Client Server News articles from March 2001

Client Server News archives from March 2001

Intel Hosed by New Intergraph Court Ruling.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Intergraph won a major victory over Intel Thursday when a federal appeals court overturned a district court ruling striking down Intergraph's 1997 patent infringement suit against Intel. The lower court dismissed Intergraph's suit in 1999...

Dense Server Fever Spreads.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Geez. What's with this dense server business suddenly? Players are starting to crop up like June bugs on a ripe fig. The latest to be detected is a pre-IPO operation still in stealth mode by the name of Netstech. Its headquarters is in Palo...

Transmeta CEO Steps Aside.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Transmeta Founder and CEO David Ditzel up and surprised everyone Thursday night by trading in his CEO robes to become the semiconductor start-up's CTO and vice-chairman. The company's president and chief operating officer Mark Allen...

Microsoft Launches Office XP Marketing Beta.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Microsoft has confirmed that it's going to plaster corporate America with a marketing beta of Office XP. The "real" beta 2 of Office XP is already in the hands of about 10,000 testers. A so-called "corporate preview release" is going to...

BackOffice Server 2000 Sallies Forth.(Microsoft)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Microsoft began shipping BackOffice Server 2000 on Wednesday, the latest update of its complete server kit that's got an integrated install. As the name implies, the suite was really supposed to ship last year, but not all 2000-generation...

Sun Intros $995 Sparc Workstation.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Sun has decided that it's time for it to sop up a lot of what's left of the low-end RISC/Unix workstation market that it doesn't already own and to try to siphon off what it can of the Wintel workstation market. That's where Grover comes...

IDC's 2000 Retrospective: Windows Wins Big; Linux Gains Credibility.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... The rich get richer, the strong get stronger, and Microsoft increased its iron grip on both the server and desktop markets in 2000 according to a pair of newly released reports from IDC. Windows accounted for 41% of all server shipments, up...

Intel Snubs WinCE for Wind River.(Product Information)
March 5, 2001... Intel has turned to Wind River's VxWorks embedded RTOS and Tornado software for its forthcoming Web Tablet, one of those chi-chi widgets that lets users roam and wirelessly surf the web thanks to an Anypoint home network adapter hooked to a...

ServerWorks Readies PCI-X Chipset.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... ServerWorks, now a Broadcom subsidiary, on Tuesday took the wraps off a chipset it's got in the labs that will host PCI-X support, a first. The new widgetry, using what Server-Works calls its Grand Champion HE architecture, supports two-...

Intel Ships Second Low-Voltage Notebook PIII.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Intel, in another shot across Transmeta's bow, released a low- voltage 700MHz Pentium III on Tuesday aimed at the so-called mini- notebook market. Intel's newest part, which was expected, is a 0.18-micron device that eats 1.35V running at...

Compaq Sues RLX.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... If you read this when we flashed it over the weekend, pass by but check out the new sidebar that follows. Compaq has taken out after RLX Technologies, the server start-up that's chockablock with ex-Compaq executives, charging it with...

What Compaq Says It Wants.(case against RLX Technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... After Compaq filed suit against RLX Technologies and got its temporary restraining order, Rick Becker, director of software marketing and business development for its Industry Standard Server Group, Compaq's aggrieved party, called to press its...

Government Flubs Oral Arguments.(the Microsoft case)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... This story is basically unchanged since it ran on Tuesday morning. We can't swear to this - and we wouldn't care to stake our reputations on a gut hunch - but Microsoft may have won the day in court Monday. Turn it around, however, and...

Day Two - Government's Case Bloodied Again.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... This story is basically unchanged since it ran on Wednesday morning. The government's antitrust case against Microsoft took another bruising Tuesday during the second and last day of the oral arguments before the Court of Appeals. ...

Intel & NetApp in Billion-Dollar Pact.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Intel and Network Appliance have signed a long-term technology pact, including a cross-license for a "broad" range of otherwise unidentified IP. The two said the deal could be worth $1 billion over the next seven years, but didn't disclose...

Sun Spins SAN-in-a-Box on its Jiro-Scope.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Sun has put together a pre-configured storage area network that it fancies might be of interest to the non-Sun market. Sun's new widgetry, built out of its StorEdge T3 array, uses Jiro technology to support Win2K/NT, HP-UX and AIX. The...

SteelEye Readies DB2 Cluster Kit.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... SteelEye Technology was hinting around recently that it was working to get IBM on the hook like Compaq, which is helping SteelEye commoditize clustering, and now comes the news that it's teamed with IBM to craft a kit hooking Blue's DB2...

Intel Buys into Costa Rican Software Migrator.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Intel has made an investment of undisclosed size in eight-year-old ArtinSoft, a specialist in software language migration. The San Jose, Costa Rica firm is tooling up for a major thrust into the .NET market, looking for work migrating...

Scottish Java House Play Name Tag with Allaire.(n-ary)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Scottish Java house n ary Ltd has been forced to rename a little servlet it wrote for use with Allaire's flagship ColdFusion kit after the Allaire folks threatened it with court action. n-ary planned to call it tagFusion, a moniker that Allaire...

Legato Has Microsoft Backup Modules.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Legato Systems has released Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Exchange 2000 modules for its flagship NetWorker backup kit. The modules, which cost $1,380 each, integrate with the APIs in Microsoft's servers and operate over LANs, WANs and...

GraphOn Ends Record Year on Sour Note eMachines Ousts Founder.(Dec 2000 qtr)(Company Financial Information)
March 5, 2001... Citrix wannabe GraphOn, citing a change in revenue recognition that pushed out by a quarter when at least one major deal would hit the books, capped an otherwise good year of sales growth with a lousy quarter and record losses. For the...

GraphOn Hires SCO Marketeer.(Tony Baines of Santa Cruz Operations joins Graphon Corp. as VP)(Company Operations)
March 5, 2001... Tony Baines, vice-president of corporate marketing for SCO, left work on Wednesday at five o'clock and turned up for work Thursday morning at GraphOn as its new VP, worldwide marketing. Baines' tenure with SCO dates to late 1994 when SCO...

eMachines Ousts Founder.(Wayne Innouye replaces Stephen Dukker as CEO)(Company Operations)
March 5, 2001... eMachines, whose fourth-quarter sales were so bad they made everyone else's results in the depressed PC sector look good, has walked its founder, president and CEO Stephen Dukker, out the door and replaced him with a hard-core consumer...

Intel Stages Infiniband Coming Out Party.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Intel's semi-annual Developers Forum this week set the stage for Infiniband's coming out party. To be sure there was new widgetry galore, highlighted by the first public display of a working 64-bit McKinley chip. But sitting in the middle...

Microsoft Casts its .NET in Academia.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Microsoft has set up another program to get its software into the hands of universities training what Redmond hopes will be future generations of developers who cut their coding teeth on Microsoft technologies. The new program, called the...

Rational-Vignette Kit Melds Code & Content Management.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Rational Software has melded its ClearCase configuration management technology with Vignette Corporation's Content Management Server to come up with an offering called the Rational Suite ContentStudio, a kit that manages both code and content...

WebGain Hooks its Kit to a Java Source.(Teams with ComponentSource)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... WebGain and ComponentSource are hooking together WebGain's application development software and ComponentSource's web-based repository of Enterprise JavaBeans. The resulting combination will let developers crafting applications with WebGain...

Ma, The Cow's Run Dry.(Gateway 2000 Inc. forecasts losses.)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Gateway on Wednesday slashed its first-quarter business estimates for a second time, saying now that it doesn't expect to make a penny in operating profits in the quarter and will be as much as $275 million in hole when non-recurring charges...

Intel Pays Samsung To Upgrade Rambus Fab.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Intel is putting up the money for Samsung to boost its production of Rambus memory chips. The amount of cash Intel's kicking in, and how much equity in Samsung it's buying, wasn't revealed. Samsung said the cash was earmarked for "facility...

BSquare Releases Real-Time NT Kit.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... BSquare has gone to market with its expected kit for real-time NT/NT 4.0 embedded (NTe). Called Time Critical Extension (TCX), it consists of a device driver and a static library that adds low- latency interrupt handling, priority scheduling of...

Crystal Group Turns to Darksite to Monitor Servers.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Iowa systems integrator and white box server maker the Crystal Group has come up with a computer add-in card to monitor the health of any server it's plugged in to. The widget, called the Darksite Remote Management Appliance, monitors...

SuSE US Orders President Home.(Company Operations)
March 5, 2001... The president of SuSE US Volker Wiegand, the guy who called Linux a "fallen angel" and expressed some fundamental doubts about how Linux is faring as a business when SuSE laid off three-quarters of its American staff a few weeks ago (CSN No...

Caldera Revenues Remain Wispy, Losses Mount.(Company Financial Information)
March 5, 2001... Good as its word, Caldera Systems Inc turned up with first-quarter results that were worse than the numbers it posted the quarter before. Caldera predicted that its finances would worsen through the end of April when it posted its fourth...

VA Sales Chief Out.(VA Linux Systems)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... VA Linux Systems, which came up short its last couple of quarters, has dumped its disaffected sales chief Bob Russo, senior VP and general manager of worldwide field operations. It has named Greg Orzech, who Russo recruited as VP, North...

Failed MTX-Neoware Marriage Leads to Linux Market War.(Visara Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Visara, the erstwhile MTX and before that Memorex-Telex, has finally come to market with its promised Linux-based thin client, putting it on a collision course with its one-time merger partner Neoware. Visara is protecting an installed...

Red Hat Buys Atlanta Consulting House.(Planning Technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Red Hat has bought Atlanta consultant Planning Technologies Inc for $47 million in stock. Planning Technologies, a 200-man outfit, specializes in developing, deploying and managing network architectures. Its customer roster includes blue chips...

Tricord Gets Go-to-Market Financing.(Company Financial Information)
March 5, 2001... Tricord Systems, the one-time NT house that's reinvented itself as a Linux-based appliance maker, has picked up $25 million in new financing to bring its Linux widgetry to market. Tricord would only say the cash came from "a single...

Ebiz Sorta Enters the Appliance Server Market.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Ebiz on Thursday "launched" the first of its promised line of server appliances, gadgets created out of the white box hardware built by its newly acquired Jones Business Systems Inc (JBSi) subsidiary. At press time what the widget actually...

LinuxWizardry Goes Panning for Gold.(Company Financial Information)
March 5, 2001... LinuxWizardry, the Canadian outfit that traded in its gold pans for Linux, has gone back to mining. It's hoping to strike gold among the New York investment community and has hired IR International Consultants of Lynbrook, New York. In the...

Red Hat Plans GNU Kit for Ubicom Chips.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Red Hat is writing a version of its GNUPro embedded development toolkit for chip house Ubicom's line of Internet processors, gismos that can web-enable just about any known device including home appliances, security systems and remote...

BlueCat to Play Xscale.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... LynuxWorks is porting its BlueCat Linux to Intel's low-power Xscale architecture, and has wangled a deal with Intel for an evaluation copy of BlueCat to be included with the forthcoming IQ80310 QUICKval Xscale development kit due out in early...

Linux-Mandrake Betas 2.4.2-based Code.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Linux-Mandrake has gone to beta with a new version of its distribution based on the recently finished Linux 2.4.2 kernel. The beta, code named Traktopel, will eventually be released as Linux-Mandrake 8.0. Besides the new kernel, it sports...

CRM Portal Provider Aspect Trims Staff.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Customer relationship portal ASP Aspect Communications Corporation is cutting 6% of its staff, some 160 folks, in hopes of returning to profitability. Aspect said this quarter's results are unclear because of the current economic...

ITAA Names Board To Save the ASP Industry's Good Name.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has set up a separate board of directors to oversee its ASP program. The ITAA said a board was needed because the group's existing ASP program had grown to almost 200 members. It also...

iCAN Signs European Service Provider.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Computer Associates' iCAN SP subsidiary has dribbled out news of another one in the string of partner deals it says it has on tap, this time with European managed services provider Trinity Technology. Under a pact between the two, Trinity...

Charity Ends at Home.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Charitableway, an ASP offering software to help charitable groups collect donations over the Internet, will shut its doors on March 26 and liquidate its assets. With current economic conditions it seems that charities aren't willing to...

Sharks.(the Microsoft antitrust case)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... The Microsoft oral arguments this week turned some people nostalgic. A guy who did a lot of the preparation for the testimony given by one of the original Microsoft witnesses recalled how he got to watch Justice Department prosecutor David...

Oracle Pre-announces.(financial report for 3rd qtr ended Feb 28, 2001)(Company Financial Information)
March 5, 2001... After the market closed Thursday Oracle joined the lengthening line of companies that aren't cutting the mustard. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and CFO Jeff Henley - Henley from a cell phone in Miami - got on the horn to tell Wall Street they were...

Pick a Number, Any Number.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Confronted with all the endless hype being circulated about wireless, research house eMarketer decided the most useful thing it could do would be to research the researchers and having pored over the prognostications of more than a hundred of...

Faster, Faster.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... It's almost hard to believe that a 900MHz CPU is already obsolete. Intel will stop taking orders for 900MHz Pentium IIIs with 100MHz buses on March 30, and plans to have the last of the widgets out the door by June 3. The 100MHz bus is the real...

Intel To Field Transmeta-Competitive Dense Servers.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Sources say IBM has dense servers up its sleeve much like Compaq's prospective Blade Runner box and you can bet the pair of them is using an Intel design, although IBM claims to be undecided over its own or Intel's widgetry. Well, actually...

Compaq & IBM To Butt Heads Over Rival Chipsets.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Intel may have thrown in the towel on its Profusion architecture and the thought of doing any more 32-bit eight-way chipsets, but Compaq, which claims Profusion co-developer status - it kicked in a I/O chip that helped Intel's...

OMG Gets Itself a New Future-Proof Architecture.(Technology Information)
March 12, 2001... Microsoft's great hereditary enemy, the Object Management Group, says it needs a new architecture because its Object Management Architecture (OMA), which dates to early 1990, has gotten tired. It also doesn't map to all the new technologies...

Hang the Black Crepe, Intel's Got Bad News.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... It's not like Intel hasn't been laying the groundwork. Last week at the Intel Developers Forum CEO Craig Barrett said he had little evidence to support a second-half recovery scenario and this week Intel chairman and resident demigod Andy...

Belgian Dense Server Start-up Comes Out of Hiding.(RealScale Technologies)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Another dense server start-up is about to come to market. This time it's a Belgian operation that's just landed $2 million in funding from the Disney family fortune for its product launch and has signed up Lucent to resell its boxes. ...

Big Users Get the Crown Jewels: Win2K Source.(Microsoft hands out source code)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... So, it seems Microsoft has been secretly handing out copies of Windows 2000 source code to some of its biggest and best end-user customers for more six months under a pilot program and now the code is likely to go to hundreds more companies....

IPMI Spec Tuned for Thin Servers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Intel, together with Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Dell have unveiled a new version of the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification, upgrading the thing with interfaces targeted squarely at the increasingly hot market for...

President Kisses Tarantella Good-bye.(Mike Orr)(Company Operations)
March 12, 2001... This SCO thing is without doubt the most bedeviled restructuring of this century. The company, which is supposed to become just plain Tarantella Inc if the SEC ever lets SCO dump its operating systems and support operation on Caldera, is...

FibreCycle First Out with Transmeta Ultra-Dense Server.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Looks like FiberCycle Inc wins the hero's laurel wreath for getting out first with a Transmeta-based dense server. The start-up announced on Wednesday and said that barring a foul-up getting FCC approval on its electronics its new WebBunker...

Office XP RTMs but Microsoft Delays Ship Date.(Product Development)
March 12, 2001... Microsoft released Office XP to manufacturing on Monday, but the kit won't make store shelves until June. Redmond just launched a 500,000-copy "corporate preview" program, a marketing beta of huge proportions that it hopes will lead to...

Microsoft Sends New Visio to Public Beta.(Product Development)
March 12, 2001... Microsoft has sent a new version of the Visio diagramming and drawing kit to public beta, the first new cut since it bought Visio in January 2000. The new version will go to market as Visio 2002 this May. To be expected, Microsoft is...

Microsoft Unveils OS-independent Data Analysis Kit.(XML for Analysis)(Product Announcement)
March 12, 2001... Microsoft has released the beta version of an XML-based cross- platform database analysis kit. Redmond's not hanging the .NET moniker on the thing, called XML for Analysis, which is a bit of a surprise since it's based on the usual .NET...

Xbox To Lose $2b: Blodget.(Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Merrill Lynch's hot shot Internet analyst Henry Blodget, the guy who originally drove Amazon over 400, then recently fell heir to covering Microsoft after the dot.coms dried up and the brokerage declared Microsoft an Internet stock, has been...

Aren't Numbers Grand.(Napster Inc.)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... It might be irrevelant now but Time Magazine wet its pencil and computed that for Napster to pay the record labels and artists the billion dollars over five years that it's offered it would need a minimum 100,502,513 subscribers to pay it the...

Lernout & Hauspie To Clean House and Come Clean under Court Order.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Embattled Belgian-American speech house Lernout & Hauspie will hold a court-ordered extraordinary general stockholders meeting on Friday, April 27 where it's going to have to try to explain how it got into the mess it's in, fire the entire...

Lernout & Hauspie Unit Goes to Block.(hires Credit Suisse First Boston)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Lernout & Hauspie has confirmed that it has hired Credit Suisse First Boston to help it find a buyer for its Mendez translation business. Mendez's sale, meant to raise cash for the struggling company, which is operating under bankruptcy...

Swedish Wireless VPN Start-up Lands on US Shores.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Columbitech AB, a year-old Swedish company founded by a bunch of Ericsson folks frustrated by the slow pace at which Ericsson was moving in wireless data, has crafted a secure VPN built from the ground up for wireless use and is about to launch...

Switching Sides.(Cliff Reeves, Lotus' senior VP of knowledge management, joins Microsoft)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Lotus insiders are shocked at Cliff Reeves' decision to join Microsoft, Lotus' hereditary enemy. Reeves worked for 30 years at IBM and Lotus, was Lotus' senior VP of knowledge management and, until his retirement in January, a member of Lotus'...

Loose Ends.(Greg Kerfoot leaves Veritas Software board)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Seagate Software president Greg Kerfoot has left the Veritas Software board, tidying up a loose end left over from the complicated $12.1 billion deal last November in which Seagate went private. As part of that deal, Veritas bought back the 33%...

Microsoft Adds Quinn's Storage Management to Win2K Server Appliance Kit.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Microsoft has licensed W Quinn Associates' StorageCenter storage resource management (SRM) software for use with the Windows 2000 Server Appliance Kit. The code that Redmond's getting is a customized, performance- enhanced version of what...

Intergraph v Intel Antitrust Appeal Gets Hearing.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... Intergraph was back in court on Monday pressing its antitrust case against Intel by asking the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC to overturn a lower court order throwing out the antitrust claims. The hearing was scheduled before...

Redmond Squashes Server Scores.(Microsoft SQL 2000 server benchmarks)(Product Information)
March 12, 2001... Reports making the rounds this week suggest that Microsoft has again used a clause in its software license to prevent the publication of some SQL 2000 server benchmarks that it didn't like. Its license, like many other software companies',...

Microsoft Changes Management Channels at WebTV.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Microsoft has put WebTV under the direct management of MSN, the Microsoft Network. Adult supervision, perhaps. There's no telling how much Microsoft has lost on the operation over the past four years. It paid $425 million for WebTV in...

Veritas Buys Windows Training House.(EntireNet LLC)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Veritas has bought essentially all of three-year-old Windows consulting and training house EntireNet LLC for an undisclosed amount of cash. Veritas said it bought the company's "key assets," and that 23 EntireNet employees including the...

Veritas Raids Oracle.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... You know how guys travel in packs and that Veritas' new CEO Gary Bloom is from Oracle so it's no surprise that Veritas has up and hired away Oracle's finance VP Peter Donnelly and its B2B Integration and Data Warehouse Division VP Michael...

Borland Expands Overseas.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Borland, feeling its oats after coming back from the brink, has opened a sales office in Stockholm for the Scandinavian market. It's also setting up a subsidiary in Bangalore, India, where it plans to spend $5 million over the next two years.

First Dense Server Benchmarks Prove 12 CPUs Are Faster Than Four.(Technology Information)
March 12, 2001... The folks at FiberCycle sent us the first dense server performance benchmarks seen so far in the industry, numbers they plan to rely on to help sell their WebBunker widgets. The numbers prove that 12 CPUs are faster than four CPUs, but of...

DC on Dense Servers: Here Comes the Revolution.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... IDC has rushed out with one of the first analyst reports on the new dense servers and blade architecture, predicting that the technology will "arm the revolution" in the server infrastructure. "We expect blade technology to revolutionize...

HP: New Storage Vision.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... So, Hewlett-Packard has a new storage strategy called Federated Storage Area Management (FSAM) that's supposed to handle the unpredictable. The long-term goal is to harness all capacity when needed. HP estimates it can mean a tenfold in storage...

Applied Data Embedded Board Gets USB.(Graphics Master)(Product Announcement)
March 12, 2001... Applied Data Systems has gone to market with a little single-board computer for the embedded market built around Intel's StrongARM SA- 1110 chip and sporting USB host capabilities not found in its previous offerings. Called the Graphics...

SRM House Astrum Gets New VC.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Windows-based storage resource management (SRM) software vendor Astrum Software has picked up $5.3 million in second-round venture capital. The round was led by JMI Equity Fund. Astrum said that it would use the cash for the standard goals of...

Touchy, Touchy.(Veritas shares fall 6%)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Boy, talk about shell-shocked and gun-shy. Veritas scheduled a mid- quarter call to tell everyone that it's doing just fine, thank you, in the current quarter, but of course in today's current market everyone assumes the worst. After all,...

Seagate Turns to Crystal.(Seagate Software now Crystal Decisions)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Seagate Software has changed its name to Crystal Decisions. The software subsidiary of disk drive giant Seagate says the new name was chosen to leverage the brand equity in its product line name. In celebration it also released a point upgrade...

Dell Kvells.(10 million computer systems sold by Dell Computer)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Dell is beaming with pride over IDC numbers that show it to be the first OEM in history to sell more than 10 million computer systems in a single year in the Americas region. The IDC survey covers desktops, laptops, workstations and servers...