Client Server News articles from June 2005

Client Server News archives from June 2005

'AutoZone copied our code,' SCO tells court.
June 6, 2005... SCO claims it found "extensive copying" of its OpenServer code in the Red Hat Linux operating system that AutoZone, the giant multibillion-dollar auto parts chain, migrated its 3,500 stores to when it replaced its old proprietary OpenServer...

CA reportedly selling Ingres; oracle better duck.
June 6, 2005... The whisperers say Computer Associates is going to sell off the Ingres database to Garnett & Helfrich Capital, the venture buyout operation dedicated to finding "broken and orphaned" businesses neglected by their parents. They're the guys that...

AMD ships its dual-core PC chips.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... In an effort to catch up with Intel, AMD announced the immediate availability of its desktop and notebook dual-core chips, the Athlon 64 X2, at Computex in Taiwan Tuesday, earlier than scheduled. Intel's mainstream dual-core Pentium Ds are...

Sun buys StorageTek: the old boulevardier settles down with the frumpy stay-at-home mom.
June 6, 2005... Sun has finally figured out what do with some of that $7.4 billion cash pile it's been hoarding before its long-suffering stockholders turn nasty. It's going to buy StorageTek, the leader in tape, an old technology giving way to disk. ...

Is Lawson a PeopleSoft-JD Edwards replay?
June 6, 2005... Lawson Software, which has been down in everybody's book as consolidator road kill, up and turned contrarian Thursday. Instead of getting gobbled up, it's going to acquire Sweden's Intentia International and try to become a "global leader...

Quest buys Vintela.(Linux Watch)
June 6, 2005... Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya eight weeks ago that Quest Software was going to buy Vintela Inc. Vintela is the Utah outfit financed by Microsoft and the Canopy Group whose widgetry makes Microsoft's widgetry support Linux and Unix. ...

Red Hat enters directory, identity management market.(Linux Watch)
June 6, 2005... Red Hat's getting ready to take its next really big plunge, a move that's supposed to help it trash Novell and go mano a mano with Microsoft's fabled infrastructure. By mid-month, it's supposed to release the Red Hat Directory Server,...

Novell tries to tickle Linux desktop app development.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Novell has set up a so-called Mono Kickstart program to support first-time developers using the open source Mono project for new application development or migrations. It's supposed to create desktop Linux applications. Mono is the...

To no one's surprise, Cisco goes with Palamida.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Palamida, Black Duck's rival start-up, said Tuesday that Cisco is going to deploy IP AMPlifier, its system for detecting, managing and reporting on software IP. Black Duck has previously claimed that Cisco spec'd the widgetry. To...

Skyway claims first SOA platform for Linux.(Linux Watch)(Skyway Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... An outfit called Skyway Software Inc, started four years ago by the guys who founded and sold Tradex Technologies to Ariba for $5.4 billion in 2000, says its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform can deliver SOA solutions for Linux, a...

Novell validates mixed source stack.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Novell Tuesday announced the first offering under its new Validated Configuration Program, which is meant to speed the deployment of multi-application Linux stacks. It says it's put together and tested its SuSE operating system running...

If the poor fools only knew.(market research on web browsers)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Opera, which only has a smidge of market share despite the renewed browser wars, figures the reason only 11% of users have switched to something a little more secure than Microsoft's Internet Explorer is that the poor dears are still blithely...

Novell does deal with HHS.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Novell says it's cut a deal for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to have unlimited use of Novell's product portfolio and brags that it's the only Linux vendor with such an enterprise agreement with the agency, which also...

SCO continues to lose money.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... SCO lost $1.96 million, or 11 cents a share, in the April quarter on revenues of $9.25 million, down roughly 10% year-over-year, a situation it blamed on the "continued competitive pressure on the company's Unix products and services," language...

OSDL puts out CGL 3.1.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Open Source Development Labs has put out its Carrier Grade Linux requirements definition version 3.1 (CGL v3.1), saying that recent announcements indicate that telecommunications equipment manufacturers are moving quickly to implement Linux in...

Black Duck flies east.(Linux Watch)(Black Duck Software.)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Black Duck Software, the source code and license management start-up, has signed its first international distribution agreement; Ten Art-ni, an open source distributor, is going to handle its software and support in Japan. Black Duck says...

Open source RFID foundation formed.(radio frequency identification, Refactored Networks, N4 Systems)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Refactored Networks and N4 Systems have formed an open source RFID foundation called the RadioActive Software Foundation to develop freely available, mission-critical-class software for the entire suite of EPCglobal RFID standards. There's...

Wax proves difficult for IBM.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... SCO is pointing that BB gun the court handed it at IBM and threatening to pull the trigger because IBM won't unseal a stack of documents in the SCO v IBM case. See, as a result of that motion to unseal filed by G2, Forbes and CNET, the...

Office 12 to go with XML file formats.
June 6, 2005... This is not going to surprise anybody but Microsoft said Thursday that its next-generation Office 12, expected in the second half of next year, will use the enemy-instigated industry-standard XML 1.0 file formats as its default. Microsoft...

IBM extends X3 architecture to 32-way.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... IBM has upped the ante on its three-month-old eServer X3 Architecture and introduced a four-way box that scales to 32-way called the xSeries 460 meant for always-on environments. Not exactly unexpected. The entry x460 configuration starts...

Citrix buys internet pioneer for $300m.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Citrix is going to spend $300 million in cash and stock to buy privately held NetScaler Inc, a seven-year-old Silicon Valley firm that accelerates web applications. The deal will be dilutive through the end of next year and, if it closes...

External disk storage healthy & belongs to EMC.
June 6, 2005... The worldwide market for external disk storage grew 6.7% to $3.77 billion in Q1, according to IDC's latest numbers. The total disk storage market was up 6%. Capacity continues to outpace overall revenue growth with petabytes up 58.6%...

DITA standardized.(Darwin Information Typing Architecture got the specifications )(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Oasis has standardized the Darwin Information Typing Architecture 1.0 (DITA), which defines an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing and publishing many kinds of information in print and on the web. DITA is a set of design...

IETF names its first administrative director.(Ray Pelletier, Internet Engineering Task Force)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is supposed to be getting control over its own budget for the first time, has named its first administrative director, tapping Ray Pelletier, who has been director of information systems for the...

Carly didn't want to dance: McNealy.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Sun CEO Scott McNealy told a Wall Street Journal conference that he tried to partner with HP to create a common front against IBM and IBM Global Services but Carly turned him down. "I'll call Mark," he reportedly said, meaning Carly's...

Piper tickles Google's already giddy stock.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Piper Jaffray thinks that by the end of next year Google, whose stock has been spiraling, will be seen as a "full-fledged multi-application company with a strong presence in several promising areas," noting that it is already represented in...

Eight make the Liberty grade.(Liberty Alliance Project)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... The Liberty Alliance Project says that products from eight companies have been certified as meeting the standards for interoperability among open identity solutions that are memorialized in its Identity Web Services (1.0 and 1.1) and Identity...

JavaOne with a difference.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... The tenth annual JavaOne is set for June 27-30 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Microsoft's gonna be a sponsor.

AMD puts hit out on Intel.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... AMD can't decide. Either it should be good for a third of the market in two or three years or half by 2015.

EC official breaks the code.(Jesus Villasante)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... IBM, HP and Sun "are using the potential of communities as subcontractors--the open source community today is a subcontractor of American multinationals,"--Jesus Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and...

Oracle makes good.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Oracle paid off the $9.5 billion bridge loan it took out to do the PeopleSoft acquisition on May 31, sooner than expected.

Barksdale donates $5m.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Ex-Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale has donated $5 million to help expand the US National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. June 6 of course is the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

How I spent my summer vacation.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Google is sponsoring an open source contest called the Summer Code program. It's offering $4,500 awards to up to 200 students who successfully complete an open source project by the end of the summer. Participants, who will be teamed with open...

Deep Throat, the ultimate anonymous source, steps out of the shadows of the underground parking garage.(W Mark Felt)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... W Mark Felt, the second-in-command at the FBI during the early 70s, has identified himself as Deep Throat, the famed Woodward-and-Bernstein anonymous source credited with helping the Washington Post bring down the Watergate-corrupt Nixon...

Mini-Drama continues to unfold in Brussels.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Microsoft made a last-ditch, eleventh-hour, just-under-the-wire attempt Tuesday night to appease the European Commission, which is chaffed to the point of threatening $5 million-a-day fines with how Microsoft has complied--or from its...

Apple packs its bags, leaves IBM for Intel: think different's not so different any more.(Apple Computer Inc.)
June 13, 2005... Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Monday that "It's true." In a move that's widely believed to show that Apple has lost its cotton pickin' mind, Jobs confirmed that Apple is trashing its long-standing chip relationship with IBM and the PowerPC and...

Oracle buys TimesTen.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Oracle says it's buying TimesTen Inc, the privately held real-time data management ISV that spun out of HP and has been run for eight of its nine years by James Groff, the guy who ran Apple's old Newton flier. Having been through...

Will Apple get to play taps over Linux?(forecast of the operating system)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "It's quite possible that this new Apple strategy while obviously harmful to the computer makers in general and to Microsoft somewhat could actually be most dangerous to the emerging Linux OS environment. In fact it could kill Linux and in some...

Jobs: more Osborne than Osborne.(Steve Jobs management towards the game consoles)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "This really smells of Steve Jobs throwing a hissy fit that IBM has not kissed his ring nearly enough while they were off creating multicore designs for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. The strange thing is that one suspects that all these...

Chip prediction.(Apple Computer Inc. contracts with Intel Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Kevin Krewell, editor of the Microprocessor Report, thinks Apple is likely to use Yonah, the 65nm dual-core 2MB shared-cache mobile processor Intel is supposed to have ready next year. Yonah is supposed to make notebooks small. It remains to be...

Tiger cult taking hold.(Apple Computer Inc.plans for the enhanced operating system)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Apple said Monday right before committing what some people regard as seppuku that it expected it would deliver two million copies of its new Tiger cut of Mac OS X by today. The number includes copies sold at retail, copies delivered under...

Transitive is Rosetta's Champollion.(Apple Computer Inc., Transitive Technologies Ltd., contract)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... The technology under Rosetta, the dynamic binary translator that Apple's got that's supposed to automatically translate existing OS X programs to Intel code, hails from Transitive Corporation, the UK outfit whose first customer was SGI (CSN No...

CA spends $350m on Niku.(Computer Associates )
June 13, 2005... Computer Associates is buying Niku Corporation, now an IT management and governance house, for $350 million cash, or $21 a share, a 27% premium. With the money Niku's got in the bank, CA will really be laying out only $285 million. ...

Siebel feeds meat-hungry shareholders watery gruel.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Siebel's solution to that $2.2 billion it's got in bank not doing its irritated shareholders much good, while it lost money in the first quarter and missed its revenues forecasts, is to declare a two-and-a-half-cent dividend payable July 15,...

Intel raises outlook.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Intel now expects its second-quarter revenues to fall between $9.1 billion and $9.3 billion, topping the $8.6 billion-$9.2 billion range it gave at the beginning of the quarter and really topping Wall Street's $8.99 billion consensus. It...

StorageTek, Sun's new satellite, branches off into disk.
June 13, 2005... StorageTek, the old tape maven, is branching off into disk archiving in competition with EMC Centera and IBM. In its first product announcement since Sun disclosed last week that it's buying the company for $4.1 billion, StorageTek launched...

Wyse turns East.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Wyse Technology, now under new management that's out to realize Larry Ellison old NC vision, has set up new operational bases in mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan to capitalize on an anticipated doubling of the thin client market in Asia over...

NonStops make the great trek.(HP Integrity NonStop, marketing)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... HP's NonStop machines, the old Tandem fault-tolerant boxes that it inherited from Compaq, have finally migrated, as promised, to the Montecito Itanium chip that HP isn't quite as fond of as it used to be. As a result, they are now called...

IBM posts help wanted sign.(development of a microprocessor)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... IBM is hiking up the skirt on its well-defended Cell multiprocessor in an effort to recruit much-needed developers to write to the novel parallelized 4GHz widget with its 64-bit Power core and eight specialized co-processors. It's not...

Cognos misses.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Cognos pre-announced, missing its first quarter in four years. It figures it will only do $198 million-$ 200 million in its first quarter rather than the $202 million-$210 million it was guiding toward, with $70 million in license revenues and...

PolyServe takes on NetApp & EMC.
June 13, 2005... PolyServe is going to try to take on Network Appliance and EMC claiming "the old guard of file serving--expensive proprietary network-attached storage (NAS) appliances--can't escape industry trends weakening its grip on the enterprise data...

HP thin clients undergo heart transplant.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Hewlett-Packard is replacing the Transmeta chips in its thin client with Via widgets. Via says the new HP Compaq t5125, t5520 and t5525 thin clients will use its low-power Eden Platform. Eden features 128MB of RAM, up to 256MB of Compact...

Microsoft loses access suit.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... A federal jury has found Microsoft guilty of patent infringement and told it to pay Guatemalan developer Carlos Armando Amado $8.6 million in damages. Amado was hoping for more like $500 million. Amado has a 1994 patent on linking data in...

Unisys goes on-demand.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Unisys has gone on-demand with its ES7000 servers. It's now got a so-called Real Time Capacity (RTC) series of boxes that are supposed to scale as customers need capacity. It calls it "an industry first for customers running Intel-based...

Parasoft revs SOAPtest.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Parasoft has upgraded SOAPtest, its three-year-old web services testing tool on the market, to rev 4.0 which is supposed to be the first end-to-end solution that integrates security penetration testing with comprehensive functional testing for...

VMware chases developers.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... VMware has set up an online virtual infrastructure resource center for developers called the VMware Technology Network (VMTN). VMTN includes pre-built application environments in VMware virtual machines. VMware says it wants to lead an...

SteelCloud gets president.(Promoted Brian Hajost as President)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... SteelCloud, the ready-to-deploy server appliance house, has named its COO Brian Hajost president. The company hasn't had a president since Hajost replaced Edward Spear, who was both COO and president, in 2003. Hajost is supposed to take...

PA-RISC swan song.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... HP has reached the end of its proprietary PA-RISC chip line, the chips it decided to trade in for Itaniums though it may wish it hadn't. It's now supplying boxes equipped with the PA-8900 and thanks to its chipset can put them into Superdomes...

Microsoft royalties on protocols foil Samba.
June 13, 2005... Microsoft has proposed a last-minute deal to keeps the European Commission from fining it $5 million a day for not complying with its 15-month-old antitrust order that basically freezes the open source community, specifically the Samba project,...

Adobe re-files.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Adobe voluntarily re-filed its pre-merger notification for its pending Macromedia acquisition with the Justice Department to give the agency more time to review the background information related to the merger, suggesting the pending...

Pro se antitrust suit against the GPL docketed.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Well, this little bit of news is going to put the Linux crowd in high dudgeon. Daniel Wallace's pro se antitrust suit against the Free Software Foundation and GPL for price-fixing has survived its first test. Considering it's a pro se...

Jaluna bound for TI boxes.(Linux Watch)(Amino)(Texas Instruments)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Amino, which does consumer premises equipment (CPE) for broadband digital television applications, has licensed Jaluna OSware, Linux Edition for Texas Instruments' C6000 digital signal processors (DSP) to develop next-generation set-top boxes....

Black Duck gets second round from Intel, SAP, Red Hat.(Linux Watch)(Black Duck Software)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Black Duck Software, the source code and license management start-up, has gotten a $12 million Series B round from Fidelity Ventures, Intel Capital and SAP Ventures. Fidelity led and gets a board seat. Existing backers Flagship Ventures,...

Voltaire reels in another $15m.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Voltaire, the Infiniband stalwart, has gotten another $15 million in funding, saying the round was oversubscribed. The infusion brings total funding to $65 million. This time through the check writing was led by Baker Capital, Pitango...

Samsung bundles Nero.(contract with Nero AG for the development of the digital video recorders)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Samsung has become the first company to bundle the little-known NeroLinux with DVD/CD recorder, the TS-H552U WriteMaster. NeroLinux hails from a 10-year-old German company Nero AG with subsidiaries in California and Japan focused on the digital...

Perens lands amid ex-Microsoft folk.(Linux Watch)(SourceLabs appointed Bruce Perens as Vice President of Developer relations and poilicy)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Open source pioneer and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, Bruce Perens, who got bounced out of HP and has been working as a consultant, has found a new home. He's been named VP of developer relations and policy at SourceLabs, the...

Linux Networx brings in new CEO.(Linux Watch)(Appointed Robert Ewald as Chief Executive Officer)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Presumably at the instigation of its VCs. Linux Networx, the HPC cluster house, has named Robert "Bo" Ewald CEO. Bernard Daines will continue as chairman while Dean Hutchings remains as president and COO. Ewald is supposed to focus on...

Ravicher testifies on behalf of patent reform.(Linux Watch)(Dan Ravicher)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Dan Ravicher, the executive director of the open source-advocating Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), testified at this week's hearing on a proposed bill to reform the patent system before the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and...

Merrill trashes sun deal.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "If Sun management called the HP/Compaq merger the collision of two garbage trucks, what is a Sun/StorageTek combination?"--Merrill Lynch. "Sun needs to attract new customers to make the deal work," the broker added. For that to happen it...

Linux may be hitting the wall: Cowen.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... SG Cowen thinks it's found the "first indication" that Linux adoption "may be hitting a wall." It surveys 500 North American companies every quarter and last September 56% said they were running business apps on Linux servers with 14% planning...

It ain't puppy love.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "Open source is free like a puppy is free."--Sun CEO Scott McNealy, suggesting its high maintenance and needs cleaning up after.

Will Acer be HP's Lenovo?(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... The Inquirer claims to have heard rumors--and it underscores the word rumors--that HP may dump its PC business and that the prime candidate to buy it is Acer. It also mentions Fujitsu Siemens as a possibility.

HP names new CMO from the printer side.(BILLY GRAMS)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... What does this tell you? Mark Hurd, the new boy at HP, has named the senior VP of business imaging and printing Cathy Lyons to be the company's new chief marketing officer, a job that Mike Winkler had. Winkler, once a PC guy, now gets to focus...

The billion dollar Apple.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Apple should be worth $1 billion in revenues and six cents a share to Intel once it's fully ramped in 2008, according to Credit Suisse. Next year when the ramp starts, CFSB calculates, it'll only be good for $200 million and about a penny a...

Microsoft sets date.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Microsoft says it's going to launch SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 the week of November 7. Customers are already going production with betas of the stuff. It pre-released a so-called Community Technology Preview at...

Oh?(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "Future 'Mactel' computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86-compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only...

New Dell brand in works.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Dell doesn't have a name yet but this fall it's going to introduce a new high-end home brand of $1,200-$3,500 notebooks and desktops.

Quark CEO gone.(BILLY GRAMS)(appointed Linda Chase as Vice presidents.)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Quark, an Apple mainstay and like Apple not exactly known for its social skills, says Kamar Aulakh is no longer CEO and has been replaced by Linda Chase, VP of its Commerce unit, as acting president. Aulakh has been CEO for two years and is...

Make that Black-and-Blueberry.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Microsoft will be going after the Blackberry PDA later this year, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. It will give away Exchange and Windows Mobile upgrades so 130 million Outlook people can access corporate e-mail on Windows-based mobile...

Terry Shannon is dead.(Digital Equipment Corp.)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 13, 2005... DEC follower Terry Shannon, 52--the old Charlie Matco for those old enough to remember--who watched his franchise be slowly chipped away, died May 26. His brother said, "He chose to leave us." Somebody else said it was an overdose. He was going...

UK start-up to demo 100 GFLOPS workstations.
June 20, 2005... Four-year-old ClearSpeed Technology Plc, a UK co-processor start-up that went public in London last summer, believes it's got the fastest standard workstations ever built by man. Apparently so does IBM, which is currently in negotiations...

IBM, Red Hat & Novell sued for GPL price-fixing.(Linux Watch)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Daniel Wallace, the guy who's suing the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GPL for price-fixing, has filed a separate pro se suit in the same Indianapolis federal court against IBM, Red Hat and Novell charging them with having "used or...

Microsoft to Windows developers: it's the server, stupid!
June 20, 2005... A high-profile industry executive who's been in stealth mode working on a new idea that he modestly says "could be the killer app for the Tablet PC" called the other day to point out some strange doings on the Microsoft Developer Network site....

Apple reportedly sandbagged IBM.(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... In its post-mortem on the Apple-Intel deal, the New York Times last Saturday claimed that IBM was "caught by surprise" by Apple decision to terminate their 14-year relationship. IBM read the Wall Street Journal's May 23 leak like everybody...