Linux Gram articles from December 2004

Linux Gram archives from December 2004

After Fruitless Struggle, IBM Dumps its PC Unit in Lenovo's Lap.
December 13, 2004... In a tacit admission of failure, IBM, the archetypal capitalist that pioneered the personal computer two decades ago, is selling its loss-ridden PC unit to Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker partly owned by the communist Chinese government, in a...

Penguin Breaks into Blades.
December 13, 2004... Penguin Computer is going into the blades business. The little Linux house, currently run by former DEC-Compaq big-shot Enrico Pesatori, has bought in a third-party design that it's calling BladeRunner that it can use to create an...

Euro Software Patents in Limbo.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... The European Union won't be able to decide whether or not to adopt the controversial American model of software patents until next year, according to anti-patent watchdog nosoftwarepatents.com. It seems the EU Council now lacks a qualified...

Thunderbird Flies.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... On the heels of its Firefox 1.0 web browser, which threatens to take away market share from Microsoft, Mozilla has released its Thunderbird 1.0 e-mail client, which competes with Microsoft's Outlook Express and Qualcomm's Eudora. It is...

Linux Server Revenues To Cross $9B in '08.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... The growing adoption of Linux by customers worldwide for enterprise workloads, hosting ISV applications and databases will yield Linux server revenues of $9.1 billion in 2008, according to a new study by IDC. Linux server revenues are...

Novell To Commercialize Open-Xchange.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Novell is supposed to start selling and doing training, maintenance and support for Netline Internet Service's Open-Xchange collaboration server, the engine behind SuSE's Openexchange Server. Novell is also supposed to add the thing to its...

PalmSource Embraces Linux.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Palm OS merchant PalmSource is buying mobile phone ISV China MobileSoft (CMS) in a $22.6 million stock deal to tap into the huge Chinese market and the growing popularity of Linux. Nanjing-based CMS offers a range of mobile phone software...

BEA Goes to the Devil.(WebLogic Platform 9.0)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... BEA has unveiled Diablo, its next-generation WebLogic Server 9.0, the cornerstone of its upcoming WebLogic Platform 9.0 designed to connect disparate systems and run the applications that large companies use to run their business. Diablo...

CA Names Chief Compliance Officer.(Computer Associates)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Computer Associates has hired itself a chief compliance officer like it pledged it would when it settled with the government to keep from getting branded a rogue company in court. The chap it's hired is Patrick Gnazzo, who was chief...

Opteron Hype is, Well, Hype.(Opteron Processors)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... AMD brags that 25% of the Fortune Global 100, including Microsoft, BNP Paribas and Bell Helicopter, are now using Opteron systems. The Microsoft Treasury, which oversees the company's vast $60 billion in assets, had to split up its...

PeopleSoft May Have Run Out of Places To Hide.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... PeopleSoft is supposed to turn up in the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday to explain why it's turned down Oracle's $24-a-share bid, which the judge has indicated he regards as a legitimate offer with a built-in premium for stockholders. In a...

Gateway, Toshiba Were Interested in IBM PC Unit.
December 13, 2004... When the pending IBM-Lenovo deal was leaked to the New York Times last Friday, there was supposedly another interested party in the wings. The Wall Street Journal then said there were two. BusinessWeek identifies them as Gateway and Toshiba. It...

Dell Calls Red Hat Overpriced.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Judy Chavis, director of business development for Dell's Enterprise Product Group, told CNET that Red Hat needs to lower its prices, making a point that Sun has been trying to make to carve out a space for its free Solaris 10. She's quoted as...

Intel Raises Dual-Core Projections.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Intel has changed its forecast and now expects to exit 2006 with upwards of 70% of its desktop shipments being dual-cores, up from 40% a mere two months ago. It figures that by then dual-cores will account for upwards of 85% of server shipments...

Dell Disses Lenovo.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Michael Dell wouldn't answer when CNBC asked him if he tried to buy IBM's PC business. At Oracle OpenWorld, he gave the IBM-Lenovo tie- up the same odds of succeeding as other industry mergers. In other words, someplace between zilch and the...

Ellison Claims He's No Vandal.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Evidently laying the foundation for Oracle's defense when it appears in court next month to answer charges that its run on PeopleSoft singed PeopleSoft to the tune of a billion dollars, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison this week claimed PeopleSoft...

Open Source Circa 560 A.D.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Once upon a time, back in sixth-century Ireland, there lived a monk named Columba with a mad passion for books who wasn't above pinching the books of other monks so he could copy them, a little habit that did nothing for his reputation. In...

Ball in IBM, SCO Court.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Our lawyers, Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, say that according to the rules IBM and SCO have until Monday, December 20 to reply to the motion to intervene in the SCO v IBM suit that we filed asking the court to open all the sealed...

Symantec Buys Veritas, Still Has Acquisition Itch.
December 20, 2004... Symantec, the consumer anti-virus house, is buying Veritas, the enterprise storage and backup manager, for $13.5 billion in stock. The price works out to roughly $30.75 a share, better than a $5 premium over Veritas' closing price on Friday...

IBM Sets Up Server Joint Venture in China.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... When last seen, IBM was in this sticky little situation of having just sold the PC side of its factory in China - the factory being a joint venture with Great Wall Computing - to Lenovo but not the server side. Needless to say, Great Wall...

Carly Finds Way To Trim Another $100m.(HP drops Intel partnership)
December 20, 2004... HP, whose contributions made the Itanium so confoundedly complicated, has dropped out of the 10-year-old partnership with Intel that saw them develop the 64-bit chip. It was Intel's idea and the two of them reportedly kicked it around for...

Linux Has 985 Bugs.
December 20, 2004... Five ex-Stanford computer researchers now with a start-up called Coverity Inc chartered to develop a better way to build software have analyzed 5.7 million lines of Linux source code over the last four years and say the 2.6.9 production kernel...

OSDL Looks Under the Sofa Cushions for Signs of Linux Growth.(Open Source Development Labs)
December 20, 2004... The Open Source Development Labs has gone into the soothsayer business and - based on research that it had IDC run up - says that the global Linux market will be worth $35.7 billion in 2008. It's the first time a major market researchers...

Grid Pioneers Launch Start-up.(Univa Corp.)
December 20, 2004... The folks behind the open source Globus Toolkit used for building grids have set up a company called Univa Corporation to commercialize the thing and provide enhancements, services and support. The brainchild of Globus Toolkit creators...

PowerCockpit Betas IPMI Module.(Intelligent Platform Management Interface)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Mountain View Data Inc, the company started by Turbolinux founder Cliff Miller after he left Turbo, is beta testing an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) module for its PowerCockpit software, the cluster provisioning and...

Oracle & VMware Cozy Up.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... VMware and Oracle's Server Technologies Division are in the process of formalizing a deal to do cooperative product development, performance engineering and marketing. The deal will include Oracle customer problem resolution and support....

MySQL Debuts New Tools, Services.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... MySQL, the company, has rolled out a set of graphical and administration tools for MySQL database developers, and consulting services for IT departments. The first tool, called Query Browser, is a visual toolset for creating, executing and...

Sun Revs Sun Rays.(Software)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Sun says it's got its next-generation 3.0 rev Sun Ray Server Software in hand along with a new 17-inch flat panel Sun Ray 170 thin client. It says this stuff, based on both Solaris and Linux, will run over DSL or broadband connections beyond...

Absoft Launches SDK for Power Boxes.(Software Development Kit)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Absoft has rolled out a high-performance computing SDK for Linux on IBM's Power-based clusters and servers. The development kit includes compilers, debuggers, message passing libraries, numerical and mathematical libraries and other tools...

Cores, Cores & More Cores.(product development of Intel Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... It seems we are standing by waiting for a 90nm dual-core Xeon chip from Intel that's based on projects code named Paxville and Dempsey, presumably a reworking on the current Nocona. There are some suspicions, though, that Paxville has been...

Red Hat, IBM Debut Linux ISV Certification in Europe.(Internet Service Vendors)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Red Hat and IBM have launched a joint Linux ISV Certification Support Program in Europe to accelerate the migration of applications to Linux. The program will support ISVs looking to certify their software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on...

Will Dell Find AMD in its Xmas Stocking?(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Credit Suisse say its best intelligence suggests AMD is progressing down Dell's qualification path and that Dell could field an Opteron server in the first half of next year and follow with an AMD desktop in 2006. The broker says a "Dell win in...

SCO Likely To Be Pilloried at OSDL Summit.(Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Open Source Development Labs has added a timely software licensing/legal track to its upcoming Enterprise Linux Summit starting January 31 in Burlingame, California. It's bringing in a bunch of lawyers and SCO has been given its very own...