Client Server News articles from July 2002

Client Server News archives from July 2002

Cereva Collapses; Puts IP Up for Sale.(Cereva Networks)
July 1, 2002... Cereva Networks, one of the most richly funded storage start-ups, has ceased its operations. Although Cereva raised $157 million in funding and boasted of leading a revolution in next-generation storage, this revolution fizzled even before...

CA in Ranger's Sights Again.(Ranger Governance)
July 1, 2002... The Texas Rangers just refuse to go away, much to Computer Associates' chagrin. Texas-based investment firm Ranger Governance, a unit of the Ranger Capital Group hedge fund run by Sam Wyly, is making another bid to dethrone CA's...

Office 11 To Debut in Mid-2003.(Microsoft)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Microsoft will launch a new version of its money-spinner productivity suite Office in mid-2003. Currently code-named Office 11, the upgrade, which is a successor to the Office XP package shipping since last summer, will come with enhancements...

CenterSpan and MeTV Sign Delivery Agreement.(CenterSpan Communications and MeTV Networks)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... CenterSpan Communications Corporation, a P2P-based content delivery network (CDN), has signed a content delivery deal with MeTV Networks Inc, an IP-based video-on-demand service. Under the agreement, CenterSpan will provide the delivery...

Microsoft To Boost US Sales Force.
July 1, 2002... Amid a brutal slowdown in tech spending, Microsoft is looking to add 450 employees to its US sales team, the biggest increase in a decade. Microsoft said the additional sales hires represented a 20% increase in field sales and marketing...

Microtel Strikes Blow Against Tier 1 PC Makers.
July 1, 2002... Microtel's (http://www.microtelpc.com) recent agreement with Wal- Mart, the world's biggest retailer, to sell PCs running the Lindows flavor of Linux may do more to change the landscape of the OS business than the verdict of Judge Colleen...

Speedera Accused Of Theft, Searched By FBI.(Speedera Networks)
July 1, 2002... Content delivery network (CDN) provider Speedera Networks Inc has been accused by rival Akamai Technologies Inc of hacking into a database and stealing proprietary information. Speedera contends the information was public, as it was hosted on...

LinqWare Links Employees Via EIM.(enterprise instant messaging)
July 1, 2002... LinqWare Inc, a Kirkland, Washington start-up, wants to bring instant messaging to the enterprise. The company's first product, Collabrix, is an enterprise instant messaging platform designed to feel to users like a typical consumer...

Gateway to Come Out of the Server Gate Again.
July 1, 2002... Gateway plans to get more aggressive in the coming months in the higher margin server market by launching a wider range of servers than its current modest three model offering. Its two tower and one 1u Ultra Thin rack mount servers...

The Un-Favorites.
July 1, 2002... Stocks held by the largest number of accounts at Merrill Lynch that are covered in this newsletter: Share price at 6/21/02 compared to 1/1/2002 as reported by the New York Times. 6/21/02 % Change closing price from 1/1/02...

7 of 10 Companies Choose Windows Media.(Market Decisions' survey)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Microsoft says that out of 700 companies surveyed by Market Decisions Corporation, seven out of 10 chose Windows Media over other media software like RealNetworks' RealOne. The study also found that companies are electing to use only one...

Microsoft Talks Up Palladium.(security technology)
July 1, 2002... Microsoft is developing a new security technology called Palladium that'll appear in a future version of Windows. Still in the very early stages of development, Palladium is supposed to enable an array of applications including data...

Caldera Replaces Love.(Caldera Systems' Ransom Love)
July 1, 2002... Caldera International has brought in Darl McBride as its new CEO. Caldera co-founder Ransom Love, who's been CEO for the last four years, will now manage the company's UnitedLinux operations and report to McBride but his exact position...

Lindows Flat-Fee Licensing Flatlines Per-Unit Royalties.
July 1, 2002... Lindows.com made a bold move for the second week in a row when it announced a flat-rate $500 per-month licensing plan for PC manufacturers. The license permits OEMs to install Lindows on an unlimited number of PCs each month without requiring...

Egenera Raises $44m.
July 1, 2002... Did anyone say raising money was difficult in this environment? Linux blade start-up Egenera Inc has just raised $44 million in a third round of equity funding taking its total financing to $94 million. The Marlboro, Massachusetts...

CodeTEST Debuts on Linux.(Applied Microsystems CodeTEST for Embedded Linux)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Applied Microsystems Corporation has introduced a Linux port of its CodeTEST software test and analysis suite. CodeTEST for Embedded Linux, which is supposed to support all variations of embedded Linux, will enable developers to conduct...

Gnome 2.0 Out.
July 1, 2002... Open source Unix desktop maker The Gnome Foundation released version 2.0 of the Gnome Desktop and developer platform earlier this week. Gnome works on a bunch of Unix platforms, including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin. ...

Networking Development Environment from TimeSys and SBE.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... TimeSys Corporation, an embedded Linux provider, has teamed with OEM communications supplier SBE Inc. TimeSys and SBE will jointly supply a Linux development environment for embedded network products. The development environment works with...

NEC's Network Controllers Do Linux.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... NEC's line of network controllers now run MontaVista Linux. The company claims the royalty-free Linux platform will save its customers some cash. NEC says support for Linux is good, because of the large number of applications. MontaVista Linux...

Zambeel Launches Aztera; CIFS Support Missing.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Kleiner Perkins-backed NAS start-up Zambeel Inc has launched its enterprise storage system after a delay of more than six months. Dubbed Aztera, the Linux-based storage widgetry supposedly scales in capacity from 3TB to over 200TB and...

Gadzoox' Volte-Face.(Gadzoox Networks' sales forecast for fiscal 1st qtr ended Jun 30, 2002)
July 1, 2002... After providing a rosy outlook less than two months back, SAN products vendor Gadzoox Networks surprised the Street Tuesday by lowering its sales forecast for its fiscal first quarter ending June 30. The company said sales would come in...

Strong Growth Seen for SRM Business.(storage resource management)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Hurwitz Group sees strong growth for the storage resource management sector through 2005. The Framingham, Massachusetts-based market researcher forecasts that the SRM market will grow from $397 million in 2001 to $1.47 billion in 2005,...

Alacritech Awarded Five Patents.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Alacritech Inc, which provides server and storage accelerator products, says it's received five patents in the area of TCP/IP offload and acceleration. SCSI inventor Larry Boucher is the founder of the San Jose, California start-up.

Storage Access Names Paul Sachse CEO.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Data storage services provider Storage Access Technologies has promoted its president and CTO Paul Sachse to CEO. The Boca Raton, Florida start-up's former CEO Ian Sutcliffe continues as chairman.

Maxtor Expects Lower Revenues, Higher Losses.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Storage products vendor Maxtor Corporation said Friday it expects to report a pro forma loss of $80 million-$90 million for its fiscal second quarter ending June 29 compared to previous guidance of $45 million-$55 million. Revenues for the...

Mira Rechristened.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Mira display technology that Microsoft unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January is getting a new moniker - Windows CE for Smart Displays. The portable displays, or screens, will be called Windows-powered smart displays. Based on...

Good Growth Seen for Enterprise Portals.(study by The Radicati Group)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Combined revenues for enterprise portal and content management portal components will reach $735 million by the end of the current year and top $2.5 billion by year-end 2006, according to a new study by consultant and market researcher The...

500m Lines of Code Move Off Mainframes.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Sun's bragging that its mainframe rehosting software has enabled the migration of 500 million lines of COBOL code off IBM mainframes in 300 enterprises to its Sun Fire and Sun Enterprise servers.

What's Wrong with this Picture?(computer ssales report from IDC)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Branded PC vendors including Dell, Compaq, HP, IBM, and Fujitsu Siemens sold fewer PCs in 2001 than 2000. "Unbranded" PCs sold more units in 2001 than 2000, according to IDC. It seems that not everyone is waiting for the replacement cycle.

HP Imaging & Printing Gets $1.2b Overhaul.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Hewlett-Packard said it's invested $1.2 billion to overhaul its imaging and printing business, pumping in $900 million in manufacturing, $125 million in R&D and $200 million in marketing. The investment is supposed to help HP roll out 50 new...

Manage It for Me.(IBM Global Services has rolled out a suite of 20 outsourced services)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IBM Global Services has rolled out a suite of 20 outsourced services, along with financing for medium-sized companies, called Manage It for Me. The new services will focus on three areas - security; management of desktops, servers, networks and...

IBM Buys Norwegian Firm.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IBM has acquired privately owned Norwegian directory integration software firm Metamerge for an undisclosed sum. Blue says Metamerge's directory integration software aggregates information stored in directories and databases and is a key...

Lehman Expects Intel To Lower Expectations.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Lehman Brothers believes that Intel will report lower revenue and margins for 2H02 because of excess channel inventories and the slowdown in both consumer and European demand.

Xbox to Morph into Home Digital Media Server?(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Microsoft's Xbox team has spent nine months working on a machine that combines Xbox and UltimateTV features, according to Red Herring. Since UltimateTV has digital video recording, that would give Microsoft the basis for a home Digital Media...

Lehman Lowers HP Outlook.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Citing continued deterioration in consumer spending, a weakening Europe, postponement of the replacement cycle to 2003 and weak IT spending for services and enterprise systems, Lehman Brothers lowered its expectation of HP's EPS for Q3 from 17...

If the Replacement Cycle Gets Recycled.(statement in New York Times)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... "A shift in PC use from tasks like writing documents and sending text-based e-mail to entertainment uses like music, photos and video could touch off a new cycle of demand for PC hardware and software." New York Times, June 24.

Yu Says Sayonara.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Intel's senior VP Albert Yu, a 30-year veteran of the company, is retiring effective September 5. Most recently, Yu has been leading Intel's international expansion and driving its strategy in optoelectronics.

HP, Deloitte in CRM Consulting Tie-Up.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Hewlett-Packard and Deloitte Consulting have teamed up to provide CRM and partner relationship management services to large enterprise clients worldwide. The two companies will provide design, build and integration services as well as an...

Philips Wants Unlicensed CD-Rs Out.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Consumer electronics maker Philips Electron-ics has filed a complaint with the US Inter-national Trade Commission (ITC), alleging that 19 foreign manufacturers and US trading companies are infringing on its patents for recordable CDs, or CD-Rs....

The Itanium Revolution - Try, Try Again: Intel Says This Time Through It Reall Means It.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Time Through It Really Means It God, we'd love to find out what Intel and its little friend Hewlett- Packard have spent on the Itanium so far. Everyone knows it's at least a billion. Sun, whose Sparc platform Itanium is bent on grinding...

Web Services Patent Sticks.(Charlie Northrup patent)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Back last fall, we broke a story about this guy in New Jersey by the name of Charlie Northrup who claimed to hold the patent on web services (CSN No 419). Heady stuff considering how important web services are to Microsoft and Sun and IBM and...

HP Unveils Itanium 2 Workstations & Servers.(Product Announcement)
July 15, 2002... Hewlett-Packard, Itanium's co-developer, has rolled out new Itanium 2-based workstations, servers and services seeking to put its stamp on the marketplace. The boxes, which ship in August, use HP's proprietary new Itanium zx1 chipset, the...

IBM To Launch 16-way Itanium 2 Server.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Among the first wave of hardware vendors jumping on the Itanium 2 bandwagon, IBM said Monday that it will introduce Itanium 2 systems in its xSeries line later this year. IBM said its Itanium 2 server, which may be the widgetry code named...

Bull Itanium 2 Servers To Debut by Year's End.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Bull plans to introduce a complete line of SMP servers based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor and Intel's E8870 chipset before the end of the year. Bull said it picked the Itanium 2 and the Intel chipset as core components of the future...

Microsoft Promises Support for Itanium 2 Soon.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Microsoft said it would ship a 1.2 rev of Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition for the Itanium 2 to server OEMs later this month. Based on the same 64-bit code base that's in the Windows.NET Server that will debut next year, the 1.2...

Emulex Adds Itanium 2 Support.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Emulex said its LightPulse family of host bus adapters would support the Itanium 2 through firmware upgrades.

Oracle9i To Beta on Itanium 2.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Oracle has announced a beta program of its Oracle9i Database Release 2 on Itanium 2 running Windows.NET Server, which is scheduled to launch later this year.

QLogic Supports Itanium 2.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Storage networking products vendor QLogic says it's supporting the Itanium 2 in Windows and Linux environments. The company is offering drivers for its Fibre Channel and SCSI controller chips and host bus adapters.

Zeus Adds Itanium 2 Support for Web Server.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 15, 2002... Web server specialist Zeus Technology has launched a 64-bit version of its flagship Zeus Web Server optimized for Itanium 2, HP-UX 11i and Linux. The web server is designed for optimized deployment on HP's new rx2600 and rx5670 Itanium servers....

Scarred SGI Play with Fire Again.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... SGI, which got taken to the cleaners when it bet that Merced, the first Itanium would be a moneymaker rather than a science project, has lend its public support to the Itanium 2 push, but ain't saying how or when. SGI created a proprietary...

SGI Cuts Forecast.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 15, 2002... SGI has cut the revenue estimates for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 28 citing the continued reluctance of the IT sector to commit to significant capital spending. The company now expects revenues of between $280 million-$290 million...

Dell Ups Revenues, Profit Outlook.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Dell raised revenue and profit guidance Thursday for its fiscal second quarter ending August 2. Dell said revenues would reach $8.3 billion, $100 million more than the guidance it gave on May 16. The company also upped its EPS estimate by...

Citrix Forced To Cut Back.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Citrix will dump 10% of its staff, 190 jobs, because it turned up short in the second quarter and doesn't expect the situation to improve much in next few quarters when overall business confidence improves. Discretionary spending will also be...

AMD Determined To Take On Itanium.
July 15, 2002... AMD insists that it's gonna position its upcoming Opteron chip against the Itanium although wiser heads, perhaps, think AMD might be better off targeting the Xeon and not waste cycles on the Itanium at all. But AMD's too chip-proud to be...

Silverback Processor Delayed; Software VP Out.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Silverback Systems acknowledged Monday that its iSNAP2100 storage network processor, its widget for IP-based storage networks, had been delayed. Its VP of software engineering also quit recently. Originally scheduled to beta in Q1, then...

Spurned by HP, Lewis Bolts to EMC; Rothnie Retires.(Mark Lewis, Jim Rothnie)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Storage leader EMC has named Hewlett-Packard storage exec Mark Lewis CTO and executive VP of new ventures. Lewis replaces Jim Rothnie, EMC's CTO for the last two years and one of its executives for the last seven years. He is retiring. He has...

IBM Debuts New Low-End NAS Appliance.(IBM NAS 100)(Product Announcement)
July 15, 2002... IBM has introduced an entry-level NAS appliance for applications such as e-mail archiving, server consolidation, storage backup, backup to tape and archiving paper documents. The new 1U Windows Server Appliance Kit-based NAS 100 device,...

VA CEO Steps Down.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Larry Augustin, the founder of VA Software, has finally stepped down as CEO. He remains chairman of the shrunken company, which hit the wall running when it was a Linux hardware supplier with ambitions to become another Dell or Compaq. VA...

IBM Releases New Linux Directory Software.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... IBM released IBM Directory Server 4.1 for Linux this week. The software provides enterprises with a software infrastructure for identifying enterprise resources and controlling access to networked systems. It is based on the LDAP directory...

Aladdin Trots Out New Linux License Manager.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a commerce and Internet security software developer, has released a new Linux license manager for its software security system. Aladdin security system controls access to protected software in a network. The new Linux...

Microsoft Validates Linux.(reserves booth at LinuxWorld trade show)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Microsoft is going to take a booth at LinuxWorld in San Fancisco next month rather than merely send its Unix squad in to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt and keep an eye on what's going on. A notion of a Microsoft booth practically validates...

MandrakeSoft Dises United Linux.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... In a stinging attack, French Linux house MandrakeSoft said that joining the United Linux initiative of Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva would damage its reputation and that it had nothing to gain. Of course it's unclear whether it was...

Microsoft Prices CRM Product.(Microsoft CRM customer relationship management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 15, 2002... Microsoft detailed pricing on its upcoming CRM application for small and mid-sized businesses and demo'd the product at a Silicon Valley event Thursday. Scheduled to debut in Q4, Microsoft CRM will range from $395 per user plus $995 for the...

A Pretty Serious Flaw.(security flaw spotted in Network Associates' Pretty Good Privacy encryption software)
July 15, 2002... Security experts at eEye Digital Security Inc have identified a serious security flaw in the Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption software from Network Associates. PGP software is considered the de facto standard for encrypting e-mail and...

Blue's Hard Drive Biz was a White Elephant.(IBM exits hard drive business)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... In a telling acknowledgement of why it's dumping its hard drive operation, IBM said the other day in a filing with the SEC that it lost in excess of half a billion dollars on the business. The bulk of the losses - $423 million - came about last...

Is IBM Behind United Linux?(operating software iniative)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Red Hat believes that IBM is the gray eminence behind its newest nemesis, the so-called United Linux initiative that's got Red Hat's nearest rivals, Caldera, Turbolinux, SuSE and Connectiva, bandied together to create a clone of Red Hat's...

WorldCom Still King of the Net.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Its reputation may be in tatters, its stock price in the gutter and a bankruptcy filing lurking just around the corner. Still, the scandal-tainted WorldCom controls the most of the Internet's bandwidth, connections and revenue, according to...

Contrarian Neoware.(thin client vendor bucks industry, reports financial gains)(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Just when you thought that the entire tech sector had gone to hell in a hand basket along comes thin client vendor Neoware saying that revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30 would be higher than the top end of analyst estimates of...

United Linux To Support Itanium 2.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2002... Linux vendors Caldera, SuSE, Conectiva and Turbolinux said the upcoming release of their United Linux distribution would support the Itanium 2. United Linux is scheduled to launch by the end of the year.

HP Kills Compaq's Three McKinley Boxes.
July 22, 2002... Hewlett-Packard figures it knows best how to build 64-bit Itanium boxes, better than Compaq at any rate, and now that it owns Compaq HP has pulled the plug on the three prospective McKinley servers, and their follow-ons, that Compaq had on the...

Turbolinux 'Restructures' US Operation.
July 22, 2002... The US operation of Turbolinux, one of the four main Linux commercializers, says it instituted another "reduction in force" Monday after one of its investors pulled out of advanced negotiations that were supposed to lead to a fourth round of...

Mellanox Revs Infiniband Blade Server Reference Platform.
July 22, 2002... Mellanox Technologies Inc, which desperately needs for the Infiniband market to take off so it can sell its silicon - the start-up is after all focusing exclusively on the new interconnect fabric - has come up with Nitro II, a second version of...

Unisys Restructures Windows Mainframe.(Orion and Aries mainframes)
July 22, 2002... With the Itanium 2 chip finally shipping, Unisys has clambered on the bandwagon, as expected, and in accommodating the new processor has broken its two-and-a-half-year-old Intel-based 32-way ES7000 line, the so-called Windows mainframe, into...

Liberty Alliance Debuts Spec; Microsoft Remains Aloof.
July 22, 2002... The 10-month-old Sun-created Liberty Alliance released an initial specification covering single sign-on to multiple web sites Monday after acknowledging that it had failed to make headway in getting Microsoft, with its rival Passport scheme, to...

Sun Touts its Liberty-Compliant Widgetry.(Sun ONE Portal Server)(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... Sun claimed Tuesday to have the first Liberty 1.0-compliant widgetry in early access, a pre-integrated combination of an updated Liberty- enabled Sun ONE Identity Server 6 that's supposed to bridge disparate authentication systems with single...

Microsoft Debuts .NET Architecture Center.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... Microsoft has set up a .NET Architecture Center to provide developers with an online resource covering reference architectures, application building blocks and operational best practices for building robust enterprise apps. Microsoft...

Novell's Saturn Based on Liberty 1.0.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... Novell plans to offer an identity management product based on the just-released Liberty Alliance 1.0 spec. Code named Saturn, Novell's new widgetry is supposed to enable identity information to be exchanged between companies and give users...

Norway Outs Microsoft.(Brief Article)
July 22, 2002... Norway has cancelled the exclusive software license that gave Microsoft a stranglehold on supplying software for office computers in the country's public sector, according to the Norwegian daily Aftenposten. Evidently Norway objects to...

HP Dumps App Server; Another Acquisition Ends in Failure.(Bluestone Software NetAction Application Server)
July 22, 2002... For the second time in recent memory, Hewlett-Packard has made a mess of an acquisition it paid a pretty penny for. In this case, it's mucked up Bluestone Software, which it bought 18 months ago for close to a half-billion dollars in stock to...

Itanium ETAs.
July 22, 2002... OEM ETAs Product Taking Announced +/- Orders Ship Date HP Servers Yes August HP Workstation Yes August HP Itanium Superdome No...

Ballmer Talks Up Titanium; Exchange Upgrade Due Mid-'03.
July 22, 2002... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked up Titanium, the code name of Redmond's Exchange 2000 Server upgrade, at the company's Fusion 2002 partner confab early this week. Describing Titanium's improvements as incremental - similar to the...

Shark Sprouts New Teeth.(IBM Enterprise Storage Server 800)(Product Announcement)
July 22, 2002... IBM has beefed up its Enterprise Storage Server, aka Shark, with enhancements that are supposed to provide higher performance and come with more self-managing and self-healing capabilities from its eLiza project. IBM is promising the new...

Topspin Lands $30m.
July 22, 2002... Topspin Communications Inc, another secretive storage start-up, emerged from its cocoon to disclose that it had raised $30 million in second-round funding. The new money takes its total financing to $47 million. The round was led by...

Storability Jettisons Managed Services Biz.
July 22, 2002... Storability Software said Monday that it's sold its managed storage services business to StorageTek. Storability also said StorageTek bought licenses for software technology associated with delivering remote storage management and admin-...