Client Server News articles from October 2005

Client Server News archives from October 2005

Uh-oh, the PTO Says the Eolas Patent is Valid.(Patent and Trademark Office, Eolas Technologies Inc.)
October 3, 2005... In a move likely to send a shockwave through the World Wide Web - and rudely unsettle Microsoft - the US Patent and Trademark Office Tuesday changed its mind again about the now-famous Eolas patent and said it was filing a so-called "Notice of...

ClearSpeed Watch.(development planning of products from ClearSpeed Technology Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... ClearSpeed Technology, the Anglo-American start-up that's been promising to make desktops and even laptops into 150GFLOPS hummers, servers into 300GFLOPS dynamos and common COTS-based HPC clusters into 100TGFLOPS wonders by dint of its...

Dell as Status Symbol.(forecast of the company)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... In a move the belies its history, Dell has thought up a new premium PC brand called the XPS whose cheapest model will be three times the price of Dell's entry-level box. The cachet, aimed at gamers, power users and the simply acquisitive,...

AMD Burns Sun.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., contract)
October 3, 2005... AMD has cut the ground out from under its buddy and good customer Sun Microsystems. Sun figured to dine out on the fact that it had the fastest Opteron boxes in town. That boast has been good for all of two weeks and now Sun has had...

Intel Delivers Last Single-Core Xeons.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Intel Monday announced its last planned single-core Xeon. Kinda the end of an era. It's all dual-core from here on out beginning with the awaited Paxville placeholder, which is still unannounced but out in Opteron- defensive pilot boxes...

Can Palm & Microsoft Crush RIM?
October 3, 2005... On Monday Palm and Microsoft announced that strategic alliance we said was coming and will have Palm put the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system on Treo smartphones. It's Palm first move off of its native Palm operating system and could...

Sony Suffers a Betamax-like Loss.(forecast of the company high-definition DVD format)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... The Wintel duo Microsoft and Intel have decided to back Toshiba's high-definition DVD format, sending Sony off to replay tapes of its historic Betamax loss. Sony had aspirations of seeing its Blu-ray technology, backed by Samsung and...

IBM Moves To Exploit Dell's Unease.(new product xSeries 100)
October 3, 2005... Making a direct run at Dell, IBM Tuesday introduced a new line of entry servers including an SMB-targeting xSeries 100 that it figures is the most affordable entry point available from a top-tier vendor. It's cheaper than a desktop. The other...

Ellison Settlement Hits Speed Bump.(a case between Larry Ellison and Oracle Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... A California judge has stepped between Larry Ellison and that tentative $100 million settlement his lawyers cut to get him out from under an insider trading suit that dates back to 2001 that accused him of selling almost $900 million worth of...

Oracle Gets its Numbers Wrong.(earnings of the company)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Oracle told the SEC Monday that it can't add and that it got the non-GAAP fiscal first-quarter numbers that it reported last week wrong. It said the $707 million in application software revenues it said it got were more like $732 million and...

EMC Makes Sense of its Allocity Buy.(new product EMC Storage Administrator for Exchange)
October 3, 2005... Storage giant EMC Wednesday announced EMC Storage Administrator for Exchange, software for mid-sized and small-to-medium businesses that it says "uniquely" simplifies Microsoft Exchange storage administration tasks and improves e-mail...

Bladecenter Delivers First Fully Enabled 4GB SAN Solutions.(storage area networks)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... IBM Wednesday announced the availability of the first fully enabled 4 Gb/s SAN solutions for blade servers. Developed with QLogic and McData, IBM's BladeCenter is now supposed to offer new levels of price, performance and flexibility in...

PolyServe Expands its Deal with HP.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... PolyServe, which promotes itself as enabling utility computing on Windows because its shared data clustering software virtualizes industry standard servers and storage as a single system, has gotten an expanded OEM deal with HP. HP is...

Symantec Buys More Protection.(WholeSecurity)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Symantec is buying WholeSecurity, a privately held firm in Austin, Texas that identifies viruses, worms and other malware by their behavior rather than rely on signatures or lists of known threats. It will enlarge Symantec's technology arsenal...

Fujitsu Siemens Picks Up Brocade Switch.(Brocade Communication Systems Inc., Fujitsu Siemens Computers, contract)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Brocade claims to have extended its leadership in SAN connectivity for blade servers because it's providing an embedded Fibre Channel SAN switch module to Fujitsu Siemens. The Fujitsu Siemens Primergy BX600 blade server is now available with a...

Cisco To Try Hand at Utility Computing.
October 3, 2005... Cisco Systems has come out with an InfiniBand-based server fabric switch portfolio that, when combined with its VFrame 3.0 data center-virtualization software, is supposed to represent a new approach to utility computing.

HP To Add Dual-Cores.
October 3, 2005... HP is supposed to add to its dual-core x86 server line up on October 10.

Google Shows its Trajan Complex.(United States. Ames Research Center, partnership)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Like the great emperors of Rome, Trajan and Hadrian, Google apparently has a building complex. It's going to construct a million-square-foot research complex/corporate campus at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View and collaborate...

Red Hat to Novell: Eat Your Heart Out.
October 3, 2005... Red Hat Wednesday came in with unseasonally strong fiscal second- quarter earnings posting revenues of $65.7 million, up 42% year- over-year and up 8% sequentially, making $16.7 million on it, up 42% year-over-year and up 35% sequentially. EPS...

Red Hat Loses Sun Refugee.(Karen Tegan-Padir appointed at Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Sun, which rehired its co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim last year to design Opteron boxes and also forgave Tom Goguen for his fling with Apple, has brought back another emigre, Karen Tegan-Padir, who left the Sun orbit last year to run Red Hat's...

OpenIB Aims To Dazzle.(OpenIB Alliance)(testing of telecommunications equipment)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... The OpenIB Alliance says it will put together the largest multi- vendor InfiniBand fabric ever deployed at Supercomputing in November with some 30-odd InfiniBand infrastructure equipment vendors, server and storage vendors, software vendors,...

TRW Standardizes on Linux.
October 3, 2005... TRW Automotive, an old Unix house that does, oh, $12 billion a year, is standardizing on Dell and Linux. The deal involves 24,000 desktops, laptops, workstations, servers and storage and consolidating into four data centers.

MIT & the $100 Linux Laptop.(production management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... The US has told the United Nations to take a hike. It ain't gonna run the Internet. Apparently American intransigence could derail the World Summit on the Information Society in November. That's where MIT Media Lab and its co-founder...

JasperSoft Releases JasperReports 1.0.
October 3, 2005... JasperSoft Corporation, the open source reporting maven, has made JasperReports 1.0 generally available. The stuff is supposed to have 750,000 downloads and 10,000 commercial deployments. The company, which says it's quadrupled its...

Red Hat Up for Common Criteria Eval.(evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Beltway supplier Trusted Computer Solutions Inc (TCS), Red Hat and IBM just got Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.5 into Common Criteria evaluation on a range of IBM eServer systems so it can be declared fit for assured information sharing in and...

PowerCockpit Gets Some Traction at HP.(Mountain View Data Inc.'s contract with Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Mountain View Data, the start-up founded by Turbolinux founder Cliff Miller after he left Turbo, has gotten its flagship provisioning software, PowerCockpit, verified on the HP BladeSystem and entered in the BladeSystem Solution Builder...

Andressen, Dhillon Join Zend Board.
October 3, 2005... Aging Netscape wunderkind Marc Andressen, now the chairman of Opsware, and Gaurav Dhillon, the founder and erstwhile CEO of Informatica, have joined the board of Zend Technologies, the PHP start-up. PHP of course is a LAMP constituent.

SCO wants court to slap IBM around.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
October 10, 2005... SCO on Wednesday filed a follow-up brief to its latest motion to compel discovery from IBM and asked the court to sanction IBM for failing to produce discovery that SCO claims IBM has been repeatedly ordered by the court to turn over. SCO...

PTO rejects Microsoft's FAT patents kinda, maybe.
October 10, 2005... The US Patent and Trademark Office this week rejected two of Microsoft's patents on its File Allocation Table, aka FAT file system. But lest its enemies start hoopin' and hollerin' in victory prematurely, Microsoft claims the thing was...

ClearCube sets up PC blade ecosystem.(ClearCube Technology Inc., International Business Machines Corp., partnership)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... ClearCube Technology, the PC blade pioneer, is aping IBM with its Blade-Center and has put together a syndicate of third-party companies to advance the ecosystem underneath its widgetry. It's called the ClearCube Solution Network and is...

HP OEMs Netscape browser.(original equipment manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Netscape Communications Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... In a throwback to the last century--'cause there hasn't been a Netscape OEM deal since then--HP is going to OEM the five-month-old Netscape 8 from AOL and put the thing on all the consumer PCs and desktops it sells in North America starting...

Office 12 to support Adobe PDF.(Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., contract)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... The next version of Office, aka Office 12, will evidently save documents in Adobe's PDF format. This little nugget came to light at the MVP summit over the weekend and makes one wonder whether it has anything to do with Massachusetts'...

Microsoft cuts deal with Montenegro.(Montenegro Airlines, contract)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... With governments, particularly in Central Europe, listing toward Linux, Microsoft cut a three-year strategic partnership agreement with Montenegro that includes an Enterprise Agreement worth $2.34 million to develop e-initiatives, collaborate...

Symantec buys BindView.(BindView Development Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Symantec is buying enterprise-oriented BindView Development Corporation and its regulatory (Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA compliance), policy and compliance management-cum-security controls solutions for roughly $209 million in cash. The deal is...

Autodesk buys Alias.
October 10, 2005... Autodesk is buying $80 million-a-year Toronto-based 3D graphics company Alias Systems for $182-million cash. The acquisition gives AutoDesk an industrial design arm and chi-chi high-end visualization currently used by such as DreamWorks,...

RLX falls to HP.(acquisition of RLX Technologies Inc. by Hewlett-Packard Co.)
October 10, 2005... HP is going to buy RLX Technologies, the Texas start-up that created the first blade server and was supposed to become the next big systems house. Terms were not disclosed, but the outfit took in close to $130 million in venture capital...

Concurrent to unbundle its Red Hat tools.(Concurrent Computer Corp.)
October 10, 2005... Concurrent Computer Corporation, whose real-time RedHawk Linux is used by the big automotive, aerospace and defense companies, is going to unbundle its Red Hat debugging tools later this month, dubbing the stuff NightStar LX, and enter a new...

Novell goes to IBM for new EMEA chief.(Thomas Francese appointed)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Novell has tapped Thomas Francese, an ex-IBMer, to be president of EMEA, reporting to Ron Hovsepian, head of worldwide field operations and also ex-IBM. Francese, who used to be a VP in IBM's EMEA software group, will be on Novell's worldwide...

Absoft to peddle HPC SDK for BladeCenter.(Linux Watch)(high-performance computing software development kit)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Absoft Corporation has announced a preconfigured High-Performance Computing Software Development Kit (HPC SDK) in support of IBM's BladeCenter-based Grid and Grow starter kit hardware and services that includes Intel software. Absoft,...

Black Duck adds to board.(Linux Watch)
October 10, 2005... Black Duck Software has named retired Sun executive and Data General alumnus Janpieter Scheerder to its board. Scheerder ran SunSoft for a while.

Ingram to resell Linspire.(Linux Watch)
October 10, 2005... Ingram Micro, the big distributor, is going to handle Linspire's desktop Linux distro and its bundled apps like OpenOffice. Ingram is now servicing 100 countries and says it's the only global IT distributor with operations in Asia.

IBM intros Power 5 Linux boxes.(Linux Watch)
October 10, 2005... IBM has announced new Power 5-based systems for SMEs this week claiming to shatter 15 world records in key benchmarks for entry-level Unix and Linux servers. Besides SMEs, IBM imagines them in branch locations running business-critical database...

Check Point buys Sourcefire for a mighty $225m.(Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.)
October 10, 2005... Open source got a real shot in the arm Thursday when Internet security house Check Point Software Technologies Ltd said it was buying privately held Sourcefire Inc, the four-year-old creator of Snort, the widely lauded open source network...

Ballmer trots out Microsoft's latest security strategy.(Steve Ballmer)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... From Munich Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and the head of Microsoft's Security Technology Unit Mike Nash outlined Microsoft's companywide "holistic" strategy and multi-pronged product roadmap for helping secure all of Microsoft's...

PTO to outsource.(BILLY GRAMS)
October 10, 2005... The US Patent and Trademark Office is outsourcing patent searches to private companies and may involve IP offices overseas to cut the backlog of applications. It has contracted with Landon OP and IP Data Miner for a pilot program that could run...

Google to pay for JRE.(Java Runtime Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Aside from the cachet of the Google name, Sun will be getting paid to bundle the Google Toolbar with its Java Runtime Environment (JRE). How much is unclear though it's probably modest. Anybody who wants the two things together and just go and...

Raid on Siebel.(recruitment of the employees of Siebel Systems Inc. by Salesforce.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... According to an e-mail written over the signature of its CEO Marc Benioff, salesforce.com is going to raid Siebel for talent now that Oracle's buying it. Salesforce, which is already on Oracle's kill list, is offering a $5,000 signing bonus to...

Apple's date with destiny?(BILLY GRAMS)
October 10, 2005... Apple has promised a second major product announcement in little over a month next Wednesday, fueling speculation it will unveil that video iPod everybody's been expecting.

The Processor with two Brains.(BILLY GRAMS)
October 10, 2005... It looks like Intel will finally announce its dual-core Paxville Xeon chip on October 10, a few months ahead of the original schedule but six months behind AMD's dual-core Opterons. Intel's promoting the unveiling as "The Processor with Two...

Another date with destiny.(case between Forgent Networks Inc. and information technology industry)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... There's going to be a Marksman hearing on claims construction on February 13, 2006 in the matter of the notorious 1987 Forgent Networks-Compression Labs video compression patent. Forgent is suing practically every brand name in the...

BMC may sell its campus.(BMC Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Piper Jaffray thinks BMC is going to sell its Houston campus in the next six to nine months and could get $275 million-$325 million for it. It would help operating margins and cash flow. It thinks BMC would stay in two buildings it leases back....

XP SP3 on the Roadmap.(BILLY GRAMS)
October 10, 2005... It appears that there is going to be a Service Pack 3 for XP out sometime next year after Vista appears.

SOX not clean?(management of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by Public Company Accounting Oversight Board)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... The conservative-minded Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington is circulating a study that claims that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, aka "Peekaboo"), the federal body overseeing Sarbanes-Oxley enforcement, has...

Paramount appears to switch sides on HD-DVD.(Paramount Home Entertainment contracts with Toshiba Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... In the wake of Microsoft and Intel throwing their support behind the Toshiba's PC-favoring HD-DVD format last week, Paramount Home Entertainment shifted from Toshiba to Sony's rival Blu-ray format, which is supposed to have lost its chance to...

David Duffield's Nero-like Domus Aurea.(the founder of PeopleSoft Inc. wants to build a house)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... PeopleSoft founder David Duffield wants to build a house bigger than Hearst Castle, bigger even than the house built by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who bought PeopleSoft much to Duffield's chagrin, or the one built by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates,...

IBM & Zend to aim PHP at .NET.(Zend Technologies Ltd.)
October 17, 2005... IBM would like nothing more than to nail .NET's little web feet to the floor like a pate-bound goose, according to Zend Technologies CEO Doron Gerstel. IBM had hopes of J2EE running interference and blocking .NET from sweeping into corporate...

Microsoft abandons per-processor licensing for virtualization.
October 17, 2005... In an inevitable sacrifice of revenue, Microsoft Monday put its shoulder behind virtualization and announced a new Windows Server licensing scheme that's supposed to be more cost-effective, flexible and simplified for virtual machine...

Microsoft & Yahoo IMs to interoperate.(instant messaging, partnership)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... The world shrunk a bit Wednesday when Microsoft and Yahoo said they will knock down the wall between their free consumer instant messaging systems in Q2 of '06 and let their users IM one another, something they've been pressured to do for...

DOJ slaps Samsung with monster fine for price-fixing.(Department of Justice, Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., Samsung Semiconductor Inc., case)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Korea-based Samsung Electronics and its US subsidiary Samsung Semiconductor have agreed to plead guilty and pay a 300 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix DRAM prices, the US Justice Department's Antitrust...

M'soft & RealNetworks settle.(Microsoft Corp., case )
October 17, 2005... Microsoft settled with RealNetworks Tuesday, which means it's finished mopping up the last of the major private antitrust suits that it was hit with after it was found guilty of monopoly maintenance in the Justice Department's suit against it....

Microsoft may find security insecure.(a case by Symantec Corp. and European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Symantec has denied that it has formally filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and its intentions to bring the so-called Windows OneCare to market, the subscription-based consumer firewall widgetry to fend off viruses...

Intel announces Paxville DP.(new product)
October 17, 2005... Intel on Monday, as expected, announced the availability of its first, moved-up, catch-up, hyper-threaded, dual-core Xeon processor for dual-processor servers, a k a the 90nm Paxville, good for 2.8GHz. The part isn't expected to do much volume...

Oracle buys open source company to harry MySQL.(acquisition of Innobase OY)
October 17, 2005... Well, IBM has one so naturally Oracle wanted one. An open source acquisition I mean. Both moves were made to harry an open source rival, IBM to bother JBoss, Oracle to bother MySQL. Oracle bought 10-year-old Finland-based Innobase OY, a...

SCO's plans go awry; IBM does them a favor.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc., case)
October 17, 2005... SCO's fancy--and fancily paid--lawyers badly misread the court's mood and flubbed last Friday's mission to get IBM sanctioned for failing to produce discovery that SCO claims IBM was repeatedly ordered by the court to turn over. Magistrate...

Microsoft programs moved to Linux.
October 17, 2005... Mainsoft and IBM say that they've proven that hard-core Microsoft applications can be ported to Linux quickly and easily. The two companies challenged members of the Code Project, the virtual community of 2.3 million Visual Studio...

IBM, Novell cut price of SuSE on Bladecenter.(price of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... IBM and its little buddy Novell have cut the price of running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on IBM's market-leading BladeCenter. IBM doesn't have a similar deal with Red Hat. Instead of charging per-blade, they've thought up a new flat...

Novell launches the better desktop initiative.(new software)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Novell has launched what it calls the Better Desktop initiative, a new component of the openSUSE project that's supposed to give open source developers the usability testing data and resources to improve the quality of the Linux desktop. ...

Red Hat taps CTO.(Brian Stevens appointed)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Red Hat has named Brian Stevens CTO and VP of engineering. Red Hat hasn't had a CTO for a while. Stevens has been the company's VP of operating system, storage and clustering development, leading Red Hat's enterprise strategy and was...

Anti-Microsoft format spawns fellowship.(Open Document Fellowship new consortium formed by Oasis Computer Products Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... There is now an Open Document Fellowship, a consortium started to advance the Oasis-forwarded XML-based Open Document Format that has besotted the state of Massachusetts and gotten the support of the European Union much to Microsoft's...

Cell has another taker.(Mercury Computer Systems Inc., IBM Engineering & Technology Services, partnership)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... The fabled Cell chip created by Sony, Toshiba and IBM for PlayStations and televisions has found another customer. Mercury Computer Systems has announced a Linux-run dual-Cell blade, based on IBM's Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processor and...

IBM seeks to make eclipse rational.(contribution of few software tools to Eclipse Foundation)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... IBM said the other day that it has contributed about 15% of its Rational Unified Process (RUP) platform, a set of project planning and management tools based on the unified modeling language (UML), to the Eclipse Foundation for a prospective...

New Red Hat rating.(Linux Watch)
October 17, 2005... Red Hat has got a new security certification for IT professionals: Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS), which it says is the first performance-based certification focused on security competency for enterprise Linux servers.

Microsoft puts out Navision Service Pack.(Microsoft Business Solutions Navision 4.0 Service Pack 1)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Microsoft has got a Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision, now part of the new Microsoft Dynamics line. It's supposed to enhance the overall quality of Navision 4.0 and make it more accessible to a broader range of users...

Fujitsu Siemens leverages Opteron to combine scale-out & scale-up.(Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Egenera, contract)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Fujitsu Siemens, which when last seen was OEMing boxes from Egenera, announced what it called a major enhancement of its Dynamic Data Center, a so-called Primergy Advanced Blade Ecosystem. It says the architecture, based on the Primergy...

AMD resurgent, earnings climb 73%.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... AMD came in with better-than-expected third-quarter sales of $1.523 billion, up 23% year-on-year and 21% sequentially, earning $76 million, or 18 cents a share, up 73%. It was only expected to clear eight cents on $1.38 billion. It is...

Kazeon kicks off with NetApp deal.(Network Appliance Inc., contract)
October 17, 2005... Kazeon, the start-up with $17 million in funding and an enterprise appliance that claims to manage unstructured data, hit market this week clenching an OEM agreement with Network Appliance between its teeth. NetApp is supposed to integrate...

Oasis forms new RF-on-RAND WS-Transaction Committee.(radio frequency, Oasis Computer Products Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... There is now a new Oasis Web Services Transaction (WS-TX) technical committee meant to define a set of protocols for coordinating the outcome of distributed application actions. It will refine and finalize a set of specifications based on...

Apple core.(new video players from Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... The Wall Street smart money walked out of Apple's invitation-only "One More Thing" video iPod unveiling Wednesday muttering about how its new products lay the foundation for Apple's future as the hub of consumer digital media. Piper Jaffray...

Project Tarpon.(BILLY GRAMS)
October 17, 2005... It looks like Citrix has got some application-streaming widgetry up its sleeve code named Project Tarpon.

Whoops.(new OpenOffice.org 2.0)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... OpenOffice.org missed its scheduled October 13th rev 2.0 official release on the fifth anniversary of its founding because of a showstopper in the code that saved graphical elements incorrectly in the vaunted Open-Document format. OpenOffice...

Uh-oh.(BILLY GRAMS)
October 17, 2005... Ousted PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway has joined the board of salesforce.com, putting two former lieutenants of Larry Ellison on the same team.

Google and Microsoft back in court.(Kai Lee, case)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Google is going to try today to get a California court to void the non-compete its hireling, ex-Microsoft VP Kai Lee, signed when he went to work for the Evil Empire and move straight to a summary judgment. Microsoft's going to try to stop that...

AMD looks for paper trail.(a case of monopolistic competition of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... As expected, AMD, the reason for Intel's hurry-up dual-core launch this week, has served almost two dozen companies with subpoenas searching for documentary evidence of monopoly-maintaining bullying for the antitrust lawsuit it filed against...

China wades into HD-DVD-Blu-ray debate.(high definition digital video disks)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... China is talking about developing its own incompatible version of the HD-DVD format that Intel and Microsoft are backing against Sony's competing Blu-ray widgetry to break the hold of foreign domination and avoid paying licensing fees. It won't...