Client Server News articles from September 2005

Client Server News archives from September 2005

Sun to unveil Andy Bechtolsheim's Fabled Opteron boxes.
September 5, 2005... Sun co-founder and prodigal-sheep-returned-to-the-fold Andy Bechtolsheim, inventor of the workstation that originally catapulted Sun to the front racks and first backer of Google, is about to deliver a couple of the Opteron boxes that he was...

Open source patron saint pairs with industry Pariah.(Linux Watch)
September 5, 2005... At the risk of courting the uncivil wrath of the open source scolds, MySQL AB, the "M" of the storied Linux-based LAMP stack, has cut a business and market development deal with SCO, the company the open source community most wants to implode....

Curtain rises on second act of historic AMD v Intel suit.
September 5, 2005... Intel has just filed its answer to the antitrust suit that AMD lodged against it right before the Fourth of July. Young as it is, the case already has the bookmakers laying odds that it'll produce a crushing 70 million-90 million pages of...

U.S. loses New Orleans, Microsoft loses Massachusetts.
September 5, 2005... Massachusetts has decided to dump Microsoft Office into Boston Harbor. The state--and its revolutionary mood could easily spread--is proposing to mandate that all documents created and saved by state employees be based on open formats...

That crunching sound is Sun chowing down on StorageTek.
September 5, 2005... The oddly matched $4.1 billion Sun-StorageTek acquisition is a fait accompli. Sun is now a $13.3 billion company with a product line that holds 36% of the world's total archived data run by a man who's been know to observe that "privacy...

Well, that's different. A $3,999 thin client.(Neoware e900 launched)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Neoware, the thin client house, has brought out a pricey $3,999 ruggedized wireless widget it calls "groundbreaking." It says the new Neoware e900 supports industrial thin client applications in harsh working conditions, claiming superior...

David Boies Esq gets his tit caught in the wringer.(Linux Watch)
September 5, 2005... Well, it seems that Adelphia Communications has fired Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP as its chief counsel because of a conflict of interest that Boies didn't bother to tell Adelphia about. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, of course, is the...

Boss to OEM Hyperic.(original equipment manufacturer agreement with JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... JBoss, the service model open source house, reportedly sought out 18-month-old Covalent Technologies spin-out Hyperic Inc and, after a couple of months of negotiations, has cut an OEM deal to put Hyperic's proprietary inventory, monitoring,...

Zend Core for Oracle hits beta.(Linux Watch)
September 5, 2005... PHP commercializer Zend Technologies is closing the loop on its promised Oracle deal, first announced in May. The other day it made a free beta version of its so-called Zend Core for Oracle available, saying it would have a production...

Linux version of VB.(Linux Watch)
September 5, 2005... Nine-year-old Real Software Inc, the Austin, Texas-based providers of REALbasic, which the company calls a "cross-platform that really works," is supposed to ship REALbasic 2005 for Linux on September 13. It's a rapid application development...

Trinity claims big cluster.(Linux Watch)
September 5, 2005... According to Voltaire, which supplied the interconnect, Trinity College in Dublin has deployed the largest IBM-powered InfiniBand cluster deployed to date. It's got 356 Opteron-based eServer 326 nodes and will be used for physical...

Google & Microsoft dispute jurisdiction.
September 5, 2005... Google, which countersued Microsoft in California hoping to leverage a certain California antipathy for non-compete restrictions and trump Microsoft's legal enforcement moves in the state of Washington, is asking a San Jose federal court to set...

Windows Server 2003 R2 makes RC.
September 5, 2005... Microsoft is circulating a Release Candidate of Windows Server 2003 R2, which is built on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and adds 64-bit chip support, Active Directory Federation Services, new storage management and centralized file...

BMC departure raises eyebrows.
September 5, 2005... First thing Monday morning BMC Software said that its CFO George Harrington, in the job just a little over a year, had resigned by "mutual agreement." Credit Suisse found it "curious timing" considering the company, despite losing money,...

Chalk up another one for AMD.
September 5, 2005... Fujitsu Siemens Computers says it's going to add dual-core Opteron boxes to its lily-white Intel-based Primergy server line and that it expects first shipments before the end of the year. Primergy servers currently use Xeon MPs and...

Canopy Group regroups again.(Brent Noorda appointed and Bill Mustard resigned)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Rumors are circulating that there's been another switch in management at the Canopy Group, SCO's former VC. Reportedly Bill Mustard, the New York import brought in when they fired long-time incumbent Ralph Yarro in December, is out and Noorda...

Multiple processes at Intel.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... Ah, now that chip groupie Nathan Brookwood has had a chance to shake out his IDF notebook, it appears that Intel has two--count 'em two--65nm processes, one surprise process specifically meant for ultra-low-power sub-10w parts, the other for...

Microsoft sees itself as the Underdog.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... Microsoft, we come to find out, code named its search development effort "Underdog," recognizing perhaps that Google is the most Microsoft-like company it's ever competed again.

OpenOffice/StarOffice.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... There's a beta 2 of OpenOffice 2.0 out for Windows and Linux. Nothing for the Mac. It's got a redesigned interface and a new database component. Meanwhile, Sun is now supposed to release StarOffice 8 on September 12, a tad late.

EFF & ACLU intervene in Merkey suit.(American Civil Liberties Association of Utah and Electronic Frontier Foundation's case against Jeff Merkey)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Lawyers for both the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Association of Utah filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the federal court hearing Jeff Merkey's pro se libel-cum-tortious interference suit against a...

NSF wants to re-architect the net.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... The National Science Foundation wants to completely re-architect the Internet and has produced an unfunded, reportedly "from-the-ground-up" plan called the Global Environment for Networking Investigations that could cost an estimated $300...

SCO date.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... SCO is going to treat its many detractors to its latest numbers on September 7.

Apple insures its transition to Intel.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... Despite Apple's head-spinning move to Intel, the company has insured that it will have a steady supply of PowerPC G4 chips for notebooks and low-end Macs through 2008 by virtue of a new agreement with Freescale Semiconductor, according to the...

HP to buy back more stock.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... In the wake of its unexpectedly strong fiscal Q3 results and its repatriation of $14.5 billion, HP has authorized the buyback of another $4 billion worth of its stock. That's in addition to the billion dollars it's got left on its current $3...

Microsoft contemplates shopkeeping.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... According to the New York Post, Microsoft is gonna set up a retail store in Times Square, where it can push Xboxes, Microsoft phones and TVs and work the media crowd for its DRM software. The particular piece of real estate is One Times Square,...

Katrina impact.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 5, 2005... Hewlett-Packard has had to postpone its HP Technology Forum, set for September 12-15 in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, Intel was the first high-tech firm to say that it was donating $1 million to the American Red Cross for...

Credit Suisse tells Novell to dump its management: who says there's no independent research on Wall Street?(open letter of Credit Suisse First Boston L.L.C.)
September 12, 2005... Credit Suisse First Boston, which owns 1% of Novell and has Novell as an investment banking client--or did before this--has written an open letter to Novell's board telling it to dump its failed management and reorganize--fast--to save the...

Microsoft moves on SMBs, starts Harrying Intuit.(Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting and Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition launched)
September 12, 2005... Microsoft this week opened a frontal attack on Intuit's Quicken/QuickBooks kingdom by fielding Office Small Business Accounting and Office Small Business Management Edition. The first is a standalone financial accounting package; the other...

M'soft files second EC appeal.(Microsoft Corp.'s case against European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Microsoft has filed a second appeal in the European antitrust case against it, objecting to the European Commis-sion's order, handed down in June, that it open communications protocols to the open source community. Microsoft, saying it...

So now it's eBay and Skype.
September 12, 2005... After a flurry of speculation that Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gate or Yahoo might buy Skype, followed by Skype hinting around that it wasn't for sale, followed by IPO talk sparked when the Luxembourg firm hired Morgan Stanley, the latest buzz,...

Google hires Vince Cerf.(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Google, who thanks to Microsoft now has the reputation of the being the omnivorous employer, has hired Vince Cerf, the man called the Father of the Internet, to be its chief Internet evangelist or CIE, creating in the process a new "C" title....

Intel twiddles Q3 guidance.(company revenue forecasts)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Intel said late Thursday during its mid-quarter update that it expects to see revenues of $9.8 billion-$10 billion, both an up and down adjustment of the guidance it gave when it posted its Q2 results. Then it said it might do $9.6 billion-$...

LeftHand gets another $25m.(LeftHand Networks Inc. finances from J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. and Valhalla Partners)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... LeftHand Networks, the iSCSI SAN pioneer with the patented storage clustering technology, has picked up $25 million in C financing, bringing its total equity investment to $75 million. Valhalla Partners led the round, with new participation...

Intel buys into Czech anti-virus house.
September 12, 2005... Intel Capital is buying a $16 million stake in 15-year-old Grisoft, a classic multi-platform anti-virus outfit in Brno in the Czech Republic. It's Intel Capital's largest investment in Central and Eastern Europe to date and has to be...

AMD hires Hester to replace Weber as CTO.(Phil Hester appointed and Fred Weber resigned at Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... AMD has hired Phil Hester, the former CEO of Newisys, the start-up that gambled on building Opteron servers and lost, and an old IBM guy who had a lot to do with IBM's first Unix boxes, as CTO reporting to Dirk Meyer, president and chief...

VMware tries freebie.(marketing)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... VMware said Thursday that customers purchasing the its P2V Migrations Jumpstart service, its on-site consultancy to move from physical to virtual boxes, will get its P2V Assistant migration tool for free. The tool, which is supposed to...

IBM settles patent infringement suit.
September 12, 2005... IBM last week settled a federal lawsuit filed by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation charging its copper-based chips like the PowerPC750 with patent infringement. Terms of the out-of-court deal are being kept under wraps. The...

HP wheels out NAS appliances.(HP ProLiant DL 100 G2 and HP ProLiant DL 380 G4 launched)(network attached storage)
September 12, 2005... At Storage Networking World Europe in Frankfurt Tuesday, HP introduced new products and services for data protection and archiving, calling them critical components in managing information throughout its lifecycle and sniffing that EMC and...

CA pledges patents to open source.(Linux Watch)
September 12, 2005... Computer Associates, which is now, we might point out, being run by an ex-IBMer, has cut a patent cross-license agreement with IBM and followed IBM down the path of pledging a set of 14 of its reportedly "key" US patents and their overseas...

Sun retires SISSL license.(sun industry standards source license, Sun Microsystems Inc.)
September 12, 2005... Sun has canned SISSL, the Sun Industry Standards Source License, the original open source license that it created and started using five years ago for OpenOffice and a piece of the seminal Network File System (NFS) and later added GridEngine....

SCO, poor but hanging in there.(financial results of The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... The hated SCO Group reported its fiscal Q3 results Wednesday and lost $2.372 million, or 13 cents a share, on $9.353 million in revenues as compared to $11.2 million in the comparable quarter last year. The revenues are up slightly...

Red Hat to learn Russian.(enhancement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Red Hat says that because of increasing demand in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia it's going to expand its Russian-language support services starting at the end of September as an integral part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The...

MySQL catches flak for SCO deal.(partnership with The SCO Group Inc.)
September 12, 2005... It will come as no surprise to anybody that MySQL has been having to defend its decision to partner with SCO, the industry's untouchable. Open source true believers, feeling betrayed and already ticked by MySQL's GPL-skirting dual-license...

Oracle's potential worst nightmare gets funding.(Charles River Ventures and Valhalla Partners invest in EnterpriseDB)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... EnterpriseDB, the Linux start-up with the potential to stick it to Oracle, has picking up $7 million in venture capital financing. To date it's been operating on a million-dollar seed round. Charles River Ventures and Valhalla Partners co-led...

Novell anticipates delivering desktop SuSE 10 to retail.(launch of SuSE Linux 10.0)
September 12, 2005... Novell expects SuSE Linux 10.0, the first output of the company's new openSuSE project and targeted at enthusiasts and home users, to be in stores and available online early next month. Novell has cut its prices 44% over older retail kits to...

MontaVista moving to 2.6.(launch of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 4.0, MontaVista Carrier Grade Edition 4.0 and MontaVista Mobilinux 4.0)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... MontaVista has started shipping MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 4.0, its first cut to run on the 2.6 Linux kernel. It is described as the company's most horizontal operating system product yet. It will initially support 25-30 processor...

SCO to present at DEMO.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... This is gonna come as a shock to a lot of people but SCO has been invited to present its new unseen reportedly platform-agnostic mobility widgetry at the chi-chi Demo conference later this month. DEMO is where TiVO, Palm Pilot and Java first...

Salesforce apes giants.(AppExchange launched)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... When summer started Salesforce. com delivered MultiForce, the little software-as-service number, a platform that applications can be built on that the start-up called the world's first on-demand operating system and a "Microsoft Office killer,"...

Office ban could have thorns.(information management of Massachusetts)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... CIBC points out that if Massachusetts goes ahead and bans Office in favor of open formats such as OpenOffice and Adobe's PDF, as it's proposing, it will be isolating state government since other people--like other states and the federal...

ePlus sues SAP.(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... It has just come to light that US ISV ePlus sued SAP, its biggest rival, in its home state of Virginia for e-procurement patent infringement in April. It did the same with Ariba and settled for $37 million before the penalty phase of the trial...

Has Siebel tamed the SEC?(Siebel Systems Inc.'s case against Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Siebel may have broken a few of the teeth that the SEC sprouted five years ago when its "level playing field" FD regs were enacted. A federal judge last week threw out the "loose lips" case the SEC had brought against Siebel, saying the agency...

Hewlett-Packard knocks Sun's Galaxy boxes.(production management of Sun Microsystems Inc.)
September 12, 2005... HP is pouring bile on Sun's first homegrown Opteron boxes ahead of their announcement on the 12th saying that Sun knows diddly about the x86 marketplace, has no proper management support, ecosystem, channel expertise or working relationships...

Fujitsu-Siemens to OEM Egenera gear.(original equipment manufacturer)(contract with Fujitsu Siemens Computers)
September 19, 2005... Well, Egenera knows where its next $300 million is coming from. Fujitsu Siemens has guaranteed Egenera at least that much over the next 30 months to clinch an exclusive OEM deal that will see the German-based company re-badge and resell...

Cognos 8 sets sail.(product launch)
September 19, 2005... To much hoopla, Cognos this week launched Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, pitching it as the first solution to deliver full BI capabilities in a single product on a single Web Services/SOA-based architecture. It replaces five standalone...

Google richer than it was.(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... The reason Google's wearing its pants low on its hips isn't the age of its founders. No, no, no. It's the amount of money weighing down its pockets. Google should now have $7.1 billion in the bank, having gotten off that secondary stock...

Google-Microsoft Judge tries Solomon tack.
September 19, 2005... The King County Superior Court judge in Washington state who's hearing Microsoft's bid to bar its former VP Kai-Fu Lee from working for Google ruled Tuesday that Lee can start setting up the Chinese R&D unit that Google hired him to create but...

Eek!!! Sun to expand support for Windows.(production management of Sun Microsystems Inc.)
September 19, 2005... Sun is going to support Windows as well as Red Hat and its own preferred Solaris 10 x86 operating system on its latest swat of Opteron servers. This is not the perfunctory Windows support Sun has been doing. Nope. According to Graham...

Oracle buys Siebel.(Siebel Systems Inc.)
September 19, 2005... Oracle is going to take out Siebel Systems for $5.85 billion in cash less the $2.24 billion Siebel has in the bank, ending months of speculation about when Siebel would go down and what kind of a premium it might fetch. Siebel, an...

Another Novell investor throws rocks at its management.(written communication of BLUM Capital Partners LP)
September 19, 2005... Novell's top management must be starting to feel kinda besieged. No sooner had Credit Suisse First Boston called for their heads in an open letter to the Novell board than one of the company's other big shareholders, Blum Capital Partners...

IBM & Red Hat to chase ISVs.(independent software vendors)(International Business Machines Corp.'s alliance with Red Hat Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... In a deal similar to one it already has with Linux underdog Novell, IBM is now joining hands with market leader Red Hat to push Linux into emerging markets such as China, India, Russia and Korea without overlooking the established markets. ...

MySQL hires CFO.(Dennis Wolf appointed)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... MySQL AB has hired a heavyweight as CFO saying he's been brought it to help manage growth. Dennis Wolf, who will be headquartered in the US and report to CEO Marten Mickos, was managing director and CFO of Hercules Technology Growth...

Novell says openSuSE shows promise.(market share of SuSE Linux 10.0)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Novell says that its open source openSuSE project, launched early last month to build SuSE Linux 10 out of SuSE Linux 9.3, has been getting 5,000 registered installations a day, with a copy downloaded every 18 seconds, and has attracted 4,500...

PolyServe claims leap in utility computing.(PolyServe Matrix Manager)
September 19, 2005... PolyServe is claiming a breakthrough in utility computing for mission-critical applications with PolyServe Matrix Manager for Linux server and storage clusters. It says capacity upgrades that formerly consumed nights and weekends can now...

Firefox 1.5 beta out.(Mozilla Firefox 1.5)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... The first beta of Deer Park, the next-generation Firefox 1.5 whose primary new feature is automated patching and updates, has sallied forth to be banged on by developers and testers. There are versions for Windows, Linux and Mac but there is no...

GroundWork releases Foundation.(product launch by GroundWork Open Source Solutions)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... GroundWork Open Source Solutions, the open source management start-up, has released GroundWork Foundation, an open source integration platform that is supposed to let users combine various open source tools into a single IT operations...

Panasonic as incubator.(services of Panasonic Digital Concepts Center)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Panasonic Digital Concepts Center (PDCC) in Silicon Valley, the company's strategic investment arm and an early backer of MontaVista, has set up an embedded Linux incubator called the Technology Collaboration Center where it can help along a...

Virtualmin goes pro.(organization formation)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... The developers of Virtualmin, an open source virtual-hosting management system, have started Virtualmin Inc to commercialize the widgetry. The new company is supposed to offer easy-to-install software bundles that include all of the...

Only one Linux DB in top 10.(reports of Winter Corp.)(database)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... According to the Winter Corporation, the biggest commercial database in the world belongs to Yahoo and exceeds 100TB. It's on Oracle on Unix. In fact, according to Winter's TopTen listing, eight of the world's top 10 databases are still on...

B'week on Microsoft.(Linux Watch)
September 19, 2005... The latest BusinessWeek cover story taps a rich vein of employee discontent at Microsoft that is causing people to flee or turn anonymous bloggers who call the place a "passionless, process-ridden, lumbering idiot." See http://minimsft.blog...

Ex-Novell VP becomes CEO of mValent.
September 19, 2005... Joe Forgione, Novell's former VP, solutions and one of the many managers the company has lost since Christmas, has turned up at mValent, the automated application configuration management ISV, as president and CEO, replacing incumbent Swapnil...

Intel finally replaces Talwalker.(Tom Kilroy appointed in place of Abhi Talwalker)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Intel has finally replaced Abhi Talwalker, who was supposed to corun its newfangled Digital Enterprise Group along with senior VP Pat Gelsinger, but went to LSI Logic as CEO a couple of months ago instead. Intel's hand has reached out to...

WS-Management goes to DMTF.(Distributed Management Task Force)(web services for management specifications)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Microsoft--in company with AMD, BMC, Computer Associates, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Intel, NEC, Novell, Sun, Symantec and WBEM Solutions--have submitted the Web Services for Management (WS-Management or WMX) spec to the Distributed Management Task...

EBay inks that rumored Skype deal.(acquisition of Skype Technologies S.A.)
September 19, 2005... The eBay-Skype rumors proved dead on. EBay is buying three-year-old Luxembourg-based VoIP start-up Skype Technologies SA for somewhere between $2.6 billion (2.1 billion euros) and $4.1 billion in cash and stock depending on whether the upstart...

Apple upgrades its RAID.(Apple Xserve RAID)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Although people tend to forget it, Apple is also in the storage business and the other day, in between pod announcements, it updated its 3U Xserve RAID rack storage system to a hefty 7TB capacity, saying it would sell it for the "industry's...

Infravio launches new SOA Registry.(service oriented architecture)(Infravio X-Registry 5.0)
September 19, 2005... Infravio is about to put out a new version of its X-Registry, its flagship business-focused service-oriented architecture (SOA) registry. The rev, designated 5, reportedly took a 100 man/years to create and now delivers the registry,...

Lew Platt dead.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 19, 2005... Lew Platt, 64, the thickly bespectacled HP CEO who practiced the famed "HP Way" but turned the job over to Carly Fiorina in 1999 anyway--a decision he almost immediately came to regret--died suddenly last Thursday, September 8, reportedly of an...

Microsoft's stocking stuffer.(launch of Microsoft Xbox 360)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... As predictable as night following day, Microsoft says it's going to put its new $400 China-built Xbox 360 game console on the North American market on November 22, two days before the Thanksgiving Day weekend kicks off the perennial Christmas...

Microsoft futures.(production management)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... From what's been going on at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles this week, it appears that Office 12 will have more preview features, server capabilities and a more intuitive user interface that's also used in Vista....

Intel expansion plans.(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Intel says it's going to put $345 million into two of its existing US manufacturing sites in Colorado and Massachusetts to increase its wafer capacity. Both fabs are 200mm facilities that produce primarily chipsets, communications and flash...

NEC pairs with Avinti.(contract with NEC Solutions America)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... NEC Solutions (America) Inc is positioning its fault tolerant Five9s Express-5800/320Lb server as a secure e-mail server using an e-mail security option from three-year-old Avinti called iSolation Server 2.0. It says it improves e-mail uptime...

Sun statistics.
September 19, 2005... Sun says there are 1,600 enterprise applications supporting its x86 Solaris 10 operating system and that there are 1.5 million x64 Solaris 10 licenses out there. It claims 7,000 users have registered to participate in the OpenSolaris community....

Iona joins Eclipse.(Eclipse Foundation, IONA Technologies PLC)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Iona has joined Eclipse as a strategic developer with an Eclipse SOA tools platform proposal in hand. It will get a seat on the board and a vote on Eclipse policies. The proposal will use Iona's Artix tooling, the company's commercial...

Access buys PalmSource.(ACCESS Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... Access Company, the Japanese ISV with the NetFront browser, is buying PalmSource, the loss-making mobile operating systems company, for $324 million and will shift it into Access US to form a wholly owned subsidiary. PalmOS, with roughly 45...

Dell kisses off Itanium.(BILLY GRAMS)
September 19, 2005... The Wall Street Journal says volume-conscious Dell is dumping Itanium in favor of x64 Xeons.