Linux Gram articles from August 2001

Linux Gram archives from August 2001

T. Rex Meets Gigantosaurus.(National Science Foundation supercomputer project)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... The UK may have its National Grid, but the United States is going to build TeraGrid, a Gigantosaurus of grids that's reportedly supposed to be capable of 13.5 trillion calculations (13.5 teraflops) a second when it's fleshed out. Lord only...

IBM Goes Grid-Happy.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Prepare yourself for the onslaught of another buzzword. It's "Grids" and you're going to hear it in IBM's mouth. The notion's been around on some academic level since, oh, 1996, but now it's apparently bound to become an everyday word....

Mozilla Goes for the Gold.(Product Information)
August 6, 2001... The Mozilla team has set another tentative final release date for its open source browser. It's supposed to go gold on Friday, October 12. Of this year. Not coincidentally, that's two weeks before Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0...

Transmeta Loses Dense Server Design-Win.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Transmeta has lost start-up Amphus Inc to Intel as a design-win, one of the three pioneer dense server houses that Transmeta has to its credit. Transmeta executive VP of sales and marketing James Chapman said he had "no comment" even after...

Mission Critical Fires 20% of Staff.(Mission Critical Linux)(Company Operations)
August 6, 2001... Mission Critical Linux has laid off 20% of its employees including its VP of marketing Brigitte Casemyr. Former employees put the number at 25%. The layoffs bring the headcount at the two-year-old concern down to 80. Besides...

Dell Dumps Linux Off its Desktops & Notebooks.(Red Hat Linux 7.1)(Product Information)
August 6, 2001... Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear. Evidently in the grip of the practically that comes of economic downturns, Dell has stopped factory installing Linux on its corporate and consumer desktops and notebooks citing "very, very little demand." ...

Red Hat & UK Start-up Team on Next Generation Open Source Wireless OS.(3G Lab Ltd)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Red Hat is working with British start-up 3G Lab Ltd on a variant of the eCos operating system that they intend making the first open source OS for the sexy new breed of so-called 2.5G and 3G wireless widgets. The OS will be called eCos/M3...

Mandrake Completes IPO.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Mandrakesoft shares begin trading on Friday, August 3, following a high-speed IPO that took the company barely a week. Mandrake used the Marche Libre, the small, unregulated French bourse, to raise the modest 4.3 million Euros ($3.8...

Shared Source License Primer.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Fancy that. Microsoft's "shared source" isn't a license; it's a "framework." We kinda figured that after Microsoft VP of advanced strategies Craig Mundie said there were already eight different shared source licenses. As it turns...

Tux Sells Out.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Tux, the Linux mascot, is selling out to show up on Windows for the money. Games developer Sunspire Studios, the author of Tux Racer, has decided to release its game as closed source on Windows as well as on Linux and Mac. Although not in final...

Portable Finds a Home.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... We haven't had a chance to talk to him ourselves, but we read in the papers that our discovery, Australian Rhys Weatherly, and his one- man open source project to put C# on Linux, Portable.Net, has found a home with the Free Software...

Penguin Teams with Scyld.(to address the high-performance computing)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Penguin Computing has teamed up with Beowulf cluster developer Scyld Computing to address the high-performance computing market. Penguin plans to factory-install Scyld's specialized Linux distribution, supplying a platform that it believes...

And Now, a Multimedia Distro.(Debian Multimedia Distribution project targets Linux multimedia software)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Work has begun on a new Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for multimedia. Developers behind the new Debian Multimedia Distribution (DeMuDi) project gripe that while the multimedia software sector is well developed in the open...

Embedded Linux Use Projected To Triple.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... A survey of over 500 embedded systems developers by market researcher Evans Data Corporation suggests a three-fold increase in Linux projects in the next year in a shift away from operating systems developed in-house. "Embedded Linux has...

Caldera Targets Korean Enterprise Linux Segment.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Caldera has teamed up with local systems integrator LinuxKorea to develop the enterprise Linux market in Korea. As part of their agreement, the two companies plan on working together to provide systems integration, consulting and...

Red Hat Server on the Cheap.(Red Hat Linux 7.1)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Red Hat is offering a month-long $40 rebate on its Red Hat Linux 7.1 Professional Server sold retail. The promotion runs throughout August. A spokeswoman denied the move was spurred by lower-than- anticipated sales.

Apple's DB Subsidiary Does Linux.(FileMaker Server 5.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Apple subsidiary FileMaker has released the first Linux version of its flagship FileMaker database server, previously offered only for Windows, Mac OS X or Mac OS 8.6 and later. The new Linux support for the FileMaker server on Red Hat was...

Intimate's in Beta.(Compaq iPaq)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... The folks working on the Intimate Linux distribution for the Compaq iPaq have put out their first beta. Styled _a1, it requires a mammoth 140MB of storage for the base image. Unlike the lightweight Familiar distribution for the iPaq,...

Compaq To Offer Linux Certification with Red Hat.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Compaq plans to offer its newly announced Accredited System Engineer and Accredited Platform Integrator level Linux certification programs in conjunction with Red Hat's RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) program. The programs are supposed...

WinLinux 2001 Debuts.(from JRCP)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Brazilian Linux vendor JRCP has released WinLinux 2001, a Linux distribution that installs like a Windows application from within Windows 95, 98 and Me. An upgrade to the company's two-year-old WinLinux 2000 product, WinLinux 2001 is said...

Linux Cash Register in the Offing.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... There's no end, it seems, to the products being ported to Linux. This time, it's a cash register. Chinese Linux house Bluepoint Linux Software has teamed up with point-of-sale hardware supplier Shenzen Sed Logic Business Equipment to...

Open Source Apps Database in XML.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... The Open-Source Directory has released an XML version of its database of 400 stable open source apps so others can begin to use the data for presentation on their own web sites. "The chances that people will try and use a stable, open...

Sysgo Debuts English Version of ELinOS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... German Linux vendor Sysgo Real-Time Solutions has put out an English version of its ELinOS 2.0 embedded distribution and toolchain. Based on the 2.4 kernel, ELinOS 2.0 reportedly includes the so- called RTAI kernel extension for using Linux...

RLX Ships Red Hat on ServerBlades.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... RLX Technologies has started to factory install Red Hat Linux 7.1 on its machines. RLX president and COO Mike Swavely said that the company was getting a growing number of requests for pre-installed Red Hat since it announced the System...

LynuxWorks Fires 15% of Staff, Cans COO.(Company Operations)
August 13, 2001... LynuxWorks, the embedded OS vendor, quietly fired 15% of its staff two weeks ago. The company also canned its COO Arthur Swift about a month back. Swift came to LynuxWorks through its acquisition of Integrated Software & Devices...

Lineo Builds Embedix GPL Compliance Toolset.(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... Lineo has built an Embedix SDK GPL Compliance Toolset that's said to enable developers to identify and comply with open source and proprietary licenses. The toolset is Lineo's response to what it sees as unease among developers evaluating...

Lineo, FSMLabs Resolve Dispute.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Embedded systems vendors Lineo and Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) have resolved a dispute they've been having. Lineo has knuckled under and licensed FSMLabs' patented technique for running a non-real-time kernel such as Linux underneath a...

SGI Launches Itanium Cluster.(146-processor cluster, which uses SGI's 750 workstation running Linux for Ohio Supercomputer Center)(Product Information)
August 13, 2001... SGI launched its first Itanium cluster at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). The 146-processor cluster, which uses SGI's 750 workstation running Linux, comes with 292 gigs of memory and reportedly attains 428 GFLOPS peak performance for...

Microsoft Appeals to the Supreme Court.(antitrust case continues)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 13, 2001... Microsoft appealed to the Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon. As it previously hinted it might, it's not limiting its appeal to the so-called "commingling" charge that the Court of Appeals sustained. It wants its whole conviction for tying,...

Mozilla Ekes Out Buggy Beta 9.3.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... The Mozilla 9.3 beta finally started dribbling out just after our last issue went to press. Developers are already saying that the beta build is 35% more stable than the 9.2 beta was. The Mozilla team finally admitted to the Mozilla...

Lineo Snags MP3.com Media Server Deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Lineo, traditionally a software house, has landed a deal from Internet music service provider MP3.com to make the next-generation media server for MP3's Business Music Services, a subscription music and audio messaging service for restaurants,...

Caldera Cans SCO Leaders.(Caldera has fired some of the top management of the Santa Cruz Operation)(Company Operations)
August 13, 2001... This story has been updated slightly since we broke the news last Friday. Caldera has fired some of the top management of the Santa Cruz Operation a mere three months after closing on one of the hardest won mergers in the industry. ...

MontaVista Wins Concurrent as Customer.(Concurrent Computer licensing MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux OS)(Product Information)
August 13, 2001... Concurrent Computer Corporation's Real-Time Division is licensing MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux OS as an alternative to its proprietary RTOS. Apparently its real-time customers are interested in having a Linux option. Atlanta-based...

No Habla Linux.(RedEscolar project to put Linux in the public schools in Mexico)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... South of the border down Mexico way they came up with this bright idea to put Linux in the public schools, a program called RedEscolar that was supposed to save mucho pesos. Three years later and it turns out that fewer than 20 out of 4,500...

Systemax To Replace Dell.(offering Linux OS)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Port Washington, New York-based PC vendor Systemax said it is offering Linux OS on its desktops to fill the void caused by Dell's recent decision to exit the space. Dell stopped factory installing Linux on its corporate and consumer...

Penguin To Bundle WEBppliance with Linux Server.(Ensim Corporation's WEBppliance LS software)(Product Information)
August 13, 2001... Penguin Computing is bundling Ensim Corporation's WEBppliance LS software with its Relion Linux servers to offer web hosting service providers a turnkey web serving appliance. The WEBppliance kit is supposed to turn a standard Linux server...

SuSE Goofs.(IBM eServer iSeries marketing dispute)(Product Information)
August 13, 2001... The "we're first" game is being played out once again. Six days after Turbolinux announced that its Linux distribution for IBM's eServer iSeries systems was generally available, German distro SuSE swung wildly on August 8 and claimed to be...

Poor Response Forces Red Hat To Abort TechWorld.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Red Hat has cancelled its TechWorld conference. It was scheduled for Brussels in September. Red Hat said that many customers wanted to attend but couldn't afford the travel costs due to budget cuts and the economy. "We chose not to fight...

BlueSecure Sets Blue Linux Launch Date.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... BlueSecure Technologies has set a release date for its upcoming Blue Linux 1.0. The tiny Hillsboro, North Carolina outfit says it'll introduce five flavors of the distribution, which are supposedly being built from the ground up -...

Johns Hopkins Open Sources Graphics Program.(Open Channel Foundation effort)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Computer scientists at Johns Hopkins have teamed up with the Open Channel Foundation to offer a free download of a graphics program that's supposed to significantly speed up the way a computer displays a 3D model as it changes position. ...

Linux Kernels Proliferate Like Rabbits.(Technology Information)
August 20, 2001... The release of two new "final" versions of the Linux kernel in less than a week, making nine cuts of the kernel so far this year, has some Linux professionals fuming. They're ranting that their beloved operating system is starting to look...

So What's New in the New Linux Kernels?(Technology Information)
August 20, 2001... The two new Linux kernels released this week have a dollop of new stuff, in addition to a bunch of bug fixes. "This one has various VM niceness tweaks that have made some people much happier," Linux creator Linus Torvalds said,...

IBM Shelves AIX 5L.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 20, 2001... AIX 5L, IBM's noble experiment porting its proprietary RISC-based Unix to 64-bit Intel, has been undone by Windows and Linux. After spending millions on the thing, IBM is not going to productize it on Itanium, the chip it was intended for....

Penguin Fires 23%, Vows To Stay in Business.(Company Operations)
August 20, 2001... Linux vendor Penguin Computing quietly laid off 23% of its work force, about 25 employees, last Friday but ruled out any notion of exiting either the hardware business or the Linux market. Competition from the big vendors such as Dell and...

CEO Says Mission Critical Isn't Being Shopped.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 20, 2001... Mission Critical Linux CEO Bob Tumanic told us Wednesday that the company wasn't being shopped around. He dismissed as "speculation" a published report that Red Hat was looking to acquire the company. "We're not looking to sell the...

Turbo Prefers OEMs to Retail for Workstation.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 20, 2001... Turbolinux is going the OEM route with Turbolinux Workstation 7, its new upgrade to Workstation Pro 6.1. The older product was a retail gig targeted at professional developers involved in building e-commerce systems, intranets and web...

Resilience Plans Linux Continuous Availability Server.
August 20, 2001... Continuous availability house Resilience Corporation, which majors in Solaris, is turning its sights on Linux. The six-year-old Sunnyvale, California concern acknowledges plans to introduce a continuously available Linux server, but said it...

Linux Share of IT Budget Projected To Triple.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 20, 2001... End user spending on Linux hardware, software, services and staffing will triple to 9% of their IT budgets next year, up from 3% in 1999, according IDC projections. "Although Linux is not yet widely deployed in production environments, we...

Red Hat Debuts E-Commerce Suite.(Product Announcement)
August 20, 2001... Red Hat has introduced an e-commerce suite targeted at mid-sized businesses with 50-100 employees. Dubbed Red Hat E-Commerce Suite, the new package is supposed to bridge the gap between existing e-commerce products that are either limited...

DOJ Opposes Any Further Delay in Antitrust Case; Microsoft Digs In.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 20, 2001... In a widely anticipated argument, the Justice Department last Friday, August 10 told the Court of Appeals that there was no reason to indulge Microsoft in its bid to delay the antitrust case from going back to the district court. Microsoft...

LynuxWorks Loses Another Senior Executive.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Close on the heels of departing COO Art Swift and the firing of 15% of its employees, embedded OS vendor LynuxWorks is losing another senior executive. Its CFO Bhupi Singh, who's been with LynuxWorks for five years, is leaving at the end...

OpenGL Gets New Glitter.(Technology Information)
August 20, 2001... The OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released a new rev of OpenGL, the high-end graphics API standard built into Windows, most Unixes and pretty much any other OS in general use. The new cut, a point upgrade to OpenGL 1.3, is an...

Loki Files for Chapter 11.(Company Financial Information)
August 20, 2001... Linux games house Loki Software filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 3. Scott Draeker, founder and president of the three-year-old Orange County, California start-up, which ports popular games to Linux, said Loki "made a...

Turbo Snags 390 Order.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 20, 2001... Turbolinux is bragging about delivering a customized version of Linux for the 390 based on the 2.4.5 kernel, supposedly the first commercial 2.4-based distribution for the mainframe. The customer is Mount Arlington, New Jersey risk modeling...

IBM Debuts Free Toolkit.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... IBM has released a free Software Evaluation Kit containing a suite of its middleware products to enable developers to preview the software and build new Linux applications. The kit is supposed to let developers create static and dynamic web...

Rogue Wave C++ Kit Goes to Itanium.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Rogue Wave Software is porting its SourcePro C++ suite to 64-bit Windows and Linux running on Itanium. Rogue Wave said it's working with Intel. It didn't say when it expects to have the new SourcePro C++ ready. The SourcePro C++ suite...

HP Debuts New Linux Workstations.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 20, 2001... Hewlett-Packard has launched Linux versions of its Windows 2000 Professional-based x2000 and x4000 workstations. They use Pentium 4 and Xeon processors respectively. The x2000 starts at $2,160 for a 1.4GHz P4, the Intel 850 chipset, 128MB...

KDE 2.2 Bows.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 20, 2001... The KDE Project has released rev 2.2 of the KDE desktop. The cut has been enhanced to boost application start-up time on Linux systems up to 50%, increase stability and improve HTML rendering and JavaScript. There's now IMAP support in...

Lineo To Form Joint Venture.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Lineo, the embedded systems vendor, is making noises about establishing a joint venture to promote digital media applications and content. It will have details at LinuxWorld in a few days. The outfit's also expected to announce some...

Debian Scores with Globus.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... German supermarket chain Globus has reportedly converted about 480 computers in its cash desk system to Debian GNU/Linux. The system is reportedly designed so two cashiers can share a computer, usually a 486/25MHz. After an initially...

Linux Goes Hollywood.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 20, 2001... IBM has put together an all-Linux bundle for the media and entertainment industries. IBM's Linux Digital Studio Solution includes a suite of workstations, servers, storage and services designed to support animators, special-effects wizards...

Arco To Offer Linux IDE RAID Utility.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 20, 2001... Arco Computer Products plans to launch what it claims is the first IDE RAID controller utility for use with Linux and its DupliDisk II RAID controllers. The Hollywood, Florida manufacturer of IDE RAID products is looking to debut its...

AdminForce Launches Remote Monitor.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 20, 2001... Remote management specialist AdminForce Remote has released a new tool, aptly called Remote Monitor, that send automatic alerts of potential problems with Linux server operations. Remote Monitor is designed to deliver information to a...

CA Stumbles over Linux Mainframe Suite.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... Computer Associates is running at least five months late in delivering its suite of e-business management software for Linux on the 390 and has no firm date as to when it might be released. CA heralded the suite over a year ago touting it...

VA's Numbers Are Simply Appalling.(Company Financial Information)
August 27, 2001... How many ways are there to say simply God awful 'cause that - in a phrase - is what VA results for the quarter that ended July 28 are. It did $16 million in revenues and took an almost-inconceivable $267 million in charges to exit its...

VA Goes Proprietary.(Product Development)
August 27, 2001... VA Linux Systems, which is basing its continued survival on being able to sell its SourceForge application software to the enterprise, is shifting to a proprietary software model. VA originally developed SourceForge, which underlies the...

FiberCycle Folds.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... Transmeta ain't having much luck with its small coterie of newfangled dense server blade followers. It's back down to the one fledgling it started with - RLX Technologies. Amphus went over to the enemy a couple of weeks ago to peddle...

RLX Lays Off 15%.(Company Operations)
August 27, 2001... RLX Technologies, the Transmeta-based dense server pioneer, is laying off 15% of its 125 people, roughly 20 souls, to keep expenses down and stretch its underwriting so it won't have to go back to investors until next year. Under the current...

A Cry for a Unified Linux at Every Hostess' Worst Nightmare.(Caldera Forum)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 27, 2001... What if they gave a party and almost nobody showed up? Well, that's kind of what it felt like at Caldera Forum this week. Monday morning. The Quarry. The site of the opening keynotes for SCO Forum for almost every one of the past 15 years....

Loved Your Headline.
August 27, 2001... "How many Linux distributions does it take to make a profit?" - above a piece by Bloor Research about Caldera's reprise call for a unified Linux. Now why didn't we think of that?

Caldera Anticipates Forking the 64-Bit Kernel.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... With IBM having all but killed AIX 5L (LX No 180), the combined AIX- UnixWare-Linux OS, the question becomes what Caldera is going to do for the Itanium. In coming to a 64-bit strategy Caldera evidently considered a number of options...

Vizier, Caldera's New Ramrod, To Ride Herd over its Many Cats.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... At the Caldera Forum deep in the woods of the University of California at Santa Cruz campus (there's a metaphor in there somewhere), one of the major themes was Caldera's move toward an integrated and coordinated architecture for its operating...

Whither OpenServer?(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... Although OpenServer was the Santa Cruz Operation's and is now Caldera's bestseller, it appears it's being orphaned in favor of Caldera's OpenUnix (nee UnixWare) and OpenLinux products. Obviously this situation was of great concern to the...

Intel Goes Up against Vaunted GCC Compiler.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... Intel has a set of Linux compilers optimized for Itanium and the Pentium 4 processors. Intel executives are careful to avoid taking direct shots at the GNU Project's popular GCC compiler, but say that if developers care about better...

NeTraverse Fires 50% of Staff.(Company Operations)
August 27, 2001... NeTraverse, the Austin, Texas company that lets users run Windows apps on Linux desktops through its Win4Lin software, quietly fired half its employees a few weeks back. NeTraverse CEO James Curtin expects the move will reduce the...

Lineo Raises $20m.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
August 27, 2001... Lineo, which pulled back from an IPO because of stinky market conditions, has $20 million from Sun, Hitachi, Canopy Group and Egan Managed Capital. The latest round, Lineo's fourth, takes its total funding to $57 million. Sun, a Lineo...

HP Secures Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... HP says it's tightened up the 2.4 Linux kernel and brought Linux security to a hybrid state somewhere between what the US government calls B1 and C2 if such a grade existed, which it doesn't. Mike Balma, the director of marketing for HP's...

HP Creates its Own Embedded Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 27, 2001... Hewlett-Packard is getting into embedded Linux on the back of its once-controversial, reversed-engineered Java virtual machine, Chai. It's created its own embedded Linux to put in consumer appliances, specifically home entertainment...

Firebird Starts To Fly.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 27, 2001... Firebird, the fork of Borland's InterBase relational database, has reached beta 2. Win32 and Linux binaries can be downloaded at http://www.firebirdsql.org. The release notes are supposed to follow.

AIX 5L Made Nobody Happy: HP.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 27, 2001... HP says the reason IBM's AIX 5L didn't cut it with customers was that the operating system mixed metaphors. The UnixWare base IBM evidently hoped to exploit is little endian; AIX is big endian. IBM made AIX 5L's data model little endian. HP...

Turbo Releases EnFuzion Upgrade.(Product Announcement)
August 27, 2001... Turbolinux upgraded its EnFuzion clustering technology, which lets an organization knit its network of Linux, Unix and Windows servers into an out-of-the-box supercomputer. EnFuzion 7 is more scalable and has greater throughput, multiuser...

Caldera's Linux Personality Reportedly Cuts the Mustard at Oracle.(Product Information)
August 27, 2001... Oracle reportedly didn't want to certify Oracle 9i on UnixWare, now restyled OpenUnix by Caldera, its new owner, because the UnixWare market is too little. However, we hear it did put OpenUnix with Caldera's infamous Linux Personality widgetry...

Penguin Debuts New Linux Servers.(Product Announcement)
August 27, 2001... Penguin Computing has expanded its range of Linux-based Relion servers with three new Pentium III systems. The new servers, the Relion 105, Relion 225 and Relion 405, are based on Intel's new Tualatin chip. The 1U Relion 105, Penguin's...

At Last, Somebody with Good News.(Company Financial Information)
August 27, 2001... Thin client house Neoware Systems says it's turned itself around. It posted relatively happy earnings the other day, showing an operating profit for the second time in a row. Revenues for the company's fourth quarter, ended June 30, were...