Client Server News articles from January 2001

Client Server News archives from January 2001

Compaq's Server Mafia Reportedly Regroups.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... Gary Stimac, the guy who put Compaq in the server business and gave the initiative wings, is reportedly starting a new company doing what he does best - inventing a newfangled server. Stimac, Compaq employee #5, left the Houston firm in the...

Linus Caves Into Criticism, Releases Linux 2.4 Kernel.(Product Development)
January 8, 2001... Linus Torvalds, admitting that there's a couple more months worth of work still to be done, released the long-delayed Linux 2.4.0 kernel as finished Thursday night surprising just about everybody. The new kernel is at least a year overdue and...

Executive Ranks Thin at Novell.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... Steve Adams, Novell's senior VP of worldwide marketing, and Sheri Anderson, senior vice-president and general manager of Novell Customer Services, one of the four business units that Novell created last May when it reorganized following a...

Yikes! dBase Redux.(dBase dB2K DBMS)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... The first new version of the legendary dBase relational database to appear in a dog's age began shipping on December 28 as the premiere offering of the obscure little company that took the program off Borland's hands in March of 1999. The...

Rebel Alliance Launches its NT 4.0 Certification Tests.(NT Certified Independent Professional program)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... The rebel alliance led by Windows training house Lanop has decided to launch its NT Certified Independent Professional (NT-CIP) testing program immediately despite Microsoft's last-minute decision to extend NT 4.0 certification tests another...

L&H May Be About To Meet the Axe.(Lernout & Hauspie)(Company Financial Information)
January 8, 2001... Lernout & Hauspie's date with destiny arrives on Friday, January 5, when it expects an appeals court in Ghent, Belgium to tell it whether it will be granted concordaat, the Belgian equivalent of Chapter 11 protection. If the appeals court...

Mitsubishi Caves In to Rambus Tax.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Mitsubishi, the last major memory maker that was neither in court with Rambus or licensed to use Rambus IP, has caved in and agreed to pay Rambus royalties on all the SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DRAM controllers that it makes. The agreement makes...

Intel Releases 1.3GHz P4, Fancy New Celerons.(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... This story is unchanged since it broke on Wednesday. Intel Wednesday quietly launched a 1.3GHz Pentium 4 chip designed to get the widget, the company's new flagship, into $1,500 boxes and out to a wider audience. Intel, which is...

AMD Wins Another CPU Slot at Micron.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Claiming that it's simply responding to customer demand, Micron will begin offering its business desktops with a choice of AMD or Intel CPUs. Micron has been offering AMD widgetry in many of its Millennia consumer PCs since September. It...

Top Execs Flee as Network Associates Chokes on Inventory Glut.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... The only thing in the boxes under the Christmas tree at Network Associates headquarters last week was returned software, enough of it for the company to admit the day after Christmas that it's going to report a $130 million-$140 million loss on...

Gadzoox SAN Appliances To Ship in Volume.(Gadzoox Networks Axxess 200e, 300e)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... Gadzoox Networks on Monday will start volume shipment of its Axxess SAN appliance, widgetry that it unveiled in June in a play to get added value (and revenue) out of its storage hardware. Axxess is supposed to meld heterogeneous storage...

Mystery Start-up Raises Antitrust Cry over Microsoft's Great Plains Acquisition.(over pending acquisition of Great Plains Software)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Attorneys for a "mystery" California company say they have asked the Justice Department to investigate the antitrust aspects of Microsoft's planned $1.1 billion acquisition of Great Plains Software. Law firm Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean of...

Microsoft SOAPs Up.(SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0 version 2.0)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Microsoft on Wednesday went to beta with an upgraded version of its SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0. Version 2.0 of the thing adds support for SOAP 1.1 and full support for the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and Universal...

CA Revamps its Logo.(Computer Associates International)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Computer Associates has a new logo, one that it fancies reflects the company's "strategic focus" and the "clarity, energy and innovation of the CA brand." My, my, that's a lot to ask of one little logo. CA unveiled its new design on...

Bentley Gets Three Intergraph Units.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Intergraph has sold off a trio of its smaller units to Bentley Systems, getting $40 million for its civil engineering, plot- services and raster conversion software businesses. Bentley, where Intergraph holds a 30% stake, is paying an...

$5b Suit Charges Microsoft with Bias.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Microsoft has been slammed with a class action lawsuit for discrimination that demands a headline-grabbing $5 billion in damages for alleged bias against black workers, some of whom say they hit the fabled "glass ceiling" beyond which...

A Different Kind of Digital Winter: Retail PC Sales Decline for First Time in History.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... In case nobody noticed, Santa Claus wasn't carrying many PCs in his sack this year and the folks at PC Data who track PC sales through stores, direct mail and Internet resellers say retail PC sales were off 30% in December compared to 1999,...

Biometric ASP Signs NASA.(eTrue)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Biometric authentication ASP eTrue has signed NASA as its first customer. The Southborough, Massachusetts-based outfit sells a service that lets companies authenticate users using fingerprints and face recognition rather than passwords or...

Apache Enters 2001 with 60% Market Share.(Apache Web server)(Product Information)
January 8, 2001... The free Apache web server ended the 20th century running 59.54% of the active web sites on the Internet, more than twice the 25.04% belonging to Microsoft's Internet Information Server, according to census taker Netcraft. Netcraft says...

Debian Deluged by Would-Be Helpers.(Debian Linux)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... The growing popularity of Debian Linux has left the volunteer organization with an embarrassment of riches in the form of hundreds of new volunteers, some of whom may have to wait a year or more to be screened and processed into the program. At...

DiskXtender Xtended to Linux.(DiskXtender for Red Hat Linux from OTG Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... OTG Software has released a version of its DiskXtender storage management kit for Red Hat Linux. DiskXtender, originally released for Windows NT five years ago and recently released in a Unix version, is an enterprise-class storage management...

IBM Open Sources 64-bit Mainframe Drivers for Linux.(eServer z900)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... Over the holidays IBM released the 64-bit driver code for its eServer z900 mainframe to open source. Blue boasts that it's the first known code of its kind, released several months before it was expected. The initial code is still labeled...

LynuxWorks Belatedly Identifies VPs.(Bob Morris and Albert McCabe)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... LynuxWorks has belatedly announced that it really does have marketing and sales vice presidents, both on board for some months now. It seems the announcements were buried in the blizzard of paperwork surrounding the company's IPO filing in...

DragonBall Gets Lineo's Latest uClinux.(uClinux 2.4 bolsters Motorola DragonBall microprocessor)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Lineo has ported uClinux 2.4, the latest version of its tiny Linux for embedded use on CPUs with memory management units, to the Motorola DragonBall family. Previous versions of uClinux, whose kernel can squeeze into a 512KB footprint, have...

Windows Trainer Adds Linux Course.(Lanop to offer Red Hat and Linux+ certification)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Windows training house Lanop has decided to take the plunge into the Linux business and will start offering courses this month to prepare developers to take the Red Hat and Linux+ certification tests. Lanop president Rita Mosley says she...

Market Gives Ebiz the Business.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... On Thursday, would-be king of online Linux sales Ebiz Enterprises closed on its acquisition of Jones Business Systems Inc (JBSi) as planned for 8.3 million shares and oh, how the market loved it. Investors sent Ebiz stock to an all-time low of...

SGI Makes Good on Promise.(digital media software development kit)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... SGI on Thursday released the source code to the Linux version of its digital media software development kit (dmSDK), making good on its promise back in September to open source the stuff (CSN No 367). The kit lets developers write digital media...

Intel Halts Board Shipments.(SKA4 microprocessor has I/O problem)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Intel has confirmed that it has halted shipments of one of its quad Xeon server boards because of some kind of unidentified I/O problem picked up during stress tests by a third-party lab. Intel reproduced the problem after it was reported...

Microsoft Mediator Touted for Supreme Court.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Richard Posner, the US Court of Appeals chief judge who tried to mediate a Microsoft-Justice Department antitrust settlement last year, is being touted as a possible Bush Administration Supreme Court nominee should Chief Justice William...

McKinley Tapes Out.(Intel 64-bit chip)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... McKinley, supposedly the real Intel 64-bit chip, has taped out. The great event reportedly happened two days ahead of the internal schedule we quoted a few weeks ago (CSN No 380). Figure Saturday December 16. Meanwhile, Intel was hoping for an...

Noorda Doing Poorly.(Canopy Group passes leadership to Ralph Yarrow)(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... Rumor has it that ex-Novell CEO Ray Noorda, 77, is failing mentally and that control of the Canopy Group, his investment arm, has passed to Canopy CEO Ralph Yarrow. Noorda's wife and kids are now on the Canopy board. Rumor also has it that...

Ugh!(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Amid the high-tech carnage on Wall Street that marked the beginning of the year, Merrill Lynch trotted out some other dour technology predictions for 2001. It figures IPO proceeds and the value of M&A deals could decline by 30% or more and that...

Compaq Substitutes Tru64 for NT.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Netcraft thinks Compaq is trying to "make a statement" by switching the underpinnings of its hallmark compaq.com web site from NT to its own Tru64 Unix. The Compaq site ran on NT since 1996. Observing that Compaq recently lost its most visible...

Court Confusion Delays Cowpland Case.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Prosecutors and defense attorneys are pointing fingers at each other over a scheduling screw-up that may push Corel founder Michael Cowpland's insider trading trial into 2002. According to a Reuters report Ontario Securities Commission...

Greenspan Stops Hunting Dalmatian Puppies.(Fed chief Alan Greenspan)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... The blessed Nasdaq is showing faint signs of life - if you call heavy rotation a vital sign - after being gored for almost a year by the Grinch and practically left for dead. Fed chief Alan Greenspan, a killjoy and sourpuss if ever there was...

Paul Allen's Dot.com Crashes.(Mercata.com)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Even Paul Allen's Microsoft billions have turned out not to be enough to save web-based group buying retailer Mercata.com. The dot.com, after desperation ploys ranging from auctioning off Sun servers to putting together a group Buick-buying...

VA Hires OSDN Chief.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... VA Linux has done little with its pricey acquisition of Andover.Net and its popular geek sites other than to lump all of Andover's holdings together VA's net properties together in a division called the Open Source Development Network or OSDN...

Racemi Drops Box, Runs with Software.
January 14, 2001... Racemi Inc, the ultra-dense blade start-up in Atlanta, is dropping out of hardware to turn into a software shop specializing in server virtualization. The decision is based on money, it says. Racemi doesn't have the means to underwrite the...

Thunderbolts from Houston.
January 14, 2001... We're sitting here squinting at a series of charming NDA'd overheads of up-coming Compaq servers that we're obviously not supposed to have except that the news gods love us. The PowerPoints say - among other things - that Compaq has...

M'soft's Bruised Ego Reportedly Stops It from Joining Liberty.
January 14, 2001... Microsoft supposedly refused to join the Sun-struck Liberty Alliance, according to the new president of the alliance's board, United Airlines CIO Eric Dean, because it was so "absolutely" upset over Liberty's depiction as an anti-Microsoft...

Microsoft Seeks Gag Order.
January 14, 2001... After two years of smarting from the horrid impression Bill Gates made when his videotaped deposition was shown at the antitrust trial, Microsoft has asked District Court Judge Colleen Kollar- Kotelly to seal the depositions it takes in its...

Neoware Takes Over IBM's Thin Client Business.
January 14, 2001... IBM is jettisoning its own NetVault thin clients and will run with Neoware's instead. Neoware has in effect bought the IBM business, believed to be worth $40 million last year, double Neoware's current run-rate. The little Pennsylvania...

And You Thought Ultra-Dense Was the Cat's Meow.
January 14, 2001... Not everybody in the dense server business thinks ultra-dense blades are about to take over the world. Cubix Corporation LLC, a low-profile 27-year-old dense server house based in Carson City, Nevada, thinks its 0.875U dual-CPU servers are...

Be Needs Lawyers To Take its Microsoft Antitrust Case on Contingency.
January 14, 2001... The only thing keeping what remains of Be from filing its threatened antitrust suit against Microsoft is money - not the merits of the case. Be thinks it can win. Be's general counsel Dan Johnston, who became president last week when...

WinCE.NET Debuts.(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Microsoft formally unveiled Windows CE.NET Monday, the embedded stuff that would have been WinCE 4.0 all things being equal. The latest cut of CE, as previously reported, was finished before the holiday break. Microsoft used the Consumer...

IBM Global Services Exec Takes Over Microsoft's Consulting Arm.(Mike Sinneck)
January 14, 2001... Microsoft has recruited veteran IBM Global Services exec Mike Sinneck to take over its mammoth consulting and product support operation, the unit it created last April to position it to get prime contractor status on major IT contracts, built...

Microsoft's ASP Buddy USi Files Chapter 11.
January 14, 2001... Well, Microsoft can kiss another $50 million good-bye. The industry's largest, surviving, independent ASP USinternetworking (USi) filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday. Microsoft invested in USi in November 2000 as part of a $300 million...

New Tualatin Server Chip Bows.(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Intel put out a 1.4GHz Tualatin Pentium III chip Tuesday. According to Intel's hyper-segmentation schemes, it's meant for front-end servers. The part, a product of the company's new 0.13-micron process, doubles L2 cache to 512KB. Being 0.13,...

Cat Fight. Cat Fight. HP Board, Walter Hewlett Trade Hissy Barbs.
January 14, 2001... The prospective HP-Compaq acquisition continues to invite comparison to a soap opera. Eight of HP's board of directors this week contested the story that Walter Hewlett, one of their own, told the SEC on December 28 to account for why he voted...

Barksdale VC Operation Shuttered.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Netscape's old CEO Jim Barksdale, the guy who dragged Microsoft into court, is shutting down the Barksdale Group, the VC operation he and three other ex-Netscape executives started after Netscape was sold to AOL. The Barksdale Group has racked...

BMC Is Back.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Gosh, wouldn't it be nice if this was the start of a trend. BMC to the surprise of analysts said it's going to report a better December quarter than expected. The company expects to show a profit of $18 million-$23 million, or between...

Stealth Start-up Promises 100:1 Data Compression: Either It's Snake Oil or Pure Gold.(ZeoSync Zero Space Tuner)
January 14, 2001... A stealth start-up in Boca Raton, Florida called ZeoSync has set the industry atwitter with claims it's on track to release technology that compress data by a factor of 100-to-1 next year. The claims made on behalf of its Zero Space Tuner,...

Rambus Profits Sink on Royalty Shortfall.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... To the delight of shareholders, Rambus reported a penny more in profits than expected for the December quarter. That's the nice way of looking at it. Rambus wasn't expecting very buoyant results. The profits, $6.17 million or six...

CA Wages Directory War on M'soft and Novell.(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Computer Associates fancies it can take on Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's vaunted eDirectory, the erstwhile NDS. For a long time the directory market has been a two-horse race, with Microsoft the upstart and Novell desperately...

Windows v Lindows Bound for Court.
January 14, 2001... Microsoft and Lindows face each other in court today, Friday, as Redmond tries to convince a judge that MP3 founder Michael Robertson is trying to steal its good name and fool folks into thinking Linux is Windows. Lindows is blending Linux...

Sun To Work without a Net.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... It looks like Solaris x86, which Sun bought in years ago, is being sacrificed to the company's latest austerity drive. The thing was never a moneymaker and Sun can't afford any frills right now as it focuses on stuff that means the most to...

Ziff-Davis Death Watch.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... The vital signs at Ziff-Davis grow fainter and fainter. We've been watching for a few months now waiting for it to simply keel over. It currently has to meet an interest payment of $15 million by January 15 due on $250 million in junk...

Microsoft Rigs Results.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Microsoft got caught stuffing a ballot box in England where they were asking readers whether they preferred Java or .NET for web development. The tide was running against .NET when Microsoft's boys and girls tried rigging the results.

Tribble Goes to Apple.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Bud Tribble has gone home. After his ill-fated interlude with the now defunct Linux desktop start-up, Eazel, Tribble has joined Apple as VP of software technology. He started at Apple designing the Mac OS and its famous interface. He...

Judge Tells Microsoft "No Delay".
January 14, 2001... This story has been updated since it broke on Monday morning. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Monday morning sided with the nine states that refused to sign the controversial deal Microsoft cut with the Justice Depart-ment and...

Goldman Sachs Reads Microsoft's Tea Leaves.
January 14, 2001... Goldman Sachs, Microsoft's best friend on Wall Street, figures that the company will come in in the middle of its guidance on Thursday when it reports and post fourth-quarter revenues of $7.25 billion. If Goldman's right, Microsoft would be up...

By Golly, Compaq Beats Estimates.
January 14, 2001... Compaq said Monday morning that 2001 closed better than expected and that, as a result, it will eke out a profit in the December quarter rather than post the three-cent-a-share loss it was braced for. It remains to be seen whether the...

Be Founder Takes New Job.(John-Louis Gassee named president and CEO of Computer Access Technology)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... John-Louis Gass?e, the remains of whose 12-year-old operating system house, Be Inc, may sue Microsoft for unidentified antitrust violations, turned up as president and CEO of Computer Access Technology Corporation (CATC) less than a week after...

Tarantella Warns of Big Shortfall.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Tarantella Wednesday admitted its sales in the December quarter were nowhere near expectations, and fell about a third short of the preceding quarter. In a prepared statement CEO Doug Michaels blamed delays in closing contracts and said...

No Takers.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Nobody asked the European trustbusters for a hearing in the ongoing EU antitrust probe of Microsoft for leveraging its monopoly power into servers and multimedia. The deadline came and went on Monday. Now we're likely to hear about how...

SGI Offers 3D for Free.(Maya Personal Learning Edition)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... SGI's Alias/Wavefront subsidiary will release a free "personal" version of its pricey high-end Maya 3D animation and visual effects graphics design kit next month. Alias' Maya Personal Learning Edition will be available to anyone who wants...

Borland Readies UML Development Kit for Windows.(Borland Enterprise Studio for Windows)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Borland has put together some of its own offerings with those of third-party ISVs to create a Windows kit to develop software based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The kit, called the Enterprise Studio for Windows, scheduled to...

Hitachi Readies CE Palmtop Market Entry.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Sounding a bit tentative about it all, Hitachi said it's going to set up a business unit for mobile devices based on Windows CE.NET. It had a prototype of a CE-based palm-sized gadget at this week's Consumer Electronics Show, but no...

Now They're Beta Testing Viruses.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... A Czech hacker with the monicker Benny/29A started circulating a "proof of concept" virus Wednesday that can infect systems running parts of Microsoft's .NET technology. The virus, called W32/Donut, isn't particularly dangerous according to...

Vector Readies Combined Diagnostic/Help Desk Kit.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Vector Networks Wednesday began field testing a product that melds its LanUtil PC management software and the Triage online diagnostic software it got when it bought Metaquest Software Inc in November. The new product, which will come to...

Gateway's Business Model Questioned.
January 14, 2001... Gateway said Monday that its sales in the December quarter will come in at about $1.16 billion, disappointing analysts who expected to see $1.4 billion and bringing into question its entire business model. "Gateway is losing grasp even on...

Beijing Court Puts CA on the Docket.(Computer Associates)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Computer Associates has landed a showcase Unicenter win at the High People's Court of Beijing. CA said Unicenter was chosen for the high court's network of NT and Unix servers hooked to 100 desktops and another 100 or more at each of 27...

Moxi To Challenge Microsoft.(Moxi Media Center from Moxi Digital)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Microsoft's media convergence effort, eHome, will be getting competition from the newly restyled Moxi Digital Inc, a chi-chi set- top start-up begun a couple of years ago by WebTV guru Steve Perlman as Rearden Steel Technologies, a stealth code...

It's Put Up or Shut Up for ZapMedia.(ZapMedia ZapStation network computer)
January 14, 2001... Three years and $29 million into the exercise, it's safe to say it's do or die for ZapMedia, the digital media start-up backed by the Gannett publishing kingdom and audio/video house Harman Kardon. ZapMedia's claim to fame is its...

SuSE Settles Trademark Infringement Flap.
January 14, 2001... German Linux peddler SuSE Linux settled an apparently silly trademark infringement tiff today that briefly stopped it from distributing its operating system in Germany, its main market. A German court issued an injunction Monday barring...

BellSouth Jabbers.(BellSouth adopts Jabber instant messaging software)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... BellSouth has become the first domestic US regional Bell operating company (RBOC) to adopt the open source Jabber instant messaging. In a deal with Jabber Inc, the commercial operation that earns its living selling Jabber products,...

Lineo, Motorola, Metrowerks Band in Joint Venture.
January 14, 2001... Lineo, Metrowerks and Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector have set up a joint venture to assist developers in designing, developing and testing applications and content for Linux-based interactive digital set-tops. The new operation...

Linux NetworX Debuts New Professional Services.
January 14, 2001... Linux cluster expert Linux NetworX is expanding the portfolio of its Professional Services Group. The new offerings will include application porting and optimization and cluster certification and training. Linux NetworX already provides...

Linux-laden Zaurus Nearly Ready.(Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Sharp said Tuesday that it will ship its widely anticipated Linux- based Zaurus SL-5500 by the end of the quarter. It still hasn't said exactly what the widget will cost. Zaurus has been the talk of the Linux world for nearly a year now...

Wasabi Lands $3m.
January 14, 2001... NetBSD house Wasabi Systems is getting ready to disclose its first round of institutional funding. According to Wasabi CFO Jeremy Sohn, the company expects to close on $3 million this quarter from a mix of institutional and corporate...

Jabber Releases Peer-to-Peer Server Source Code.(Jabber External Component Libraries 1.0 and Server Connection Manager 1.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2001... Jabber Inc has open sourced a pair of technologies including one that will make it easier to hook together the estimated 50,000 servers running the instant messenger. Jabber, the company built on the open source Jabber IM project, said its...

Red Hat Drops CCVS.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Red Hat has pulled support for its CCVS credit card payment processing software. It's asking customers with support contracts to go to MainStreet Softworks, which offers a similar product called MCVE, for support. As part of the support...

MontaVista Names VP for Europe.(Cees Boshuizen)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Embedded Linux house MontaVista Software has named Cees Boshuizen VP of its European operations. Boshuizen, who will be based at Netherlands, is credited with helping several US companies penetrate various international markets. Prior to...

BMC, Intel Invest in Aduva.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2001... Aduva has gotten a $14 million Series C round from BMC, the Intel 64 Fund and existing backers Cap Ventures, Evergreen Management and The Capital Group. Aduva, an Israeli firm with offices in Palo Alto, California, has provisioning and...