Client Server News articles from June 2002

Client Server News archives from June 2002

Caldera, Turbo, SuSE & Conectiva Pile On to the Life Raft.
June 3, 2002... So, Thursday morning four rickety commercial Linux distros piled into the one-man lifeboat they've christened UnitedLinux in hopes of creating enough of a wake as they paddle around to swamp the good ship Red Hat. The move simply begs the...

Merrill Lynch Ponders Blades.
June 3, 2002... Merrill Lynch has revisited the notion of blades and says the only way they're going to get to the proverbial next level is to make clusters out of them and the only way to do that is to have an "overarching blade OS that makes the cluster act...

Intel Ups Push on Sun's Telecom Preserve.
June 3, 2002... Intel, which has been gunning for Sun's telecoms market for the last year, is backing HP's CompactPCI blade scheme saying economic conditions have made the switch from low-volume proprietary gear to standards- based equipment imperative. ...

Liberty Expands; Microsoft in Dutch.
June 3, 2002... SAP, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, i2 Technologies, Cingular Wireless and Wave Systems have joined the Microsoft-baiting Liberty Alliance. Of course the real news would be that Microsoft had joined. The consortium has set up two new...

IDC Paints Another Rosy Glow.(predicts growth for web services)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... An ever-rosy IDC figures there's going to be a huge demand for professional services around these newfangled web services projects, enough to be worth $7.1 billion in the US alone by 2006, and almost has to gasp itself when it realizes that...

Dell Eyes Printer Supplies: Bear Stearns.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Bear Stearns analyst Andy Neff emerged from a chitchat with Michael Dell last week saying the Texas company wants in on the printer business for those happy recurring revenues from ink cartridges that cushion HP profits. Neff figures Dell will...

Neoware Raises $12m.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Neoware, the thin client house, has privately placed $12 million worth of its common stock, 1.6 million shares, with unidentified institutional investors. The new financing gives the feisty little debt-free company a $20 million war chest. The...

Softricity Scores with Microsoft.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Microsoft and Boston start-up Softricity have gotten together up to enable enterprises to manage Windows applications as XML web services over corporate networks. The partnership leverages .NET technologies and Softricity's flagship...

Intel Quits InfiniBand.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Intel has dropped out of the InfiniBand chip market and it's been months since anyone much has had confidence that InfiniBand, the next-generation fabric for linking systems and nominal replacement for PCI, was coming together. At least not in...

Die, Sparc, Die.(Intel Itanium 2)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Intel turned up in Munich the other day with its arms loaded with benchmarks on how absolutely splendiferously McKinley, aka the Itanium 2, performs. The meat of the matter is that the widget is supposed to trounce Sun's UltraSparc III, Intel's...

IBM Kills Sequent.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... According to the Wall Street Journal IBM got snookered when it bought Sequent in 1999 for $810 million. It's gotten practically nothing out of the exercise and when it started cutting server people last week as part of its restructuring it...

Microsoft To Settle Up with SEC.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Microsoft is supposed to be near to settling a years-long flap with the SEC over how it set aside reserves to boost revenues when needed, a tactic Wall Street has always seemed to regard as innocent enough and merely a way to flatten out the...

Transmeta Makes 1GHz.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Transmeta has apparently started delivering its coveted 1GHz chip.

Confluence Picks Up $28m; Product Delayed.(Confluence Networks)
June 3, 2002... Confluence Networks has raised a $28.3 million second round, which means its coffers will have seen about $45 million. A new investor, Venture Strategy Partners, led the round, which included previous backers Redpoint Ventures and New...

McData Dumps HBAs.(host bus adapter business sold to TidalWire Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... McData is jettisoning its host bus adapter business, selling it to storage networking products distributor TidalWire Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the deal, the Westborough, Massachusetts-based TidalWire will acquire...

Veritas Launches Ad Campaign.
June 3, 2002... Figuring it's the least well known of the top 10 software houses, storage software vendor Veritas has rolled out a $20 million global advertising and direct marketing campaign. Developed by Hill, Holiday San Francisco, the campaign touts...

Gadzoox Faces Delisting.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... SAN products vendor Gadzoox Networks said Tuesday that it's been notified by the Nasdaq that it's not in compliance with the minimum price requirement of a buck per share and that its shares are subject to delisting. It's has requested a...

Dot Hill Snags Sun Deal.(Dot Hill Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Storage outfit Dot Hill Systems has signed a multi-year OEM agreement with Sun covering some unspecified products. As part of the deal, Sun gets warrants to purchase about 5% of Dot Hill's outstanding shares. The contract doesn't guarantee any...

StorageTek To Launch SnapVantage.
June 3, 2002... StorageTek is about to launch a version of its GUI-based SnapVantage web-based software for the rapid deployment and recovery of multiple Linux virtual servers residing on the Shared Virtual Array subsystems on IBM's zSeries mainframes that...

Red Hat Debuts Alliance Program.
June 3, 2002... Red Hat launched a partner program Wednesday to strengthen its relationship with companies that support its enterprise products including the all-important Red Hat Advanced Server. Dubbed the Red Hat Alliance, the new program will focus on...

LindowsOS Enters Final Testing.(Lindows.com Inc's OS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Lindows.com Inc says its Windows-challenging desktop LindowsOS has entered final test. The San Diego, California start-up is asking hardware vendors to submit their machines for certification. The company says its goal is to test and...

Caldera Loses $6.6m; Cuts Revenue Estimates.
June 3, 2002... Caldera International lost $6.6 million, or 47 cents a share, on revenues of $15.5 million in its fiscal second quarter ended April 30. Based on a roll call of 480 employees at the end of the quarter, the numbers work out to a loss of...

Linux NetworX Debuts Eclipse.(Eclipse Database Cluster)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Linux NetworX has launched a high-availability cluster based on the Oracle9i Real Application Cluster architecture. Dubbed Eclipse Database Cluster, the new system is supposed to provide the scalability, reliability and high availability...

Linux Oils Petroleum Sector.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM and Halliburton's Landmark Graphics unit have signed a three- year deal to peddle Linux-based products to the oil and gas explorers. IBM and Landmark plan to provide Linux for advanced desktop 3D graphics, server and mobile computing...

It's IBM's Play.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM can rest easy. HPQ has pulled out (CSN No 452) and it looks like Dell won't be a player in the Foster eight-way market either. Not that Dell was that interested to begin with. Eight-ways aren't exactly its forte but ServerWorks says it...

IBM Still Laying Off.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM's layoffs continued this week with Global Services and the vertical industry-inclined sales and distribution operation getting hit, as predicted. The exact numbers, however, are unclear. Insiders think that with the disk drive folks who...

Open Group Conference Set.(Boundless Information Flow: The Role of Web Services)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... The Open Group is going into the conference business and is pulling together a little weeklong user-oriented number called "Boundless Information Flow: The Role of Web Services" in Boston July 22-26. It's got W3C director Tim Berners-Lee,...

Merrill Concerned Itanium Will Make it.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Merrill Lynch says it's "increasingly concerned Itanium might not make it" and that 64-bit extensions to the x86 architecture - in other words AMD's Hammer chip aka Opteron - might win. It notes that Sun thinks the Itanium is "too big and...

InfiniSAN D2D Enhanced.(Nexsan Technologies)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Nexsan Technologies is about to upgrade its InfiniSAN D2D storage backup software, promising 30% faster backup over its first- generation widget through a new modular architecture, improved file management and more robust administration tools.

Swisscom Goes Linux on Big Iron.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM has enticed Swiss telecoms house Swisscom to use Linux on its mainframe. It's the usual cut-costs server consolidation stuff. It's gone live with order processing and billing. They got WebSphere- based apps on the thing with Orbix-Orbs and...

GraphOn Demoted.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... GraphOn has been demoted from the Nasdaq National Market to the Nasdaq Smallcaps 'cause it couldn't keep its stock price up.

2,000 Business Plans Later.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... John Slitz, who was marketing VP of Novell under the Schmidt administration during Chris Stone's first tenure there, is now interim CEO of SRD trying the job on for a couple of months to see how he likes it. If he does, and it's not far from...

Antigen for Sharepoint Portal Server.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... In June, groupware anti-virus vendor Sybari Software will launch a version of its Antigen software for Microsoft's Sharepoint Portal Server. The widgetry will include virus scanning, multiple virus scan engine support, content and file...

A Different Kind of War.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... A Washington Post story claims Microsoft has been hammering away at the Pentagon, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the office of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to get the Defense Department to curb its use of Linux. Microsoft has...

Is eCos Staff facing the Axe?(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Sources say that following another poor showing in embedded this quarter ending May 31, Red Hat's gonna fire a bunch of folks working on eCos, its Cygnus-inherited non-Linux embedded Configurable operating system, an open source RTOS for deeply...

Free Software Foundation Program Under Fire.
June 10, 2002... The Free Software Foundation's new fee-based compliance certification program is attracting strong criticism from some sections of the open source community even before it gets off the ground. Masterminded by FSF general counsel and...

Ikadega Folds.
June 10, 2002... Storage start-up Ikadega Inc has quietly disappeared after failing to secure additional funding, a sad end to its dreams of becoming a dominant provider of high-performance, low-cost rich media content storage and delivery appliances. ...

IBM Plans $2.5b Charge.
June 10, 2002... IBM plans to take a mammoth pre-tax charge of $2 billion-$2.5 billion related to cost-cutting and asset sales. Most of the charge is expected in the current quarter, which ends June 30. The Street had estimated EPS of 87 cents for the...

Intel Lowers Q2 Outlook.
June 10, 2002... Intel lowered its second quarter revenue forecast Thursday blaming softer than expected demand in Europe. In its planned mid-quarter business update, Intel said it now expects revenues to come in between $6.2 billion-$6.5 billion compared...

Microsoft Tackles Web Services Security with TrustBridge.
June 10, 2002... Microsoft is taking yet another stab at rival Sun in the web services arena. On Thursday Redmond started talking up new web services security technology code named TrustBridge. Due out some time next year, TrustBridge is supposed to make...

Dell Buys Plural.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Dell has acquired technology consulting and web application development outfit Plural Inc. New York City-based Plural, which specializes in Microsoft technologies, will become part of Dell's professional services organization. ...

HP Provides Outlook for 2H02.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Hewlett-Packard told analysts Tuesday it expects overall revenues of $35 billion-$36 billion in the second half of its fiscal 2002. For the year ending October 31, HP expects revenues to fall 9%-10% from 2001 because of the economic...

HP To Jettison Middleware.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Hewlett-Packard is reportedly planning to dump its NetAction Java 2 Enterprise Edition application server to stem losses in its middleware business. HP's Enterprise Systems Group executive VP Peter Blackmore told analysts on Tuesday that the...

Brocade Reaffirms Guidance.(Brocade Communication Systems Inc.)
June 10, 2002... Storage switch vendor Brocade Communications Systems reaffirmed guidance for its fiscal third and fourth quarters citing strong demand for its products. For fiscal Q3, the company expects to report earnings per share of eight cents on...

eaDirect on Solaris Breaks Records.
June 10, 2002... edocs is crowing that its eaDirect online account management and e- billing platform running on Solaris can "meet and/or exceed the performance, scalability and reliability demands of the world's largest organizations." The tests were...

Xbox Hacked.
June 10, 2002... Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Andrew Huang has figured out how to hack Microsoft's Xbox game console. His 15- page report describes how to circumvent a boot block that prevents unauthorized code from loading on the...

Gateway Looks To Digital Media To Move PCs.
June 10, 2002... What does it take to sell a PC these days? Companies that aren't hiring certainly aren't buying PCs. Companies that are hiring probably have extra machines lying around from their last round of downsizing. And the inventory in retail outlets is...

SAN Valley Restructures Again.
June 10, 2002... SAN connectivity products vendor SAN Valley Systems has cut its headcount by 40%, marking the company's second restructuring in less than 12 months. This time the casualties include VP of marketing and business development Niraj Jain. ...

Gadzoox CEO Out.(Michael Parides leaves Gadzoox Networks)
June 10, 2002... Struggling SAN switch vendor Gadzoox Networks said Monday that its CEO Michael Parides had quit to "pursue other opportunities." Parides has stepped down from the company's board as well. A Gadzoox spokesman wouldn't comment on whether...

Hitachi To Pay $2b For IBM's Hard Disk Unit.
June 10, 2002... Hitachi will pay $2.05 billion to IBM to acquire the majority of its hard drive operations and related IP. The two companies reached a definitive agreement to fold their hard drive operations into a new company under majority Hitachi...

MySQL Setting up US Unit.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... MySQL AB, developer of the MySQL database, said Tuesday it's setting up a subsidiary in the US to better serve its customers. "It's our No. 1 market and we want to be very close to our customers," said MySQL CEO Marten Mickos. The US...

LynuxWorks Gets $4m in Bridge Funding.
June 10, 2002... Embedded software house LynuxWorks said Tuesday it raised $4 million in bridge financing and is talking to VCs for additional funding. Apparently the bridge funding came from insiders. Sources say LynuxWorks CEO Inder Singh provided the...

Lindows.Com Debuts another Sneak Preview.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Lindows.com Inc has released another sneak preview of its Lindows.com OS. Dubbed LindowsOS SPX, the third version of the sneak preview is supposedly designed to take advantage of broadband technology. The upgrade is said to come with...

Linux, IBM Score with German Government.
June 10, 2002... The German government has signed a deal with IBM and German Linux house SuSE that will give a fillip to deployment of Linux and open source software. The contract lets government agencies at the federal, state and local level buy IBM...

Taiwan Embraces Open Source.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The Taiwanese Government plans to implement an open source project to save millions of dollars in royalties to foreign software manufacturers such as Microsoft. The project, to run from 2003 to 2005, will encourage research and development...

HP Servers Do Realtime in DreamWorks Lab.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Movie studio DreamWorks SKG was able to get its Linux production servers up to speed with the help of HP. Cartoon artists at DreamWorks use in-house software called ToonShooter to animate each cell they draw. The software runs on Linux, but...

Terix Jumps Aboard Sun's Linux Strategy.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Sun Microsystems has expanded it OS offering to include Linux and Terix Computer Company Inc is coming along for the ride. Terix provides hardware and software support for Unix workstations and servers. The company says many of its current...

Virtual Command Center for Linux.(Global Maintech )(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Datacenter management firm Global Maintech has ported its Virtual Command Center (VCC) to Linux. VCC is a software solution for the enterprise used to remotely monitor any computer screen, graphical or text. No software modifications are...

Mozilla Is Actually Done.(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... Mozilla, the open source, multi-platform browser project funded by AOL Time Warner-owned Netscape, has finally hit the 1.0 mark. The project was launched in 1998 and deemed a failure two years ago by most of the technology industry. Only the...

Novell Gets a CTO.(Alan Nugent )(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Novell has found itself a new CTO. Alan Nugent is succeeding Carl Ledbetter, who was recently promoted to senior VP of engineering/research and development. Nugent, previously managing partner and CTO of Palladian Partners, will report to...

Say Yes to Intel.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Intel has rolled out a multi-million-dollar worldwide ad campaign highlighting innovation, reliability and stability, themes that the chip giant claims its brand is associated with by businesses. Dubbed the Yes campaign, it includes all...

Design Services from Blue.(IBM)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... IBM is setting up a new business unit to provide design services for manufacturers of information systems, networking gear and consumer electronic products. The unit will offer a variety of services including design, test, certification,...

Nader Urges US To Buy Non-Microsoft Software.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Consumer activist Ralph Nader wants the Bush administration to use its purchasing power to fight Microsoft's dominance in desktop operating systems and office productivity software and promote competition. Nader suggested that the Office of...

Global AIP Market To Hit $13.9b by 2006.(IDC forecasts)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The global market for application infrastructure providers (AIP) will increase to $13.9 billion by 2006, according to IDC. The market research firm defines AIPs as vendors that manage the servers, storage, networks and operating systems for...

McData's Marketing Chief Quits.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... McData's marketing VP Richard Search has quit citing personal reasons. Following Search's departure, McData named its sales VP Mike Gustafson as senior VP of marketing. The company is now scouting for a new sales VP. In the interim, Gustafson...

Microsoft Releases JLCA Beta 2.(Java Language Conversion Assistant)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... Microsoft has delivered the second beta of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool meant to provide Java developers with a "smooth transition" to building XML web services on the Microsoft .NET platform, or in essence, migrating...

Zend Passes M'soft.(PHP web scripting technology surpasses MIcrosoft's ASP)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Zend Technologies Ltd, the Israeli firm that created the PHP web scripting technology and the Zend Engine on which all PHP sites are run, is crowing that its open source PHP software has surpassed Microsoft's ASP as the most popular server-side...

Three Procom Founders Out; CEO Denies Rift.(Alex Aydin, Nick Shahrestany and Frank Alaghband)
June 17, 2002... Three of the four founders of network attached storage systems vendor Procom Technology Inc have quit. Alex Aydin, Nick Shahrestany and Frank Alaghband, all executive VPs at the Nasdaq-listed company they founded 15 years back, resigned at...

Intel Beefs Up Server Building Blocks.
June 17, 2002... Intel will announce on Monday a dozen new server building block offerings for OEM system builders, resellers and product integrators. Most of the new products are based on the Xeon processor and Intel's E7500 chipset. The new offerings...

Hackers Code Xbox Divx Player.
June 17, 2002... A computer hacker that goes by the name of "d7o3g4q" has released an alpha version of a movie player for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The software can play VCDs, a cheapo MPEG-1 and CD-R based sort of DVD, and movies in the 3.x and...

Novell To Buy SilverStream.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Novell is acquiring SilverStream Software for $212 million in cash in an effort to expand its footprint in the web applications market. Novell plans to pay $9 for each share of SilverStream, a 75% premium over its closing price of $5.14 on...

Cadence Anticipates Linux Demand.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Cadence is porting its integrated circuit design software to Linux, in anticipation for growing demand of Unix solutions on cheap Intel hardware. Right now over three-quarters of Cadence's IC design tools are sold to Solaris users. But the...

Online Profitability Rising.(according to Shop.org, Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... According to a new report from Shop.org, The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research, 45% of retailers had profitable online operations last year, up from 43% in 2000. The report found that shoppers spent $51.3 billion online in 2001, up...

RLX Debuts Pre-installed Hosting Blade Servers, Expands Cluster Products.
June 17, 2002... Blade server pioneer RLX Technologies has launched what it considers to be the first pre-installed web hosting blade server product by packaging Ensim's WEBppliance software with its ServerBlade 800i. RLX executives claim that web service...

AMD Debuts Athlon XP 2200+.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 17, 2002... AMD introduced its new Athlon XP 2200+ processor on Monday. Athlon XP 2200+ is AMD's first desktop processor based on 0.13 micron technology, the processor core previously code named "Thorough-bred." AMD is touting the Athlon XP...

The Ballmer Manifesto.
June 17, 2002... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently sent out a company-wide memo articulating the software giant's new mission. "Our mission," Ballmer wrote in the 2,675-word memo, "is not just about building great technology. It's also who we are as a...

Unregulated Wireless: The Digital Media Messiah?
June 17, 2002... Broadband provider start-ups Gambit Wireless and EtherLinx figure the best way to deal with local telco and cable monopolies is to avoid them. Both companies have been operating for less than a year and are still in the "garage" phase. ...

StoneFly Debuts IP SAN Appliance.(StoneFly Networks Storage Concentrator)(Product Announcement)
June 17, 2002... Having abandoned its plans to build a director-class switch, StoneFly Networks has introduced a new virtualization appliance called Storage Concentrator designed to transform IP networks into storage area networks. Targeted primarily at...

IBM Makes Super Storage Density Breakthrough.(IBM Millipede)
June 17, 2002... The researchers at IBM labs have done it again. In what is considered a breakthrough in the storage arena, scientists at IBM's research lab in Zurich have used nanotechnology to demonstrate data storage density of a trillion bits per square...

Fibre Channel SAN Market Slows Down.(according to Dataquest)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... Growth in the Fibre Channel SAN market slowed down last year compared to strong showing in earlier years. The worldwide Fibre Channel SAN market grew 13% in 2001 to $1.46 billion, according to researcher Dataquest compared to 157% in 2000...

Inrange Fires 7%; Stock Downgraded.
June 17, 2002... Storage switch vendor Inrange Technologies cut its headcount by about 70 employees to 950 on June 10. The layoffs were described as across the board and impacted administration, engineering, operations and marketing but are said to have...

ManagedStorage Debuts New Backup Service.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... ManagedStorage International Inc has introduced an enterprise-class remote data protection service to enable companies to protect their business-critical data. The Broomfield, Colorado concern said the remote data protection service would...

StorageNetworks Beefs Up Executive Team.(Jan Porell and Joe Quaglia)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... StorageNetworks Inc has strengthened its senior management team bringing in two sales and marketing executives. The Waltham, Massachusetts storage management software and services provider named Jan Porell senior VP of product and corporate...

TeraCloud Gets a Sales Chief.(Thomas Phillips)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Storage resource management software vendor TeraCloud has named Thomas Phillips its sales VP. Phillips was VP of sales at storage software vendor InterSAN for a few months until he left rather abruptly. Bellevue, Washington-based...