Client Server News articles from February 2006

Client Server News archives from February 2006

Is Microsoft's monopoly at risk?
February 6, 2006... When Microsoft's chief counsel tells you it's not important--followed by Bill Gates going around saying it's not important--your deflector shields light up and you just know it's important. Well, Microsoft is trying to divert attention--at...

IBM to kick off blade.org.(plans to create an electronic discussion group)
February 6, 2006... Looks like IBM is good to go out with its next-generation BladeCenter on February 8, which is why it's been sending out invitations to a press event in New York City. And why HP has the knives out claiming Blue's got power and cooling problems...

SAP moves on salesforce.com turf.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... SAP, as it was bound to do, has lit out after Salesforce.com and Siebel, soon to be an Oracle satellite, with on-demand web-based CRM software sold by subscription. IBM will do the hosting and help SAP sell it. SAP says it's targeting...

Microsoft tickles mid-market server pack.(new product Windows Server 2003 R2)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft Wednesday made Windows Server 2003 R2, its first major Server upgrade in, well, it'll be three years, generally available. It's an update to Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. There's also a Server Pack 2 for the Internet Security...

Microsoft expands IP offerings.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft's IP outreach program--Microsoft hawking its non-core technology to other companies and making a buck or two--is now working through governments and public sector development agencies to find entrepreneurs and small businesses to run...

Google stumbles; suffers feet-of-clay moment.(market size)
February 6, 2006... The boys in Redmond must have gone out Tuesday night and lifted a few jars in celebration of the precipitous 20% after-hours plunge that Google's stock took when it released its Q4 numbers. Google lost $30 billion in market cap or 50 bucks...

Microsoft edits code for court.(a patent infringement case by Carlos Armando Amado)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Since last month Microsoft has been telling customers that new deployments of Office Professional 2003 and Access 2003 have to install Office SP2 and new deployments of Office XP Professional and Access 2002 have to apply a special patch. ...

How retro. Sun intros new workstations.(Sun Microsystems Inc., Ultra 40)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Sun Microsystems, which owes its start to workstations, has slid another Opteronbased workstation next to the one it introduced in July. Besides the existing dual-core Ultra 20 uniprocessor, whose purpose was to hit a cheap entry price of...

HP taps Vignette CEO to run software.(Thomas Hogan)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... HP last Friday tapped Vignette CEO Thomas Hogan to replace the recently resigned friend-of-Carly Nora Denzel as head of its problematic software operation, reporting to Ann Liver-more, head of the Technology Solu-tions Group. Before Vignette,...

Microsoft releases 'attack-repelling IE7 beta.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft Tuesday released the first generally available Internet Explorer 7 beta along with Windows RSS Platform, a set of APIs so developers can create RSS-enabled programs. It told consumers to wait for the next go-round in a couple of...

PTO to reconsider Forgent patent.
February 6, 2006... Microsoft may find some use in the patent-loathing open source movement yet. The open source-embracing Public Patent Foundation has succeeded in getting the US Patent and Trademark Office to reopen the file on the patent that Forgent Networks...

Microsoft wins patent suit.
February 6, 2006... Microsoft has won a patent infringement suit brought by one Research Corporation Technologies (RCT), which claimed that the printing and display functionality in various versions of Windows and Office tread on patents it asserted involving the...

Microsoft unifies communications.(new unified communication group formed)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft said Monday that it had merged its Exchange and Real-Time Collaboration people to form a unified Communication Group (UCG) responsible for integrating e-mail, instant messaging, calendaring, voice mail, VoIP and audio/video/web...

Solaris, Nigara may go GPL3, Sun president says.(general public license, Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Sun said Tuesday that a year to the day that Solaris 10 came out, the operating system passed four million registered licenses, two-thirds of them, alas, on x86 platforms not Sparc though Sun reasons that it's reaching new customers--and HP as...

Hark, are those war drums?(desktop Linux distribution)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Google is crafting its own desktop Linux distribution, according to the Register. It says that Google has confirmed that it's working on a desktop Linux project called Goobuntu based on the Debian-Gnome desktop Ubuntu pushed by Canonical...

Something tells me Microsoft won't be contributing to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.(Linux Watch)(Louis Gutierrez)
February 6, 2006... The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has named Louis Gutierrez, an open standards kind of guy who is presently the University of Massachusetts Medical School's chief technology strategist, to be its new CIO and wage the widely watched, potentially...

Itanium claims victim; SGI bounces CEO.(Silicon Graphics Inc. promoted Bob Bishop)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Bob Bishop, the guy who came in six years ago to save the floundering SGI, has himself been sidelined as the once princely company struggles to survive, a victim of a malign Itanium halo. Bishop, who hasn't been able to right SGI by moving from...

IBM frees low-end version of DB2.(Database Express Edition)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Without much fanfare, IBM has gone down the free database road already paved by Oracle and Microsoft and, well, its own Cloudscape--not to mention the open source crowd--and has produced a little Linux and Windows-based number called DB...

Red head to run one laptop per child box.(Linux Watch)(Nicholas Negroponte)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Well, it looks like Red Hat's going to be the Linux operating system in Nicholas Negroponte's still-prototype UN-backed $100-a-box One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. Reportedly Negroponte, the head of MIT's Media Lab, snubbed both...

IBM & friends push AJAX into open source.(Linux Watch)(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... IBM, Google, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Red Hat. Oracle, Yahoo, Zend, BEA, Borland and some other like-minded folk have created an open source project for AJAX, a technology of the moment. They say it's to popularize the stuff and promote its...

Novell chases SMEs.(small and medium sized companies, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Novell has decided to bundle support and training with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to appeal to SMEs and the channel that sells to them. What this means is that Novell is cutting the prices--how much it wouldn't say--on premium on-going 24x7...

Voltaire previews OpenIB stack.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Voltaire says it's got a new Infiniband Linux software stack based on OpenIB, described as the first commercial offering of its kind. It's got a technology preview; the full release will be available next quarter when Red Hat and Novell are...

Zend embraces IBM's freebies.(Linux Watch)
February 6, 2006... Zend Technologies Inc, the PHP company, has announced the general availability of the updated Zend Core for IBM with the free new DB2 Express-C database and Cloudscape embedded database as well as support for Windows. Zend previously supported...

Wallace watch.(a case by Daniel Wallace against International Business Machines Corp., Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc.)
February 6, 2006... The federal court in Indiana hearing Daniel Wallace's complaints against the GPL is now entertaining two motions to dismiss with prejudice the twin cases he filed so Wallace can't file again. Sounding much like the Free Software Foundation...

Avocent buys Cyclades for $90m.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Avocent, the switch outfit, is buying Cyclades, the 16-year-old privately held Linux-based server, switch and network management appliance folks, for $90 million in cash plus the assumption of liabilities and payment of certain transaction...

NetBeans IDE 5.0 arrives.(Sun Microsystems Inc., Integrated Development Environment)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Sun and the NetBeans community announced the general availability of NetBeans' Java-based open source IDE software tools 5.0 Wednesday and will build rich-client Java SE, EE and ME apps for Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X....

Microsoft names junior CFOs.(chief financial officers)(Brent Callinicos, Peter Klein and Bryan Lee)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft has picked three financial officers for each of its recently restructured divisions. Brent Callinicos has been named CFO of platform and services, Peter Klein CFO of the business division, and Bryan Lee interim CFO of the...

Time Warner's shadow CEO.(Richard Parsons is supposed to leave)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... If dissident stockholder Carl Icahn gets control of Time Warner in May as a result of the proxy fight he's organizing, the first to get the boot will be CEO Richard Parsons, replaced by Frank Biondi whose credits include heading Universal...

Another vote for Dell-on-AMD.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc., partnership)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... American Technology Research has joined Piper Jaffray is predicting that Dell will break racks with Intel and finally use AMD chips. Analyst Doug Freedman, who made the call, thinks Dell will start with notebooks, where Intel is strongest, as...

The real VS team due.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft is supposed to ship the real Visual Studio Team System next month. The widgetry is currently available only under one of those GoLive licenses that lets users deploy the stuff but without support.

HP looking for CFO.(Bob Wayman appointed)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... HP CEO Mark Hurd is reportedly going to get to appoint his own CFO soon. Holdover Bob Wayman, who stayed when Carly was fired almost a year ago and ran the company during the interregnum, is anxious to finally retire. The search for a...

GM to outsource $15b in IT work.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... Woebegone General Motors with its staggering $8.6 billion loss last year will be outsourcing $15 billion worth of IT work over the next five years and has let half of it to IBM ($500m), EDS, HP ($700m), Cap Gemini, Compuware and Wipro. EDS,...

Acrobat 8 scheduled.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... Seems we should expect Acrobat 8 in Adobe's November quarter. Maybe, if Adobe watchers are right, in September. With its acquisition of Macromedia Adobe's got five new products in the works that it's demo'd that neither company could reportedly...

VT no longer 'virtual'.(Virtualization Technology )(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Intel is turning on the Virtualization Technology (VT) in the Paxville MP server chip that's been shipping since November. It's finally got the firmware that'll wake it up. Meanwhile, it appears that Montecito, the next-generation Itanium chip,...

Blackcomb rechristened.(Microsoft Corp. is developing a new product)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... CNET says it persuaded Microsoft to tell it Vienna is now the new codename Blackcomb and little else about Vista's successor, which may inherit the WinFS file storage stuff yanked out of Vista. Meanwhile, Vista's second beta looks like it's...

Buy side meets sell side.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... Cisco has put Michael Capellas, the former CEO of Compaq and MCI, and seller of both, on its board.

MySQL sets up in Japan.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... MySQL AB has set up a wholly own subsidiary in Tokyo. It says there were upwards of a million downloads of the database in Japan last year. It's there to leverage the interest.

Oracle one step closer to swallowing Siebel.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... This little tidbit would only be news if it didn't happen, but for the record Siebel stockholders voted Tuesday to get bought out by Oracle for $5.85 billion including Siebel's $2.24 billion bankbook. Oracle is supposed to close on the...

Dell's sure gonna look cute in a sari.(company forecasts)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Dell said on Monday that it was going to put a fourth call center in India as well as look for a site for a manufacturing plant. Dell currently has 10,000 employees in India, going to 15,000 in the next couple of years. It's going to double its...

IBM adds to board.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... IBM has named Caterpillar CEO James Owens to its board. That makes 14.

Microsoft lab to make things.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft is going to set up a new product-oriented research lab called Microsoft Live Labs dedicated to Internet technology, a joint venture so to speak between MSN and Microsoft Research. The name recalls Microsoft's software-as-services...

Oracle reportedly wants JBoss.(JBoss Group L.L.C. acquisition plan)
February 13, 2006... The biggest widely known secret of the week turns out to be that Oracle is looking at buying JBoss and that it's doing the due diligence and that the term sheet values the open source company at a whopping $400 million--a lot of bread for a...

Oh, my, has AMD put Intel behind the eight ball again?(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. launched I/O virtualization specification)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... AMD may have stolen a march on Intel--again. Sorta like it did with 64-bit extensions. This time, it's trying to control virtualization to Intel's competitive disadvantage and may have pulled it off. Tuesday it pulled out an I/O...

Citrix sued for patent infringement.
February 13, 2006... Canadian-based 01 Communique Laboratory Inc has sued Florida-based Citrix Systems in the district court in Ohio charging Citrix' bought-in GoToMyPC widgetry with patent infringement. Needless to say, 01 Communique sells remote-access...

Yoo-hoo, Xen, Vmware puts out free server.(VMware Server)
February 13, 2006... VMware is going to try accelerating mainstream virtualization adoption-not to mention deflecting its open source competitor Xen--with a free new entry-level hosted VMware Server for Linux and Windows. It's got a beta at...

Microsoft pushes into Symantec turf.(introduction of security solution Windows OneCare Live )(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... Microsoft intends to skip into Symantec-McAfee turf and release its unbundled consumer security solution Windows OneCare Live in June and charge $49.95 a year for a subscription--the new and future metaphor--a price that covers three PCs. ...

EC to Microsoft: 'no' as in 'no'.(European Union. European Commission, case)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... The European Commission told Microsoft Wednesday that it can't have its file, can't see what the independent monitor has been telling the EC about Microsoft's so-called protocol documentation and, no, it can't have another extension before it...

Oracle sucks up Siebel, spits out people.(Siebel Systems Inc., acquisition deal)
February 13, 2006... Now that it's sucked up Siebel, Oracle is going to terminate 2,000 people to polish up its P&L, confirming what Wall Street has been saying for months. The jettisoned will include both Oracle and Siebel folk like the company did when it...

IBM game chip to lead double life as a supercomputer.(International Business Machines Corp.)
February 13, 2006... The Cell chip that IBM, Toshiba and Sony built for high-def TVs and the next Sony PlayStation is starting to lead a double life as a miniaturized high-performance supercomputer. IBM is going to put it in a Linux-based BladeCenter, IBM's...

AMD is making regulators get up awfully early in the morning.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... According to AMD--and much to its instigation and delight--Korea regulators staged one of those dramatic Elliott Ness-style "dawn raids" on Intel's office looking for evidence that it's been strong-arming local PC OEMs. It's unclear from AMD's...

BlueArc fattens up Titan.(Titan a single storage pool )(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... BlueArc has wheeled out its second-generation Titan 2000 family, which continues to be called Titan because it lets a single storage pool grow to be 512TB with a reported 100,000 SPECsfs (i) operations a second on a single node and 200,000...

Novell supports Virtual Iron's paravirtualized platform.(Virtual Iron Software)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... Novell and Virtual Iron Software said Monday that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 now supports Virtual Iron's data center virtualization and management platform. Novell is shipping a pre-configured kernel with SLES so the Virtual Iron technology...

Mandriva loses money.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... Mandriva lost 40,000 euros net, 1.1 million euros on an operating basis in its 2004/05 fiscal year. It cleared 1.39 million euros net in 2003/04. Consolidated sales were up 5.2% to 5.45 million euros while Mandriva's operating revenue was...

Novell tickles Linux desktop.(X over OpenGL)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... Novell says it's released "significant" enhancements for the X over OpenGL (Xgl) graphics subsystem that will let OpenSuSE developers create a richer graphical experience for Linux desktop users. The company explains that Xgl, an...

GroundWork takes the next step.(enhanced software Monitor 4.5 from GroundWork Open Source Inc.)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... GroundWork Open Source Inc, the folks with the management software and two VC investors to feed, has progressed to the next step. It's taken its Monitor software, upgraded it a notch to the 4.5 rev and basically forked the stuff into Monitor...

Turbolinux to move into India.(India Action Plan Company Ltd., joint venture)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... Turbolinux--remember them?--is planning to set up a 15-man joint venture in India in concert with India Action Plan Company Ltd (IAP). Turbo's got 55% of the deal. The pair is putting up $700,000. Like Red Hat, Turbo wants a piece of...

Linux protection revved.(new software NOD32 from Eset Software)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... San Diego security house ESET is upgrading its flagship product, NOD32 for Linux. ESET claims NOD32's Scanning Engine algorithms have both the highest detection rates and fastest scanning times in the business and that the rev protects...

Wallace watch.(Linux Watch)(a case by Daniel Wallace against International Business Machines Corp., Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc.)
February 13, 2006... Daniel Wallace has served his answer to the IBM-Red Hat-Novell reasserted motion to dismiss his pro se antitrust suit against them for "naked" price fitting and restraint of trade compliments of the GPL. He needs to get his charge of...

Red Hat as carrier grade.(Linux Watch)
February 13, 2006... Red Hat intends to certify its Enterprise Linux OS on HP's new Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) bh5700 Blade Server. The new server will be unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress next week in Barcelona and Red Hat...

Linus digs in on GPL3.(General Public License)(views of Linus Torvalds from Free Software Foundation )(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... "I literally feel that we do not--as software developers--have the right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God. We are trying to show others that cooperation and...

Open source gets a proper PPM.(Project.net, portfolio management)(new product from Integrated Computer Solutions Inc.)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... Integrated Computer Solutions Inc (ICS), the old line Motif house, has acquired Project.net and launched an open source version of its portfolio management (PPM) product. ICS says the widgetry has 50,000 users in Global 2000 companies...

The PTO's making name tags for prior art meeting.(Patent and Trademark Office)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... The US Patent and Trademarks Office doesn't have an official agenda yet but it's taking registrations for the public meeting it's supposed to have on Thursday, February 16 about getting a better handle on prior art before it goes around...

HP buys OuterBay for its software collection.(OuterBay Technologies)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... HP is going to acquire OuterBay, the archiving software for enterprise applications and databases, to shore up its software presence. The price is still a big secret but the startup got its C round last March, bringing total funding to $40...

Gateway CEO out.(Wayne Inouye, Gateway Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... A week after turning in another poor record card and Gateway CEO Wayne Inouye is gone. The company says he resigned to "pursue other interests" and will be replaced for the moment by chairman Rick Snyder, who was president of Gateway 10 years...

Germany puts dent in 'preowned' software.(a case of copyright infringement)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... The District Court of Munich said dealing in so-called "used" software--or reselling software licenses to third parties--is illegal when it found usedSoft GmbH's practice of selling "used" software licenses to third parties infringed Oracle...

AMD wants government to stop saying Intel.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... AMD is going to try to turn the tap on the government contracts that flow to Intel as a matter of course and complain to the powers that be in a scratchy voice that sounds like chalk grating on a blackboard that most agencies are breaking the...

Gee, and Apple couldn't wait.(International Solid State Circuits Conference)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... IBM told the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco Tuesday that the RISC-based 65nm multi-core Power6 chip due the middle of next year would clock in at a heady 4GHz-5GHz, roughly twice what the widget's doing now, and...

Another leaf for Google's laurel wreath.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... Bear Stearns thinks Google will be added to the SAP 500 but that the S&P folks are pausing over whether its share price is reasonable and weighing the percentage of Google's sector that is currently represented.

Microsoft beset by thieves.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... Microsoft told the Merrill Lynch IT Services & Software Conference the other day that it only gets paid for two-thirds of PCs that have Windows on them. The rest is pirated by the channel or the customer. Vista is supposed to make pirating...

Negroponte out?(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... There's talk of MIT Media Lab co-founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte being replaced. Maybe he's going to focus on his $100 laptop project.

CIOs cautious: Merrill.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... Having taken another survey, Merrill Lynch says CIOs are pulling in their horns on spending this year. It found the percentage of CIOs indicating an increase in IT spending has declined, indicating caution. It also found an incremental number...

Intel's date book.(plans)(Brief article)
February 13, 2006... It's beginning to look like the Tigerton platform, Intel's four-way/ four-core answer to AMD's Opteron challenge, won't be out until the first half of next year. It'll still be wearing Intel's front-side bus with a maximum 4MB of cache. The...

Ingres hires Wall Streeter.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... The new reconstituted open source Ingres Corporation, has enticed Tom Berquist, a managing director at Citigroup, where he follows medium-to-large cap software companies like BEA, Microsoft and Oracle, to be CFO staring March 1.

Google caught poaching again.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... Google has poached the CEO of Amazon's search engine subsidiary A9 Udi Manber and made him its VP of engineering.

French cops toss Microsoft.(BILLY GRAMS)
February 13, 2006... France's gendarmes are tossing out Microsoft's browser in favor of Firefox and Thunderbird. That's 70,000 desktops. The cops are already moving from Office to OpenOffice. Twenty percent of Europe has reportedly moved to Firefox.

Google toys with world order.(stock price of the company)
February 13, 2006... You have of course heard that Google, in Microsoft fashion, has apparently bought the right to have its software preinstalled on, oh, maybe, 100 million Dell computers--for something approaching a billion dollars over three years--enough money...

Office cash cow calves, starts its own herd.(development of Microsoft Office 12.0)
February 20, 2006... The next-generation Office 12 has just been officially dubbed 2007 Microsoft Office. A bit clumsy but there you have it. It has, as everyone must know by now, a new user interface and new XML file formats and is due out later this year after a...

Garnett & Helfrich take over Nortel blade switches.(acquisition of Northern Telecom Ltd. Blade Server Switch Business Unit)(Blade Network Technologies)(Brief article)
February 20, 2006... The "Hate Larry" mob of ex-Oracle execs over at the Garnett & Helfrich private equity house intent on buying up orphaned operations has struck again. After picking up Wyse and persuading CA to part with Ingres, now it's gotten Nortel to...

Ex-CA CEO used Linux to destroy evidence: feds.(Sanjay Kumar, Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief article)
February 20, 2006... The US Attorney has told the federal court hearing the criminal securities fraud case against ex-CA CEO Sanjay Kumar that it would present proof--replete with a partial latent fingerprint--that Kumar had erased the hard drive on his laptop...

EC pushes, Microsoft pushes back.(European Union. European Commission, a case)
February 20, 2006... Microsoft wants those e-mails that it's been denied, the ones that flew between the European Commission and British computer scientist Neil Barrett, the independent monitor in its European antitrust case, before he issued his scathing report...

Tell us that part again, Bill, about how we're all gonna be safe in this brave new world.(Brief article)
February 20, 2006... At the RSA conference this week in California Bill Gates claimed a bit of wallet-y kind of Microsoft identity-verifying browser magic called InfoCards in IE 7 would put an end to discredited passwords and at the same time protect people against...

Turnaround working, HP earnings better by 30%.
February 20, 2006... HP Wednesday reported its first fiscal quarter ended January 31 and earned $1.2 billion, or 42 cents a share, up 30%, on revenues of $22.7 billion, up 6% year-over-year, or 8% in constant currency. It's doing better than the market figured and...

Niagara bows to Linux et al.(new product Niagara T1 UltraSparc from Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
February 20, 2006... Well, Sun is making good on its mid-December promise to try to entice Linux, BSD and now, it seems, "other operating systems, middleware and applications" over to its newfangled eight-core Niagara T1 UltraSparc chip, which it open sourced then....

Dell's back.
February 20, 2006... After two disappointing quarters, Dell says it grew double the rate of HP in its fourth fiscal quarter ending January 31 and took share in most markets during the year. Now, with HP coming from behind, all it has to do is hold onto it and push...