Linux Gram articles from April 2002

Linux Gram archives from April 2002

CodeWeavers Claims To Run Office sans Windows.
April 1, 2002... While the nine rebel states are fighting in a courtroom in Washington, DC to put Microsoft Office on the auction block royalty- free and get it ported to Linux, CodeWeavers Inc claims it can run Office and Lotus Notes on a Linux PC without...

Red Hat is Growing Up.
April 1, 2002... Well, Red Hat's not just a freebie anymore. Nope. It's got itself an operating system that will never see a free download, according to executive VP of engineering Paul Cormier. It'll only be sold. It's not for the hoi polloi. It's for...

Caldera Claims Red Hat's Misguided.
April 1, 2002... Caldera, which must be worried, says Red Hat's got this Advanced Server thing all wrong - especially the part about trying to attack Unix - and that Linux is only good for "four-way or lower systems, web serving and file and print services."...

Walter Sues: Claims Fraud, Coercion & Lies.
April 1, 2002... God, don't ya just love it. This friendly $22 billion HP-Compaq merger thing - okay, $19 billion by now but still the largest high- tech merger ever - gets more and more entertaining, taking turns unique in corporate history, well, at least...

HP Plans To Keep Integration Moving Despite Walter.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2002... The now-famous HP-Compaq clean team responsible for their integration and redundancy plan has ballooned from an initial 300 or 400 people, then to 600 a couple, few weeks ago and now to 1,200 dedicated folks, according to an HP communiqu? from...

C# Widgetry Goes Shared Source.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... As it long ago intimated it would, Microsoft has made the source code for a Java-like Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) implementation and C# available as shared source, the closest it's gotten to open source. It's for academic,...

Lil8nux Advances.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Gee, for a bunch of guys kinda at sixes and sevens not all that long ago the Free Standards Group is coming around. Now, la-dee-da, it's got the Japanese government and Tokyo University launching an Asian Scripts & Infrastructure (ASTI) project...

Neoware Buys NCD Line.(Network Computing Devices)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 2002... Neoware, the come-from-behind thin-client house trying to wrestle market leadership away from Wyse, has bought the ThinStar piece of NCD, the floundering company's most viable operation. The $4.25 million cash deal will give Neoware the...

Will the Feds Hand Microsoft Judge a Ripcord To Bail on the States and Will She Pull it?
April 1, 2002... Seems an odd time to inquire, but remedies judge Colleen Kollar- Kotelly asked the Justice Department late Monday whether it wants to belly up to the bar, so to speak, and venture an opinion on whether the nine non-settling states have a right...

IBM Debuts New Linux Server for Telcos.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... IBM introduced a new Linux eServer for the telecoms market Tuesday hitting Sun where it lives. IBM claims that a typical configuration of the new x343 costs 40% less than a Sun Netra 20 server. The 343 reportedly meets NEBS level 3,...

SteelEye Gets a New CEO.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Cluster specialist SteelEye Technology Inc has named Paul Adams president and CEO. He replaces company founder James Fitzgerald. Before SteelEye, Adams was CEO of collaborative CRM apps vendor TightLink and did stints at Evygo and Micro...

Ximian Launches Red Carpet CorporateConnect.
April 1, 2002... Ximian rolled out its previously announced Red Carpet CorporateConnect web service, the thing that lets companies centrally manage, control and customize the Linux software they distribute and update internally through a web-based management...

Linux Makes Headway in POS Market, Albeit Slowly.
April 1, 2002... Linux is making headway in the retail point-of-sale terminal market but not as much as forecast. According to IHL Consulting Group, the population of retail POS terminals running Linux in North America rose 80% in 200, way under the very...

IBM Bloodies Dell.(in server market)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Based on numbers that all and sundry provide to IDC, IBM is preening over the not-very-surprising conclusion that it grew faster than Dell in high-end Intel server sales in Q4. Dell was flat or down in four- and eight-ways, while IBM, which...

An Intel Brand of Valium for McKinley & Xeon Boxes.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Never you fret your pretty little head. Uncle Intel has a solution to all your problems. Like these so-called free Solutions Blueprints it's putting together to help users feel comfortable deploying newfangled McKinley and Xeon servers. ...

Work Quickens on Linux-on-Hammer.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 2002... There's a 2.4.19pre4 Linux kernel snapshot floating around. It's a port to AMD's x86-64 Hammer architect on the Virtutech VirtuHam-mer simulator. SuSE calls it a "major update" and says that since there are so many bug fixes developers should...

The Grudge Report.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Walter Hewlett gave a speech at the Council of Institutional Investors Monday in Washington, DC, one of two known speaking engagements he's got as part of his 15 minutes of fame. Carly was supposed to speak on Tuesday but canceled the Friday...

Bubba.(Humor)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... That judge that presiding over the Microsoft antitrust trial must have a really big bouncer named Bubba watching over her court who really spooked Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann. We ran into Tiemann right after he got off the stand and all we did...

Lineo Narrowly Averts Death.
April 8, 2002... Lineo has run plum out of money. After terminating roughly 50 of its 120 employees two weeks ago at the behest of its board and investors (CSN No 443), Lineo, the seemingly promising embedded Linux pioneer, bounced its paychecks. In...

What Goes & What Stays if HP & Compaq Ever Merge.
April 8, 2002... This is just still rumor, mind, but the buzz in HP circles, or maybe we should say in and around the now-famous clean team, suggests that the way they'll separate the wheat from the chaff in their look-a- like product lines if and when HP and...

Dell Unsheaths a Blade.
April 8, 2002... Dell turned up in New York Wednesday before its meeting with Wall Street with prototype blade servers in tow to underscore the subtle message that it ain't just no stinkin' PC company. See, every now and again Dell takes a nip of that...

Dell, Microsoft & InfiniBand.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Dell said Wednesday that it was working closely with Microsoft on InfiniBand, which basically comes down to Microsoft using nothing but Dell servers for the R&D and Dell making accommodations as Microsoft phones them in, one of Dell's VPs said....

HP Drums Walter off the Board.(Walter Hewlett)
April 8, 2002... Running the risk of looking small, HP is going to strip Walter Hewlett of his directorship for sandbagging it with that lawsuit he filed last week to invalidate what he calls a tainted shareholders vote and derail any merger with Compaq. ...

Microsoft Wants Court To Rethink Lindows Ruling.
April 8, 2002... Microsoft has filed a motion asking a federal judge to reconsider his decision denying it a preliminary injunction barring the Lindows. com start-up from calling itself and its desktop OS Lindows. In turning Microsoft down, the judge also...

Sputnik in Orbit.(Sputnik Gateway)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... The three Linuxcare founders, David LaDuke, David Sifry and Arthur Tyde, have banded together again to address the problems of security, provisioning and manageability for 802.11 wireless networks. This time through they're doing software,...

Compaq & Company Nail $20m Deal for Linux Boxes.
April 8, 2002... Compaq and friends have pulled down a $20 million two- to three-year deal with RackShack, a subsidiary of Everyones Internet, for a possible 11,000 servers fitted with Linux. The contract evidently has all the making of one of the largest...

Lineo Sing-Along.
April 8, 2002... Business crises these days seem to be provoking outbursts of song. Last week we had the Requiem for the HP Way sung to the tune of "American Pie" and this week's anonymous contribution is in honor of Lineo and is sung to the tune of that old...

HP Licenses Jabber.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... Hewlett-Packard has licensed Jabber, the open source instant messaging platform with the dicey parent, Webb Interactive Services Inc. Denver-based Webb was rescued from imminent demise late last year when France Telecom bought in to the...

Mail Box: Sun Responds: Mainframes Running Linux, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing.
April 8, 2002... My article titled "Linux on the Mainframe: Not a Good Idea" [2/20/02; http://www.sun .com/executives/realitycheck/reality- 022002.html] seemed to strike a nerve. While about two-thirds of those who rated the article on the Sun web page...

Archway Admits It Exists.(Archway Digital Solutions' blade server)
April 8, 2002... Like a crocus pushing itself up through the dirt come spring, reputed blade start-up Archway Digital Solutions Inc has gotten over a bit of its stealth shyness to put up a web sit with a bit of content in it, but it hasn't lost enough of its...

Requiem for StarOffice?(Brief Article)
April 8, 2002... "In that case StarOffice just died. They just shot StarOffice through the head. It doesn't matter whether I'm in favor of it or not. But if OpenOffice still exists, and it's GPL'd, and they're going to start charging for StarOffice, then they...

M'soft's Out To Destroy the GPL: FSF.(General Public License, Free Software Foundation)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has its knickers in a twist over the Royalty-Free CIFS Technical Reference License that Microsoft quietly trotted a week ago. It says it's a direct "legal" attack - an escalated move after a year of...

Apache 2.0 Arrives.(Product Announcement)
April 15, 2002... Apache 2.0, three years in gestation and way late, is finally here. This is the stuff that's supposed to be as good on Windows as on Unix. The open source Apache Software Foundation called it a "long and sometimes arduous process" to get...

MontaVista To Offer Carrier-Grade Linux.(MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1 )(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Embedded Linux house MontaVista Software is gearing up to introduce a new distribution designed for carrier-grade telecom apps that require extremely high levels of availability. The new MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1 punches up...

Wasabi Raises More Money.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... NetBSD specialist Wasabi Systems has raised another $2 million in Series A round funding taking the now-closed round to $4 million. The two-year-old New York City concern said the new money came from Praxis Capital Ventures and Himalaya...

Lindows.com Launches Another Sneak Preview.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Lindows.com has put out the second sneak preview of its Microsoft- baiting LindowsOS. Sneak Preview 2 adds two key features - a Click-N-Run gimmick that's supposed to let users download and install software applications easily to a...

Red Hat To Adhere to CVE Standard.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Red Hat said its security alerts and advisories, including updates issued through the Red Hat Network, would now use the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) standard names, a project maintained by Mitre Corporation. The list is...

Mail Box.(Letter to the Editor)
April 15, 2002... IBM to Sun: "Oh, Yeah?" Editor's Note: This interchange all started when we pr?cised a provocative but little-noticed white paper attacking IBM and the notion of Linux-on-the-mainframe co-authored by Sun's chief competitive officer Shahin...

Walter Wins Right to Trial; HP-Compaq Merger in Trouble.(Walter Hewlett)
April 15, 2002... If you read this story the other day as a flash, skip it. The HP-Compaq merger is in danger. HP's rogue board member Walter Hewlett, Carly's b?te noir, has won the right to take his case challenging the validity of the HP shareholders'...

Parse the Word "Extraordinary" Coming from Carly's Mouth.
April 15, 2002... Somebody - presumably somebody inside HP and presumably somebody who doesn't care much for Carly's merger notions - sent the San Jose Mercury News a copy of a voice mail message she left for HP CFO Bob Wayman the Sunday before the HP...

Transmeta Gets a New CEO.(Matthew Perry)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Transmeta has gotten itself a new president and CEO who will replace the two Trans-meta board members that have been filling in since the struggling start-up fired short-lived CEO Mark Allen back in October. The company sacrificed Allen to...

Compaq Paints Rosy Picture.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Compaq said Monday that its Q1 revenues would be roughly $7.7 billion, better than expected. Of course it's nothing much to write home about since the company was only projecting to come in with a modest $7.6 billion. Things have to look good...

Schuler To Head New AOL Unit.(Barry Schuler to head Digital Service Development Group)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... AOL CEO Barry Schuler has moved to a new AOL division called the Digital Service Development Group, setting off speculation about the viability of the company. The division will focus on broadband home networking services, supposedly...

IBM Bombs.(Statistical Data Included)
April 15, 2002... Geez, that didn't take long. Lou Gerstner only turned IBM over to Sam Palmisano five weeks ago and already the golden aura that lighted up IBM's pixie-dusted earnings statements during the Gerstner era has tarnished. IBM, which has been...

The SEC Investigation That Came & Went.(IBM)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Tech stocks have been having a brutal two weeks, in part because IBM pre-announced. Things turned worse Thursday when a publication called SEC Insight said it had documentation out of the SEC that the agency had started investigating IBM on...

Neoware Optimistic.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Neoware, the little company fighting for thin client leadership, says it'll do $8 million for its third quarter ended March 31, up 60% year-over-year and better than analysts expected. The company claims to be seeing a positive reaction from...

Psst, Hey, Intel.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Scuttlebutt says that high-density white box maker Appro International Inc is designing a 1U around AMD's prospective 64-bit SledgeHammer chip. The 12-year-old Milpitas, California outfit, the source of Penguin Computing boxes, as it happens,...

Lineo Death Watch - Part II.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Lineo CEO Matt Harris says he's still in negotiations with the company's prime backer, The Canopy Group, over how to recapitalize the place. He denies the word circulating among ex-employees that the way Lineo has gotten restructured was to lay...

Red Hat Names Szulik Chairman.(Matthew Szulik )(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik has been named chairman, succeeding co- founder Bob Young, who Szulik replaced as CEO a few years ago. Young remains on the board.

Mozilla RC Due.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Mozilla's bogged-down comings and goings are slightly more interesting these days given the recent speculation that AOL may be preparing to swap Netscape for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. As it happens, the Mozilla Project, after dragging its...

Archway Hints.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Archway Digital Solutions Inc, the stealth server operation, is now hinting that it's getting close to installing initial systems in customer sites. It apparently wants to go through a shakedown cruise before it trumpets its arrival. It swears...

HP Names Asia, EMEA Execs.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... If this HP-Compaq thing goes through, the MD of Compaq Asia-Pacific Paul Chan is supposed to head combined operations out there as regional general manager, reporting to Enterprise Systems Group executive VP Peter Blackmore, another Compaq guy....

Bank's Closed.(Compaq bans use of company credit cards)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Compaq folk, who are in a tizzy at the thought of the coming merger, are saying they can't use company credit cards any more.

Woody Release Date Set.(Debian)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... It's possible the next-generation Debian release, otherwise known as Woody, could make it out on May 1, according to Debian release manager Anthony Towns. Of course, he still warns that it's only a go if it's ready. All bets could be off on...

Pactolus Adds Linux Support.(Pactolus Communications Software)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Pactolus Communications Software has introduced a Linux port of its SIPware Services suite, which lets service providers deliver multiple voice applications in a single platform environment. Besides Linux, the Westborough, Massachusetts...

BSDi Spin-off iXsystems Buys Racemi Blade Widgetry.
April 22, 2002... Racemi Inc is selling off the 18-month-old blade technology it couldn't bring to market for want of money (CSN No 433). IXsystems Inc, the rack-mounted 1U-4U Intel-based server unit spun out of Berkeley Software Design Inc (BSDi) when the BSD...

Warburg Has Doubts about Blades.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... UBS Warburg isn't sure it thinks much of this newfangled blades business. The brokerage said, "Like web services, we can't seem to pick up an industry magazine without seeing articles on server blades. Early entrants include RLX, Compaq, HP,...

Intel Offers Single API for Itanium, Xeons & P4.(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... Gee, tools are coming back into fashion. Must be the fight for the hearts and minds of the developers. Anyway, Intel has come up with a single API optimized for the Itanium, Xeon, Pentium 4 chips and the XScale-based PXA250 and PXA210...

Red Hat Debuts Stronghold Enterprise.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... Red Hat has added to its enterprise push with a souped-up rev of its Apache-based Stronghold open source web server, which comes with enhanced security features, higher performance and tools to boost application interoperability. ...

FSM Labs Bolsters RTLinux/Pro.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... Finite State Machine Labs Inc has introduced a new option on its RTLinux/Pro hard real-time OS called Process Space Development Domain (PSPD) that'll create RTLinux real-time threads within a user-mode protected address space. Targeted at...

HP To Build Linux Supercomputer.
April 22, 2002... Hewlett-Packard has snagged a $24.5 million contract from the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to build a Linux supercomputer based of course on commodity chips. The Linux supercomputer, which will consist of...

Microsoft Misses.
April 22, 2002... Microsoft earned $2.74 billion net, 49 cents a share, on revenues of $7.25 billion in its fiscal Q3 ended March 31. Consensus was for 51 cents and revenues of $7.3 billion based on Microsoft's own guidance in January for revenues of $7.3...

DOJ Contradicts Microsoft; Says States Have Right To Be Heard.
April 22, 2002... The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the libertarian-leaning think tank in Washington, DC, with a watching brief on antitrust policy, is, shall we say, not impressed with the DOJ's handiwork here. It says it hasn't seen this kind of...

HP Nails One Culprit.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... HP is still trying to find the rascal who leaked Carly's voice mail to the press, but it says it fired the unnamed person who admitted forwarding two internal memos to the press, including the Ann Livermore e-mail saying service revenues were...

HP Says It Won Merger Vote by Less than 2.8%.
April 22, 2002... You may have read this story as a flash. Carly wasn't kidding when she claimed victory in the Compaq merger vote by a "slim" plurality. If she does in fact pull off the largest acquisition in the industry's history, it will be by an...

SEC & US Attorney Probe HP Merger Vote.
April 22, 2002... You may have read this story as a flash on Monday morning. Hewlett-Packard confirmed early Monday morning that both the SEC and the US Attorney are investigating its March 19 shareholders vote on the Compaq acquisition. Rumors that the two...

Transmeta Wobbly but Hopeful; CFO Depart.
April 22, 2002... Well, Transmeta says it's broken the back on the 0.13-micron 5800 problem that cost it something like six months in its young life and that it's been delivering the widget in volume since February like it said it would. Why it decided to keep...

This May Be the Last We Hear of Compaq.
April 22, 2002... In what might be its very last quarter as an independent company, Compaq posted first-quarter revenues of $7.7 billion and net earnings of $44 million, three cents a diluted share, four cents if one excludes $35 million in merger-related...

AMD Thinks It's Got 6% of Server Market.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... AMD lost three cents in Q1 on revenues of $902 million, down 24% year-over-year, better than folks expected. The company shipped eight million MPUs, down 3% quarter-over-quarter, 55% of them Athlons, 80% of its revenue. AMD claimed it was...

ELC Wants its Domain Names - Now.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... An irritated Embedded Linux Consortium is grousing that the embattled Lineo has not handed over the embedded-linux.org and embedded-linux.com domain names. The web addresses are currently listed in the name of Zentropix Computing Inc, a...

Steltor Ports CorporateTime to Linux Big Iron.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... Steltor, a Canadian ISV, has released a Linux port of its CorporateTime calendaring and scheduling software on the IBM zSeries mainframe. The Montreal-based company said IBM would offer the stuff through its ISV partner program. CorporateTime...

SuSE Gets Grid Engine.(Sun Microsystems freebie Grid Engine 5.3 widgetry)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... In the next few days Sun is supposed to say that SuSE will distribute Sun's freebie Grid Engine 5.3 widgetry in the new release of SuSE Linux 8 Professional. The Sun software - for implementing cluster grids - has been on Linux since a year ago...

EightyThree.(Tiquit Computers notebook computer)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2002... A Redwood City, California start-up called Tiquit Computers Inc - Tiquit being short for "Tiny ubiQuitous Technology" - claims to have a 300MHz Geode-based PDA-sized widget kinda like OQO's that does OQO's one better and can run Windows or...

Astaro To Upgrade Security Linux.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 22, 2002... German Internet security ISV Astaro AG plans to upgrade its Security Linux widgetry at the Networld+Interop show next month. Rev 3 of the firewall/VPN/anti-virus/content filtering software adds a high- availability module, URL filtering, load...

Lineo Sold; Goes from One Pocket to Another.
April 29, 2002... Lineo was auctioned off on the courthouse steps in Orem, Utah Wednesday in a quick and quiet public sale devised by its secured creditors, The Canopy Group and Egan-Management Capital, apparently so they could jettison the bankrupt operation's...

LynuxWorks Takes Another Hit, May Be Takeover Fodder.
April 29, 2002... LynuxWorks, the embedded operating systems house, has had another layoff, its third in less than a year. The company is also said to have gotten multiple acquisition offers, including one it considers hostile. Sources said a special board...

MySQL Funding Doubled; Claims NuSphere Settlement Close.
April 29, 2002... Swedish software house MySQL AB, developers of the MySQL database, has secured additional funding from its original European investors. According to MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, the company raised 2 million euros ($1.8 million) in a second...

Lawsuit Takes Toll on NuSphere.
April 29, 2002... NuSphere has quietly dropped two products - one permanently, the other, ahem, temporarily. Its decision was apparently prompted by the preliminary injunction issued by the Massachusetts court hearing the trademark infringement countersuit...

IBM Heralds its Blade.
April 29, 2002... It was about time for IBM to pin a Post-it on the calendar to remind the market that it too had a blade entry coming in Q3. Compaq, HP, Dell and Sun have all either brought out their first blades or said they're coming, making IBM the last of...

IBM Dumps RLX.
April 29, 2002... As common sense has always dictated it would, IBM kicked RLX Technologies out on it ear once its own blade box started coming into sight. Their one-year reseller agreement ended in February and IBM didn't pick up the option to continue much to...

Sun Loses Another Top Exec.
April 29, 2002... Sun is losing its long-time CFO Michael Lehman, the second of two key executives to retire in the last few days. John Shoemaker, the executive VP of computer systems, said last week that he was hanging it up too. Wall Street immediately...

Hammer Baptized, M'soft Stands Godfather.
April 29, 2002... At the last minute, apparently, AMD got to spice up an otherwise uneventful branding exercise late Wednesday when it officially christened its 64-bit Hammer chip Opteron, a bastard mix of Greek and Latin meant to imply the "best." ...

Egenera Gets New CEO, COO.(Debbie Miller and Mike Thompspm)
April 29, 2002... Egenera, the high-end blade start-up, has hired Debbie Miller as president and CEO. Company founder Vern Brownell is stepping aside. He will become CTO and chairman, focused on customer requirements and future product definitions. The...

Volution To Go Hetero.(Brief Article)
April 29, 2002... Caldera, which was expected to try to major on its Volution systems manager, says it intends to expand the thing's support into heterogeneous environments and add Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, the IBM zSeries mainframes, point-of-sale terminals...