Client Server News articles from June 2006

Client Server News archives from June 2006

How AMD plans to conquer the world & leave Intel counting excess inventory.
June 5, 2006... Having gone to war college--complements of Intel--AMD knows enough to push its advantage when the momentum's on its side--especially before Intel really starts shelling it in what promises to be a jolly price war. In the first quarter, the...

Credit Suisse claims the window of opportunity has slammed shut on Novell's fingers.(Linux Watch)
June 5, 2006... Investors are unhappy with Novell. After it posted its fiscal second-quarter results Wednesday, its stock took almost a 10% nosedive winding up at $7.02. Thursday it was down over 15% and wound up down over 14% at $6.60. Credit Suisse,...

Mainsoft runs .NET apps native on WebSphere Portal.
June 5, 2006... Mainsoft says it can now make .NET applications run natively on WebSphere Portal by means of its Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition, a set of .NET extensions that will let IBM users run ASP.NET apps as though they were pure JSR 168...

AMD to spend $2.5b upping capacity.
June 5, 2006... While most of America relaxed on Monday AMD said that it was going to put another $2.5 billion into its German manufacturing operations over the next three years and expand MPU capacity, gambling that the demand is going to be there then. ...

Sun to fire 5,000, crushes poison pill.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
June 5, 2006... The minimalist forecasts were on the money. Sun said Wednesday that it is going to fire 4,000-5,000 people in the next six months in an attempt to get itself turned around to the point it is consistently profitable. That works out to an...

CA admits to suffering from 'material weakness'.
June 5, 2006... CA fired its CFO a couple of weeks ago reportedly because he lost control of some of the little niceties of acquisitions--well, he was an ex-Dell guy and acquisitions are pretty foreign to Dell while they've always been mother's milk to CA--and...

Hummingbird acquisition in limbo.
June 5, 2006... Toronto-based Hummingbird Ltd, which has managed to stay independent for 22 years, is supposed to be acquired by a company owned by Symphony Technology Group for $465 million cash or $26.754 a share, a 16% premium, which investors then pushed...

AMD responds to Viiv.
June 5, 2006... AMD's answer to Intel's newfangled Viiv platform is apparently this media center PC it announced the other day called the AMD Live! PC, part of the artsy super-brand it created a couple of years ago, that it said Acer, the Dell-bought...

Dell courts consumers with deep pockets.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Dell's consumer revenues are light, an estimated 15% of its total take, which is one of the reasons why HP is looking better than Dell these days and why Dell went to Hollywood Wednesday to make more than its usual to-do about three flashy--and...

Ubuntu moves into the server space on Sparc Niagara, Intel, AMD, Mac.(Linux Watch)
June 5, 2006... At JavaOne a couple of weeks ago when Sun promised to open source Java, recently installed CEO Jonathan Schwartz brought millionaire Ubuntu promoter Mark Shuttleworth on stage--why exactly we forget--but we do remember quite clearly Jonathan...

MicroBay?(Microsoft Corp. acquiring eBay Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Microsoft has been in talks to acquire eBay for the last few weeks with the idea of merging it with MSN to go up against Google, according to a story in the New York Post that quotes unnamed "multiple sources." It claimed the talks were still...

Ballmer's charm offensive.(Steve Ballmer )(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... This week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mounted what for him is a charm offensive defending Microsoft's plan to sacrifice profits and spend lavishly on R&D and capex chasing Google, turning software into a service and refreshing Windows and IE,...

McAfee fires house counsel.(Kent Roberts )(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... McAfee has fired its general counsel Kent Roberts over an "improper" grant of stock options dating back to 2000. Exactly whose options isn't clear and 2000 was back when McAfee, then Network Associates, was allegedly inflating revenues and...

Is Toshiba next?(BILLY GRAMS)
June 5, 2006... Lehman Brothers is expecting AMD to follow its win at Dell with a push into Toshiba.

PTO shoots down a bunch of Forgent claims.(Patent and Trademark Office, Forgent Networks Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... As a result of a prior art charge made by the Public Patent Foundation in February, the much maligned US Patent and Trademark Office has knocked down 19 of the 46 claims that patent troll Forgent Network made on behalf of its '672 patent, the...

Buses the size of a dime.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 5, 2006... Agere Systems in Taiwan says it can make PCs small, cheaper and easier to use with a new internal USB-based modem chipset that reduces desktop PC bus sizes by 80% by replacing the PCI-based modems that are on their way out anyway. The widget is...

Itanium support group grows.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 5, 2006... The Itanium Solutions Alliance, the Itanium support group, says it's gotten 60-odd companies to sign up, tickling the number of folks willing to write software for the chip.

SUSE 10.1 traffic picking up.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 5, 2006... In the first three week since it open sourced SUSE Linux 10.1 Novell said it had 500,000 downloads and 91,000 registered users. The original open sourced SUSE 10.0 had 1.5 million downloads.

AMD starts OS lab.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 5, 2006... AMD is appears has started an Operating Systems Research Center in Dresden under an ex-SUSE guy to figure out what should be in the OS and what support in the hardware. It's initially focusing on Linux but evidently plans to expand.

Steeleye acquired.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 5, 2006... Steeleye Technology, the outfit created in 1999 around the Lifekeeper high-availability widgetry developed by AT&T Bell Labs and offloaded to NCR, has wound up in the arms of Ten Art-ni, the publicly traded Tokyo-based Linux system integrator,...

First OpenOffice virus.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... StarOffice and its open source sidekick OpenOffice have attracted their first virus. It's one of those relatively harmless proof -of-concept macro viruses dubbed Stardust by Kaspersky Labs and XML_Dustar.a by Trend Micro delivered in a...

Browser watch.(Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7.0)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Say Internet Explorer 7+. That's what Microsoft is apparently calling the browser for Vista to distinguish it from the widgetry for XP, which doesn't have all the features the Vista browser does. Meanwhile, the big takeaway from Google's...

An Office divided.(Microsoft Corp. appointed Kurt DelBene and Antoine Leblond)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Microsoft has tapped two executives to replace Steven Sinofsky, who moved from Office to overseeing future versions of Windows and hopefully save Microsoft from any repeat of the Vista fiasco. Anyway, the two-in-a-box team consists of Kurt...

Gates out.(Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates resigning)
June 19, 2006... Boy, was Wall Street looking in the wrong direction. For a few weeks now there's been speculation that Microsoft might dump CEO Steve Ballmer. Instead--in a surprise announcement Thursday after the market closed--Bill Gates got on the...

Parallels makes Apple's new Macs multi-OS.(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... For 50 bucks you can now run a whole passel of operating systems on an Intel-based Mac--Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 or DOS--whatever your little heart desires--or your memory allows--and flip between them. You're not...

Intel moves up Tulsa, schedules Woodcrest.(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Intel has set the date for the great official Woodcrest DP server chip launch on which much of its future depends. It's Monday June 26 in New York, where Intel expects to reveal pricing and shipping data. It would be fun to know how...

Kazeon integrated into Google OneBox.(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... In a rare admission that it's not the be all and end all of search, Google is going to lean on Kazeon so that the Search Appliance it sells the enterprise can search storage. Kazeon's Information Server 1200, which classifies and finds...

IBM BladeCenter gets a sugar daddy.(getting investments from Walden International)
June 19, 2006... San Francisco-based Walden International, reportedly the biggest VC in Asia, with interests in China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan and holdings in nearly a dozen component and solution developers in the blade market, is...

IBM claims HP ripped off its blades scheme.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
June 19, 2006... HP made a big to-do Wednesday when it rolled out what it claims is a "breakthrough" blade architecture that will save customers millions of dollars building out their data centers. It calls the thing BladeSystem c-Class or, if not that, then an...

AMD dumps its Alchemy chips.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... AMD has apparently sold off its Mips-based Alchemy processor line and operations to AMD's old president and COO Atiq Raza and the next-generation fabless semiconductor company he runs, Raza Microelectronics Inc (RMI). No price was given...

IBM dangles Web 2.0 Mashup prototype.(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... In a keynote speech at a PHP Conference in New York, IBM's vice president of emerging Internet technologies Rod Smith said that IBM has a new so-called Enterprise Mashup prototype based on Web 2.0 technologies that it says breaks down the...

Long horn: the fat man in the middle seat.(Microsoft Corp.'s Vista uses more bandwidth )(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Microsoft has been restricting access to downloads of its broad Vista beta reportedly out of concern about the impact high-bandwidth downloading will have on the overall Internet. According to a web log run by the Microsoft Vista...

Microsoft adopts forefront brand for business security.(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... There is now a new Microsoft brand--Forefront--for some of its upcoming security and secure access products for business. The line will include Forefront Client Security, what Microsoft used to call Client Protection, which delivers unified...

Microsoft's revving its motors on the HPC runway.(introduced Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, high-performance computing )
June 19, 2006... Microsoft released its first HPC entry, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, to manufacturing last Friday, anticipating its general availability in August through volume licenses and OEMs and also anticipating it will take back market share...

JBoss makes management bid.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)
June 19, 2006... JBoss, now a shiny new division of Red Hat, is open sourcing the core systems management agent in its subscription-based Operations Network (ON) in the name of driving broader adoption and collaboration around its management platform and...

President of Novell Asia-Pacific 'resigns'.(William Hewlitt)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Well that lasted three months. William Hewlitt, the ex-PeopleSoft group marketer that Novell hired 16 months ago as its chief marketing officer then named president of Novell Asia-Pacific in February, has "resigned for personal reasons."...

Novell starts oddly named Bandit project.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Novell has created an open source project called Bandit to unify the disparate identity systems in use in the enterprise today and provide a standardized approach to securing and managing identity across differing systems and resources. ...

HP teams with Availigent.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Availigent, with its high-availability software for Linux, says that its Duration 2.1 software is now available for HP XC System Software V2.1, the stuff that HP puts on its XP clusters. Duration is supposed to ensure less than five minutes of...

Legacy stack's don't need multi-core re-architecting: Jaluna.(partnering with Intel Corp.)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Jaluna, the real-time virtualization house, has been working with Intel on marrying its OSware software to Intel's Virtualization Technology and recently demonstrated that embedded customers can seamlessly migrate their single-threaded...

Win4Lin's new scheme to dislodge Microsoft from the desktop.(Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server )(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Little Win4Lin, which can run the Windows desktop and Windows applications on Linux in true Windows sessions, has a server version that supports XP and 2000 by way of virtualization. It can also display a single application instead of just a...

IBM chief argues for a new kind of Raj.(Sam Palmisano)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... IBM CEO Sam Palmisano's ghostwriter, penning an op-ed piece in the Financial Times on Monday, argued that the multinational corporation as currently structured is a protectionist 20th-century colonial holdover that should be superseded by the...

CA asks for grace period.(for filing its financial statements to Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... CA is asking the SEC for a 15-day extension before filing its 10-K for the year ended March 31. Seems it couldn't quite get its arms around its consolidated financial statements or its management's Sarbanes-Oxley-decreed assessment of...

Microsoft to beta SCE.(System Center Essential)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Microsoft says it will have a public beta of its System Center Essential (SCE), its first management server for the mid-sized business, out this fall and go gold with the thing in the first half of next year. It's supposed to be built into...

Uh-oh.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Too big, too slow, and a memory hog. That's the reaction that beta testers have had to the Vista beta according to Change-Wave Research. It's also apparently very buggy (think freezing up or crushing), suggesting that Microsoft isn't going to...

CA in worse shape than thought.(according to Bob Davis )(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... We talked to a friend of recently departed CA CFO Bob Davis who says Davis said he joined CA a year or so ago thinking it was a two- or three-year gig to turn the place around, but that it'll really take six or seven years and that sales have...

Interoperability or bust.(Microsoft Corp.'s Interoperability Customer Executive Council)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Microsoft has set up an Interoperability Customer Executive Council to identify areas for improved interoperability both in its own product line and across the industry. It claims that it's "committed to building bridges across the industry to...

PC demand better than thought: IDC.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 19, 2006... PC demand in Q1 was stronger than IDC predicted, translating into 12.6% growth rather than the 11.8% estimated. As a result, IDC has jiggled its 2006 forecasts and is saying shipments for the year will be up 10.8%, not 10.5%. Last year the...

Google's PayPal rival reportedly due momentarily.(acquiring eBay Inc.)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Google is gonna ease up on Microsoft for a moment and step on eBay's toes next. Its Gbuy version of PayPal is reportedly due out by the end of the month. Supposedly free at first, it will eventually turn into a web version of a credit card and...

Troll watch.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 19, 2006... People have been trying to get their arms around whatever it is that ex-Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold is really up to with his patent-collecting, idea-churning, technology-inventing think tank, Intellectual Ventures, and what backers like...

Symantic negotiates IRS down.(Internal Revenue Service)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Remember a few weeks back when Symantec got a billion-dollar back-taxes bill from the IRS? Well, it's had part of it, a $100 million part related to transfer pricing between it and an Irish subsidiary, knocked down to $36 million plus interest....

GoToMyPC suit on docket.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 19, 2006... 01 Communique's got a Markman hearing scheduled for November 2 in its patent litigation against Citrix and a trial date of May 1 next year. It claims Citrix' GoToMyPC widgetry infringes its remote access technology patent and wants it banned or...

HP to start research lab in Singapore.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Under a three-year agreement, HP and the Singapore government's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, a k a A*Star, are supposed to establish an HP Shared Service Platform Laboratory, initially at A*Star's Institute of High Performance...

Second analyst predicts Dell will be selling AMD PCs this fall.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
June 19, 2006... Dell will have a tradition-toppling AMD-based PC out in September if the scuttlebutt Citigroup Investment Research has been hearing is on the money. It thinks it is, and it thinks the Dell PC-win (maybe notebooks?) is responsible for AMD's...

Novell board ousts CEO & CFO.(Jack Messman and Joseph Tibbets)
June 26, 2006... Well, Credit Suisse and other critics of Novell got part of their wish. Novell CEO Jack Messman and CFO Joseph Tibbets are out, although Messman will remains on the board that ousted him on Wednesday until October 31, the end of the company's...

Ellison continues to threaten Linux move.(Larry Ellison )(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Observing that Linux is free to anybody and that the current Linux distributions don't own their IP, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that Oracle could just go and take Linux, and support it better than anyone else and become the "number one...

Oracle's approach to growth appears to be working.
June 26, 2006... Oracle, whose tickled fiscal fourth-quarter guidance last week got kinda pre-empted and overlooked because of Bill Gates' long good-bye, came in with earnings of $1.3 billion, or 24 cents a share, up 24% year-over-year, on revenues up 25% to...

Another ex-CA exec pleads guilty.(Thomas Bennett)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Thomas Bennett, the ex-CA senior VP of business development who got arrested for paying hush money to silence witnesses to the $2.2 billion book cooking going on at the company virtually moments before ex-CA Sanjay Kumar up and walked into...

So where's Martin Taylor?(Vice President of Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... In the middle of a press blitz about the release of Windows Live Messenger, virtually in the middle of a Monday press release, Martin Taylor, the shiny new corporate VP heading up Microsoft's crucial anti-Google MSN and Windows Live marketing...

Adobe's saber muted.(Adobe Systems Inc. accused by Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Adobe may be putting a muffler on its saber-rattling. On the other hand, just to stay a touch provocative, like Dell, it's cut a multi-year deal to distribute the Google Toolbar on some of its products, beginning with the Macromedia...

Verari gets ex-Legato/ ex-Amdahl chief as CEO.(Verari Systems, David Wright)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Verari Systems, which might still be remembered as the old RackSaver, though it hasn't been called that for two years, has named an ex-EMC heavyweight, David Wright, a Legato legacy, as CEO. Verari founder and until a moment ago CEO...

Carly invention dismantled.(Hewlett-Packard Co.'s restructuring)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Remember that Global Operations unit that Carly created to handle pretty much everything that wasn't a product or a customer? Well, it's gone. Its functions returned to the product groups from whence they came. HP has given them back...

Microsoft loses Amado appeal.(Carlos Armando Amado)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Microsoft has lost the appeal of the 2005 verdict that went against it in the case of the Guatemalan developer Carlos Armando Amado, who charged Microsoft Office with ripping off his 1994 patent on linking spreadsheets and databases. Microsoft...

VMware buys Akimbi.(Akimbi Systems )(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... EMC, which has been making like a Hoover and vacuuming up a few smaller companies the last few days, has bought 21-month-old Akimbi Systems for its VMware subsidiary, which VMware will incorporate into its lifecycle solutions so clients can...

EMC buys ProActivity, nLayers; loses Cisco.(ProActivity Software Solutions Ltd., Cisco Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... EMC has bought ProActivity Software Solutions Ltd, a Massachusetts-based content management outfit for BPM with R&D in Israel, on undisclosed terms. EMC also lost an 18-month deal with Cisco to sell its NAS storage because Cisco wasn't...

CA replaces CTO.(Alan Nugent)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... CA has named Alan Nugent, the ex-Novell CTO it hired about a year ago to run its Enterprise System Management Business Unit, its new CTO. He replaces Mark Barrenechea, who has left as part of the company's latest CxO crisis. And while...

Linux start-up moves from Germany to US to Chase SMBs.(Collax Inc., small and medium businesses)
June 26, 2006... Collax Inc, the year-old German turnkey Linux server start-up with $8.5 million in first-round money in its jeans and a desire to compete against Microsoft, is moving its headquarters from Munich to Bedford, Massachusetts in the US. It has...

Wallace appeals GPL decision.(Linux Watch)
June 26, 2006... Daniel Wallace, the guy who wants to see an end to the General Public License (GPL), has formally appealed the May 16 decision by a district court in Indianapolis that said that he failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted in his...

Microsoft supports creative commons with plug-in.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... People who use Word, Excel and Power-Point are going to be able to slap a copyright-alternative Creative Commons license on their work. Microsoft has countenanced a free tool, developed and tested by 3sharp LLC, a Redmond-based ISV, and...

Compriere takes its first VC money.(funded by New Enterprise Associates)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Compriere, the open source ERP/CRM house now chaired by ex-SAS president and COO Andre Boisvert, has gotten $6 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). It is Compriere's first outside financing. It was bootstrapped by its...

Red Hat backs OVAL.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Third-party tools that are OVAL-compatible, OVAL meaning the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language definitions, can now be used to audit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. Red Hat said users can now integrate data about vulnerabilities from...

Opera 9 hits the deck running.(Linux Watch)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Opera 9 is out. It's been in beta for a couple of months, it's free in 25 languages for Windows, Mac and Linux, and it support BitTorrent, the file-sharing mojo. This rev is supposed to be faster, with new web standard support and little widget...

Xandros tries multimedia pitch.(Xandros Desktop Home Edition and Xandros Desktop Home Edition - Premium)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... Xandros, the Debian Linux desktop wannabe, has come up with its fourth rev, calling the $40 Xandros Desktop Home Edition and $80 Home Edition--Premium a new line for home and multimedia users. The stuff includes music management, wireless...

AMQP group formed to push messaging spec.(Advanced Message Queuing Protocol Working Group)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, Iona, Red Hat, Envoy Technologies, iMatix, Twist Process Innovations and 29West have formed AMQP, a k a the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol Working Group, to create a new specification for defining and developing...

SCO puts thousand-dollar bounty on developers.(marketing its EdgeClick platform)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... The hated SCO, which is trying to diversify away from its embattled Unix line, is out trolling for developers to create custom mobile applications for its budding EdgeClick platform. Although it has yet to announce any major contract wins,...

HP ships Woodcrest boxes.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... HP says it's going to start shipping the Woodcrest boxes it announced a month ago on Monday June 26, the day Intel formally rolls out the new Opteron-distancing Xeon at festivities in New York. Starting pricing run: $1,449 for a DL140, $2,249...

First dual-core PC blade.(ClearCube developing R1300 and R2200 blade servers)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... ClearCube is about to put out two new PC blades, one, the R1300, fitted with a single dual-core Pentium D, that will make it the first company with a dual-core PC blade. The other, the R2200, uses two Irwindale Xeons. Both are fit into the...

IBM opens Russia lab.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... IBM has opened its first development lab in Russia and said it will put $40 million in the place over the next three years. It will focus on mainframe development and should employ up to 200 people by the end of 2008. It's already up 40...

Real men have fabs.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 26, 2006... It appears that AMD is going to build a $3.5 billion plant in upstate New York not all that far from its buddy IBM. AMD is already planning a $2.5 billion expansion to its fabs in Germany.

ITAA finds CEO.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 26, 2006... Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology Phillip Bond, also a former Monster Worldwide exec, has been named president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), replacing interim ITAA head Robert Laurence. The...

EMC doubles down.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 26, 2006... EMC is talking about doubling up on its investment in India to $500 million over the next four years and 1,600 people by 2008.

Microsoft & the counter-iPod.(BILLY GRAMS)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... You've presumably heard the rumors that Microsoft will be going into the counter-iPod business with one of its own--maybe before Christmas--and of course starting a rival to Apple's iTunes shop. Reports say the guy who headed Xbox development...

At the rate the world is going, not a moment too soon.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 26, 2006... OASIS has standardized the Emergency Data Exchange Language Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) 1.0, which facilitates emergency information sharing and data exchange across local, regional, tribal, national and international organizations.

Larry to Harvard: 'The check is in the mail'.(Larry Ellison promised donations to Harvard University)(Brief article)
June 26, 2006... The Financial Times discovered that Larry Ellison has stiffed Harvard University and not followed through with his pledge to the school to send the check for the $115 million he promised to create the Ellison Institute for World Health. The...

EMC, HP, Veritas, Sun & HDS oppose IBM's Aperi effort.(BILLY GRAMS)
June 26, 2006... EMC, HP, Symantec--for which read Veritas--Hitachi Data Systems and Sun are collectively backing a storage management standard in opposition to IBM and its so-called Eclipse-like open source Aperi initiative, the one Sun defected from. ...