Linux Gram articles from February 2004

Linux Gram archives from February 2004

SCO & Microsoft Post Bounties of $250,000 Each on the Head of MyDoom Author.
February 2, 2004... The SCO Group is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for unleashing the MyDoom e-mail virus. Microsoft followed suit and is offering $250,000 for the capture and...

Mail Box: SCO Wins Convert to its GPL-is-Invalid Argument.(Letter to the Editor)
February 2, 2004... To the Editor Why is the Free Software Foundation given a pass on the issue of contract enforcement under state law on binding legal agreements like the GPL? The consequences are dramatic indeed for the commercial enterprise environment....

Intel To Out Shy Yamhill.
February 2, 2004... This is basically the same story we broke yesterday. Chip follower Nathan Brookwood says we made a stupid mistake about Microsoft's promised AMD64 adaptations of Windows XP and Server 2003 and that both are slated for the second half. ...

Shock! Horror!! HP To Ship Opteron Servers.
February 2, 2004... Hewlett-Packard, the co-developer of the trillion-dollar Itanium chip, whose participation delayed the 64-bit processor in getting to market and added considerable complexity to the widget because it had to be tweaked to accommodate PA-RISC -...

IBM Puts Servers & Chips Together.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The extent of IBM's ambitions for its Power chip is beginning to become clear. The company confirmed a report Thursday that it was combining its server unit with its insolvent chip operation to align their objectives. A memo was...

Investigators Looking for 'Corrupt Conspiracy' at CA.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Federal prosecutors are usually discrete, if not downright uncommunicative with the press so it was a surprise when the chief federal prosecutor for Long Island Roslynn Mauskopf issued a statement after ex-Computer Associates senior VP of...

Embattled Celestica CEO Quits.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Eugene Polistuk, the long-time chairman and CEO of Celestica Inc, the Toronto contract manufacturer that's running off AMD-designed Opteron boxes and making both barebones and fixed configurations available to third-party resellers, up and quit...

OSDL Lands First Chinese Member.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has picked up its very first Chinese member, Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Company Ltd, whose name indicates why it must be joining. The outfit wants to focus of Linux kernel development and...

EU Finds Microsoft Guilty, Wants Case Wrapped Up by May.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The European Commission has been internally circulating a draft of a damning final decision against Microsoft that finds the company guilty of abusing its monopoly by not sharing enough interoperability data with rivals and restricting...

Oracle Moves on Plan To Pack PeopleSoft's Board.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Amid the buzz that the Justice Department is going to put the kibosh on Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle, which has been promising such a move, has sent PeopleSoft a notice that it intends to continue to pursue its reluctant quarry...

Cadence Goes Linux.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Cadence Design Systems says it's porting its Encounter digital IC design platform, stuff that's used for complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs, to Opteron hardware running Linux citing customer demand. It figures the move will result in faster...

Red Hat as Citizen Kane.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Red Hat is back in the publishing business, having shelved its first online news attempt. This time through it's peddling a print magazine called Wide Open that's evidently supposed to evangelize open source as well as promote Red Hat's new...

Veritas Fails To Please.
February 2, 2004... Veritas earned $105.3 million, or 24 cents per share, on revenues of $513 million in Q4. The results came in stronger than the company's forecast. When Veritas released its third-quarter results in October, it projected Q4 earnings of 21...

Darl Does Harvard.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is supposed to lecture on IP at the Harvard Law School on Monday, February 2 at 6:30 EST. The speech, part of The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology series, will be webcast live and available as an archive at...

Lindows Outlawed in Holland.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... A Dutch judge has sided with Microsoft and has forbidden Dutch resellers to sell or promote Lindows software because Lindows is riding on Windows' fame. Lindows can't advertise in the country and the judge told Lindows to block access to its...

Another Linux Show.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... The Linux on Wall Street show is returning to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on April 28. Sponsors include Oracle, IBM, HP, Reuters and Sybase.

'You Dirty Rat'.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... "They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot." - Linux creator Linus Torvalds on SCO in BusinessWeek.

SCO Amends IBM Complaint Again.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The SCO Group has amended its $3 billion worth of charges against IBM and, according to SCO CEO Darl McBride, has added copyright complaints to its largely breach-of-contract suit. McBride suggested that IBM was making more of SCO's...

SCOsource Linux Tax Called a Flop.(SCOsource licensing effort)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Decatur Jones Equity Partners LLC, an equity research house that follows Red Hat, Citrix, Wind River and the SCO Group, the later making it a rarity, has cut its projection on revenues coming in to SCO from the SCOsource licensing effort by...

SuSE Chief Moved to Novell Job.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... SuSE boss Richard Seibt has evidently gotten his reward. He's going to run Novell EMEA as president as Novell transitions to a Linux house. The post's former occupant, Gerard Van Kemmel, has been made chairman of Novell EMEA. Richard, an...

OSDL Defines Data Center Linux, Seeks Reaction.(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The Data Center Linux (DCL) working group over at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has released a DCL Technical Capabilities 1.0 document saying it wants feedback from developers and the industry. The move is the step before OSDL...

SCO Moves Site, Microsoft Shrugs Off Attack.(MyDoom denial of service attack)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... For the duration of the MyDoom attack, now deemed the largest Denial of Service attack in human history - SCO normally gets 600,000 hits a day was flooded with 50 times that number - the company has changed its web site from www.sco.com to...

Prescott's Here.(Pentium 4 microprocessor code name)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Intel has delivered itself, as expected, of the Pentium 4 chip code named Prescott that is distinguished by being Intel's first 90nm silicon using 300mm wafers and by being the first Intel x86 chip to be secretly 64-bit like AMD's hybrid...

'OK, $9.4 billion Cash But Not a Penny More'.(Oracle's revises offer price for PeopleSoft bid)
February 9, 2004... Oracle has gone and done what it didn't want to do, but had to do if it's going to keep on pursuing PeopleSoft. It raised its bid from $19.50 to $26 a share or from $7.1 billion to $9.4 billion cash. Larry Ellison, who started at $16 a...

Oracle Prices Against SQL Server.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Oracle can now deliver its new 10g system on Linux or Unix. Windows will take a while longer. Oracle is going after smaller fry because it's lost share in the mid-market to Microsoft and IBM. Thanks to a price cut at the entry level, it's...

HyperTransport Consortium Locks Down Next Generation.(chip-to-chip I/O connectivity specification)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The second rev of the HyperTransport chip-to-chip I/O connectivity specification is in the can. It's expected to last for a very long time while the rest of technology catches up with it, according Mario Cavalli, the general manager of the...

Google Makes Grown Bankers Cry.(Google's initial public offering postponed)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Looks like there's not going to be a mammoth, awe-inspiring IPO by Google this spring. Evidently the company's financial advisers think it could do better if it waits until the stars that govern the market are more auspicious - although...

Groklaw Editor Takes Day Job.(Groklaw.net, an opponent of The SCO Group Inc.'s litigation against Linux)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Pamela Jones, aka PJ, the editor of nine-month-old Groklaw.net, a scourge of the SCO Group, although SCO's litigation against open source and Linux gave birth to the site, is going to be director of litigation risk research for Open Source Risk...

LSB 2.0 Made Public.(Linux Standard Base)(Free Standards Group )(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The Free Standards Group has put its rev of the Linux Standard Base, LSB 2.0, up for public review. Comments will be collected until the very beginning of March. Critics contend that the LSB, for all the time that's gone into it, still...

Now There's a Thought - Free Linux.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Lindows.com is going to try to harness the power of the peer-to-peer networks that have ripped off music and movies on a massive scale on behalf of its Linux desktop operating system. It proposes to give away its LinuxLive! "demo" software,...

Opera Puts Internet Demigod on its Board.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... John Patrick, IBM's influential former VP of Internet technology and now president of Attitude LLC, has been named to Opera Software's board. Patrick, an acknowledged Internet visionary, is credited with bringing the Internet to IBM. Business...

OSDL Snags NTT.(Open Source Development Lab, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is picking up new members at a clip these days. Its latest recruit is none other than the great Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), which is supposed to taking part in the lab's Data Center...

Trolltech Adds .NET Support.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Trolltech has put .NET Framework and 64-bit processing support in the latest release of Qt, its multi-platform toolkit. Qt 3.3 also support the GNU C++ compiler on Windows (MinGW gcc), which makes building multi-platform programs easier since...

Fujitsu Goes with Laptop Chip-based Blade Server.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Fujitsu Computer Systems, which used to be Amdahl, has unpacked a new Primergy BX300 Pentium M-based two-way blade server that's packaged as a 3U that can house up to 20 ultra-compact server blades and is supposed to have low power dissipation....

Servers Heated Up in Q4.(quarter 4)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Gartner says server shipments were up 25% year-over-year in Q4 to 1.59 million units, 91% of the things x86. The numbers were the best in three years. For all of 2003, they were up 20%. HP was first (462k), Dell second (319k), IBM third (274k)...

Sun Lets Early Tiger Loose.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
February 9, 2004... On Thursday Sun set out the beta of Project Tiger, its Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5 (J2SE 1.5) with Java language updates, new application monitoring and management features and greater performance. Sun is evidently hoping for GA this...

Voltaire Hires Ex-Brocade Guy.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Voltaire, the hopeful Infiniband house, has hired ex-Brocade VP of global OEM sales Mark Favreau, making him executive VP and general manager of North America operations. He will be responsible for Voltaire's sales and support including OEMs...

TimeSys Offers Linux 2.6 IDE for the PowerPC.(integrated development environment)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... TimeSys, the embedded folk, has sent its TimeStorm Linux Development Kits for the PowerPC to a public beta. The stuff bundles an Eclipse-based TimeStorm IDE with a beta of what is thought to be the first commercial port of Linux 2.6 to the...

Desktop Linux Summit Redux.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The Desktop Linux Summit that exhibitors and even the organizer dropped out of last year because it was nothing more than a Lindows.com commercial, is back for a second time. According to Lindows, Red Hat, Seagate and Sun are going to sponsor...

Opteron Gets Real-Time Linux.(Integrated Solutions Division of Concurrent Computer Corp. develops real-time operating system for AMD's Opteron chip)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Concurrent's Integrated Solutions Division has moved its very, very serious real-time Linux operating system, some Red Hat-derived widgetry, to the AMD Opteron taking advantage of the chip's floating point, 64-bit processing and throughput. ...

Darl's Phone 'Slashdotted'.(Darl McBride, The SCO Group Inc.'s CEO)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... On Sunday while MyDoom was overwhelming the SCO Group's web site, the home phone of SCO CEO Darl McBride was being overwhelmed during the Super Bowl by prank calls, most of them rude and insulting, put in train by the Linux-leaning Slashdot...

Novell Gets Equal Time.(seminars)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... SCO Group CEO Darl McBride got to lay out his legal cases and his views on intellectual property, the GPL and the profit motive for the benefit of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology on Monday. We gather Novell...

Finger Pointing at CA.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Computer Associates hosted an analyst day the other day and wouldn't say whether it's responded to the Wells Notice the SEC slapped it with last month. BusinessWeek has picked up on the feuding Wang- Kumar factions at CA where one side is...

First Legal Bill: $1.6m.(RealNetworks posted a fourth-quarter loss)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... RealNetworks posted a fourth-quarter loss of $5.3 million, on three cents a share, on improved sales of $54.1 million. It said attributed $1.6 million of its losses, or a penny a share, to the private antitrust suit that it lodged against...

AMD Tries To Avoid Getting Clipped.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... AMD has gone to court to get a declaratory judgment saying that it doesn't infringe on the Intergraph Clipper patents that Intel had to pay Intergraph a tidy packet over. Intergraph also picked up $18 million from Texas Instruments and is still...

Here, Amuse Yourself.
February 9, 2004... http://www.linuxstolescocode.com/.

Inflatable Dolls Called Mommy.(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 2004... Hope this article ("Huge MyDoom Zombie Army Wipes Out SCO") isn't your last word on the MyDoom virus. Hope we can expect an editorial in CNS and Linuxgram STRONGLY condeming it. You could point out that it's a proven fact that guys who...

Practicing Law Without a License.(software)
February 9, 2004... The letter from Daniel Wallace, a retired physicist we misidentified as working for Insight Communications, that we ran last week created a little firestorm judging from the calls and e-mail we got. The following letter, which came in at press...

Lindows Case Halted in Mid-Stream so Microsoft Can Appeal To Protect Windows Trademark.
February 16, 2004... Microsoft's dicey trademark infringement case against Windows wannabe Lindows.com, which was meant to go to trial March 1, has been halted in mid-stream so Microsoft can lodge a rare interlocutory appeal before the trial court rules. ...

Linux Rates a Tiny Corner of the Desktop.(desktop operating systems)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... IDC is reportedly pulling together figures that say that Linux managed to claim 3.2% of the desktop market last year passing Apple. IDC expects Linux to represent 6% of the desktop market by 2007, leaving Microsoft with 94%.

Yamhill, aka CT, aka Clackamas, is Nocona.(64 bit microprocessor)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... The so-called Yamhill chip that Intel is going to demo in a few days at the Intel Developer Forum is Nocona, the server version of the Prescott, according to sources briefed by Intel. Intel has been telling people that it expects to...

Sun Vows To Put its Shoulder to the Opteron Wheel.(Sun Microsystems)
February 16, 2004... Sun CEO Scott McNealy readily admits that he treated the Intel x86 like the bubonic plague and that he was flat out wrong. To make up for it, Sun has lined up with AMD's hybrid Opteron chip. McNealy says he doesn't usually make the same mistake...

Egenera Hires JD Edwards' Former CEO.(high-end blade servers startup, chief executive officer)
February 16, 2004... Egenera, the high-end blade start-up, which said a month ago that it's being courted to go public, has hired Bob Dutkowsky, the former president, CEO and chairman of JD Edwards, the guy who sold it to PeopleSoft, the move that spooked Oracle...

Co-founder Returns to Sun.(Andy Bechtolsheim returns to Sun Microsystems as a result of Kealia Inc.'s acquisition)
February 16, 2004... Sun CEO Scott McNealy went to a reunion-style meal with the now scattered founders of Sun, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Andy Bechtolsheim, and when he got up from the table he had bought Bechtolsheim's latest stealth-mode start-up Kealia Inc, a...

HP Launches New Itanium, PA-8800 Servers.(Hewlett-Packard Co. launches servers based on Intel's and its own microprocessors)
February 16, 2004... Hewlett-Packard expanded its server line with a bunch of new boxes running the Itanium 2 and its own new dual-core PA-8800 processor. HP is also supposed to be on the threshold of wheeling out Opteron servers that are bound to cast some...

SCO Now Wants $5b from IBM.(The SCO Group Inc.)
February 16, 2004... The SCO Group wants to amend its 11-month-old suit against IBM and substitute charges of copyright infringement for trade secret violations and up its demand for damages from $3 billion to a minimum of $5 billion, a nice round number. ...

SCO Ignores Novell Ultimatum.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Novell, which continues to claim that it can dictate to the SCO Group, wrote SCO a letter last Friday demanding that SCO waive any purported rights to require IBM to treat Sequent code as being subject to confidentiality requirements or to...

Novell Seeks To Get SCO Suit Thrown Out.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Novell is trying to get the SCO Group's slander suit against it dismissed claiming that SCO has no grounds. Novell told the court that "Without conclusively establishing that it owns the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, SCO cannot show that...

Linux Tax Evasion.(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab is passing around another paper written by the Free Software Foundation's general counsel, Columbia University professor Eben Moglen, to discourage end users from paying SCO its Linux tax. Moglen says that,...

Red Hat Taps Israeli Distributor.(Israeli systems integrator, Matrix)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Red Hat, which is on an international expansion course, has named Matrix, a publicly traded systems integrator with a staff of some 1,800 people set up for big projects, its main distributor in Israel. Matrix is supposed to dislodge the...

Solaris 10 Previews.(Sun Microsystems' operating system)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Sun is previewing Solaris 10, its answer to Linux, and Windows for that matter. Naturally it's the next version of its Unix operating system scheduled to hit both its Sparc and x86 boxes at the end of the year. Early access copies are due this...

StarOffice Loses its Corner on the Office Challenger Market.(Evermore Integrated Office)
February 16, 2004... Demo 2004 attendees are going to be treated to a screening of China's Office competitor Evermore Integrated Office, which was financed by the Chinese city of Wuxi and runs on both Windows and Linux. A US version of thing is supposed to sell for...

Dell Beats Estimates.(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Dell turned in a classic Dell quarter in its fiscal fourth quarter ended January 30. It earned $749 million, or 29 cents a share, on revenues up 18% year-over-year to $11.51 billion. In the corresponding period last year, Dell made $603...

Evans Counts Open Source Developers.(Evans Data Corporation)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Evans Data Corporation has counted noses and claims that 1.1 million developers in North America are spending at least some of their time on open source projects. The census is found in what the market researcher calls its "North American...

Red Hat Carts Off German Win.(internet service provider Telefonica Deutschland GmbH to use Red Hat's Enterprise Linux)(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Red Hat plucked a cheeky win right from under SuSE's nose. ISP Telefonica Deutschland GmbH, the second largest national IP carrier in Germany, SuSE's stomping grounds, is going to use Red Hat's Enterprise Linux distribution as its "platform of...

German Ministry Goes Linux.(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... A division of the German finance ministry, which pays the country's civil servants, has moved its back office operations to two mainframes running IBM's proprietary OS and Linux ousting 30 Sun and Fujitsu Siemens servers, IBM said.

Fedora on Linux 2.6 Out.(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... Red Hat has posted Fedora Core 2 test1, which is based on the new 2.6 kernel. Other new technologies in the stuff include Gnome 2.5 and KDE 3.2RC1. Fedora is meant for the open source community to play with and debug before the technologies go...

RTLinux Tests F-35 Fighter Engine.(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... FSMLabs brags that Pratt & Whitney is using its RTLinuxPro hard RTOS to test the F135 engine for the US military's new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. FSMLabs says that on February 2, Pratt & Whitney ran the first production...

Oracle Bid for PeopleSoft on Life Support.
February 16, 2004... PeopleSoft said late Tuesday that Justice Department investigators told it that they were going to recommend to antitrust boss Hugh Pate that the agency block Oracle's hostile bid to acquire PeopleSoft. Pate is supposed to make the final...

Attention, Conspiracy Theorists.(Brief Article)
February 16, 2004... To the Editor: Guess what happened after I installed the Microsoft 2/2/04 IE cumulative security update last week: It broke my Linux-based Web host's log-on system in not one, but two ways. First the damned thing edited my favorites and...

SCO Fails To Sue End User on Schedule;.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... The SCO Group's self-imposed 90-day deadline to sue an end user for not paying its Linux tax has come and gone. You can bet your bottom dollar that SCO didn't want to do anything to set the magistrate's teeth on edge before she decides...

Chinese Office Look-a-like Could Give Microsoft Agita.(Evermore Software LLC's Evermore Integrated Office)
February 23, 2004... In a week when Intel admits that it's taking direction on 64-bit design and strategy from AMD, it should come as no surprise that a start-up Chinese company founded in 2000 and operating on around $5 million in capital is going to challenge the...

Munich Migration Hits Speed Bump.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... The migration of the city of Munich and its 14,000 PCs from Windows to Linux, the vaunted Linux win, has hit a speed bump and is behind schedule, according to reports in the German press. The delay is attributed to financial and technical...

Topspin Nails Dell.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... After picking up IBM for its Infiniband switches, Topspin, the Infiniband start-up, has picked up Dell, which is going to use the widgets in its supercomputer clusters. Dell will offer Infiniband as an HPCC option. Dell likes...

Lindows Assumes an Alias.(Lin---s, called LinDash)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... Lindows has begun calling itself Lin---s (say LinDash) so it can sell its eponymous Linux operating systems in those European countries like the Benelux where Microsoft has taken Lindows to court and gotten it outlawed. Since its web site was...

How Curious. Lindows Claims It Supports Centrino.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... Lindows.com says its operating system is the first Linux to support Intel's year-old Centrino widgetry. The company also claimed that Centrino laptops pre-loaded with LindowsOS Laptop Edition would hit market in 30-45 days. It claims that...

Novell Vice-Chairman Rethinks Harvard Appearance.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... Given that IBM is using remarks that SCO Group CEO Darl McBride dropped during his appearance at the Harvard Law School a couple of weeks ago against SCO in court, Novell vice-chairman Chris Stone, who's also in litigation with SCO, has thought...

Novell Spent $250m To Get $40m.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... The smart money at Prudential has noticed that Novell spent $250 million to buy SuSE and Ximian and acquire roughly $40 million in Linux revenues, or less than 5% of Novell's total revenue stream, to help it rejuvenate a billion-dollar revenue...

Intel Caves, Turns Opteron Second Source.
February 23, 2004... Well, Intel's not letting any grass grow under its feet even if it didn't want to do a 64-bit chip AMD's way. It's going to deliver its 3.6GHz Opteron knockoff Nocona, a Xeon DP, next quarter, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said Tuesday in his...

Intel Hikes Skirt, Shows More of Itanium's Legs.
February 23, 2004... Unwilling to let Yamhill dominate the whole conversation, Intel said at the Intel Developer Forum this week that it had put two new Itaniums on the roadmap, both optimized (like the first Yamhill) for dual-processor systems, that it expects to...

PeopleSoft User Group Willing To Listen to Oracle.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... Recently installed Oracle president Chuck Phillips, the ex-Morgan Stanley analyst, is going to pitch the blessings of an Oracle- PeopleSoft marriage to the old JD Edwards user group Quest Direct, which invited both Oracle and PeopleSoft to...

AMD Intros Low-Power Opterons for Blades.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... On Tuesday as Intel was admitting that it's going to do 64-bits AMD's way, AMD added low-power Opteron chips to its hybrid 32/64-bit line-up that it says will be used in blade servers and workstations. It rates the new chips at 55 watts (what...

HP Profits Up 30%.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
February 23, 2004... HP earned $936 million, or 30 cents a share, on revenues of $19.5 billion in its fiscal first quarter ended January 31. Revenues were up 9% year-over-year and came in at the high end of the company's guidance. Net income rose 30%. ...

Big 10 in Patents.(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... The Patent and Trademark Office has compiled a preliminary list of the Big 10 schools that got the most patents last year. In descending order they are: University of California (439), California Institute of Technology (139), MIT (127),...