Client Server News articles from March 2002

Client Server News archives from March 2002

Sun Turns Gay Blade.
March 4, 2002... So Sun admitted Linux into its sanctum sanctorum and Sun, as already reported (CSN No 436), is doing blades and Linux and blades go together so Sun will be doing Linux as well as Solaris blades. The new initial entry will not change Sun's...

Poof, There Goes Another Linux Company.
March 4, 2002... Mission Critical Linux Inc (MCLX), the two-and-a-half-year-old IBM Global Services wannabe, has sunk to its knees and died, killed by lack of business and money. Its 50 more-or-less remaining employees including CEO Robert Tumanic fired. Its...

AMD demos ClawHammer.
March 4, 2002... AMD, which gets a kick out of stealing Intel's thunder, tried upstaging it this week at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF). In a suite nearby IDF AMD demo'd its first working Hammer silicon, the prospective 64-bit x86 chip, theoretically a...

Quick, the Smelling Salts.
March 4, 2002... Intel is likely to have a fit of the vapors when it finds out that Microsoft expects to put Windows Datacenter on Hammer, the contrarian AMD 64-bit chip. But since Microsoft just booted the OS on early Hammer silicon, it'll take them a while to...

The Great Prescott Caper.(Column)
March 4, 2002... Intel managed to mention the chip called Prescott at IDF this week and very clearly positioned it as a next-generation desktop widget. Make that DESKTOP. Now, why is that important? Well, let's consider for a moment that Prescott's the...

Prestonia's Out of the Gate; Plumas is the Horse To Watch.(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... Intel's big announcement during the Intel Developers Forum this week was Prestonia, the new two-way Xeon chip, the first server platform featuring both Hyper-Threading and Pentium 4's throughput-enhancing Netburst microarchitecture. ...

Pluto Morphs into zx1.
March 4, 2002... Looks like HP's three-chip Pluto chipset for McKinley has now morphed into what it calls the scalable processor chipset zx1, perhaps an odd designation given that it's a counterculture device that's not truly meant to scale so much as optimize...

W3C Outlaws RAND.
March 4, 2002... After getting badly roughed up by open source critics, the W3C has reversed its original policy on patents. Now it's got itself a revised Patent Policy Working Draft that dedicates the Internet consortium to producing only royalty-free...

Modifications To Settlement All Cosmetic.
March 4, 2002... This story is unchanged since it broke Thursday morning. Late Wednesday in response to the 30,000 largely critical comments made about their controversial antitrust settlement by competitors and individuals during the Tunney review,...

Stone Goes Back to Novell; Novell COO Out.(Chris Stone)
March 4, 2002... Chris Stone, who used to be Novell's number two during the Schmidt administration, is returning as vice-chairman. Friends say Stone was bounced out of Tilion, the two-year-old no-profile supply chain management start-up that has absorbed...

Merge or Wither: Carly.
March 4, 2002... In a last great appeal to Wall Street to back her acquisition of Compaq, HP CEO Carly Fiorina called the merger vital to growth at a daylong webcast merger rally, er, analyst meeting in New York Wednesday. Little new was heard though HP...

Walter Plays Hidden Pay Card.
March 4, 2002... Merger dissident Walter Hewlett is trying to bring pressure to bear over the post-merger compensation packages that Carly and Compaq CEO Michael Capellas are supposed to divide up, a possible $115 million mother lode, Walter says, that HP...

Voltaire Reveals its Base Architecture.
March 4, 2002... Voltaire, the InfiniBand router start-up, unveiled its all-important TCP Termination Architecture this week. It contends it's the only architecture to offer content-based intelligent connectivity between TCP/IP networks and InfiniBand...

Microsoft & Chicken Little.
March 4, 2002... Microsoft and the government won't try to stop the dissident states from complaining in court in a few days that Microsoft is benefiting from their proposed antitrust settlement. The Justice Department says they might as well go ahead since...

HP Vote Could Be Decided Monday.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Despite Carly's protestations that she's got the votes to win, her twelfth largest institutional investor, money managers Brandes Investment Partners LP, which controls about 1.3% of HP's stock, says it's voting "No." Brandes' decision...

API Folks Saved.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... AMD is building a new Boston Design Center around the engineering team that was orphaned when API Networks Inc, the Compaq-Samsung joint venture originally intended to provide Compaq with Alpha chips, finally turned up its toes in January (CSN...

Microsoft To Expand its CRM Thrust.
March 4, 2002... Microsoft plans to launch a CRM application later this year targeted at small and mid-sized businesses, a move that's been expected. The first Microsoft business program built on the .NET platform, the prospective Microsoft Customer...

Iona May Go Shopping.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Dublin-based Iona Technologies put four million American Depository Shares on the market at $15 each to raise $60 million. It says the money will be used for working capital and perhaps to acquire businesses, technologies and products.

Rambus Who?(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Intel is now seen to be actively getting out of the Rambus memory business that brought it grief. The next round of chipsets for its Xeon workstations, Pacer for two-ways and Granite for unis, are going to support DDR. They'll replace 860 and...

Jabber Knocks Off G+J.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Jabber, IM software house, scored another coup, roping Gruner + Jahr Electronic Media Service, the big German publisher whose majority owner is Bertelsmann AG and whose stable includes Der Stern as a customer. G+J will use it to deliver...

Special VS.NET for Schools.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... In its quest for disciples, Microsoft is doing something it hasn't done before, it's created a special version of Visual Studio .NET for schools. It didn't do that with the ancestors of the VS.NET. It used a cut of VS.NET Pro and stuck some...

Passlogix Gets Money.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Passlogix, the single sign-on authentication people, raised $11.5 million in venture capital in an undisclosed round. Hanseatic Americas LDC led and some existing investors contributed. It combines new funds and the conversion of outstanding...

Unisys Anticipates Foster MP & McKinley.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Unisys jumped the gun on both the Foster MP and McKinley chips and showed species of its 32-way ES7000 beast based on both at the Intel Developer Forum this week. Unisys demo'd a 16-way McKinley box and a 32- way Xeon MP both running Windows...

CA Finds It Is Too under Investigation.
March 4, 2002... According to Computer Associates' story, after reading in the papers that it's being investigated by the SEC, the FBI and the US attorney over the tortured pro forma-pro rata way it reports its numbers and whether it overstated profits to boost...

There Goes Another One.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Linda Stone, the VP of industry initiatives who was supposed to put a gauzy filter over Microsoft's warty image, is leaving the company on March 15 to go write a book and articles about big-picture technology. Stone got the job working under...

AMD Stands Pat.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... AMD said Wednesday that it continues to expect Q1 sales to come to about $900 million, resulting in a small net loss. It also expects to return to profitability next quarter and be profitable for the whole year.

Intel Pushes on Gigabit Ethernet.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... Intel has got new single-chip gigabit Ethernet controllers for servers, workstations and desktop PCs. Its new $90 dual-port 82546EB widget for servers, a first, will let server vendors add two gigabit Ethernet connections in the space where...

IBM Cuts Sweet Deal.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... IBM stands to see a tidy $4 billion from a seven-year resources-on-demand, utility-like outsourcing deal to run American Express' global IT infrastructure that begins this month in the US and starts phasing in internationally in May. Amex...

Actional Gets $26m.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Actional Corporation, the old Visual Edge Software Corporation, which changed its name 21 months ago and whose new SoapSwitch widgetry promises to provide Global 2000s access to existing packaged, legacy and custom software via the web services...

Jameson & McAllen.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Sometime later this year Microsoft expects to put out a interim cut of CE code named Jameson, presumably in honor of the superb Irish whisky. It's supposed to have IPV 6, enhanced device management and support for document viewers. It's a minor...

Flashline Brings in $6m.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... A four-year-old Cleveland outfit by the name of Flashline, whose Component Manager Enterprise Edition (CMEE) is a software solution that enables and measures the reuse of components and web services, has gotten its first institutional...

Microsoft License IM Mojah.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Microsoft is picking up IM archiving technology from Imlogic started by an ex- Softie.

GPL Fails To Get its Day in Court, But It Will Be Back in the.
March 4, 2002... Dock By Raga Rao Well, it looked for a moment there like the GNU General Public License, the cornerstone of the great counter-intuitive open source and free software movements, might finally get tested in court the other day - something...

NetWinder is Back from the Dead.
March 4, 2002... NetWinder server appliances are getting a new lease on life. A group of investors led by former IBMer Winston Morton has purchased the assets of Rebel.com, the Canadian Linux server appliance house that went into receivership last July...

Sun Lashes Out at IBM & Linux-on-a-Mainframe.
March 4, 2002... Sun Microsystems is out to leave its claw marks on IBM's Linux-on-mainframe initiative. So it's put a white paper out, signed by chief competitive officer Shahin Khan, on why running Linux on a mainframe is a lousy idea. It says Linux on a...

SuSE Gets Another $3.8m.
March 4, 2002... SuSE, the German-based Linux distribution, has gotten $3.8 million in a second tranche of third-round financing. The money came from German VC AdAstra. The whole third round now amounts to $17.7 million. In October, SuSE got $13.9...

Awash in Red, Caldera Plans Reverse Stock Split.
March 4, 2002... Caldera, one of the four commercial Linux distributions, lost $11 million, 19 cents a share, on revenues of $17.9 million in its fiscal first quarter ended January 31. Excluding restructuring charges of $5.3 million, the net loss for the...

Governments Toy with The Prospect of Linux.
March 4, 2002... The Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), an offshoot of the Philippines' Department of Science and Technology, has reportedly conjured up a Linux productivity suite and integrated install it's hoping to persuade the government to...

Opera 6 for Linux Betas.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Opera Software has launched the first beta of its Opera 6 browser for Linux. Enhancements include display of non-Roman alphabets, a new cookie editor and contact list, improved window handling and plug-in support and greater speed and ease...

MontaVista To Support New Intel Chips.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... MontaVista Software plans to support Intel's new XScale network processors, the IXP2400, IXP2800 and IXP425, in its flagship MontaVista Linux 2.1 after they're released in the second half. The chips are targeted at core network applications,...

Stealth Storage Outfit Gets Seed Funding.
March 4, 2002... Storage software start-up Onaro Inc is making little squeaking noises about securing seed funding from private equity investment firm Cedar Fund but won't disclose the size of the investment and shies away from describing the product it's...

Quantum Updates its Snap Server.(Snap Server 1100)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... Quantum has launched a new NAS appliance that can provide up to 80GB of storage in a portable desktop configuration designed to fit into a briefcase. Dubbed Snap Server 1100 and weighing 3.5 pounds, the new widgetry comes in models with...

IBM Vet Lands at Veritas.(Mark Bregman)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Veritas has named Mark Bregman executive VP, product operations responsible for engineering and product management. Bregman was previously CEO of wireless Internet house Airmedia and before that did 16 years at IBM, where he served in various...

Snouffer Named Xiotech CEO.(Kathy Snouffer)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Seagate subsidiary and SAN specialist Xiotech has made its CFO Kathy Snouffer CEO. Snouffer replaces interim CEO Larry Perlman, who continues as chairman. Snouffer, who joined Seagate through its Imprimis acquisition in 1989, will report...

Windows Gains in NAS Appliances.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Microsoft says Win2K-powered NAS appliances are experiencing substantial growth. Citing IDC numbers, Microsoft said substantial adoption of mid- to high-end Windows-based NAS appliances in the third quarter helped it gain 10 points in the...

StorNet Debuts New SRM Service.(storage resource management service called StorTrust Monitor)
March 4, 2002... StorNet has launched a new storage resource management service called StorTrust Monitor. Targeted at mid-sized companies with over $100 million in annual revenues, the new service is supposed to warn customers of critical storage problems...

QLogic, Overland Debut SAN Data Protection System.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... QLogic has teamed with Overland Data on an entry-level SAN data protection configuration with 2.8TB of native capacity for apps like Microsoft Exchange and SQL for less than $37,000. Targeted at small and mid-sized businesses, the LAN-free...

EMC Beefs up Celerra.(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... Storage giant EMC's Celerra NAS line has gotten a makeover that added new hardware, software and services. The highlight of the primping is a high-speed, dual-processor Celerra Data Mover 510 file server that delivers data from attached EMC...

Legato Gets a COO.(David Beamer)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Storage management software vendor Legato Systems has made its executive VP of worldwide sales and marketing David Beamer COO. In his expanded role, Beamer will be responsible for day-to-day operations, executing strategic initiatives and...

Gulliver's Been Keeping a Hit List.(Microsoft)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... According to the scent we're picking up, while Microsoft's been as helpless and unable to make a move because of all this antitrust hullabaloo as Gulliver was when he woke up and found himself staked out by the Lilliputians, it's been keeping...

Flip You for It.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... This from inside. It seems that 40 of IBM's technical leaders from the IBM Academy of Technology met last week at IBM Austin to sort out a definitive position on .NET. Microsoft reportedly sent along three of its top designers. Apparently the...

Chipset for Blades.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... ServerWorks has got what it calls a Pentium 4 chipset for blades and sub- $1000 entry-level servers up its sleeve. The widget, due in Q2, is called the GC-SL, the last of the company's Grand Champion family. SL stands for "super lite." It's...

Betrayed by IBM.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The gossip says that Sun - up through its biggest executive suite - is absolutely livid over the so-called Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) and feels betrayed by IBM, its Java partner and WS-I organizer, which never breathed a...

Do We Sense a Dual Core Here?(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Intel mumbled a few brief - very brief - words in public about the future Itanium chip code named Montecito at IDF this week. It appears the thing is slated to be a 0.09-micron part, not 0.13-micron as previously reported (CSN No 436). It's due...

Evidently Marx Was Right, Religion is an Opiate.(Red Hat)
March 4, 2002... Red Hat, the ostensible high priest of Linux, is said to be rapidly turning into the cultural equivalent of a Russian Orthodox church under the communists, a pretty museum piece that nobody uses. Red Hat's problem is it's too religious, and...

Agile is Poised To Come Out.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Ah, we're soon to be treated to the surfacing of another stealth storage outfit. A start-up known as Agile Storage has reportedly gotten a sizeable $26 million in Series B funding to underwrite its high-performance file-level system, which...

Is Linux Really Selling Mainframes?(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Players close to the situation say it might be an awful lot of fun to take a peek at IBM's books and find out exactly how many mainframes it's actually sold on the back of Linux. Watchers claim the number purchased in the name of server...

Update Server.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Seems Microsoft is doing an Update Server that will gather all Windows and applications updates, schedule and distribute them. It could productize the thing.

Carly the Fearful.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... According to reader feedback to a story comparing Carly and retiring IBM CEO Lou Gerstner on business2.com, when Carly made one of her flying visits to HP's facility in Vancouver the security people replaced the china cups and metal silverware...

Happy Birthday.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Sun has turned 20. Not quite grown-up, but then neither is its senior management.

Okay, Top This, a Six-Processor Coppermine 1U.(Western Scientific SuperCluster)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... Little privately held Western Scientific has stolen a march on density, going where no one has gone before. It's got a 1U rack- mount server packed with an unheard-of six 1GHz Coppermine Pentium III chips, the building block of a Red Hat-based...

Blades Hit the Other Side of the Pond.(Psi-Domain Ltd )
March 11, 2002... A little English start-up by the name of Psi-Domain Ltd that's managed to garner some sexy accounts apparently because Linux talent is pretty thin on the ground over there is going to be pioneering server blades in Europe, practically virgin...

Window.NET Server Pushed Waay into Second Half.
March 11, 2002... Windows.NET Server has been delayed again. It won't be released to manufacturing until the second half now. According to Microsoft's ultra-secret internal schedule, RTM isn't until October 23 and of course that's now. Other things could...

Weighing the Hammer.(64-bit Windows for AMD Hammer)
March 11, 2002... AMD chairman Jerry Sanders made a pilgrimage to Morgan Stanley the other day flush with the insinuation that Microsoft would have a 64- bit Windows for his prospective Hammer chip. Mind you, Microsoft has yet to speak for itself and say...

Carly & Walter Race Neck-and-Neck Down the Stretch.
March 11, 2002... Hear that sound? That's the sound of silence. Why, it must be a few minutes since anybody in the HP arena called anybody else over there a dirty name. It won't last long. Carly and Walter are coming down to the wire and the race remains...

HP Brings New Meaning to the Expression "Green Card".
March 11, 2002... This is the way one ex-HP exec reads the tea leaves. "1. She wins, economy rebounds, demand picks up and shares add some points. Mike and Carly pocket big bonuses, Capellas leaves to go do something new (or become a VC) Carly looks like a...

Microsoft & its Cunning Doomsday Scenario.
March 11, 2002... On Monday under pressure from the press Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's videotaped deposition for the remedy the starts on March 11 was made public. In it he said Microsoft would have to take Windows off the market if the nine rebel states...

Intel Adjusts.
March 11, 2002... So Intel got on the horn Thursday after the bell rung on Wall Street and tightened up its revenue projection for the current quarter. It's coming in more in the middle of the range it initially set. It's looking like $6.6 billion to $6.9...

Novell Shuffles Tasks.
March 11, 2002... Gee, Chris Stone wasn't back at Novell a day and he was already delegating. The company's CTO Carl Ledbetter has been handed the additional responsibilities of engineering, R&D and product management worldwide including Novell engineering...

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Be will be dissolved and will voluntarily delist from the Nasdaq on March 15. There is still the little matter of its suit against Microsoft for allegedly killing it. That could take years. Shareholders eligible to participate in the...

Windows Datacenter Server Out in Limited Edition.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Microsoft has made one of those work-in-progress limited editions of Windows Datacenter Server available but only on the 32-way Unisys ES7000 server. It's also got a benchmark saying the 7000, Datacenter, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition and...

W3C Sets Up in Korea.
March 11, 2002... W3C has opened an office in Korea. Meanwhile, XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform have become candidate recommendations.

HP Downgraded.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Standard and Poor's has downgraded HP's debt rating because its hardware business is challenged and its business and management may be disrupted if the Compaq acquisition doesn't happen.

Timeline Wins Appeal against Microsoft.
March 11, 2002... Timeline Inc has won a decision against Microsoft in the Washington State Court of Appeals. Microsoft sued Timeline in 1999 for breach of contract claiming its license to Timeline's patented automated data mart generation technology let it...

Mainsoft Makes Cheeky Promise.
March 11, 2002... Mainsoft, the Windows-to-Unix porter, is sure enough of its Visual MainWin platform these days it's guaranteeing ISVs to port any Windows app to Unix in 90 days for a fixed price. The come-on 90-Day Porting Program pledges Mainsoft to...

Curl Gets New Money, New Boss.
March 11, 2002... Curl, the MIT spin-out pushing the newfangled Curl content language for writing web pages, has gotten $7 million from Baker Capital and Equity Group Holdings, both of them existing backers, to whip up sales and marketing and do more product...

Tech Ed Scheduled.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Microsoft's next Tech Ed conference is scheduled for April 9-13 in New Orleans. It'll be Tech Ed's tenth anniversary.

Sun Will Have its Own Linux Thanks to Red Hat.
March 11, 2002... Sun is going to have "its own implementation of Linux," it said Monday at an odd "Linux Day" press conference that it held to clarify what it said on February 7 when for some reason or another it hurried to announce that it would admit a second...

GPL Enforceable & Binding, Federal Judge Apparently.
March 11, 2002... Thinks By Raga Rao Apparently a federal judge in Boston thinks the GNU General Public License, the open source touchstone never tested in court before, is an enforceable and binding license. At least that's what the Free Software...

Linux NetworX Finally Makes Note of CEO's Departure.
March 11, 2002... Well, shucks, no wonder he hasn't been returning phone calls. Linux cluster specialist Linux NetworX finally got around to admitting the other day that its founder and CEO Glen Lowry quit in October. The Salt Lake City concern said...

Slashdot without the Pesky Ads Will Cost Ya.
March 11, 2002... VA Software's ad-starved media arm OSDN is starting to charge for access to Slashdot, the chat room beloved of open source nerds, if Slashdot's cranky, commercially intolerant readers want to avoid the large-size ads it's started putting on the...

MontaVista Does Taiwan.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Embedded house MontaVista Software is expanding its presence in Asia and setting up a distribution channel in Taiwan to peddle its software. Taipei-based information appliance design services provider Master Integrated Appliances (Master...

Caldera's Reverse Split Okay'd.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Caldera stockholders have approved a one-for-four reverse split of its stock. It'll happen on Thursday, March 14. It's the only way Caldera could make it look like it was worth anything, not to mention stay listed. The last time it inched above...

Sony Selling Linux Kit for PlayStation 2.
March 11, 2002... Sony has started taking pre-orders for its Linux kit for the PlayStation 2 game console in the US. The $200 kit, expected to ship on May 22, will let users run Linux on the popular PlayStation 2 and use the console as a fully functional...