based single-board computer running Linux. The company says that its Graphics Client Plus, a 4x6-inch widget, will power down to less than 10...

CA Betas Cluster Management Kit.(Computer Associates )(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Computer Associates has gone into beta with a cluster management kit for its flagship Unicenter TNG. The new kit manages clusters based on Win2K/NT, Tru64 and VMS, HP- UX, AIX , Solaris and notably Linux. It's the first time that CA's...

New CodeWarrior Due.(Metrowerks' CodeWarrior 6.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Next month Motorola subsidiary, Metrowerks, will release a new cut of its flagship CodeWarrior integrated development environment (IDE), the first of its ilk to support Java on Linux on the PowerPC. The new version, CodeWarrior 6.0, also adds...

Partners Push PDA Development Kit.(Century Software Embedded Technologies, Applied Data Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Applied Data Systems and Century Software Embedded Technologies are teaming up to offer an embedded Linux kit that teams a customized version of Century's Microwindows-based applications toolkit and PDA operating environment running on...

Linux Gets Neugents.(Computer Associates)(first Neugents for Linux)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Computer Associates has released its first Neugents for Linux. Neugents are CA's technology for predictive analysts, used in a wide range of its programs to figure out things such as when a network link is likely to fail before the event...

Linux Warped.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 5, 2001... Warp Solutions, a New York City start-up that's barely a year-old, has released Linux versions of its Warm Intelligent Content Distributor and Warp Load Balancer. The two, part of a suite aimed at improving Internet applications performance,...

Neoware Expands in Europe.(France)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Neoware has opened an office in France. It's also promoted Peter Bolton, who was running sales and marketing in the company's UK office, to the new post of VP, European sales and marketing. Neoware said that its next planned move in Europe will...

Ebiz Can't Make Up its Mind: Is it Linux or Is it Unix.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Ebiz, which fancies itself a Linux company and brags that it's the largest Linux retailer on the net thanks to its Linux Store and LinuxMall, has discovered that no, it's not a Linux company any more. Most of its revenues now come from...

The Miasma Spreads.(HP's NetAction)(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Well, wouldn't you know it? Hewlett-Packard, embarrassed that it's thin on just about every chi-chi strategy that's popular these days, is going to go down the old vaporware trail after Microsoft and Sun and launch into that nebulous domain...

Sun Isn't Shining.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 5, 2001... Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear. As Intel goes with the Itanium so goes Sun with the UltraSparc and it doesn't go well in either case. Sun, for instance, is having a terrible time getting yields from TI's UltraSparc III factory. According to...

Slow Going, Huh.(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Intel says it's got about 20-25 pilot systems out with Itania in them.

Fore Whom?(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Lucent's finance people are chattering about the $65 million ousted CEO Rich McGinn poured into a golf course for the company. It would be marvelously ironic if it was one of the play- grounds that IBM CEO Lou Gerstner divested when that...

The Windows eXPerience.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Paul Thurrott, who writes the SuperSite for Windows, thinks he's sniffed out what Microsoft's really gonna call Whistler: Windows XP, an acronym for Windows "eXPerienced." He says Microsoft is going to throw the same XP tag at the end of Office...

Hatch: Bush No Salvation for Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Novell's pet US Senator Orrin Hatch doesn't think the Bush administration will interfere with the Microsoft antitrust case, according to a Reuter's dispatch out of Davos, Switzerland. It quoted the Utah senator, there for the annual meeting of...

NeXT Co-founder To Shill for .NET.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... Microsoft has named Dan'l Lewin, a survivor of both Steve Jobs' spoiled NeXT adventure, which he co-founded, and the GO pen computing debacle, VP of .NET business development, charged with managing and expanding .NET-related strategic business...

Firebird Patch Declared Off-Limits.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2001... In the wake of that gapping great security hole the schismatic Firebird people found in InterBase database (CSN No 383), InterBase owner Borland has made the Firebird fix off-limits. It says that using anything other than the Borland patch will...

Now Turbolinux Cuts Staff.(Company Operations)
February 12, 2001... Geez. Reality is descending like a pall over the Linux segment. Forty-eight hours after SuSE sheered its American contingent to a dozen people, 25% of what it was, Turbolinux, another of the four main Linux commercializers, will trim back as...

Will .NET & Java Be Done In by a Curl?(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Curl denies it, but the guy at Microsoft who tipped us off to its existence claimed that its technology poses a threat to both Java and .NET. He never seemed the hysterical type or particular paranoid, at least no more than anyone else in the...

Microsoft Almost Open Sources WinCE.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Microsoft is not only going to let a cadre of 16 semiconductor vendors see the source code to the next generation of WinCE - which Redmond revealed on Tuesday is code named Talisker - it's going to let them suggest changes to it. Such a...

Sun Gazing.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Told ya so. Told ya Sun's Jupiter scheme was empty. Told ya it was pretty much down to recycling existing technology. What Sun did manage to pull off, however, thanks to some pretty slick scripting of the rollout extravaganza late Monday...

Appeals Court Plays to Microsoft's Hand.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Microsoft's stock fluttered the other day on speculation that the Court of Appeals will ultimately vacate the God awful antitrust decision against it and that the Bush administration won't have the stomach for pressing forward with it. You...

Layoffs Expected from Dell.(Company Operations)
February 12, 2001... This story is unchanged since we broke it on Wednesday. CNET and the Wall Street Journal can eat our dust. Reports out of Texas say that Dell is preparing to make the first layoffs in its history. The news will probably surface between...

Compaq Recruits ZLE Software Partners.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Compaq has begun signing up third-party ISVs for what it touts as the first Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) offering in the history of computing. ZLE, a term coined by the Gartner Group back in 1998 and adopted by Compaq, describes so-called...

Microsoft Team Sends Shot Across Unix' Bow.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Microsoft, Unisys, EMC and Knosys on Thursday took the wraps off a joint project they've been involved in to build the world's largest multidimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) cube, a shot across the bow of Unix in the data center....

Microsoft Renames Whistler; Win2K Server Sales Finally Hit 1m.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... Microsoft this week celebrated the first anniversary of Windows 2000 by spreading the news that it expects to sell its one-millionth copy of Win2K Server sometime this month. In its own perverse way, Microsoft then promptly sent the Win2K...

Israeli Start-up First Out with 1x/4x Infiniband.(Product Announcement)
February 12, 2001... Israeli chip house Mellanox Technologies, a start-up partially funded by Intel, has begun shipping sample quantities of the industry's first Infiniband widgetry to support both 1x and 4x Infiniband links. The company's premier chip is the...

AMD's Roadmap.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 12, 2001... AMD was feeling a bit expansive at LinuxWorld and waved around its otherwise hush-hush 64-bit roadmap. There are, as suspected, two chips: Clawhammer and Sledgehammer. Clawhammer is intended for one- and two-processor servers,...

InfiniBand ISVs Sign Win2K-Compatibility Pact.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 12, 2001... Software houses Lane15 and Netreon Inc have signed a collaboration pact to ensure that Windows 2000 and Active Directory will be able to manage Infiniband widgetry. Lane15 specializes in management software for heterogeneous Infiniband...

Sun Answers Microsoft's 15 Questions.(Company Operations)
February 12, 2001... Ah, you remember those 15 questions for Sun that Microsoft sent us and that we in turn flashed out over the weekend. Well, Sun took the bait and turned up at its Jupiter fest Monday with the answers in hand. Enjoy yourself. An Open...