Client Server News articles from November 2002

Client Server News archives from November 2002

Microsoft Antitrust Remedies Decision Due Today.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The fateful Microsoft antitrust remedies decision is due to be handed down today Friday, November 1 at 4:30 pm Eastern time after the market closes. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the district court jurist who heard the remedy phase of the...

NEC Set To Deliver 32p Itanium 2 Box.(NEC Express5800 1000)
November 4, 2002... NEC is about to become the first company to land a 32-way Itanium 2 machine squarely in the market. SGI is promising to delivering a massive 64-way McKinley system with hysterically aggressive benchmark performance early next year (CSN No...

OmegaBand Collapses.
November 4, 2002... Two-and-a-half-year-old Infiniband start-up Omega- Band crashed and burned the other day when it ran out of runway. OmegaBand's VP of marketing Wade Campbell said Thursday that the company couldn't get a second round of financing syndicated...

Intel on Threshold of 3GHz.(new Pentium 4 chip)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Intel is supposed to release its Hyper-Threaded 3GHz Pentium 4 chip on Thursday, November 14. Observers are playing it as an important psychological edge. Intel can hope - and try to prove that TCO favors people who turn in their old PCs for...

Sun Sets its New App Server Free...Well, Almost.(Sun Application Server 7.0)
November 4, 2002... Sun has trashed its tail-dragging application server, the code that wended its way from Kiva to Netscape to the Sun-Netscape Alliance, where it was blended with NetDynamics, which Sun had bought, to iPlanet and finally to Sun ONE without...

Micro Focus Warms Big Iron for M'soft.(Bundles Net Express with Visual Studio.NET)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Micro Focus International wheeled out that promised alliance with Microsoft Monday to mate dear old COBOL with .NET. The deal obviously helps scratch Microsoft's enterprise itch. Their agreement's got three parts: The COBOL...

Borland Makes Third Buy.(Acquires Togethersoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... After agreeing to pick up the money-losing Starbase Corp-oration for $24 million in cash and the Swedish .NET house Bold-Soft for some undisclosed amount just a few weeks ago (CSN No 471), Borland has push on and is going to swallow privately...

Microsoft Beats Private Antitrust Rap.(from Gravity)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Virginia has thrown out a private class-action antitrust suit filed against Microsoft by Gravity in February 1999 claiming that the Microsoft monopoly and Microsoft's refusal to disclose its APIs damaged its litigation support software. ...

Gerstner Era Winds Down.(Sam Palmisano named CEO and Pres Sam Palmisano chairman)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... IBM has named its president and CEO Sam Palmisano, eight months into the job of running the behemoth, chairman as well, replacing the last vestige of the Gerstner administration - or it will come January 1 when Gerstner retires and Palmisano's...

Microsoft Upgrades App for HIPAA Compliance.(BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA 2.0 )(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Microsoft launched a BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA 2.0 Tues-day for healthcare organizations. The software is designed to cut the cost and the number of administrative chores involved in the claims process and enable healthcare operations...

Software as Service 10 Years Off: IDC.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... IDC says delivering software as a service, what it calls the next phase of web services, is at least a decade away. IDC calls its assessment a "dose of reality to remedy the overly optimistic web services hype." IDC says "most of the web...

M'soft Shoots Self in Foot.(Licensing program unpopular)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The Yankee Group says the "overwhelming majority of small, mid-size and enterprise customers" believe Microsoft's widely loathed Licensing Program 6.0 will cost them 20%-200% more than they had been paying. According to a recent Yankee/Sunbelt...

IBM Thinks It Sees a Bottom, Dell Thought It Saw Some Rebound, Everybody Else Is Under Water.
November 4, 2002... IBM CEO Sam Palmisano mentioned Wednesday during a strategic speech to maybe 100 customers that there were signs of a technology bottom. Michael Dell, in Japan promoting what Dell calls its smallest desktop ever, was quoted as saying Monday...

Judge Refuses To Take Back his Itanium Infringement Decision.(Intel Itanium patent suit by Intergraph)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... As Intel itself expected, the Texas judge who decided that the Itanium chip infringed on two performance patents held by Intergraph refused Intel's motion asking him to reconsider his decision. Confident of maybe getting at least one Intergraph...

We'll See That and Raise You $100: The Desktop Poker Game.(Wal-Mart and HP offer low-cost PCs for the home market)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Well, if Wal-Mart can sell a Windows Home box from Microtel for $299, then, by cracky, HP can sell its own Windows Home Presario for $399 this holiday season. Neither includes a monitor.

Unisys Pre-Packages Solutions for Windows Mainframe.(Unisys ES7000 applications)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Unisys has got a bunch of packaged database server solutions, designed to handle 7,000 to 27,000 concurrent users and 1TB-9TB of storage, to tickle the use of its ES7000, the so-called Windows mainframe. It describes them as packaged for select...

SuSE Latest Linux To Skip Down the "We Run Windows Apps".
November 4, 2002... Desktop Path By Maureen O'Gara Rumor has it that SuSE, which raised an apparently last-minute $13.9 million third round a year ago when it sacrificed another 24% of its workforce, taking it to 380 people, is looking for more financing...

Lindows Grabs a Tiger by the Tail.(Lindows.com and TigerDirect Inc)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Lindows.com has gotten TigerDirect Inc, the Systemax Inc subsidiary, to pick up LindowsOS, the operating system it expects to go to general release in a couple of weeks. Lindows preens that Tiger, a multi-channel computer hawker, is supposed to...

Etagon & IBM Flirt with Each Other.(Etagon Power Appliance attracts IBM Global Services' attention)
November 4, 2002... Etagon Inc, the New York City start-up with the newfangled data center-centric multi-tier Power Appliance, the cross between a server appliance and a blade server that'll initially be dedicated to running the Oracle9i RAC (CSN No 473), much to...

Polyserve Gets Another $19.5m.(Linux cluster company)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Polyserve, the three-year-old Linux cluster people, has pulled down another $19.5 million investment from its standing backers, Greylock, which led this third round, New Enterprise Associates and the Roda Group plus a bunch of individuals. That...

Hammer Lab Kicks Off.(AMD opens production facility)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... AMD opened its new Sunnyvale, California Developer Center the other day and SuSE kicked in a beta of its x86-64 Hammer distribution, which AMD is supposed to make available to the 150 ISVs that it claims are working with its Opteron server...

Red Hat Prognosticates.(sees server replacement market as opportunity)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Red Hat has been telling Wall Street that it thinks the server market for the next 12-18 months is a replacement market and that since Unix-to-Linux migration is cheaper than Unix-to-Windows migration it's got a good chance. Red Hat CFO Kevin...

SCO Woos Linux Developers.(SCO Group (formerly Santa Cruz Operations))
November 4, 2002... The reconstituted SCO Group, the old Caldera plus the old SCO, has launched a series of programs to get developers to write applications for the upcoming United Linux that SCO's supposed to sell. The new programs, which are being rolled out...

SCO Names Sontag Head of OS Division.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The SCO Group has named Chris Sontag senior VP of its Operating Systems division. Sontag will be responsible for directing the marketing and strategy of the unit, guiding corporate marketing and overseeing the development of SCO's IP. ...

Windows Media Audio Reverse Engineered.
November 4, 2002... An open source digital media project called Ffmpeg has released the source code for a reversed-engineered decoder for Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. The code could offer consumer electronics makers and software developers a...

Progeny Gets a New Boss.(Garth Dickey)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Linux services provider Progeny has named Garth Dickey CEO. The Indianapolis firm founded by Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock expects Dickey will help the company to "realize its vision of becoming an end-to-end provider of Linux platform...

Butler Prognosticates.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
November 4, 2002... The Butler Group says that by 2009 Linux and .NET will take a significant market share from the proprietary Sun-IBM-HP Unix systems, which sounds like a pretty safe bet. It figures that as more ISVs certify their applications for Linux, IT...

Real Turns First Code Drop Loose.(RealNetworks)
November 4, 2002... RealNetworks just made its self-imposed deadline on Tuesday to open source the source code to its Helix DNA Client, the engine powering its RealOne player, part of its gambit to avoid having to up its engineering staff and try to become...

ISM Releases Linux Nanny.(Information Systems Manager)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Pennsylvania-based Information Systems Manager Inc. (ISM) has adapted its PerfMan for Unix performance management and capacity planning solution to Linux. The thing analyzes the historical usage of Linux system resources, including CPU, memory...

Lindows Ties Up with Speakeasy.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Lindows.com has arranged for Speak-easy Inc. to offer users of LindowsOS 3.0, its first general release due in a few weeks, dial-up and broadband connections. That includes the people who bought one of those $199 Lindows-based computers off of...

Desktop Conclave Set.(Calendar)
November 4, 2002... The first Desktop Linux Summit is scheduled for February 20-21 in San Diego. Sponsors include HP, Code-Weavers, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, Sun, SuSE and Ximian. See www.desk toplinux.com/ summit.

First TV Linux Spec Arrives.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The TV Linux Alliance consortium of digital media technology suppliers that's working on defining a standards-based Linux environment for the digital set-top market has come out with its first specification - version 0.8. It defines a...

Transmeta Cozies Up with MonteVista.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Down-on-its-luck Transmeta Corporation, the revolutionary x86 chip house where Linux creator Linux Torvalds works, has been looking for ways into the embedded market and has arranged with MontaVista Software Inc for customers of its Linux...

Penguin Debuts New Linux Server for Power Users.(Penguin Relion 5000)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Penguin Computing has launched a quad-processor Linux server targeted at database and application customers requiring large amounts of parallel processing power, connectivity and storage options as well as high availability and reliability. ...

VA Upgrades SourceForge Enterprise Edition.(Version 3.2)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... VA Software has launched an enhanced version of its SourceForge Enterprise Edition collaborative software development environment. Rev 3.2 features a new Project Management Console to provide real- time visibility into the entire...

IBM Picks Linux for $100m Blue Gene Project.(operating system for supercomputer)
November 4, 2002... IBM's research gurus have lighted on Linux as the operating system for their gee-whiz Blue Gene supercomputer project. Blue Gene is the code name for the $100 million IBM project to build a petaflop supercomputer. (A petaflop = one...

Brocade Drops a Bombshell; Misses Earnings, Revenues.
November 4, 2002... Forecast SAN switch vendor Brocade Communications warned Monday that its earnings and revenues would fall short of projections for its fiscal fourth quarter ended October 26. The San Jose, California outfit said that earnings per share...

EMC, Dell Extend Deal to Manufacturing.(Dell to manufacture EMC Clariion CX200 storage systems)
November 4, 2002... EMC and Dell celebrated the first anniversary of their partnership by announcing a roundly anticipated manufacturing agreement - that we remember talking about first (CSN No 422) - and the launch of a new low-end Clariion storage system, the...

Platypus Names New CEO, Debuts New Products.
November 4, 2002... Australian storage start-up Platypus Technology has named Bill Armitage its new CEO and introduced two new products including one aimed at SANs. Armitage was most recently CEO of a failed start-up called Bulldozer Soft-ware that did...

Sun Cobbles a Business Continuity Package Together.(Enterprise Continuity)
November 4, 2002... Sun has put together a new business continuity offering called Enterprise Continuity for very large enterprises. Aimed primarily at existing Sun shops and assembled mostly from existing products, Enterprise Continuity is supposed to make...

HDS Rolls Out New Services.(Hitachi Data Systems Global Solutions Services )(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Hitachi Data Systems has launched the first set of services from its recently formed Global Solutions Services business. They include new Data Migration and Storage Consolidation services based on technology from HDS and its partners,...

Brocade Launches a 32-Port Switch.(Brocade Communications SilkWorm 3900 )(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Brocade Communications has launched its 32-port 2 Gbps Fibre Channel switch, the SilkWorm 3900, to OEMs. Targeted at small to mid-size enterprise SANs, the SilkWorm 3900 comes in a 1.5U enclosure and is based on the same ASIC technology as...

Microsoft Strengthens its Position in NAS.(market share increase in network-attached storage)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Citing IDC numbers, Microsoft's tooting its horn over the fact that the unit share of Windows-powered NAS appliance servers has increased to about 32% over the last 18 months. Explaining Microsoft's achievement in a relatively flat market,...

Intel Expands Storage Line.(Intel Serial ATA Controller 31244)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Intel has expanded its networked storage products line with new building blocks. At the Storage Networking World show the other day, Intel unveiled a Serial ATA disk controller, an iSCSI storage adapter and an ultra-low voltage 400MHz Celeron...

Gallatin Announcement Due.(Intel Xeon MP processor ships)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The widget is already out and about with OEM customers so on Monday, November 4 Intel is going to make it official and say Gallatin, the new Foster-displacing Xeon MP chip, has arrived. That's the part, done up on a 0.13-micron process, with...

Microsoft Can Fuhgeddaboud CRM.(Upshot Inc readies customer relationship management applicaton)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Six-year-old Upshot Corporation, the web-based sales management operation that's seen $71 million in venture backing go through its bank account, has got the beaters out saying that Microsoft might as well fold its CRM tents now 'cause what...

HP Out To Crush its Resellers.(focuses on direct sales)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... HP is apparently doing what Compaq could never bring itself to do and whittling its reseller retinue to the bone in the pursuit of better margins through direct sales. Reports are coming in that it'll be imposing draconian new policies on them...

All Things Are Relative.(United Linux reports high rate of downloads for new version of Linux operating system)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The United Linux folks claim an "impressively high rate" of beta downloads of their upcoming OS since the thing became available on September 15. They say there have been 15,000 of them.

Security by Obscurity.(SCO Unix, the Apple Mac OS and the HPQ Tru64 Unix operating systems suffer least attacks by hackers)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... UK-based mi2g, which has been collecting data on overt digital attacks going back to 1995 and sticking them in its Security Intelligence Products and Systems (SIPS) database, figures that SCO Unix, the Apple Mac OS and the HPQ Tru64 Unix...

Microsoft Quietly Running Superdome.(testing .NET Datacenter on HP system)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... HP says that Microsoft is already tuning .NET Datacenter on a 64-CPU Itanium flavor of its high-end, otherwise PA-RISC-based, Super-dome, the machine due to market next year, a version of which is now sitting up in Redmond. HP intends to be...

Desperately Seeking Internal Discipline - Hitachi.(Hitachi reorganizes)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Saying that "there are no prospects in sight for a full-fledged economic recovery in Japan in the medium term" and with competition "intensifying on a global scale," Hitachi is going to restructure its business and its business portfolio since...

Death Wish II.(Microsoft to repeating licensing mistakes)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Microsoft apparently hired Zoomerang to do a survey asking people about updates, daily security patches, service packs and the like and how much they would be willing to pay for them. Obviously Microsoft is intent on repeating its Licensing 6...

Uglier Figures Still.(Biological attack to cost taxpayers $750 billion; Iraq war up to $9 billion per month)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Besides the incalculable toll in human, animal and plant life, the Brooking Institution figures it will cost $750 billion if a major US city is hit by a biological attack, according to Moneyline anchorman Lou Dobbs in a speech he gave in the...

.NET Server Slips Again.(Microsoft .NET Server 2003 )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Told ya not to get your heart set on seeing .NET Server 2003 get RTM'd by the end of the year and hit market around Valentine's Day (CSN No 466). Microsoft has pushed the thing out again for the umpteenth time. Now it's not going to be...

IBM Servers & Storage Back Together Again; Storage Boss Lands Top On-Demand Job.
November 11, 2002... IBM is pushing its storage and server divisions together under server chief Bill Zeitler less than three years after it cut the storage business loose as a separate unit. In the reorg, storage boss Linda Sanford gets a new role with a mandate...

NEC To Go with Connectix.(Virtual Server )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Well, that's decided then. After looking at the competition, NEC is going to use the upcoming Virtual Server from Connectix for virtualization and attendant consolidation features on its Windows-based fault-tolerant systems. Stratus...

Ex-Wink CEO To Run Microsoft's Business Strategy.(Wink Communications Inc's Maggie Wilderotter )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Microsoft has named the former president and CEO of Wink Communications Inc Maggie Wilderotter senior VP of business strategy, reporting to the company's CTO for advanced strategies and policy Craig Mundie, the guy who's been Microsoft point...

IBM Buys Canadian ISV.(Tarian Software )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... IBM has bought Ottawa-based Tarian Software for its business content management. Terms weren't disclosed. The deal should close this quarter. Tarian does e-record management software. Last week, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said he intends to spend $2...

EnFuzion Resurfaces.(Turbolinux' sold-off clustering technology )
November 11, 2002... Turbolinux' sold-off clustering technology EnFuzion is now being peddled by the ex-Turbo guy, Michael Duffy, who bought it off of the flailing Turbolinux for a song - $80,000, we now understand, not the $100k previously reportedly - and the...

Scooter Quits GE Board.(Scott McNealy )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Sun CEO Scott McNealy has resigned from the board of GE effective December. It's the only seat outside of Sun that he's ever held. GE CEO Jeff Immelt is-sued a statement Thursday morning saying that "GE has several strategic relationships...

AMD Plays Coy on Cuts.(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... AMD has yet to come to grips publicly with how many people it's going to lay off to survive. At its annual analyst meeting Thursday, all CEO Hector Ruiz could manage to admit to was "a significant number," but AMD chairman Jerry Sanders...

AOL Debuts Instant Messaging for Corporations.(Enterprise AIM Services)
November 11, 2002... America Online is trying to take its popular instant messaging technology to the corporate world with a new suite of products called Enterprise AIM Services that provides enhanced manageability and security. Enterprise AIM Services pairs...

Down & Out in Cannes.(Gartner's economic forecast)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Hanging around Gartner CEO Michael Fleisher is depressing. At a symposium the research firm was hosting in Cannes earlier this week, he made the sour observation that despite any recovery jive, "the reality is that the economy remains awful"...

Microsoft Beats States Rap; Judge Barely Tinkers with Settlement.
November 11, 2002... This is the same story that went out as a flash a week ago. The bartenders in Silicon Valley, especially those in the taverns around Sun's stomping grounds, ought to have raised their prices last week because they must have sold a lot of...

The Courts Giveth & The Courts Taketh Away.(Microsoft antitrust case)
November 11, 2002... Microsoft only had the weekend to glory in the fact that it royally trounced the non-settling states that were out to stake it to an anthill when Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided Friday to sign Microsoft's settlement with the federal...

Compliance - Not for the Faint of Heart.(Microsoft-Justice Department antitrust settlement )
November 11, 2002... Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the district court judge who's prepared to sign the widely loathed Microsoft-Justice Department antitrust settlement once the pair make a couple of minor changes, has decreed that the compliant mechanism should involve...

Appeal Deemed Unlikely.(Microsoft case)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... The defeated leaders of the nine non-settling states remain coy about whether they'll appeal the Kollar-Kotelly antitrust settlement decision or not - although even their partisans largely seem to think the judge made her position so...

Gallatin's Here.(Intel's next-generation Xeon)
November 11, 2002... Intel Monday officially released Gallatin, the next-generation Xeon that's been in OEM hands for a while already. The new Xeon MP, which basically pushes Foster aside, is intended primarily for the same mid-tier and back-end (well, some away)...

Corel Cans 22% of Workforce.(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Corel Corporation, which a timely Microsoft investment saved a couple of years ago, has had to cut its workforce across-the-board by 22%, 220 people, in an effort to become profitable again. Dell, HP, Gateway and Sony have recently gone...

Web Services Defended.(survey by Software and Information Industry Association, Computer-world and Systinet)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Okay, pick your poison. Jupiter Research recently trashed web services saying it'll take another three-five years for them to mature and that IT folks are currently ignoring security concerns and the immaturity of the technology to play...

Dell Debuts New Small Biz Server.(PowerEdge 1600SC)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Dell has introduced a new server for small businesses and corporate workgroups. Dubbed the PowerEdge 1600SC, the box comes with optional remote management capabilities so customers can control or diagnose it regardless of its operating...

Network Commerce Files Chapter 11.(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Our calls aren't being returned but the Associated Press says Network Commerce Inc, the struggling Internet outfit with a changeable charter started by Dwayne Walker, the ex-Microsoftie, who once upon a time was director of Windows NT and...

Wind River Moves to Subscriptions.(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Wind River is switching to a subscription scheme to build deferred revenues, trying to hit the barn with broad solutions rather than point products. Payments will still apparently be up-front. Seat licenses, now 40% of its revenues, are...

Ex-Sun Unit To Do Carrier-grade Embedded Real-time Linux.(Sun drops Chorus real-time operating system, Jaluna SA picks it up)
November 11, 2002... Sun Microsystems has quietly dumped the Chorus embedded RTOS that it bought five years ago for somewhere between $20 million and $40 million as part of the cost cutting that the sick economy and Sun's own poor health has forced on it. It...

TigerDirect To Go Head-to-Head with Wal-Mart.
November 11, 2002... TigerDirect, the folks who sell boxes on the web the way Dell does, isn't going to stop with that $229 Lindows widget it introduced on Halloween (CSN No 474). It's going to take on rival wal-mart.com with a $199.99 Lindows entry that ups...

MySQL, NuSphere Settle Historic GPL Legal Hassle.
November 11, 2002... MySQL AB, the Swedish outfit behind the MySQL open source database, and its one-time distributor NuSphere Inc have settled their incendiary 17-month legal battle, historic for being the first time a company - in this case NuSphere - was ever...

Linus on the Desktop.(Linux inventor Linus Torvalds see Linux elbowing Windows in the desktop market)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... "I absolutely believe in a Linux desktop. I think the way it will happen is through corporate desktops, where Windows maintenance and licensing costs are just going to eventually cause more and more corporations to realize they just don't need...

OSDL Gets CEO.(Open Source Development Lab names Jerry Greenberg CEO)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Fretting over its messaging - or lack of it - the board of the Open Source Development Lab has named a CEO over the head of incumbent lab director Tim Witham, a gent with little tolerance for marketing. OSDL hasn't a CEO before. The former...

MIT Dreams of Newfangled Alexandrian Library.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology developing digital library)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a digital library called Dspace that it hopes will encompass virtually the entire intellectual output of its scholars and researchers. A joint venture between MIT and Hewlett-Packard is...

Linux-based PVR Emerges from Sony's CoCoon.(personal video recorder)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Sony this week launched an anticipated new line of digital media products in Japan called CoCoon, a cute way of saying COnnected COmmunity On Network. The first product is a non-Windows-, non-Intel- , non-Tivo-based personal video recorder. If...

Jabber Expands Deal with France Telecom.(instant messaging )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Jabber Inc, the company that has its roots in the Jabber open source instant messaging software project, has expanded its software agreement with France Telecom in a three-stage distribution deal that could potentially be worth millions of...

SGI To Show its 64p Linux Box.(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... SGI is going to turn up at Super-Computing 2002 this week coming with its sexy 64-processor Linux-on-McKinley machine, the first time the public will see the beast supposedly running real-life apps. The company is still being secretive...

Brocade To Acquire Rhapsody.
November 11, 2002... Brocade Communications Systems, which is expected to lay off maybe 15% of its workforce and take other cost-cutting measures because its October quarter came up short, is acquiring "intelligent switch" start-up Rhapsody Net-works in an...

CreekPath Raises Another $16m, Upgrade Due.
November 11, 2002... CreekPath Systems won a crucial vote of confidence when investors committed another $16 million to the storage start-up in a Series B round that takes its total funding to $36 million. The magic word "oversubscribed" is being noised about....