Linux Gram articles from August 2005

Linux Gram archives from August 2005

Intel Jiggles Platform Branding.(product naming)
August 1, 2005... Intel is changing the naming conventions used for its server and workstation platforms in anticipation of the dual-core Xeons and Itaniums that are expected to become standard Intel fare. The move is aimed at getting Intel out from under...

SpikeSource Branches Out into Made-To-Order Open Source Stacks.
August 1, 2005... SpikeSource, the Kim Polese-Kleiner Perkins open source start-up testing and certifying LAMP stacks, is branching out into free fully configured made-to-order stacks. Developers will be able to configure a stack from a virtual Chinese menu...

Microsoft To Segment More.(production management)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft is going to segment Windows and Office to tickle growth. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the company's annual meeting with financial analysts Thursday that the company would add high-end versions of the products, a picture...

IBM Starts Blade.org.(organization formation by International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... IBM is starting a new Blade.org "community" in the name of interoperability and concocting new blade technology on behalf of its BladeCenter. Besides IBM there are eight founding member including NetApp, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel,...

Starter Edition Count.(sales of Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft senior vice president, Windows Client unit Will Poole told financial analysts Thursday that the company has sold 100,000 copies of its low-cost Linux-and-piracy defense, the Windows XP Starter Edition. The disclosure is the first...

Absoft To Resell Intel Compilers, Libraries.(agreements)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Absoft Corporation, which introduced the first commercial 32-bit Fortran compilers for the Mac, NT, Linux and HPC environments, is going to resell Intel's compilers, libraries, and other software development tools for Linux and Windows. It...

Firefox: 75m and Counting.(market share of Mozilla Firefox)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft may be starting to find the Firefox Son-of-Netscape alternate web browser downright pesky. The Mozilla Foundation recorded the 75 millionth Firefox download on Tuesday. That's an additional 25 million downloads in less than...

Ariel Sharon Sticks His Foot in Intel's Mouth.
August 1, 2005... Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon beat any Intel announcement to the punch Sunday when he claimed that Intel would be putting another Pentium plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. Intel has yet to confirm the news though it did announce...

Strategy? What Strategy?(management of Mark Hurd)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... George Colony, the president of Forrester Research, emerged from an interview with HP CEO Mark Hurd to tell the New York Times that Hurd doesn't have a strategy to deal with HP, explaining that Hurd hasn't been there long enough to formulate...

AMD at 11% of the Server Market?(market share of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Mercury Research, which counts industry standard chips, claims AMD's server market share went from 7.4% in Q1 to 11.2% in Q2, which, if true, goes a way to explaining how the upstart had a negative influence on Intel's ASPs last quarter as...

CA Housecleaning Reaches a Lump in the Rug.(written communication of Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Computer Associates' co-founder Russell Artzt, who shared that controversial billion-bonus with Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar years ago, an event that slipped a banana peel under the company's foot, won't stand for re-election to the CA board...

HP User Group Dead.(organization dissolution of Interex)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... As HP struggles with its future, the 31-year-old HP user group Interex has thrown in the towel. It has disbanded and taken its HP World expo with it. Its web site says folding was "financially necessary" and "unavoidable." The new HP-created HP...

Cyprus Firm To Resell Newisys Gear.(distribution agreement with ISA Hardware)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Cyprus-based ISA Hardware, a computer component distributor, is going to resell Newisys' complete line of servers in Eastern Europe, the old Soviet Union, the Baltic and Nordic countries, as well as the Middle East and North Africa, altogether...

GM Goes with Java ES.(General Motors Corp.'s contract with Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Enterprise System)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... During its earnings call Tuesday, Sun said General Motors is going to use the Java Enterprise System (Java ES) as an integrated software environment for its global IT infrastructure. The contract, whose value wasn't disclosed but could be worth...

Itanium Worth 25% of Power.(market share of Intel Itanium)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Intel, quoting IDC, figures Itanium is worth about 25% of the system revenue generated by IBM's enemy Power chip.

Microsoft Nails 230k UK Desktops.(contracts with United Kingdom. Department for Work and Pensions and Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Linux flirtations notwithstanding and any discounts unspoken, Microsoft has nailed down 230,000 UK government desktops with Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The three-year enterprise...

Big is Beautiful: EMC.(launch of EMC Symmetrix DMX-3)
August 1, 2005... Long about the end of August, the beginning of September EMC is going to start delivering a third- generation Symmetrix DMX-3 system that it says is the largest, fastest and most scalable high-end storage array in the world, ultimately capable...

Good Lord, Sun Made Money!(financial results of Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Sun beat Wall Street expectations the other day and, thanks to a $190 million tax benefit, posted earnings of $121 million, or four cents a share, on fourth-quarter revenues down 4.3% to $2.975 billion. Without the myriad charges it took, it...

Siebel Continues To Twist in the Wind.(financial results of Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Siebel, which is trying to cut costs and grow at the same time First Boston compares it to being between a rock and hard place lost $50 million in Q2 thanks to a $74 million restructuring charge. Without it, it would have broken even. Revenues...

CA To Lay Off More People.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
August 1, 2005... Battling its way back from an accounting scandal, Computer Associates is going to can another 5% of workforce, roughly 800 people, to save $75 million because new business is down, although profits doubled in its fiscal first quarter on...

Long Horn Hits First Beta.(development of Microsoft Windows Vista)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft, as you may have heard, released the first Long Horn beta on Wednesday morning, a week ahead of the schedule it gave just last week when it named the Long Horn client "Windows Vista." It's the only early thing that's ever happened...

Corel Chases Outlook Corel is going to try to take on Microsoft's desktop e-mail program Outlook by unbundling a standalone copy.(launch of WordPerfect MAIL)
August 1, 2005... MAIL from its WordPerfect office suite, aiming it at the home and small business market. It's the first competitive move Corel has made since it hired ex-IBMer David Dobson as its CEO at the end of last month to drive the company's "next...

Good Lord, SCO Recruits a Heavy Hitter.(Tim Negris appointed at The SCO Group Inc.)
August 8, 2005... Despite all the ominous portents about SCO's future that the open source radicals take from their entrail- readings, the beaten-up company has reportedly managed to entice ex-Oracle/ex-IBM executive Tim Negris out of semi-retirement to be its...

Mozilla Dons a Suit, Dances with the Devil.(Mozilla Foundation forms Mozilla Corporation)
August 8, 2005... The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit open source descendent of Netscape, opened a new front in the decade-old browser wars Wednesday when it announced that it had set up a for-profit subsidiary called Mozilla Corporation. Ah, to think...

Novell Sues SCO.(The SCO Group Inc.)
August 8, 2005... Apparently smarting over its second failure to get SCO's slander-of-title suit against it thrown out of court, Novell has upped the ante and countersued, hitting SCO with a raft of charges that, if upheld, would put SCO out of business. ...

Novell To Cut EMEA Jobs.(Europe, Middle East and Africa)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Novell told the SEC Monday that it's going to restructure its EMEA operation, reducing its staff by 120-150 people by the end of October "to improve its profitability and operating efficiency." The move is expected to cost $10 million-$12...

Linux Trades Old Critical Defects for New, Reportedly Less Critical Ones.(Red Hat Linux kernel 2.6.9)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Coverity, the source code analysis start-up that analyzed the Linux kernel 2.6.9, the version used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, six months ago and found six potentially critical defects in the core filesystem and networking code, says that...

Carnegie Mellon Proposes Open Source Rating System.(Carnegie Mellon West's Center for Open Source Investigation)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... There are over 100,000 open source projects listed on SourceForge, CodeHaus, Tigris, Freshmeat, Java.net and Open Symphony. There are 375 content management apps alone. Some widely adopted projects have become high-quality software...

Russians Offer Linux Protection.(Kaspersky Anti-Virus launched)
August 8, 2005... Kaspersky Lab, the Russian security house that opened a Boston office in February, is pushing its Linux anti-virus widgetry into the American market, having cut its teeth in Europe where Linux enterprise adoption is ahead of the US. The...

Novell Validates HPC Stack on HP Hardware.(collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Co.)
August 8, 2005... Novell, which started treading on the toes of the open source start-ups SourceLabs and SpikeSource when it set up its Validated Configuration Program earlier this year, trotted out its first boxed offering Tuesday an HPC configuration based on...

Palamida & Black Duck Line Up with Eclipse & SourceForge.(Black Duck Software Inc., Eclipse Foundation)(alliances)
August 8, 2005... Walking in lockstep and making mirror announcements this week, Palamida and its Black Duck competitor, the IP compliance rivals that SCO for all intents and purposes created, cut practically matching alliances with the Eclipse Foundation and...

Novell To Support JBoss Middleware Platform.(agreement with JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Novell has become the first and only Linux infrastructure vendor to offer full enterprise-level support for JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), giving customers a single point of contact. Under the agreement, Novell is offering 24x7...

Novell Claims Lead in China.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Quoting an IDC study called "China Linux Market Analysis, 1H2005," Novell claims to have had the lion's share of the Chinese Linux server market in the first half of this year. IDC figures Novell had 32.9% of the revenue and 30% of the...

Scalix Goes Wireless.(Scalix Wireless Solution launched)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Scalix Corporation, which does enterprise e-mail and calendaring on Linux, has come up with the Scalix Wireless Solution, which is supposed to let people use the wireless devices and carriers they want. Scalix says it provides wireless...

OSDL Gets CFO.(Mike Temple appointed at Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs has gotten itself its first CFO. Mike Temple had been executive VP and general manager at Bioject Inc. He was CFO at Upright Systems, an Internet services and software development company, Instromedix and the...

Second Service Pack for SuSE Out.(Novell Inc. launches SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Novell has released a second service pack (SP2) for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 that it says includes numerous security improvements, maintenance enhancements and updates for the most popular open source projects in the distribution. SP2...

Penguin Blades Go 64-Bit.(Penguin Computing launches BladeRunner 4130 and 4140)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Penguin Computing, which has had a smaller, denser blade package than the big vendors since its BladeRunner system hit market, has upgraded the thing to 64-bit chips. It still claims lower power consumption and more gigabit Ethernet ports than...

Linspire Hopes To Get into High School.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Linspire says that Indiana high schools are testing desktop Linux machines in school systems across the state as part of a plan to provide every public high school student with a computer. If successful, the plan, called the Indiana Access...

EC Leans SCO's Way.(The SCO Group Inc.)(economic policy of European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... In a move that SCO might exploit, the European Commission looks like it is proposing to criminalize the intentional, commercial use of IP-infringing software. SCO of course is suing the Fortune 500 AutoZone for running Linux, claiming it...

Vacations, Paperwork, Boycotts & Rock Throwers.(human resource management of Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Well, it seems that Oasis chairman Jim Hughes of HP, whose term was set to expire at the end of July, went on vacation and didn't put in the paperwork saying he was interested in keeping the job. So he's been replaced by Eduardo Gutentag of...

Low-End Opterons Get ECC Memory.(error-correcting code)(AMD Opteron 100 enhanced)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... AMD had expanded the kind of memory supported by its low-end Opteron 100 uniprocessor chips. Error- correcting code (ECC) unbuffered memory support is now standard. Dual-core 100s with ECC support are supposed to be available in 30 days....

The De-Carly-fication of HP Continues The latest Carly innovation to bite the dust at HP is her famous deal to resell the Apple iPod, according to.(Hewlett-Packard Co.'s distribution agreement with Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... the Wall Street Journal. The company's new administration seems to be working backwards and undoing her most recent novelties first like moving PCs out of printers and then canning her combined sales unit, leaving critics to hope that...

Intel To Try To Close AMD's Window of Opportunity.(launch of Intel Xeon DP and MP)
August 15, 2005... Whips Unexpected Dual-Core Out of the Air Smarting under the head start that AMD's dual-core Opteron got and sick of getting taken to the woodshed over it Intel is on the threshold of confirming that it's definitely moved up the volume...

Out Beyond Long Horn & Blackcomb.(research project of Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... For maybe, oh, upwards of two years now Microsoft has had this research project going called Big Top. Big Top, which falls into Craig Mundie's bailiwick, may or may not turn into a future operating system. It could also turn into...

VMware Makes Open Source Noises.(licensing of VMware ESX Server)
August 15, 2005... VMware said Monday that it was going to open its high-end ESX Server APIs and make the ESX source code available to partners, who it expects to influence the widgetry's direction and share its governance. We reportedly owe this development...

IBM Makes Linux Ready-To-Wear.(production management of International Business Machines Corp.)
August 15, 2005... In what IBM called the "most significant realignment of its worldwide approach to Linux-related sales and marketing since it embraced Linux five years ago," IBM said Tuesday that it was aligning its Linux strategy by industry and building...

OSDL Want To Be a Patent Nanny.(services of Open Source Development Labs)
August 15, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which has been kicking this SCO-attributable idea around for a while, unveiled the OSDL Patent Commons Project this week at LinuxWorld. The consortium wants to be the central repository where...

Red Hat Wants Open Source Inventions Patented.(formation of Fedora Foundation)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... The Fedora Foundation that Red Hat is trying to organize so it doesn't look quite like a capitalist running dog exploiting the masses is going to fund patent filings for open source developments "to provide a protective patent shield around...

No GPL 3 Before 2007.(general public license)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... The long-promised update of the General Public License, GPL 3, is at least 18 months and an untold number of guerilla skirmishes away according to what Free Software Foundation (FSF) general counsel Eben Moglen was saying this week at...

Oracle Cluster File System To Go into Linux Kernel.(product launch)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Oracle turned up at LinuxWorld this week with a generally available copy of its open-source Cluster File System rev 2 (OCFS 2) under its arm and a deal with Novell in hand to include the stuff as a standard component in SUSE Linux Enterprise...

Oh, Good Lord, Now It's Paravirtualized Linux.(production management of VMware Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... You engineering types never cease to amaze us. Where did you people rub up against the humanities? God knows we in the humanities didn't have much truck with engineering back in school. Anyway, VMware says that it's going to support...

IBM To Market Grid Starter Kit.(new service of International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... IBM is going to push grid computing, which are still something of an esoteric beast limited in use to those who can tame it, into the enterprise. It's come up with a packaged set of software, hardware and services called Grid and Grow...

OpenSuSE Lifts Off.(Product launch by Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... In a bid to expand its modest orbit of users, Novell is going to try to cultivate a developer community around SuSE Linux Professional, the stuff it sell in retail stores, calling it openSuSE for the purpose. Red Hat's been trying to do the...

Siebel & Novell Seek Comfort from Each Other.(collaboration with Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Siebel and Novell, two companies whose stars are not exactly what you'd call auspicious, are looking to each other for some improvement in their business. Siebel's product development team is supposed to work with Novell's engineers to...

Novell Greases NetWare-to-Linux Move.(Novell Open Enterprise Server enhanced)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Novell says it's made it easier to move from its hereditary NetWare system to Linux. An enhanced Open Enterprise Server, its NetWare-Linux package, has performance advances and improved migration capabilities that it says simplify moving key...

Centrify Raises $14m in Funding.(investments by Invesco Private Capital, Accel Partners and Mayfield)
August 15, 2005... Centrify, the start-up that makes Microsoft's Active Directory cross-platform and extends Microsoft's authorization, authentication and group policy capabilities to Linux, Unix, J2EE and applications such as Apache and JBoss, has raised $14...

Potential Oracle Nemesis Starts Shipping.(product development by EnterpriseDB)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... EnterpriseDB, the open source start-up that could become a real thorn in Oracle's side if it applies itself, is out of the beta phase. It's made its eponymous version of the Postgres database, which can run Oracle apps and is a heck of a lot...

MontaVista Gets Phone Deal.(MontaVista Software Inc.'s collaboration with PalmSource inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... PalmSource says it's going to collaborate with embedded Linux vendor MontaVista Software in bringing Linux-based mobile devices to market. It plans to have a Linux version of its OS platform for so-called feature phones next summer....

Supermicro Mobo Supports HTX.(Supermicro H8QC8/E)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Supermicro has what it calls the first four-socket Opteron motherboard to support the HyperTransport HTX standard. The HTX slot provides a direct connection between the processor and PathScale's InfiniPath HTX InfiniBand interconnect and the...

Dell To See MySQL &JBoss.(contracts)(JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Dell says it is now selling MySQL Network subscriptions and JBoss Network support subscriptions. It's offering an end-to-end LAMP solution consisting of PowerEdge servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server...

Black Duck, Olliance Team.(Black Duck Software)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Black Duck Software has got another partner. It's teamed up with Olliance Group, the open source management consultant, to help push Black Duck's protexIP automated software compliance management solutions. The two firms are supposed to bundle...

HP & Red Hat Create Open Source Blade Bundle.(collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Co.)
August 15, 2005... Red Hat and HP have got themselves an all-in-one software bundle: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP's BladeSystem. They say it's the first open source blade bundle. Red Hat Network products will also be offered with a specially designed...

SCO To Virtualize: There'll Be More of Them.(production management of The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... SCO, looking ahead and assuming that it's got a future, said at SCO Forum this week that Project Fusion, which is supposed to fuse the old Santa Cruz Open Server and the old AT&T UnixWare into a single operating system late next year, will be...

Intel's Antitrust Trouble Spreads to Korea.(investigations)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Sounding exactly like complaints AMD brought to Japanese regulators, Intel told the SEC the other day that South Korea's Fair Trade Commission had asked it in June for documents related to the marketing and rebate programs that Intel cut with...

Prices Hurt Dell.(financial results)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Dell turned in its Q2 results Thursday night, posting record earnings up 32% to $1.02 billion or 41 cents a share for the period ended July 29. But the market wasn't satisfied with its revenues or outlook and took it down a peg in after-hours...

Communist Chinese Teach Blue the Difference Between Red & Black.(financial results of Lenovo Group Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... China's on a roll. In between the Chinese web search engine Baidu.com's bubble-reminiscent up-354%-from-$27 IPO and Yahoo writing a billion-dollar check as in cash money and turning over its existing Chinese search operation to buy a 40%...

VMware Nails Sun.(reseller agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Sun has finally succumbed to VMware's siren song and is going to resell all of VMware's virtualization widgetry on its Opteron-based Sun Fire x64 servers and workstations and StorEdge 6920 system. The deal covers ESX Server, GSX Server and...

A Simulator for Pacifica.(launch of SimNow AMD64)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... AMD is talking about making a new cut of its free SimNow AMD64 simulator generally available so software developers can write to AMD's anticipated Pacifica virtualization technology before Pacifica's available in its chips, getting that much of...

Dell Adds to its Dual-Core Portfolio.(launch of Dell PowerEdge 830 and Dell PowerEdge 850)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Dell has added two more low-end PowerEdge servers using Intel's base-level dual-core chips, the kind of stuff that HP has scoffed are desktops masquerading as servers. So that makes three dual-core Dell boxes so far. The new ones are the...

Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick.(financial results of Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... HP is supposed to report its quarter on Tuesday August 16. Credit Suisse figures the new management has one more honeymoon quarter left before the market holds "the company accountable to establish and execute against updated growth and...

Red Hat Loses VP to Law Firm.(Bryan Sims resigned)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Red Hat VP, corporate development and former associate general counsel Bryan Sims has left for Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP to spearhead the law firm's corporate and IP practice focused on open source. The firm is anticipating Fortune 500...

HP Buys Scitex.(Scitex Vision, Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... HP's new CEO Mark Hurd has bought his first company. Late Thursday HP said it was going to spend $230 million in cash to pick up Scitex Vision, a $142 million-a-year Israeli superwide-format digital printer company. Its devices print stuff like...

Novell Names Prexy, North America.(Susan Heystee appointed)(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Novell has named Susan Heystee president, Novell North America responsible for North America operations, field sales, consulting, channel business, and customer support. She succeeds Ron Hovsepian, who was recently made executive vice president...

Dell Replaces Poached CIO Dell has named Susan Sheskey, who has been with the company for the last 12 years, as its CIO, replacing.(Brief Article)
August 15, 2005... Randy Mott who was poached by HP a few weeks ago. Sheskey was serving as interim CIO. She's also been VP, global sales, services, manufacturing and fulfillment IT at Dell.

Wallace Watch.
August 22, 2005... IBM failed to get Daniel Wallace's pro se anti-GPL antitrust suit against it thrown out of court and now Red Hat and Novell are trying to do the same thing. Charged by Wallace as co-conspirators of IBM and the Free Software Foundation in...

Apache Incubating Web Services Broker.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... The Apache Foundation is incubating a new SOA-based open source project dubbed Synapse to develop a lightweight, robust, distributed Web Services broker that implements Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) patterns and uses the WS-* specifications as...

SCO & the Shorts.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... For the last few days, SCO, which was a $15-$20 stock back in 2003 after it sued IBM, has been optimistically trying to break the $5 barrier, a level it hasn't consistently seen for over a year. Not since it naively let BayStar into its lair...

Novell's New GroupWise Bundles Linux.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Novell has bundled a free copy of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with the GroupWise 7 collaboration server, which hit general availability Tuesday. GroupWise 7, which runs on multiple operating system platforms, including Windows 2003, is...

Novell Targets China.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Novell says it's going to up its investment in the China market, set up a research and development center, open new regional branches, develop a local technology support center, and strengthen its ties with local partners to deliver solutions...

Jaluna Arms for Battle.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... Jaluna, the growth-minded virtual embedded OS outfit that started out years ago as Chorus and got bought and "unbought" by Sun, has hired Peter Richards, an Australian and a Tandem graduate who did a few years as VP of sales and customer...

Mark Hurd & His Lucky Charm.
August 22, 2005... HP's Q3 numbers blew the market away. HP stock, Carly Fiorina's bete noire, surged better than 13% on Wednesday striking a new 52-week high of $26.85 and leading the high-tech sector into happy investor territory. And Carly's...

Intel To Change its Microarchitecture.
August 22, 2005... Intel is going to change its microarchitecture and, since the new widgetry, which reportedly has no code name, blends two of its existing microarchitectures, you can bet your boots that Intel wishes people wouldn't go around saying that it is...

Doubtless Mr Douglas Won't Be Hitting the Hot Chips Circuit Again.(Brief Article)
August 22, 2005... So Intel sends along one of its principal engineers Jonathan Douglas to Hot Chips and Mr Douglas proceeds to regale the crowd with how Smithfield, Intel's first dual-core chip, was a rush job put together in a mere nine months to catch up with...

StorageTek Ready with Next-Gen Virtual Storage Widget.
August 22, 2005... StorageTek, the soon-to-be Sun satellite, is about to introduce its next-generation Flexline V-Series disk storage subsystem, a further development of the virtual storage widgetry it pioneered in 1994 and the source of a significant part of its...