Linux Gram articles from December 2002

Linux Gram archives from December 2002

Psst! Wanna Run All Windows Apps on Linux?
December 2, 2002... Suppose the 400 million people that Microsoft says still boot up Window 9x every day could run their Windows programs on Linux and take advantage of its vaunted stability, reliability, efficiency, security and manageability advantages over...

SuSE Gets its Fourth CEO in 16 Months.
December 2, 2002... SuSE Linux named its fourth CEO in 16 months on Monday, replacing Gerhard Burtscher, who joined the company last December to turn the place around. Burtscher, who is described as a turnaround specialist, replaced SuSE CFO Johannes...

Mandrake Also Taps New Moses To Lead It.
December 2, 2002... There must be something in the air what with two Linux ponies switching jockeys this week. No sooner had SuSE announced that it had changed CEOs than MandrakeSoft, its French neighbor, popped up with the news that Mandrake co-founder and...

Tiger Claims It's Selling 1,000 Lindows Boxes a Week.
December 2, 2002... TigerDirect, the Internet box peddler with the $229 Lindows-based widgets, says it's been selling 1,000 units a week since it started moving the things a month ago and did indeed briefly run out of them last week, as reported, but is expecting...

Intel Accidentally Lets the Cat Out of the Bag.
December 2, 2002... Intel's darling marketing people sent out a bunch of invitations to meet with the company at the ISSCC shindig in February and, although they reportedly weren't supposed to, managed to pre-announce the scared clock rate of Madison, the coming...

Alan Kay Goes To Work for HP in Open Source.
December 2, 2002... HP has lured computer demigod Alan Kay out of semi-retirement to think great thoughts and presumably recharge its PC operation. Kay's the guy who envisioned the Dynabook, the Ur-Tablet, and led the Xerox PARC team that created the...

Dell's Blade Rolls.
December 2, 2002... Dell decided to release its first blade server on Monday, only a quarter later than it said it would in April when it first showed the box off to Wall Street and the press. It remains to be seen whether the delay means it catches a better wave....

Sun Provides Little Clarity.
December 2, 2002... Sun Microsystems practically made the Iraqis look forthcoming during its mid-quarter Tuesday evening. CFO Steve McGowan was unwilling to give much more than his name, rank and serial number. Basically he would only admit to a "seasonal...

Rogue Xbox Media Player Under Development.
December 2, 2002... A team of programmers has released an early beta of an open source media player for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The rogue player, called the Xbox Media Player, is modeled after Microsoft's XP Media Center operating system, which is...

China Growing into Linux Haven.
December 2, 2002... This news ain't gonna come as any great surprise given its politics and fears, but China is emerging as a Linux stronghold according to a new report based on interviews with about a thousand Chinese software developers. According to the...

HP Turns Server Lead over to IBM.
December 2, 2002... Just as our thoughts were turning to turkeys - dinner that is - IBM sauntered by with the latest IDC numbers in hand and the news that it had ousted HP as world's biggest server vendor in terms of revenues - the only thing that really matters -...

Solaris 9 x86 Out for Early Access.
December 2, 2002... Sun, which meant to kill the thing for the sake of belt-tightening, but had to relent to mollify users, has put out its promised test version of the new Solaris 9 x86. Sun also meant to restrict Solaris x86 to being bundled with its new...

Raidtec Launches New NAS File Server.
December 2, 2002... Raidtec has launched a new 1U gigabit Ethernet NAS file server that simultaneously supports Windows and Unix/Linux clients on a LAN. Targeted at workgroups and departments, the new SNAZ E4 appliance comes with hot-swap ATA drives in 320GB,...

Matsushita & Sony Shun Microsoft, Launch Linux Digital Media Platform.
December 23, 2002... Consumer electronics biggies Sony and Matsushita have put aside their hereditary rivalry long enough to combine on an open source Linux- based digital media platform. They will be developing a purpose-built Linux operating system to use in...

CA Creates Linux Unit.(Computer Associates' Linux Technology Group)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Computer Associates has just done something it's never done before, at least not in living memory. It's set up a Linux Technology Group and given it a cross-brand charter. CA isn't given to cross-brand imperatives and the company is...

Metrowerks Buys Lineo.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya Lineo, or what was left of it, was gonna get absorbed (CSN No 471). As reports have suggested, Motorola development tools subsidiary Metrowerks is picking up the battered remains of the embedded Linux...

More IBM Layoffs Reportedly Coming.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... IBM is reportedly preparing to lay off more people, supposedly more than the 15,000-20,000 folks it terminated in 2002. Internally they're using words like "huge" and "The Big One." IBM declined to comment. Insiders say the date...

Linux Desktops Infiltrate Wal-Mart Stores in Brazil.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Wal-Mart has so far resisted any impulse it might have to sell $199 Linux boxes in its US stores, reserving the little creatures for its web site where they've reportedly been such a runaway hit that supplies have been exhausted forcing...

IBM, Sun & Dell Come To Infiniband's Defense.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... So Intel, Microsoft and now IBM Microelectronics can't find enough of an Infiniband market to service and have dropped out for wide-scale lack of interest. So what. Sun, Dell and IBM's server group effectively say it doesn't matter and that...

Intergraph Sues Dell, HP & Gateway for Patent Infringement.
December 23, 2002... Back five years and some $300 million in court-awarded damages ago, when Intel first got embroiled with Intergraph over whether it was treading on Intergraph-held patents, it struck a noble pose and claimed that it was taking the bullet for its...

IBM Thumbs its Nose at Rivals.
December 23, 2002... IBM figures it's squeezing Sun and Unisys and has got HP and Dell on the run. It's beating its chest over the fact that its expected 16-way Foster Xeon MP machine, the new high-end x440, is now shipping in volume while HP and Dell don't...

You Suppose They Can Get Linux To Revolve around Sun?(Sun Microsystems seeks Linux partners)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Well, the gossip says that Sun is starting to take this Linux thing seriously and realizes LX50, its contribution to date, ain't gonna cut it for them and that it's going to need partners. So its Linux strategists have reportedly assembled an...

Hmmm, So Who's Gonna Fall on their Sword?(Bear Stearns predictions)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Bear Stearns came up with a list of 10 predictions for the new year and clearly the most provocative of the bunch was number nine - that the "CEO of a major enterprise hardware company is likely to leave during 2003." We imagine they must be...

NET Server Price Hike Muted.(Microsoft's .NET Server 2003)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... InformationWeek claims that documents filed by several vendors with the Transaction Processing Performance Council to get the upcoming .NET Server 2003 benchmarked indicate that Microsoft intends to raise the price of two of the four planned...

Sybase Database To Go 64-Bit.(Sybase's Adapter Server Enterprise database )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Sybase and HP are developing a version of Sybase's Adapter Server Enterprise database for HP's Itanium 2 servers running Linux and HP- UX. Sybase may also put the thing on AMD's upcoming Opteron boxes.

Red Hat Breaks Even.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Linux major Red Hat reported a modest profit of $305,000, breaking even per share, on revenues of $24.3 million in its fiscal third quarter ended November 30. It lost $1.5 million on operations. Revenues were up 14% sequentially and 21%...

Revolution Spotters.(Hewlett-Packard board creates subcommittee )(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... The Hewlett-Packard board has created a subcommittee to make sure the company doesn't miss any more big technological revolutions like, oh, the Internet. Its members include nuclear physicist George Keyworth, big-time Kleiner Perkins venture...

Toshiba Has a Piece of MontaVista.(Toshiba America Electronic Components)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... So MontaVista Software, the embedded Linux outfit, trotted out the news this week that it had gotten an equity investment from Toshiba America Electronic Components. Its press release made it sound like the ink on the check hadn't dried...

Linux Revenues Inch Up at SCO.(Santa Cruz Operations Group)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Linux-related revenues moved up slightly at SCO Group in its fourth quarter ended October 31. Of its $15.5 million in revenues the company reported, Linux-related turnover amounted to 5%, according to SCO executives, compared to 2%, or...

RLX Finally Upgrades its Transmeta Blade.(RLX Technologies' RLX ServerBlade 1000t)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... RLX Technologies has upgraded its low-end Transmeta-based blade to Transmeta's 1GHz TM5800 Crusoe chip. The RLX ServerBlade 1000t will re-place the exist ServerBlade 667, based on the 667MHz Crusoe. Of course this was something RLX,...

Egenera Gets NAS Support.(Egenera's BladeFrame system)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Egenera has added NAS support to its Linux-based BladeFrame system making it work with both SAN and NAS environments. The new feature is part of the BladeFrame 2.1 release. Egenera worked with NAS vendor Network Appliance on the NAS support....

Oracle Shakes up Sales Force.(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Oracle has reorganized its sales force to boost its applications business, particularly in North America. Under the new structure, Oracle salespeople will either sell applications or database products but not both. The company claims...

Penguin Debuts 1.2TB Storage Server.(Penguin Computing's Relion 230 Xeon-based server)(Brief Article)
December 23, 2002... Penguin Computing has launched a Linux-based IDE server with up to 1.2TB of internal storage capacity. Dubbed Relion 230, the new Xeon-based server's IDE disk subsystem features six cold-swap hard drives in capacities ranging from 40GB to...