Client Server News articles from January 2005

Client Server News archives from January 2005

Cherokee Indians encircle open source: or how the GPL might wind up with arrows sticking in it.(general public license)
January 10, 2005... Jeff Merkey, who used to be chief scientist at Novell and wrote NetWare's SMP kernel, calls open source a "socialist movement that's destroying the software industry in America." He's also convinced open source misappropriates other...

PHP to challenge J2EE and .NET.(software standards)
January 10, 2005... Sun doesn't have enough problems. Zend Technologies Inc, the keeper of PHP, a constituent of LAMP, the multi-headed god of open source, is taking on J2EE, one of the last remaining places where Sun still shines, seeking to replace it. ...

Evil empire itching to control digital lifestyle.(forecast)
January 10, 2005... Slamming down on the throttle on its plan to replicate its desktop hegemony in the digital entertainment sphere, Microsoft registered a strong presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week with a Bill Gates keynote and a...

Passport to nowhere--the megaservice turns megaflop.(eBay Inc. contract with Microsoft Corp.)
January 10, 2005... It was once touted as a passport to safe, secure and convenient navigation through the treacherous shoals of cyberspace. However, the single sign-in Passport program that Microsoft used to call the megaservice that extends the web's...

RLX abandons hardware for software.
January 10, 2005... RLX Technologies Inc, the Texas startup that created the first blade server and was supposed to become the next big systems house, canned its hardware over the holidays to focus on its Control Tower software. The move was made on the theory...

IBM replaces Swainson.(Employee terminations)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... IBM in its usual quiet way replaced John Swainson, the former IBM Software exec now running Computer Associates, with Michael Borman. Swainson ran WebSphere until last spring when a reorganization made him head of IBM Software sales, the...

Gartner buys Meta.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Gartner has agreed to buy the Meta Group, the Gartner wannabe, for $162 million in cash. Meta lost $14 million on $122.5 million in revenues in 2003. By comparison, Gartner earned $18 million on $858 million in sales that year. Meta...

Red Hat takes its cue from Aesop.(Linux Watch)
January 10, 2005... Red Hat is getting to look more and more like a prime example of the old axiom "slow and steady wins the race." Right before Christmas, the company delivered its third-quarter results for the period ending November 30, admitting that things...

DoCoMo buys into MontaVista.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese wireless house, put $3 million in MontaVista Software, the privately held embedded Linux outfit, last week. DoCoMo uses MontaVista in its 3G phones. The amount of equity DoCoMo is getting for its money was unspoken....

Mandrakesoft looks a lot more stable.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Paris-based Mandrakesoft raised 3.05 million euros selling another half-a-million shares for six euros apiece. It now has 5.3 million shares outstanding. The company also managed to retire 1.45 million euros worth of debt for some 510,000...

Euro group to try to simplify Linux development.(Environment for the Development and Distribution of Free Software)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... A Mandrake-led consortium consisting of two European research institutions, four universities and four open source ISVs, called EDOS, short for the Environment for the Development and Distribution of Free Software, won a 2.2 million-euro R&D...

Opera betas browsers.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Opera Software has beta'd its next-generation browser for Linux on the heels of the one for Windows. Neither of them has been christened yet. The widgetry includes a simplified user interface and tools like Fit-to-Window-Width,...

Yet another consortium.(Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... There is now a Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, formed by seven vendors, six universities, two open source foundations and a research facility. The organization, which expects to be around for three-five years, is focused on the...

Lumen debuts new Linux terminal services product.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Lumen Software has released a new line of Linux terminal services products for Novell's SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 9. Dubbed S2D, the new products provide the same features as Lumen's EzThin product but add more security and enhanced...

Linux hits the big enchilada.(Linux Watch)
January 10, 2005... There's going to be a LinuxWorld Mexico in February 2006 in Mexico City.

Microsoft debuts spyware buster beta, antivirus tool.
January 10, 2005... Microsoft has put out the first beta of the anti-spyware tool that it got from its recent acquisition of Giant Company Software. It's called Windows AntiSpyware and is designed to detect and remove spyware, the nasty pernicious software...

MSN TV to stream CinemaNow movies to TV.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Microsoft's MSN TV, which used to be called WebTV in an earlier avatar, is upgrading its service so broadband customers can stream CinemaNow content directly to their TV sets. The free upgrade is supposed to support Windows Media 10 Digital...

Oracle to clinch PeopleSoft acquisition today.
January 10, 2005... On the strength of 75% of the stock that had been tendered, Oracle took control of PeopleSoft, its swivel-hipped prey, two days before the end of 2004 and immediately started cleaning house, beginning with PeopleSoft's top managers. ...

Microsoft & Citrix cross-license.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... A few days before Christmas, Microsoft cut a five-year patent cross-licensing deal with Citrix, assuring Citrix of continued access to Windows Server code into the next-generation Longhorn timeframe. Microsoft has promised a Longhorn beta...

Comcast to peddle Real Internet radio.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... RealNetworks has inked a deal with Comcast to peddle its Rhapsody RadioPlus Internet radio services to Comcast's 6.5 million broadband Internet subscribers. The subscription-based Internet radio service is scheduled to launch on...

EMC expands its software interests by buying smarts.(Drive Bay)
January 10, 2005... EMC expanded its software portfolio over the holidays by acquiring privately held event automation and network systems management concern Smarts. EMC is paying $260 million cash to acquire the 11-year-old White Plains, New York outfit. ...

Hitachi debuts half-terabyte SATA drive.(Drive Bay)(Serial Advanced Technology Attachment drive)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has rolled out a half-terabyte Serial ATA drive for audio/video and other capacity-intensive applications. Hitachi is aiming the 3.5-inch 500GB Deskstar 7k500 drive at high-end media center PCs, DVRs,...

StorageTek to resell Cisco switches.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... StorageTek will resell Cisco's MDS 9000 family of SAN switches and directors as part of its storage networking products and services. StorageTek already offers fabric switches and directors from Brocade and McData.

Agere launches storage chipset for mini drives.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Agere Systems has introduced a chipset for developing small form factor disk drives for consumer electronics gadgets. Dubbed TrueStore, the chipset includes read-channel, preamplifier, motor controller and hard disk controller elements that...

Glasshouse gets fortified.(Drive Bay)(Fortified Technologies Inc)(GlassHouse Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Storage consultant Glasshouse Technologies has acquired Fortified Technologies Inc on undisclosed terms. Fortified specializes in data management and enterprise storage services and provides a range of storage and backup consulting services...

CE-ATA moves along.(CE-ATA Promoter Group releases new core protocol specification)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... The CE-ATA Promoter Group, working on a storage interface for portable consumer electronic devices, says that it has a release candidate of the core protocol specification. The final 1.0 CE-ATA spec is supposed to be on track to be ratified...

Brocade to restate results.(Drive Bay)(Finance)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Brocade Communications said Thursday that it would restate its results for fiscal 2002 and 2003 to record additional stock-based compensation expenses as a result of an internal review. The storage switch vendor acknowledged that it had...

Apple launches Xsan SAN file system, upgrades rack server.(Drive Bay)(Storage Area Network)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Apple has finally started shipping its Xsan SAN file system. Scheduled to arrive in the fall, the product went gold just the other day. As previously reported, Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OS X that consolidates storage...

Altiris takes tonic.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Altiris, the server manager, has acquired privately held Austin, Texas-based Tonic Software Inc, a purchase made on undisclosed terms that is supposed to enhance its heterogeneous server monitoring and diagnostics capabilities and extend its...

BEA buys Swedish ISV.(Internet Service Vendor)(Acquisitions)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... In the name of the WebLogic Service Delivery Platform, its telecom framework, BEA, itself the subject of much acquisition speculation nowadays, has acquired a privately held Swedish infrastructure ISV called Incomit. Incomit specializes in...

Transmeta finally hits the wall.
January 10, 2005... Transmeta, that five-year-old noble experiment in software-based chip design awash in a sea of red ink, looks close to declaring itself shipwrecked and hopelessly marooned. On Tuesday it put out a statement that came close to admitting that...

IBM out one Canadian chief.(Billy Grams)(Resignations)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... The head of IBM Canada Ed Kilroy has bolted to Symcor Inc where he will be CEO. A check and payment processing outsourcer, Symcor is owned by the Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank and the Bank of Montreal, three of Canada's big banks....

CTO leaves Qlusters.(Billy Grams)(Resignations)(Qlusters inc.)(Chief Technology Officer)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Qlusters CTO Moshe Bar has left the company he co-founded in 2001 for "personal reasons." The company, whose ClusterFrame software manages Linux data centers as utilities, said he would still be available to it as a consultant.

Woozy Numbat.(Billy Grams)(Products)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... On Christmas Eve, Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.10 kernel fondly known as Woozy Numbat. It's been two months since the 2.6.9 kernel Zonked Quokka came out. Linus described Numbat as "Mostly a lot of small fixes since 2.6.10-rc3,...

Intel to head liberty.(Billy Grams)(Appointments)(Liberty Alliance)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... George Goodman, the director of Intel's Visualization and Trust Lab, has been named president of the Liberty Alliance, replacing Amex VP Michael Barrett, whose term has expired. Barrett will remain on the consortium's management board as one of...

Psst, want a cheap apple.(Billy Grams)(Products)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... It appears that Apple, which has remained assiduously aloof from the el cheapo market, is about to come out with a stripped-down, 1.25GHz G4-based $500 Mac (sans display) called Q88. Apple practically confirmed the rumors the other day when it...

All that money just sitting there.(Billy Grams)(Microsoft cases)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... The deadline for filing claims in Microsoft's $1.1 billion antitrust class action settlement in California is January 8 and so far Microsoft says it has only gotten about 700,000 claims. Microsoft acknowledges the number is low but says it's...

AMD hopes to make a sucker of Centrino.(Billy Grams)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... AMD is going to take on Intel's Centrino platform this half with a little number called Turion, its first chip designed specifically for mobile computers rather than adapted. Unlike Centrino it'll only be a single chip, not a group of widgets....

CA joins Eclipse.(Billy Grams)(Eclipse Foundation )(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Now in the hands of an ex-IBMer, CA has joined the IBM-spawned open spource Eclipse Foundation and is supposed to contribute code to the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Top-Level Project. CA has also been named the TPTP...

IBM gets its extension.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... The court hearing the SCO v IBM case gave IBM the extension it wanted so we shall have to wait until January 20 for it to itemize its objections to this paper's motion to open all the sealed filings. According to the rules, IBM and SCO were...

Symantec-Veritas doubts linger.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2005... Symantec has yet to convince the stock market of the wisdom of its pending $13.5 billion acquisition of Veritas and whenever it talks about it, it only makes the situation worse. Symantec and Veritas did a joint presentation of the merger...

Microsoft seeks to derail Novell antitrust suit: accuses Novell of double dipping.(cases between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc.)
January 17, 2005... Microsoft is trying to get the antitrust suit that Novell filed against it a few days after Microsoft paid Novell $536 million to head off another antitrust suit thrown out of court on its ear. The suit Microsoft bought its way out of would...

Linux leaders plot operation Open Gates.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... IBM, Intel, the Open Source Development Labs, where Linux creator Linus Torvalds works, and other industry lights are planning to rob Microsoft of the ability to scare customers off of Linux by saying that the operating system is a patent...

VMware's open source rival gets marquee backing.(Linux Watch)(financing of XenSource by Kleiner Perkins and Sevin Rosen)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Kleiner Perkins and Sevin Rosen, two star-studded VCs, have put $6 million in Series A money in Palo Alto, California-based XenSource, the outfit started by the founders of the open source Xen hypervisor virtualization software to commercialize...

Oracle updates Data Lite with 10g widgetry.(product enhancement)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Oracle has come up with a thing it's calling Oracle Database Lite 10g, a derivative of its 10g grid technology and an update of its eight-year-old Data Lite mojo, meant for the mobile and embedded crowd on the theory that mobile deployments...

Microsoft CFO leaves to become VC.(resignation of chief financial officer John Connors)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Microsoft CFO John Connors is retiring from the company to join a bunch of old colleagues at Ignition Partners, the early-stage VC operation set up five years ago by ex-Microsoft folks like former senior VP Brad Silverberg of IE fame and former...

Apple offers cheap Mac.(introduction of Apple Mac mini)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... The Apple rumormongers were right. The usually pricey Apple will be putting a $499 six-and-a-half inch by two-inch Mac it calls the Mac mini on the market come January 22, its first foray into sub-$800 territory, and now, because of it,...

Apple debuts office rival iWork.(introduction of Apple iWork '05)
January 17, 2005... Confirming rumors it was coming, Apple launched what it calls the iWork productivity suite Tuesday at MacWorld. Apple would like to think of it as a rival to Microsoft Office for the Mac, but nobody in Redmond broke a sweat. iWork '05...

VMware rolls out ACE.(introduction of VMware ACE Starter Kit )(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... VMware has started rolling out the ACE code that manages enterprise laptops that it's had in beta since last September. VMware retrofit its workstation mojo to handle contractor, telecommuter and mobile laptops and has priced an ACE Starter...

GaDuGi to rewrite its Linux side.(Linux Watch)
January 17, 2005... GaDuGi, the new open source operating system being written for the Cherokee Nation, merges a NetWare-like network operating with Linux, according to Jeff Merkey, the ex-Novell exec behind the project. GaDuGi reportedly runs the Linux 2.4...

IBM chucks 500 patents into the open source brew.
January 17, 2005... IBM said Monday that it's going to open up 500 of its US software patents, valued at $10 million if they were sold, royalty-free to any open source development that uses a licence recognized by the Open Source Initiative. IBM said it was doing...

Pervasive to try to push the PostgreSQL train on to the mainline.(Linux Watch)(product introduction of Pervasive Software Inc.)
January 17, 2005... Pervasive Software, the old-line database house, is going to chase the corporate market with a branded version of the PostgreSQL open source database, figuring that its backing will break down the barriers to enterprise adoption. The...

Red Flag joins OSDL.(Linux Watch)(membership in Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs continues on its merry roll signing up members. It latest score is four-and-a-half-year-old Red Flag Software Company, the major Chinese player, which says it will participate in all three of OSDL's initiatives:...

EU software patent legislation could be sent back to the starting line.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... After Poland forestalled any decision by the European Council right before Christmas, 61 members of the European Parliament from 13 different countries have introduced a motion that would push the controversial legislative proposal on software...

Opera goes to school.(Linux Watch)(service introduction of Opera Software A/S)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Norwegian browser house Opera Software says it will offer free site licenses to higher education institutions. Opera claimed the move responds to schools' growing concern about the security threats students may encounter by using a less...

Neoware buys itself more market share.(acquisition of Myou Video Corp. by Neoware Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Neoware, the thin client maven, is buying TeleVideo's thin client assets for $5 million in cash plus an earn-out based on performance. TeleVideo, the old terminals giant and inventor of the smart terminal, does $7 million a year in thin...

Bellwether clinks like crystal.(The Great Reckoning)(sales and earnings of Intel Corp.)
January 17, 2005... Despite all the talk of an imminent slowdown in PCs, Intel managed to bust through its elevated mid-quarter projection and come in with record fourth-quarter revenues of $9.6 billion, up 13% sequentially and up 10% year-over-year. It had...

AMD pre-announces.(The Great Reckoning)
January 17, 2005... Monday night, less than 24 hours before Intel posted its Q4 earnings, AMD, its little rival, said its fourth-quarter results wouldn't be as good as the market expected. A surprised Wall Street figured AMD would show an 8% improvement in...

Unisys expects surprise loss.(The Great Reckoning)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Unisys says it will report a surprise loss of seven to 10 cents a share for the fourth quarter on revenues down roughly 7% to between $1.52 billion and $1.53 billion. It had expected to earn 27 cents to 31 cents. The company said it...

Sun ekes out small profit; revenues down.(The Great Reckoning)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Sun managed a small profit of $19 million, or a penny a share in its second quarter ended December 26 compared to a loss of $125 million, or four cents a share, in the same period the previous year. Sun's revenues fell 1.6% year-over-year...

BMC buys French ISV.(Internet Service Vendor)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... BMC Software is buying privately held Paris-based ISV Calendra for roughly $33 million in cash to buck up its identity management skills. The French concern, which supplies some 200 customers, some of them Global 2000s, and five million...

Microsoft upgrades hosted messaging app.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Microsoft has upgraded the hosted version of its messaging and collaboration software. Targeted at small and mid-sized businesses, rev 3 of the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration combines hosted versions of Exchange...

Cisco to peddle EMC NAS gear.(Drive Bay)(Network Attached Storage)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Cisco has struck an OEM deal to resell and support EMC's NAS widgetry. Cisco said it would offer EMC's NAS devices integrated with its recently introduced File Engine wide area file services appliance so customers could consolidate remote...

Goldman leads Riverbed financing.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Riverbed Technology has snagged $20 million in Series C funding taking its total financing to $37 million. Goldman Sachs led the round, which also included existing investors Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and UV Partners. ...

Chinese to buy AMD boxes.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... AMD was thrilled to announce that the Chinese are going to absorb 26,000 of its low-end Sempron and Opteron chips. Seems that AMD, Chinese hardware vendors Lenovo and Dawning have won the Hebei Long-Distance Education Project and will...

SAP releases .NET portal tool.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... SAP has put out a toolkit to make it easier for developers and customers using Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET development environment to build content for the SAP Enterprise Portal. The widgetry is designed to extend the integration between...

Siebel buys e-billing ISV.(Internet Service Vendor)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Siebel, the business applications house, is acquiring e-billing ISV edocs for $115 million in cash and additional payments based on revenue and contractual milestones. Siebel expects the acquisition to strengthen its customer-facing...

HP's fateful Project X.(Billy Grams)(development of servers by Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... What may have finally driven Intel to copy AMD's 64-bit x86 extensions was a secret little prototype Opteron-based server that HP, Intel's erstwhile Itanium partner, ran up in late 2002 under the code name Project X. Intel regarded any...

Morgan Stanley turns thumbs down on HP.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Morgan Stanley has gone negative on HP. It says it expects PC unit growth will be in the single digits this year and that HP is in the worst position to cope with a tepid environment. It figures that HP is the most exposed to the new $499 Mac,...

Dell reportedly feasting on IBM's PC biz.(Billy Grams)(market share)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Morgan Stanley thinks Dell is already poaching IBM PC customers because of the Lenovo deal and that the US government, in particular, which represents about 6% of IBM PC revenues, offers Dell "low hanging fruit." Right before New Year's, IBM...

Blood to drip from Oracle's axe.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... With PeopleSoft finally in its pocket, Oracle is expected to start firing people wholesale today, January 14. Some 6,000 people, mostly PeopleSoft folk, roughly 11% of the total headcount--perhaps as much as 25%-50% of PeopleSoft's...

HP brings in ex-Lucent exec.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Hewlett-Packard has hired former Lucent Technologies exec Steve Smith to run its managed services business and compete with IBM. HP says its outsourcing unit is one of its fastest-growing operations, up 38% year-over-year last year. Smith, an...

Intel at first silicon.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Intel has reportedly gotten first silicon on its 65nm dual-core desktop chip, which is still a ways from market considering Intel has to go through the 90nm phase first. Intel already demo'd Yonah, its dual-core 65nm mobile processor that's...

Gates to leave ICOS board.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Bill Gates will be trading in his seat on the board of ICOS, the pharmaceuticals house that developed Cia-lis, the impotence pill, to take that seat on the board of Berkshire Hathaway like he promised right before Christmas. Gates owns more...

BEA to lead WS-Addressing effort.(Billy Grams)(BEA Systems Inc.)(Web Services)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... BEA executive Mark Nottingham, a senior principal technologist attached to the Office of BEA's CTO, is going to chair the WS-Addressing Working Group that W3C has gathered around the next-generation specification submitted by BEA, IBM,...

Intel largesse.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Intel was so thrilled with its Q4 numbers that it gave each of its employees a $1,000 bonus. With 80,000 people that's $80 million.

IBM ordered to disgorge discovery in SCO case: court accepts SCO's notion of derivative code, puts Linux in defensive position.(Linux Watch)
January 24, 2005... The great judicial freeze that has put the SCO v IBM case in a virtual cryogenic state for months is finally starting to thaw. IBM has been ordered to turn over most of the discovery that SCO has asked for in several motions to compel over...

Forbes & CNET join motion to unseal SCO-IBM court record.(Brief Article)
January 24, 2005... Forbes magazine and CNET Networks have joined this paper in its motion to intervene in the SCO v IBM case. We are asking the court to open all the filings that the companies have made that are sealed. The existing motion was updated to include...

CA kicks off move to create a common commercial open source license.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
January 24, 2005... Apparently it costs real money to maintain an open source license and keep it up-to-date once a company gets one since case law is a moving target these days. The GPL is way too viral to appeal to most companies so it's unlikely that the...

Oracle fires 5,000; lays out project fusion.
January 24, 2005... Oracle said it is firing 5,000 people, roughly 9% of the newly combined Oracle-PeopleSoft workforce. It expects it will take into next week to make all the terminations, which started last Friday. European cuts are more complicated than...

SAP hopes to capitalize on Oracle discontent.(TomorrowNow Inc)
January 24, 2005... SAP AG, the big kahuna of applications and the guy whose lunch Oracle wants to swallow, has bought a tiny little Texas company called TomorrowNow Inc, a six-year-old privately held PeopleSoft maintenance and support outfit, to use as a base...

Symantec-Veritas layoffs forecast to be light.(Brief Article)
January 24, 2005... Symantec and Veritas have been telling the press that, in contrast to the thousands who lost their jobs with the Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover, only some 400 out of a combined workforce of 13,000 might be terminated when Symantec sucks up Veritas....

Joy joins Kleiner Perkins.(Brief Article)
January 24, 2005... Sun co-founder Bill Joy, the company's resident, if aging, whiz kid until he finally left the company in September of '03, has turned up as a partner at famed VC operation Kleiner Perkins, the outfit that originally backed Sun. Joy, now...

Vanderpool trickles out of Intel.(new external architecture specification)(Brief Article)
January 24, 2005... Intel has released the preliminary External Architecture Specification (EAS) behind its hardware-assisted virtualization widgetry code named Vanderpool, one of its promised "Ts." It says it wants to facilitate industry design collaboration...