Client Server News articles from July 2005

Client Server News archives from July 2005

Cool Blue cools servers.(new product from International Business Machines Corp.)
July 18, 2005... It took IBM three years to do it, but it says it can cut the heat dissipated by a server--anybody's server--by maybe as much as 55%. Considering the datacenter's contribution to global warming, if the widgetry works as advertised and gets...

Long horn out from under injunction.(Microsoft Corp.'s case against Alacritech)
July 18, 2005... For some unsung amount of money Microsoft has settled up with Alacritech, the server and storage accelerator house whose patent infringement suit got Longhorn, Microsoft's unannounced next-generation operating system, preliminarily enjoined...

HP takes pot shots at Dell's new Intel dual-core server.(business competition)
July 18, 2005... Dell brought out a low-end server the other day based on Intel's dual-core Pentium D chip, causing HP to sniff that it's a desktop disguised as a server and a cover-up for the fact that Dell is behind on the dual-core front. HP claims it's...

AMD comes in with upside surprise.(financial results of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... AMD came in with better-than-expected Q2 results, a nice little capper for its mammoth antitrust suit against Intel and the EC raid on Intel offices the other day. Market momentum remains with Intel, however, and some say AMD is merely riding...

Hitachi takes Tagma mid-market.(enhanced product from Hitachi Data Systems Corp.)
July 18, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems pushed into the mid-range storage market this week with the release of a so-called mini Tagma, a cheaper, cut-down version of its nine-month-old TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (nee Lightning), dubbed the TagmaStore...

Sun open sources authentication widgetry.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Sun says it's going to open source its web site authentication and web single sign-on (SSO) technologies through what it's calling the Open Source Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project. Naturally that means Sun's version of open source. It...

IBM & Zend trot out Zend Core for IBM.(product launch by Zend Technologies Ltd.)
July 18, 2005... IBM and Zend have announced the availability of Zend Core for IBM, calling it the first integrated solution specifically designed to help developers deploy database applications and services based on the PHP web language. IBM and Zend said...

OSDL opens European front.(expansion of Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs is opening an office in Luxembourg, a politically neutral site, and has named Claude Beullens its director for EMEA. OSDL said government interest, economic opportunity and the location of leading open...

Fujitsu picks up SuSE worldwide.(contract with Fujitsu Siemens Computers)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Fujitsu, one of the Big Five OEMs worldwide, is going to r support SuSE on its PrimeQuest and Primergy servers. In 2000 Fujitsu Siemens Computers cut a deal with SuSE to deliver and support the SuSE on Primergy servers in EMEA. The new...

AMD sues Intel.
July 18, 2005... AMD Sues Intel--AMD has filed what promises to be an historic, protracted and highly entertaining antitrust suit against Intel that drudges up no end of dirt. AMD's move was encouraged--as we predicted it would be--by Intel's "no contest"...

Microsoft pays IBM $850m not to sue.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Microsoft Pays IBM $850m Not To Sue--In another one of those now legendary deals necessitated by its US antitrust suit, Microsoft will pay IBM $775 million and give it a $75 million credit towards Microsoft software. IBM's business was...

SCO v Novell suit on.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... SCO v Novell Suit On--The court has rejected Novell's second bid to get SCO's slander of title suit against it dismissed. That's the one in which SCO alleged that Novell falsely represented that it, not SCO, owns the Unix and UnixWare...

Oracle hires old Microsoft CFO.(Greg Maffei appointed)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Oracle Hires Old Microsoft CFO--Oracle has hired Greg Maffei, CFO of Microsoft during the Evil Empire's greatest expansionist period, to be its own CFO and third--yes, third--co-president, presumably irritating Microsoft and definitely clouding...

Court throws out SCO's precious third amended complaint.(The SCO Group Inc.'s case against International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Court Throws Out SCO's Precious Third Amended Complaint--SCO's many critics have had reason to dance in the streets. The court hearing the SCO v IBM case has refused to let SCO file its third amended complaint--the one where it thought it had...

Symantec-Veritas deal done.(merger of VERITAS Software Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Symantec-Veritas Deal Done--The Symantec-Veritas merger sailed though stockholder approval despite the fact that Symantec shares crashed 32% because of the odd acquisition. Merrill Lynch is of the opinion that "given the increasing clarity into...

Patent cliff notes nixed.(cases at Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled en banc Tuesday that courts should look to the language in a patent itself rather than turn first to dictionaries to determine the meaning of patent claims. "The main problem with...

Neoware narrows the thin clients-PC gap.(Neoware Image Manager of Neoware Systems Inc.)
July 18, 2005... Neoware Systems has what it figures is a breakthrough piece of software called Image Manager that it says eliminates the functional differences between PCs and thin clients. It also makes deployed PCs more secure and manageable by letting...

Lenovo to resell ClearCube.(Lenovo Group Ltd.'s distribution agreement with ClearCube Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... ClearCube Technology, which was working on an alliance with IBM's PC operation before IBM up and sold it to Lenovo, has turned up with an alliance with--you guessed it--Lenovo. Because of IBM's matrix organization it's hard to tell how...

As the ancients observed, beware of Greeks bearing gifts.(Microsoft Corp.'s negotiates with Apache)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... If we've got this right, Microsoft has taken a new approach in dealing with Linux. It's reportedly been seeking out open source projects like Apache trying to entice them to optimize their widgetry on Windows. And if the implementation turns...

And let's keep those defense contracts coming in: Kleiner.(appointments at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the golden Silicon Valley VC firm, has brought in retired General Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state who left the administration in January, as a "strategic limited partner"--which means speaking...

Madison catches the uptown bus.(enhancement of Intel Madison Itanium)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Intel is about to upgrade the bus on the Madison Itanium to 667MHz but the only company with a chipset that can take advantage of it right now is Hitachi. It'll be the last singlecore Itanium.

Whither the LSB?(takeover of Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base charter by Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs may wind up taking over the Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base charter.

Whoops, there goes Norway.(technology policy of Morten Andreas Meyer)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... According to what we read in the papers Norway would like nothing more than to outlaw the use of proprietary code at all levels of the government. At a press conference the country's minister of modernization Morten Andreas Meyer outlined plans...

Ballmer makes grateful billionare noises.(Steve Ballmer at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... "We're in the process of finishing up our financial year, but I saw some early numbers--not that I could comment on them, because if I did you'd all be insiders. So I'm not going to tell you what things look like. But I'll tell you they are not...

Microsoft prays it's the big Kahuna.(enhancement of Hotmail service)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... According to BetaNews, Microsoft, which is in a position of playing catch-up to Google, Yahoo and AOL, is close to beta testing the next version of Hotmail, code named Kahuna. The widgetry is expected to have a modestly new user interface and...

Vienna creates its own Linux.(development of Wienux)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Vienna has come up with its own Linux desktop distribution, called Wienux of course, that puts at risk Microsoft's hold on the city government's 16,000 PCs currently running Windows 2000 and Office 2000.

DOJ wants more poop on Adobe-Macromedia deal.(Adobe Systems Inc.)(investigation by Department of Justice)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Justice Department is asking for more information about the proposed Adobe's $3.4 billion Macromedia acquisition, which is expected to close sometime in the fall. Its demand is concerned with the web development/ authoring and vector...

M'soft deploys Genesys code.(Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc.'s contract with Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc, an Alcatel company, says Microsoft has internally deployed a joint telephony-enabling collaboration solution that uses Genesys Enterprise Telephony Software (GETS) with the Office Live Communications...

SCO part of new Russell Microcap Index.(Russell Investment Group lists The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Russell Investment Group has included SCO as part of its brand new Russell Microcap Index. The irony of this situation is practically incalculable considering the open source radical fringe claims SCO is nothing more than cynical stock...

HP to whack 14,500 staffers.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
July 25, 2005... Hewlett-Packard's new CEO Mark Hurd said early Tuesday morning that he's going to can 14,500 people over a morale-draining year and a half, roughly 10% of HP's work force. Hurd, a lopper by reputation, said he was going to cut HP's staff...

Oracle prices multi-cores.
July 25, 2005... Oracle has made what may or may not be a grudging move on the multi-core pricing front. At least it's stated a position. It says it still recognizes each core as a separate processor, but claims it's changed how it defines a processor to...

HP Labs among the first hit.(corporate reorganization)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... HP R&D isn't getting out of the latest company bloodletting unscathed, though it was supposed to be a relatively protected enclave. And the reorg apparently means HP Labs is going to have to get more practical. According to the...

Next Year's gonna be great: Microsoft.(revenue forecasts)
July 25, 2005... Microsoft earned $3.7 billion, or 34 cents a share, up 37% year-over-year, on revenues of $10.16 billion in the June quarter, up 9%. Wall Street was looking for 28 cents. Microsoft got to 34 cents by virtue of nine cents in tax benefits...

IBM loses Global Services chief.(John Joyce resigned)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... IBM has lost John Joyce, the head of IBM Global Services, described as the most powerful man at IBM next to CEO Sam Palmisano. It lost him to private equity house Silver Lake Partners, the place where Ed Zander turned up between Sun and...

Microsoft buys FrontBridge.(FrontBridge Technologies Inc.)
July 25, 2005... Microsoft is buying privately owned FrontBridge Technologies Inc on undisclosed terms for its secure corporate e-mail and messaging managed service. A published report quoting Gartner suggests Microsoft is paying $150 million-$180 million....

Microsoft sues Google for poaching.
July 25, 2005... Shortly after noon in New York on Tuesday Google announced that it had hired Dr Kai-Fu Lee, the head of Microsoft's search development and responsible for Microsoft's desktop search, to be president of a new R&D center it's going to put in...

AMD extracts ounce of flesh from Intel.(market share of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
July 25, 2005... AMD must have tied one on the other night. Intel sold a record number of chips in Q2, but its gross margin came up short of guidance at 56.4% and it cited the pricing pressure that AMD exerted on its server ASPs as part of the reason. ...

Mistress of DB2 to leave IBM.(Janet Perna to resign from Information Management Group of International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Oracle must be tickled pink. That black and blue mark that IBM has tattooed on its rump over the years might finally have a chance to heal. Janet Perna, general manager of IBM's Information Management Group and mistress of DB2, a pretty...

Pro se GPL price-fixing suit survives IBM motion to dismiss.(general public license, International Business Machines Corp.)(Daniel Wallace's cases against computer industry)
July 25, 2005... It looks like the courts are taking Daniel Wallace's pro se suits against the GPL a tad more seriously than the dismissive open source community. The federal court in Indianapolis threw out IBM's motion to dismiss Wallace's suit against it...

SCO holds gun so open source left can shoot it in the foot.(International Business Machines Corp.'s case against The SCO Group Inc.)
July 25, 2005... One thing about SCO and its high-priced legal talent--they do the worst crisis management imaginable. When a train is barreling down the track--and you're standing on the track--and there's a switch at hand that would send the train on to...

Petition to open source OS/2 afoot.(OS2World.com)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Since IBM took OS/2 off the market last week, OS2World.com, a five-year-old community news site that claims 35,000 unique visitors a month, has been collecting signatures on a petition calling on IBM to open source the operating system. At...

Open source takes on BI.(Partech International invests in JasperSoft Corporation)(business intelligence)
July 25, 2005... JasperSoft Corporation, the outfit now commercializing the JasperReports open source reporting widgetry, has gotten an $8 million C round led by Partech International, an early investor in Business Objects, which bought Crystal Reports a while...

GroundWork brings in new CEO.(Ranga Rangachari appointed)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... GroundWork, the open source IT management start-up, is bringing in a new CEO to take it to the proverbial next level. The company reportedly looked at 200 candidates, seriously considered 20, and picked Ranga Rangachari, a long-time Legato...

Mandriva settles trademark suit.(case against Hearst Publications and Kingfisher Syndicate)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Mandriva said Monday that it had settled the long-running trademark suit lodged by Hearst Publications and Kingfisher Syndicate over a comic book character "Mandrake The Magician." The suit, filed five years ago, was the reason Mandrakesoft...

LinuxWorld set for the Olympia.
July 25, 2005... LinuxWorld is set to take place at the Olympia in London October 5-6. IDG, the organizer, says it's the UK's only Linux and open source trade show this year.

Rackspaces goes with ZENworks.(Rackspace Managed Hosting's contract with Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Novell is all atwitter. Rackspace Managed Hosting, called the fastest-growing enterprise hosting company, is going to use Novell's ZENworks Linux Management software to administer its new enterprise Linux hosting solution. With the launch...

ActiveGrid gets $10m round.(investment by WorldView Technology Partners)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... ActiveGrid, the start-up chartered to push grids into the mainstream, has gotten a $10 million second round from Worldview Technology Partners, a new investor, with participation by existing investors, Allegis Capital and Hummer Winblad, the...

MySQL preens over quarter.(financial results)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... MySQL AB brags that it just closed the best quarter in its 10-year history. It says it generated more than twice the revenue than it did in the June quarter last year. Unfortunately, being privately held, it's not saying how much that...

IBM buys PureEdge.(PureEdge Solutions Inc., International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... IBM is buying PureEdge Solutions Inc, the privately held British Columbia company that develops XML-based electronic forms and an IBM business partner, on undisclosed terms that are unlikely to have been very expensive. It's going to...

EMC solid quarter; earnings up 52%.
July 25, 2005... Storage maven EMC earned $293 million, or 12 cents a share, in Q2, up a heady 52% year-over-year on revenues of $2.34 billion, up 19%. It credited its mid-tier storage systems, its virtualization acquisition VMware, and an expanding...

Cisco & Yahoo meld anti-spam proposals.(Cisco Systems Inc.)(DomainKeys Identified Mail specification)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... For what it's worth in a world drowning in spam, Cisco and Yahoo in company with IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, AOL, EarthLink, Sendmail and others have submitted a DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) specification to the Internet Engineering Task...

Paxville moves into '05.(launch of Paxville Xeon by Intel Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Intel suggested when it posted its Q2 numbers the other day that it might be able to move up the 1Q06 due date on its dual-core Paxville Xeons to 4Q05. It's planning on flooding the market with pilot dual-core Xeon machines this half.

HP axes by rank.(layoffs at Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... HP has reportedly taken a top-down approach to its latest impending layoffs. High-ranking managers were told they were terminated first, followed by the next level Wednesday. The next level of pink slips should be handed out by mid-August....

What OS was CardSystems' using?(operating system)(information management of CardSystems Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Visa and American Express say that come October they will be breaking with payment processor CardSystems Solutions Inc, the Tucson company whose unmitigated irresponsibility caused the biggest privacy breach to date, the piracy of 40 million...

Intel, suit magnet.(case against Amberwave Systems Corporation)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... AMD ain't the only one suing Intel these days. Amberwave Systems Corporation, which says its strained silicon technology incorporates research from Bell Labs and MIT, has charged the 90nm Pentium with infringing two of its patents (6,881,632...

AMD gets an AttaBoy.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. complies with European Union's environmental policy)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... AMD says it's started offering MPUs with reduced lead content to customers worldwide, nearly a year ahead of an EU regulatory deadline to reduce lead in electronic products. The European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)...

What's a Dell CIO worth?(compensation of Randy Mott)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... HP's new CIO Randy Mott, snatched out of Dell last week, will be getting upwards of $15.3 million in compensation. The package includes a base salary of $690,000 a year, the option to buy 500,000 shares of HP common stock, a targeted short-term...

Intel adds academic to board.(James Plummer appointed)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... The dean of Stanford's School of Engineering James Plummer has been named to Intel's board, giving it nine independent directors and two (CEO Paul Otellini and chairman Craig Barrett) who are corporate officers. Plummer specializes in IC...

Florian Mueller, open source pin-up.
July 25, 2005... Florian Mueller, the software programmer and open source advocate who started the NoSoftwarePatents.com web site and successfully lobbied for the defeat of US-like software patent legislation in the European Union, has made the chi-chi-annual...