Client Server News articles from March 2005

Client Server News archives from March 2005

Microsoft buys Ozzie's place.(appointment of Ray Ozzie at Microsoft Corp.)
March 14, 2005... In a deal that was just waiting to happen, Microsoft Thursday said it was buying Groove Networks Inc, the P2P collaboration software house set up eight years ago by industry demigod Ray Ozzie, the guy who designed Lotus Notes, the biggest...

SCO suit saved from potential dumpster.(Linux Watch)(cases between International Business Machines Corp. and The SCO Group Inc.)
March 14, 2005... SCO has reportedly just escaped intact from its latest "Perils of Pauline"-style brush with the train tracks. The hazard-prone company's many detractors have been lighting vigil candles hoping that the fight over control of the Canopy...

Intel nailed for antitrust in Japan.(investigations of Intel Corp. by Fair Trade Commission of Japan)
March 14, 2005... Japanese regulators said Tuesday that Intel cuts prices and throws "Intel Inside" marketing money around to make sure Japanese PC makers buy Intel CPUs, not AMD or Transmeta widgets. They've told the company to knock it off or face prosecution....

Oracle wrestles SAP for Retek.(plans of Oracle Corp. and SAP AG to acquire Retek Inc.)
March 14, 2005... Barely three months after its acquisition of PeopleSoft, and Oracle, true to its consolidation theories, has put an offer on the table for retail software specialist Retek Inc, outbidding rival SAP, which also wants to buy the company....

Microsoft breaks Project Green in two.(product launch plans)
March 14, 2005... Microsoft is splitting its Project Green scheme into two phases or "waves," as the company puts it, to provide a common code base for its business applications. Project Green was set up to stitch together the Axapta, Navision, Great Plains...

IBM-Lenovo deal sprung.(acquisition of IBM Personal Computer Co. by Lenovo Group Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The IBM-Lenovo deal has been sprung from the rare review that the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) kicked off because of congressional security concerns that were aroused when IBM, the pre-eminent...

AMD starts selling Centrino rival.(launch of AMD Turion 64)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AMD picked the day Intel had set aside for its mid-quarter update to launch its rumored Centrino rival, the Turion 64. It's the first AMD chip designed specifically for mobile computers rather than adapted. Unlike Centrino, Intel's...

Istanbul turns Office Communicator 2005.(launch of Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, Live Meeting 2005 and LCS 2005)
March 14, 2005... Istanbul has had many names in its day--Byzantium, Constantinople, the Second Rome--now it appears it's become Office Communicator 2005, Microsoft's given a name for the enterprise real-time collaboration client that it used to call Istanbul....

Microsoft reportedly bailing on MSNBC loser.(divestment of Microsoft Corp's interest in MSNBC Cable Network to National Broadcasting Company Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... NBC, the General Electric-owned broadcast network, is negotiating to buy Microsoft's interest in their combined MSNBC cable news network, according to the New York Post. Microsoft has been dumping its content deals to look like it's not...

Q1 rosier-than-thought: Intel.(company sales and earnings)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Going into its mid-quarter update, Intel raised its worst-case scenario for the first quarter from $8.8 billion to $9.2 billion but continued to say that the best it could do was $9.4 million. The first quarter is historically Intel's weakest...

Westerner to run Sony.(appointment of Sir Howard Stringer)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Sony, as you might have heard, abruptly dumped its top management and moved in a Welshman, Sir Howard Stringer, the head of its US operation, its glamour movie and music business, to replace long-time CEO Nobuyuki Idei, 67. Stringer, 63, a...

Opteron cast as embedded chip.(marketing of AMD Opteron)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AMD is pitching Opteron as a high-end embedded chip alongside its Geodes and Alchemies. It's guaranteeing designers that certain models like the 152, 252 and 852 or their functional equivalents will be around and supported for at least the...

AMD to explain Pacifica.(product information of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AMD is supposed to explain its Pacifica virtualization technology by releasing the specification by the end of the month. It wouldn't say much of anything else about the stuff at it counter-IDF meeting. Pacifica is AMD's version of Intel's...

EMC woos SMBs.(Drive Bay)(small/medium businesses)(target marketing of EMC Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... EMC has rolled out a new program to peddle its storage to small and medium-sized businesses. Dubbed Making Storage Simple, the new initiative covers a range of EMC hardware, software and services. EMC said it would offer SMBs a series of...

Finisar to buy InterSAN.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Fiber optic specialist Finisar is buying privately held storage software start-up InterSAN for $9.5 million in stock. Scotts Valley, California-based InterSAN sells a storage area management automation application called Pathline designed...

Hitachi upgrades replication software.(Drive Bay)(enhancement of Hitachi TrueCopy)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems has enhanced its TrueCopy remote replication software to copy data to and from EMC and IBM storage connected to its Tagma-Store Universal Storage Platform to any other TagmaStore system over any distance. Hitachi said...

Time Warner Cable to debut backup service.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Time Warner Cable plans to roll out a remote backup service over its broadband network. The cable operator is teaming up with storage management services provider Arsenal Digital Solutions to provide a backup service called ViaRemote...

Arkeia upgrades Server Backup tool.(Drive Bay)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Linux backup specialist Arkeia has upgraded its Server Backup and rolled out a new pricing model. Version 2 of Server Backup supports tape auto-loaders, automatic multi-flow backup from disks, simple or detailed log reports and...

Storage revenue growth slows.(Drive Bay)(market size of Information storage and retrieval systems)
March 14, 2005... Growth in storage revenues slowed in the fourth quarter and was weaker-than-expected, according to IDC. The researcher estimated external storage system revenues grew just 1% year-over-year to $3.8 billion in the quarter. However, the...

StorageTek debuts appraisal services.(Drive Bay)(new service launch by Storage Technology Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... StorageTek has rolled out a Storage Appraisal service so customers can get better insight into their storage infrastructure and hopefully identify and solve problems before they arise, maximizing resource utilization. The areas of analysis...

Cisco makes intelligent move.(Drive Bay)(enhancement of Cisco Systems MDS 9000 and Cisco SAN-OS 2.1)
March 14, 2005... Cisco is beefing up its MDS 9000 storage switches with a Storage Services Module add-on and an update to its SAN-OS so the switch can deliver intelligent fabric applications. The module, a 32-port Fibre Channel line card designed to operate...

Intel loses mfg muscle.(retirement of Sunlin Chou)(manufacturing)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Sunlin Chou, one of the brains behind Intel's manufacturing might, is going to retire in early May. He's going to be replaced as co-general manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group by William Holt, currently the head of Intel's...

Fujitsu, Software AG team on SOA.(service-oriented architecture)(partnership between Fujitsu America Inc. and Software AG, Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Fujitsu and Software AG have gotten together to develop and sell an integration offering designed to improve business processes and increase information visibility through a service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. The two...

Patent critics foiled.(Linux Watch)(software patent policy of European Union. European Parliament)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The controversial pro-software patents directive that has garnered so much opposition was sent back to the European Parliament for reconsideration Monday without any changes, infuriating its critics who call it a "mockery" and claim it's a...

Consolidation-minded Neoware strikes again.(Linux Watch)(acquisition of eSeSix Computer GmbH by Neoware Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Neoware, the Pennsylvania outfit trying to become the king of thin clients through consolidation, has bought the thin client business of privately held eSeSix Computer GmbH near Munich along with its development and engineering affiliate in...

Cray gets a new president.(Linux Watch)(appointment of Peter Ungaro)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Cray, which is knee-deep in Linux, has made its senior VP of sales, marketing and service Peter Ungaro president, reporting to CEO Jim Rottsolk. Ungaro was an IBM refugee, once Blue's VP of worldwide deep computing sales, who joined Cray...

Jedux out to siphon off Microsoft MOLAP biz.(Linux Watch)(product development by Jedox GmbH)(multidimensional on-line analytical processing)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Jedox GmbH, a three-year-old company in Freiburg, Germany that has a web-accessible multi-user Excel solution, says it's developing a real-time Linux OLAP server that it will put out for free by the end of the year. A pre-release is expected in...

Wind River expands its open source support.(Linux Watch)(membership of Wind River Systems Inc. at Eclipse Foundation)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Wind River, the embedded operating systems house that's taken a hammering the last few years, is getting increasingly involved with the open source tools Eclipse Foundation by proposing and leading an Eclipse project for device software...

TimeSys launches new LDKs.(Linux Watch)(TimeSys Linux Development Kits)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... TimeSys has launched 2.6-based Time-Storm Linux Development Kits for Intel's IOP321, IOP331, IOP332 and 802.19 XScale I/O processors for storage, telematics, security, print/imaging, iSCSI, control plane processing and customer premise...

Did you get an invitation to the coronation?(Billy Grams)(recruiting of new ceo at Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... BusinessWeek thinks HP could name Carly's successor before the end of the month. It claims Rick Belluzzo, the ex-HPer who flunked as both CEO of SGI and president of Microsoft and now runs Quantum, has emerged as "a strong candidate." It's also...

AMD dons racing stripes.(Billy Grams)(product launch of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Lehman Brothers thinks AMD is racing to get its dual-core Opteron, due mid-year, to market in Q2, giving it a three-quarter lead over Intel's dual-core Dempsey Xeon not due until the first quarter of next year. The broker calculates that AMD...

Ah, some good news for a change.(Billy Grams)(sales of Silicon Graphics Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Sales of SGI servers and supercomputers were up 20% last year and the company is waving around some IDC numbers that say it grew three times faster than the market, which was only 6.2%. It attributes its return-from-the-mouth-of-hell to its...

At least it's consistent.(Billy Grams)(contract between Department of Justice and Corel Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The Justice Department, Microsoft's old bete noir, is buying 50,000 copies of WordPerfect from Corel; lawyers having remained the software's last bastion evidently because of the way it handles long files. WordPerfect reportedly has some 20...

EC pokes Intel in the eye.(Billy Grams)(economic policy of European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The European Commission has blocked a grant--believed to be worth around 100 million [euro]--that would have helped Intel defray the cost of a new 1.6 billion [euro] 65nm fab it wanted to build in Ireland. The money would have come from the...

Is the iPod tainted?(Billy Grams)(cases of Advanced Audio Devices and Pat-rights against Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Apple's darling iPod has been hit with two lawsuits claiming patent infringement, one from a US outfit called Advanced Audio Devices, which claims the gadget treads on its Music Jukebox patent, and another--and from what we read in the...

Brand tending.(Billy Grams)(contracts between Intel Corp. and Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Intel has hired Interpublic Group of Companies to tend its sacred brand. The agency is now Intel's new brand marketing agency of record. A new agency to go along with its new platform strategy. The gig includes all global brand and advertising...

Microsoft's Energizer bunny tale.
March 14, 2005... Microsoft, it appears, is going into the managed services business. It's reportedly got a deal with Energizer Holdings to manage its 6,000 PCs and host some applications like e-mail and instant messaging. Microsoft is just in it to get its sea...

Xbox watch.(new products from Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Microsoft tickled the palate of its gamer following the other day by flashing some specs on the upcoming Xbox 2 promising that it will leverage high-definition technology and, iPod-like, include a store where they can buy game content like...

IBM gets IETF chair.(Billy Grams)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... IBM distinguished engineer Brian Carpenter is going to be the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Carpenter, who will also chair the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the body responsible for managing the...

Microsoft backs patent reform.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Despite all the open source fears it might flex its patent muscles, Microsoft's a patent piker compared to IBM, the big bruiser of patents, whose patent maestro Microsoft hired to monetize its IP. Anyhow, playing contrary to type, Microsoft's...

Open source, Java-style.(licensing of Java 2 Standard Edition 6.0 by Sun Microsystems Inc.)
March 21, 2005... Caught between a rock and a hard place, Sun is using Mustang, the upcoming Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0, to experiment with an adaptation of open source it's come up with. It's more than likely to rile the open source zealots. The...

Oracle's CFO bolts to BearingPoint as CEO.(chief financial officer)(resignation of Harry You from Oracle Corp. to join BearingPoint Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Oracle has just lost Harry You, the CFO it poached from Accenture eight months ago when it rewarded its incumbent CFO Jeff Henley by making him chairman and kicking him upstairs. You is going off to be CEO of BearingPoint, the consulting...

Retek starts looking like a PeopleSoft replay.(plans of SAP AG and Oracle Corp. to acquire Retek Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Retek, Oracle's latest acquisition target, has turned down Oracle's bid, much like PeopleSoft repeatedly did before it fell, preferring instead--for the moment--a higher $617 million cash offer from SAP, the company it first agreed to be...

Microsoft pays burst $60m.(cases against Burst.com)
March 21, 2005... Burst.com, the little, almost financially invisible company that was suing Microsoft for patent infringement and antitrust until the two agreed to settle on the courthouse steps last Thursday, came to terms with Microsoft late last Friday night...

IBM to buy Ascential.(Ascential Software Corp.)
March 21, 2005... IBM said Monday that it's paying $1.1 billion in cash to acquire enterprise data integration ISV Ascential Software. Since Ascential has about $480 million in its kitty, the actual value of the transaction works out to about $620 million...

Novell CTO leaves.(chief technical officer)(Alan Nugent)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Novell has lost its CTO Alan Nugent to another company whose identity is supposed to become clear in the next few weeks. The timing could have been better. Novell's annual BrainShare user conference starts in a few days. Novell's PR people...

EC outsmarted, ContentGuard deal goes through.(European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... The European Commission has dropped its objection to the Microsoft-Time Warner acquisition of ContentGuard in the face of Thomson being let in the deal as a full partner. The EC had reservations about the potential stranglehold Microsoft...

IBM asks for more time to turn over SCO discovery.(Linux Watch)(remedies of International Business Machines Corp.)
March 21, 2005... In an appeal that will come as a surprise to no one, IBM has asked the Utah district court hearing the SCO case for more time to comply with the court's January 18 order to turn over most of the discovery SCO's been after for almost two years....

SCO sends Legend to beta.(Linux Watch)(development of SCO OpenServer 6.0 of The SCO Group Inc.)
March 21, 2005... SCO says OpenServer 6, the next major release of SCO's hereditary Unix operating system, the one code name Legend and different from the UnixWare OS that SCO got from AT&T via Novell, has gone into formal beta and will begin shipping in May....

Red Hat hires old Unix hand.(Linux Watch)(appointment of Tim Yeaton)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Red Hat has hired an old Unix hand as senior VP of marketing. Tim Yeaton was a DEC in the early days of Unix and when Compaq bought DEC stayed on as general manager of its Unix unit. He was subsequently general manager of server products at...

Rosen claims GPL would never stand up in court.(Linux Watch)(authorship of Larry Rosen of Open Source Initiative)(general public license)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Larry Rosen, the former general counsel of the schismatic Open Source Initiative (OSI), basically declared a heretic by the purist Free Software Foundation (FSF) for recognizing open source licenses other than the GPL, wrote a book last year...

Linspire Five-O.(Linux Watch)(product launch)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Linspire, the ex-Lindows, has released Linspire Five-O, the latest 2.6.10 take on its Linux distribution, said to incorporate 1,200 "improvements" that touch on all of its core applications and include a completely revised and streamlined GUI,...

Novell & IBM in deal to cultivate ISV Software.(Linux Watch)(independent software vendor)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Novell, whose purpose in IBM's eyes is to stop Red Hat from getting too big for its britches--and maybe more if you listen to the conspiracy theorists--says that ISVs can now avail themselves of the services of nine IBM Innovations Centers in...

Microsoft & Quest claim they've run off 1.5m NetWare users.(Linux Watch)(market size of Microsoft Corp. and Quest Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Microsoft and its buddy Quest Software say they've migrated 1.5 million NetWare users to Windows Server 2003, people Novell was hoping to shift to Linux. Launched in November, the NetWare migration program offers tools, guidance, training...

Debian mulls dropping Sparc, mainframe.(Linux Watch)(product development of Debian)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Debian, the most respected of the Linux distributions, is thinking about dropping support for Sparc and the S/390 and reducing the number of architectures it will actively support from 11 to four. The architectures the Debian community is...

SCO appears at Nasdaq hearing.(Linux Watch)(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... SCO spent St Patrick Day at a Nasdaq hearing about why it didn't file its 10-K on time, which put the company on the market's delisting watch list. SCO said it expects to file the 10-K, which was delayed mostly by differences with its...

Novell ships OES, SuSE Pro9.3.(Linux Watch)(launch of Novell Open Enterprise Server and SuSE Linux Professional 9.3)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Novell has started shipping the mixed Linux-NetWare Open Enterprise Server (OES) and SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 should be in the stores in the next few weeks. The new consumer code is based on the 2.6.11 kernel, includes OpenOffice 2.0...

Cognos extends Linux support.(Linux Watch)(licensing of Cognos ReportNet)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Business intelligence ISV Cognos has put out its ReportNet web-based report and query authoring application on the Intel Linux platform. In November, Cognos said ported ReportNet to the Power-based Linux pSeries platform from IBM.

Google shows affection for open source.(Linux Watch)(launch of Google Code)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Google has set up a new web site called Google Code (http://code.google.com) to serve as a repository for open source software and APIs from the search engine king. Google is initially releasing a bunch of software tools including...

Court to hear motion to intervene & fabled third amended complaint arguments.(Linux Watch)(cases between International Business Machines Corp. and The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... The Utah federal court hearing the SCO v IBM case will hear oral arguments on the motion to unseal all the filings in the case that was lodged by this paper, CNET and Forbes on April 26. Judge Dale Kimball, not the magistrate, is going to...

Yarro gets Canopy's shares in SCO.(Linux Watch)(cases between Ralph Yarro and Canopy Group)(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... That nasty situation between Canopy, SCO's biggest backer, and its ex-management worked out the way we said it would. Canopy's ex-CEO Ralph Yarro walked away from the fight with all of Canopy's 32% of SCO plus an undisclosed amount of cash,...

Microsoft inches closer to war with Google & Yahoo.(development of MSN adCenter)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Microsoft has started previewing a new online advertising platform called MSN adCenter as its sniping at Google and Yahoo over search-based ad dollars intensifies. adCenter features a paid MSN search component that links search results on...

Kazeon drops its veil.(Drive Bay)(investments of Redpoint Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Kazeon Systems)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Kazeon Systems emerged from underground to offer a few details on its technology for managing the spike in unstructured data in enterprises. The Mountain View, California startup said it's raised $17 million in funding from Redpoint...

HP talks up new server, storage widgetry.(Drive Bay)(product launch plans)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Hewlett-Packard will be introducing new server networking and storage widgetry aimed at simplifying the IT infrastructure and manageability of enterprise computing environments. HP made the announcement for the benefit of its annual meeting...

NeoScale gets more funding.(Drive Bay)(investments of Advanced Technology Ventures, Bay Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds in NeoScale Systems)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Storage security appliance vendor NeoScale has gotten $12 million in new funding taking its total backing to $43 million. New investor Advanced Technology Ventures joins NeoScale's existing backers Bay Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners...

Storage software shows growth.(Drive Bay)(market size)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Storage software worldwide grew 15% year-over-year to $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter, according to the folks at IDC. According to IDC analyst Bill North, the growth was "fuelled by the increased business investment in data protection...

Paolini's at SAP.(appointment of George Paolini)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... The peripatetic George Paolini, the onetime head of the Java Community Process at Sun, back in the days when it was hard to mistake it for a peaceful assembly, and the guy who was head of Borland's Java Business Unit after a spoiled interval at...

Indian Starter Edition delayed.(launch of Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Microsoft has pushed back its cheap, slightly dumbed-down, localized Windows XP Starter Edition for India until June. It was supposed to be available this quarter. Apparently it's bogged down in translation. Microsoft is doing Hindi...

Boogeyman under the bed.(Billy Grams)(reports of Piper Jaffray Cos. about market share of Symantec Corp. and Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Piper Jaffray thinks Symantec is underrated. It thinks that Microsoft won't impact Symantec's enterprise business for the next two years and that the chance of Microsoft entering the anti-virus space late this year won't preclude Symantec from...

HP mum on executive search.(Billy Grams)(human resource management of Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... HP's interim management frustrated any shareholder attempts to find out how its CEO search is really going at its annual meeting Wednesday. The company's non-executive chairman Patricia Dunn said she wouldn't answer any question about the...

Infocom to resell Egenera.(Billy Grams)(distribution agreements)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Infocom is going to resell Egenera's BladeFrame boxes in Japan, focusing on communications service providers.

EU oks Symantec-Veritas deal.(Billy Grams)(European Union)(acquisition of VERITAS Software Corp. by Symantec Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... The European Union has okayed Symantec's $13.5 million acquisition of Veritas, not that anyone thought it wouldn't. Veritas, meanwhile, has delayed filing its 10-K. Not filing 10-Ks seems to be going around. Cray said the same thing as have...

Zend confab on.(Billy Grams)(conference of Zend Technologies Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Zend Technologies, who's itching for PHP, the LAMP constituent, to take on J2EE, is going to host a Zend/PHP conference and expo October 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency at the San Francisco Airport.

Black Duck spreads its wings.(Billy Grams)(product launch plans of Black Duck Software)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Black Duck Software, the folks with the IP risk management and mitigation software, is going to launch an on-demand hosted version of the stuff before the end of the month. It validates a company's proper use of open source software.

Software AG harnesses the Semantic Web.(Billy Grams)(Enterprise Information Integrator 2.1)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Software AG thinks it's got the first globally available information integration product to use newfangled Semantic Web technology so dear to the heart of World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee. It says its Enterprise Information Integrator...

Linux doubts.(Billy Grams)(beliefs of Robb Rasmussen)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to 'securifying' the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix--it could...

Euro no-patents movement needs help.(Billy Grams)(beliefs of Florian Mueller about patent policy of European Union)
March 21, 2005... Florian Mueller, the guy who put together NoSoftwarePatents.com, the open source effort to stop the European Union from adopting American-style software patents, says the lobbying initiative, which has come a long way since it got started, will...

IBM pays Compuware $400m to settle piracy suit.
March 28, 2005... IBM watchers who bet that the company would never let the Compuware trade secrets case get to the jury can pick up their winnings at the window. Otherwise, the way the deal is structured there's really no clear winner and no reform of...

Linux virtualization consortium reportedly in the works.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... The tom-toms say that Computer Associates, anxious to flex its leadership muscles, is quietly pulling together a consortium that would optimize virtualization technologies like the open source Xen hypervisor software, and presumably the very...

Microsoft asks appeals court to reconsider its posture on foreign royalties.(cases)
March 28, 2005... Microsoft has gone back to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which overturned the landmark Eolas patent decision against Microsoft three weeks ago and ordered a new trial, asking it to rehear the part of its decision where it...

Novell CFO turns up at CA.(Al Nugent joined Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Novell's ex-CFO Al Nugent, whose departure was noticed right before BrainShare (CSN No 588), has turned up at Computer Associates as senior VP and general manager of CA's key Unicenter operation, reporting to Russell Artz, the company's sole...

Yukon, Visual Studio 2005 slip again.(new software from Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Microsoft has pushed back the release of its Visual Studio 2005 application development toolkit and SQL Server 2005, otherwise known as Yukon, to the second half of this year. Microsoft was nebulous about when in the second half. Both...

Oracle plucks Retek out of SAP's arms.(merger agreement)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... SAP limped away from its first head-to-head confrontation with Oracle, as Wall Street bet it would, after Oracle bettered SAP's bid for Retek Inc by a quarter a share to $11.25 and walked away with the Minneapolis-based retail ISV. Retek...

Dell debuts new database servers.(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Dell has launched two new four-way 64-bit Xeon servers targeted at database environments, server consolidation, virtualization and RISC migration. The new PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 servers featuring DDR2-400 ECC memory, PCI Express I/O,...