Client Server News articles from February 2004

Client Server News archives from February 2004

Microsoft Loses Another Infringement Suit.
February 2, 2004... Looks like Microsoft's fabled luck is running thin. It lost a patent infringement suit to a one-man company that may cost in upwards of $520 million and now an Arizona judge has gone and issued a partial summary judgment against it in another...

Intel To Out Shy Yamhill.
February 2, 2004... This is basically the same story we broke yesterday. Chip follower Nathan Brookwood says we made a stupid mistake about Microsoft's promised AMD64 adaptations of Windows XP and Server 2003 and that both are slated for the second half. ...

Shock! Horror!! HP To Ship Opteron Servers.
February 2, 2004... Hewlett-Packard, the co-developer of the trillion-dollar Itanium chip, whose participation delayed the 64-bit processor in getting to market and added considerable complexity to the widget because it had to be tweaked to accommodate PA-RISC -...

IBM Puts Servers & Chips Together.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The extent of IBM's ambitions for its Power chip is beginning to become clear. The company confirmed a report Thursday that it was combining its server unit with its insolvent chip operation to align their objectives. A memo was...

The Ride is Over for COM & DCOM.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... It's the end of the line for COM and DCOM, Microsoft's Component Object Model and its mate, the Distributed Component Object Model. According to a speech given in London by Longhorn's Indigo web services plumbing architect Don Box,...

Embattled Celestica CEO Quits.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Eugene Polistuk, the long-time chairman and CEO of Celestica Inc, the Toronto contract manufacturer that's running off AMD-designed Opteron boxes and making both barebones and fixed configurations available to third-party resellers, up and quit...

Microsoft Won't Change Windows or IE for Eolas.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Microsoft has decided, as it previously indicated it might, not to modify the Windows XP Service Pack 2 or its browser because of the Eolas legal victory until it absolutely has to. The injunction Eolas got has been stayed and Microsoft doesn't...

EU Finds Microsoft Guilty, Wants Case Wrapped Up by May.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The European Commission has been internally circulating a draft of a damning final decision against Microsoft that finds the company guilty of abusing its monopoly by not sharing enough interoperability data with rivals and restricting...

Microsoft Adjusts Controversial Protocol Program.
February 2, 2004... Microsoft, as expected, announced changes to its settlement-imposed communication protocols licensing program (MCPP) that the Justice Department said was broken because it's not producing competition like it was supposed to. Microsoft made...

Investigators Looking for 'Corrupt Conspiracy' at CA.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Federal prosecutors are usually discrete, if not downright uncommunicative with the press so it was a surprise when the chief federal prosecutor for Long Island Roslynn Mauskopf issued a statement after ex-Computer Associates senior VP of...

Fujitsu Ships 4p Itanium Systems.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation has started shipping a four-way 4U rack-based Itanium server called the Primergy RX1600 in North America. The box, targeting large databases, business intelligence and data warehousing and offered with both...

Oracle Moves on Plan To Pack PeopleSoft's Board.
February 2, 2004... Amid the buzz that the Justice Department is going to put the kibosh on Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle, which has been promising such a move, has sent PeopleSoft a notice that it intends to continue to pursue its reluctant quarry...

Siebel & IBM Push Siebel OnDemand Free Trial.
February 2, 2004... Siebel and IBM are offering the hosted, Internet-based Siebel CRM OnDemand software that they're collaborating on for free for 90 days to entice folks to try it. They say there are no strings attached and customers can simply opt out at...

Oracle Makes Nice to Other People's Software.
February 2, 2004... In an unnatural move on Wednesday Oracle rolled out a Customer Data Hub, a new packaged product that's supposed to give companies that use different business applications a real-time overview of customer information. Oracle says the stuff...

SMBs Fret They Put Too Many Eggs in Microsoft's Basket.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The Yankee Group says it surveyed SMBs and found them worried about depending on Microsoft too much. It said 43% of the companies it interviewed expressed concern and 72% of them are actively seeking other vendors to diversify their...

US Launches Cyber Alert System.
February 2, 2004... In response to the MyDoom havoc, the US Department of Homeland Security Wednesday launched a national Cyber Alert System that will send free e-mail alerts to consumers, business and government agencies about securing their computers. The...

IBM Debuts New Remote Management Service.
February 2, 2004... IBM has rolled out a new service to remotely manage and support multi-platform data centers. The service is based on a hybrid IT outsourcing model in which the customer owns all the IT systems, software and staff. IBM described the...

McData Fires 9%.
February 2, 2004... Storage networking products vendor McData laid off 92 people, about 9% of its workforce. The Broomfield, Colorado concern said it made the cuts "to optimize its operating efficiency and to better align its business model." After the...

BlueArc Rolls Out a Titan.
February 2, 2004... Storage start-up BlueArc Corporation has introduced a new network storage system that's supposed to let enterprise customers scale performance, storage and user loads via modular upgrades without replacing the entire system. Dubbed Titan...

IBM Debuts New NAS Gateway.
February 2, 2004... IBM has launched a new storage device called NAS Gateway 500 optimized for NAS file serving. Based on the Power chips used in Blue's pSeries servers, the NAS Gateway 500 is a specialized 4U storage server designed to provide clients and...

Adaptec Buys Virtualization Start-up.
February 2, 2004... Adaptec is acquiring UK virtualization software house Elipsan. On a conference call with analysts Monday, Adaptec said that it paid $20 million-$25 million. Elipsan has 20 employees. The deal should close in mid-February. Elipsan's...

EMC Debuts New Services, Software.
February 2, 2004... EMC launched a bunch of storage services and applications as part of a push into information lifecycle management (ILM), the new buzzword for managing information from creation through deletion. Delivered by EMC's Technology Solutions...

Sun Extends OEM Deal with Dot Hill.
February 2, 2004... Storage house Dot Hill said Sun extended their existing three-year OEM agreement by two years through May 22, 2007. Dot Hill provides Sun with Fibre Channel and SCSI storage systems for Sun's StorEdge 3000 series. The widgetry is designed...

Veritas Fails To Please.
February 2, 2004... Veritas earned $105.3 million, or 24 cents per share, on revenues of $513 million in Q4. The results came in stronger than the company's forecast. When Veritas released its third-quarter results in October, it projected Q4 earnings of 21...

SCO & Microsoft Post Bounties of $250,000 Each on the.
February 2, 2004... Head of MyDoom Author The SCO Group is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for unleashing the MyDoom e-mail virus. Microsoft followed suit and is offering...

OSDL Lands First Chinese Member.
February 2, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has picked up its very first Chinese member, Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Company Ltd, whose name indicates why it must be joining. The outfit wants to focus of Linux kernel development and...

Cadence Goes Linux.
February 2, 2004... Cadence Design Systems says it's porting its Encounter digital IC design platform, stuff that's used for complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, to Opteron hardware running Linux citing customer demand. It figures the move will result in faster...

Red Hat as Citizen Kane.
February 2, 2004... Red Hat is back in the publishing business, having shelved its first online news attempt. This time through it's peddling a print magazine called Wide Open that's evidently supposed to evangelize open source as well as promote Red Hat's new...

SCO Wins Convert to its GPL-is-Invalid Argument.
February 2, 2004... To the Editor Why is the Free Software Foundation given a pass on the issue of contract enforcement under state law on binding legal agreements like the GPL? The consequences are dramatic indeed for the commercial enterprise environment....

Darl Does Harvard.
February 2, 2004... SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is supposed to lecture on IP at the Harvard Law School on Monday, February 2 at 6:30 EST. The speech, part of The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology series, will be webcast live and available as an archive at...

Lindows Outlawed in Holland.
February 2, 2004... A Dutch judge has sided with Microsoft and has forbidden Dutch resellers to sell or promote Lindows software because Lindows is riding on Windows' fame. Lindows can't advertise in the country and the judge told Lindows to block access to its...

From Bill Gates' Mouth to God's Ear.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Bill Gates predicted that spam would be dead in two years from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland the other day. He said Microsoft is working on software that would make mass spam mailing impractical and uneconomical. He thinks...

Sarvega Piques Intel Capital's Interest.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Sarvega Inc, the start-up with the web services infrastructure widgetry, has gotten money from Intel Capital and Blueprint Ventures. The outfit's not saying how much the pair put in, but it means Sarvega has seen $20 million in venture capital...

Directories Bound To Be Free.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... LDAP directory services are becoming so commoditized that the Meta Group expects them to be given away as part of framework solutions that include security and identity management applications by 2005/06. Meta figures that between now and then...

Bill Gates, Knight.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... At some "mutually convenient" date, Bill Gates is going to be made a Knight Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth for "his outstanding contribution to enterprise, employment, education and voluntary sector in the United Kingdom,"...

Megahertz Win.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... According to what the Tech Report says, AMD quietly trashed its True Performance Initiative designed to get us all to stop equating megahertz with performance. It couldn't get the industry interested. It persists, however, in a contorted and...

Dell Buys Into NextIO.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... NextIO, the year-old Texas start-up that thinks its still-secret data communications widgetry is going to blow the blade market wide open, has gotten some funding from Dell. It's not saying how much but it's supposed to be an extension to the...

Gates on Google.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... "They kicked our butts." - Bill Gates on the subject of Google, the search company he's planning on trouncing. As a matter of fact, Microsoft has just come up with a new free beta toolbar that emphasizes search through MSN and dangles MSN...

IBM Puts Car Guy on Board.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... IBM has put Nissan Motor president, CEO and co-chairman Carlos Ghosn on its board. A Brazilian educated in France, Ghosn has been an executive VP with Renault SA and chairman, president and CEO of Michelin North America. He is also on the...

Another Linux Show.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The Linux on Wall Street show is returning to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on April 28. Sponsors include Oracle, IBM, HP, Reuters and Sybase.

Microsoft Solves mikerowesoft.com Problem.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Microsoft solved its PR problems created by bullying the teenager who set up the mikerowesoft.com web site and got the domain like it wanted by offering to pay for the kid's new web site and throwing in an Xbox with some games, a Microsoft...

'You Dirty Rat'.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... "They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot." - Linux creator Linus Torvalds on SCO in BusinessWeek.

Marathon Stops Tripping Over its Shoelaces & Gets Back in the Race.
February 9, 2004... Fault-tolerant Windows pioneer Marathon Technologies Corporation has been brought back Lazarus-like from the dead revitalized by an $8.8 million infusion of money from a bunch of VCs. The last time anybody heard from Marathon its founder...

Microsoft Previews AMD64 Operating System.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... On Tuesday Microsoft materialized a preview copy of what it calls Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems cautioning people that the thing is meant for AMD Athlon64 and Opteron boxes and not Intel's 64-bit EPIC-based Itanium gear,...

HP Acquires Novadigm, Consera.
February 9, 2004... Hewlett-Packard is buying two management software companies - Novadigm and Consera - to further its utility computing push. The two provide automated change capabilities. HP, which already owns 5% of Novadigm, is paying roughly $116...

Sun Lets Early Tiger Loose.
February 9, 2004... On Thursday Sun set out the beta of Project Tiger, its Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5 (J2SE 1.5) with Java language updates, new application monitoring and management features and greater performance. Sun is evidently hoping for GA this...

Bleeding Gateway Buys Profitable eMachines.
February 9, 2004... Struggling Gateway is buying privately held eMachines in a deal valued at about $235 million to boost sales of its consumer electronics gear and help it return to profitability. The price includes $30 million in cash and 50 million shares of...

HyperTransport Consortium Locks Down Next Generation.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The second rev of the HyperTransport chip-to-chip I/O connectivity specification is in the can. It's expected to last for a very long time while the rest of technology catches up with it, according Mario Cavalli, the general manager of the...

Google Makes Grown Bankers Cry.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Looks like there's not going to be a mammoth, awe-inspiring IPO by Google this spring. Evidently the company's financial advisers think it could do better if it waits until the stars that govern the market are more auspicious - although...

Prescott's Here.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Intel has delivered itself, as expected, of the Pentium 4 chip code named Prescott that is distinguished by being Intel's first 90nm silicon using 300mm wafers and by being the first Intel x86 chip to be secretly 64-bit like AMD's hybrid...

'OK, $9.4 billion Cash But Not a Penny More'.
February 9, 2004... Oracle has gone and done what it didn't want to do, but had to do if it's going to keep on pursuing PeopleSoft. It raised its bid from $19.50 to $26 a share or from $7.1 billion to $9.4 billion cash. Larry Ellison, who started at $16 a...

Oracle Prices Against SQL Server.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Oracle can now deliver its new 10g system on Linux or Unix. Windows will take a while longer. Oracle is going after smaller fry because it's lost share in the mid-market to Microsoft and IBM. Thanks to a price cut at the entry level, it's...

Sun Wishes Eclipse Would, Well, Go Dark.
February 9, 2004... Sun would love to sear its brand into the flank of that headstrong little pony, Eclipse, the IBM-organized IDE and Java tools initiative that Sun doesn't belong to because it says it would mean giving up its own NetBeans IDE and rewriting its...

Microsoft Countersues Teknowledge.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Microsoft has countersued Teknowledge Corporation, the company that charged Microsoft, AOL Time Warner and Yahoo with infringing its so- called HotBox patent last July. Teknowledge claimed Microsoft was treading on technology to alert...

ISA Server 2004 Beta Bows.
February 9, 2004... Microsoft has put out the public beta of its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, which provides an advanced application layer firewall, VPN, caching features and an enhanced user interface. It's at www.microsoft.com/isaserver.

Fujitsu Goes with Laptop Chip-based Blade Server.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Fujitsu Computer Systems, which used to be Amdahl, has unpacked a new Primergy BX300 Pentium M-based two-way blade server that's packaged as a 3U that can house up to 20 ultra-compact server blades and is supposed to have low power dissipation....

Oasis Kicks Off Push for Dataweb Standard.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... OASIS wants to create a standard for sharing, linking and synchronizing data over the Internet and other networks using XML documents and Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRIs), the URI- compatible abstract identifier scheme OASIS also...

Oblix Mates with Confluent.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... E-business house Oblix Inc, the identity management and web authentication people, is supposed to acquire Confluent Software, the policy-based web services management folks. Evidently Oblix wants to use Confluent to validate applications....

Sony Takes Out $325m Insurance Policy.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Last week IBM moved its unprofitable albeit state-of-the-art chip unit in under the sheltering wing of its server operation. This week IBM said that the Sony Group will pour $325 million into IBM's next- generation 65nm/300mm process in the...

VoiceXML 2.0 Close to Standardization.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... W3C has advanced VoiceXML 2.0 to the status of a proposed standard, what it calls a "recommendation." It is in final review. The widgetry, a part of the consortium's Speech Interface Framework, brings web-based development and content to...

StarOffice Lights On Solaris x86.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... StarOffice 7-on-Solaris x86 has reached that magic moment known as general availability, according to Sun. That puts Sun a step closer to porting its newfangled Java Desktop System to Solaris x86 later this year. Last time it counted Sun...

Microsoft Upgrades Business Portal App.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Microsoft has upgraded its Business Portal software, the stuff that lets organizations deploy a role-based portal that builds on their network security schema. Launched last May, Business Portal enables access to data, applications and...

Oki Uses .NET in Newfangled Convergence Server.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Oki Electric Industry Company Ltd unwrapped a telephony server based on .NET Tuesday that it said was the first of its kind. Officially the thing is called IP Convergence Server IPstage SS9100 that, as its name suggests, converges large-scale...

System X Trades Desktops for Servers.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Apple's folks want us to know that Virginia Tech, which built System X that amazing record-making supercomputer - the third-fastest in the world - out of Apple desktops last fall, is going to find good homes for all of those 1,100 Power Mac G5s...

EC Watch.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The European Commission may have lost its stomach for a so-called "must-carry" provision that would insist that Microsoft include rival media players in Windows as a penalty for tying its own Media Player to the operating system, according to...

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Debuts.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Microsoft launched SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, the business intelligence add-on for the database, as expected. The reporting tool, which integrates OLAP, data mining, warehousing and data extraction, transformation and loading...

Servers Heated Up in Q4.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Gartner says server shipments were up 25% year-over-year in Q4 to 1.59 million units, 91% of the things x86. The numbers were the best in three years. For all of 2003, they were up 20%. HP was first (462k), Dell second (319k), IBM third (274k)...

Danes Go For UBL.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Denmark has adopted an early version of the Oasis Universal Business Language (UBL 0.7) as a standard for e-commerce in the public sector. It's going to be used to integrate state systems with a newly implemented portal for public procurement...

EMC Product Launch Set.
February 9, 2004... EMC has scheduled a conference call for Monday February 9 apparently to unwrap new Symmetrix arrays called the DMX2s - doubtless because they're supposed to be twice as powerful and have twice as many drives as their predecessors - as well as...

Broadcom Buys RAIDCore.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Broadcom has acquired Nashua, New Hampshire-based RAID and virtualization software start-up RAIDCore Inc and its RAID software stack for single- and dual-processor servers. RAIDCore's software is OS-, I/O bus- and hardware-independent and...

Cornice Raises Mega Bucks.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Storage start-up Cornice has secured a whopping $51 million in second-round funding, taking the Longmont, Colorado concern's total funding to $81 million. Existing investors CIBC Capital partners, Nokia Venture Partners and VantagePoint...

SCO Amends IBM Complaint Again.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The SCO Group has amended its $3 billion worth of charges against IBM and, according to SCO CEO Darl McBride, has added copyright complaints to its largely breach-of-contract suit. McBride suggested that IBM was making more of SCO's...

SuSE Chief Moved to Novell Job.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... SuSE boss Richard Seibt has evidently gotten his reward. He's going to run Novell EMEA as president as Novell transitions to a Linux house. The post's former occupant, Gerard Van Kemmel, has been made chairman of Novell EMEA. Richard, an...

SCO Moves Site, Microsoft Shrugs Off Attack.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... For the duration of the MyDoom attack, now deemed the largest Denial of Service attack in human history - SCO normally gets 600,000 hits a day was flooded with 50 times that number - the company has changed its web site from www.sco.com to...

SCOsource Linux Tax Called a Flop.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Decatur Jones Equity Partners LLC, an equity research house that follows Red Hat, Citrix, Wind River and the SCO Group, the later making it a rarity, has cut its projection on revenues coming in to SCO from the SCOsource licensing effort by...

OSDL Defines Data Center Linux, Seeks Reaction.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The Data Center Linux (DCL) working group over at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has released a DCL Technical Capabilities 1.0 document saying it wants feedback from developers and the industry. The move is the step before OSDL...

Groklaw Editor Takes Day Job.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Pamela Jones, aka PJ, the editor of nine-month-old Groklaw.net, a scourge of the SCO Group, although SCO's litigation against open source and Linux gave birth to the site, is going to be director of litigation risk research for Open Source Risk...

LSB 2.0 Made Public.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The Free Standards Group has put its rev of the Linux Standard Base, LSB 2.0, up for public review. Comments will be collected until the very beginning of March. Critics contend that the LSB, for all the time that's gone into it, still...

Now There's a Thought - Free Linux.
February 9, 2004... Lindows.com is going to try to harness the power of the peer-to-peer networks that have ripped off music and movies on a massive scale on behalf of its Linux desktop operating system. It proposes to give away its LinuxLive! "demo" software,...

Opteron Gets Real-Time Linux.
February 9, 2004... Concurrent's Integrated Solutions Division has moved its very, very serious real-time Linux operating system, some Red Hat-derived widgetry, to the AMD Opteron taking advantage of the chip's floating point, 64-bit processing and throughput. ...

Opera Puts Internet Demigod on its Board.
February 9, 2004... John Patrick, IBM's influential former VP of Internet technology and now president of Attitude LLC, has been named to Opera Software's board. Patrick, an acknowledged Internet visionary, is credited with bringing the Internet to IBM. Business...

OSDL Snags NTT.
February 9, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is picking up new members at a clip these days. Its latest recruit is none other than the great Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), which is supposed to taking part in the lab's Data Center...

Voltaire Hires Ex-Brocade Guy.
February 9, 2004... Voltaire, the hopeful Infiniband house, has hired ex-Brocade VP of global OEM sales Mark Favreau, making him executive VP and general manager of North America operations. He will be responsible for Voltaire's sales and support including OEMs...

Trolltech Adds .NET Support.
February 9, 2004... Trolltech has put .NET Framework and 64-bit processing support in the latest release of Qt, its multi-platform toolkit. Qt 3.3 also support the GNU C++ compiler on Windows (MinGW gcc), which makes building multi-platform programs easier since...