Linux Gram articles from February 2008

Linux Gram archives from February 2008

The Great Cisco Switch.
February 4, 2008... There are so many toes in the virtualization pool right now it looks like a convention of foot fetishists and Cisco is expecting to make an exceptionally big splash. The other day it unveiled what it thinks is its most important product...

Mighty Google Misses.(Financial report)
February 4, 2008... Google, which does not give guidance, missed both Wall Street's top- and bottom-line expectations for its December quarter by a hair and the punters immediately turned vicious, pounding it down around 50 bucks after-hours. Consensus...

Does That Mean Nokia Won't Be Doing a Google Phone?
February 4, 2008... Nokia is buying Trolltech, the publicly traded Norwegian open source ISV, for roughly $153 million cash. Gee, and Trolltech just joined the LiMo Foundation, the anti-Nokia/anti-Microsoft mobile consortium that's building a...

Consolidation Comes to Covalent.
February 4, 2008... Three-year-old SpringSource (nee Interface21) has bought 10-year-old Covalent Technologies on undisclosed terms believed to involve stock. SpringSource, as the company's new name indicates, does work on Spring and Covalent supports 400...

Microsoft's Babysitters To Work Overtime.
February 4, 2008... The court charged with policing Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement with the US government has extended its oversight of the company until November of 2009, an additional two years. Most of the watchdogs were supposed to be called off...

VMware Crashes & Burns on Wall Street.(Financial report)
February 4, 2008... VMware failed to hit Wall Street's consensus estimates when it reported its Q4 numbers Monday evening and the stock, already hammered down from its highs, lost $22 bucks- more than 26% of its stock price - in after-hours trading. On...

VMware Updates its Desktop Strategy Amid Wall Street Carnage.
February 4, 2008... The only glint of gold about VMware this week was its new Virtual Desktop Manager 2, which finally went gold. That's the connection broker widgetry it got from its acquisition of UK-based Propero. The thing's been in beta for the last few...

Moto May Exit Phones.(Motorola Inc.)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Motorola Thursday night confirmed rumors that it might pull out of cell phones, the now-ubiquitous device that it invented. It put out a statement saying it was "exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its business" and that...

IBM Takes a Swipe at VMware.
February 4, 2008... IBM, which invented virtualization back in "ye ole mainframe days," has waded into the current discussion with entry-level virtualization for its Power6-based, usually Unix-run, System p servers and BladeCenter blades called PowerVM Express....

If Microsoft Pushes It Out Much Further They Won't Be Able To Call It SQL Server 2008.
February 4, 2008... Something has happened - or maybe didn't happened - that has caused Microsoft to delay the release of SQL Server 2008 to the calendar third quarter. It offered no excuse. It was generally expected in the second quarter. Microsoft is...

Black Duck's Code Center Close to Hatching.
February 4, 2008... Under a bit a pressure now that HP has open sourced its own IP identification system as FOSSology, Black Duck says it will roll out a thing called Code Center by the end of the quarter. It's described as a software component selection,...

ClearCube Promises Universal Virtual Desktop Management.
February 4, 2008... ClearCube Technology, the pioneer PC blade house, has turned up with its promised Sentral 5.6, the VDI software made hardware-agnostic that's supposed to deploy and manage both physical and virtual desktops for high-performance centralized...

Virtual Iron Funding Tops $60m.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Virtual Iron Software, that other Xen-based enterprise server virtualization wannabe, has raised a $20 million fifth round having already collected $41.5 million in rounds A through D. It said the new money involved a heightened valuation...

Lenovo To Enter Server Arena.
February 4, 2008... Lenovo is supposed to start selling a line of IBM x86 servers outside China in the next 12 months. Lenovo will be building one- and two-socket tower and rack server, aimed at SMBs, under a manufacturing license with Blue, which of course,...

Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 Hits the Market.(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Parallels - and the old SWsoft virtualization contender is now officially Parallels after its Mac software - has launched the latest version of its container-based server virtualization software, Virtuozzo Containers 4.0. It has usability,...

Sun Productizes the Ultimate Add-on.
February 4, 2008... Sun has productized the ultimate add-on, its Project Blackbox water-cooled virtual data center in a 20-foot shipping container. It's now the Sun MD S20, MD being short for Modular Datacenter. Now that it's officially on the market, and not...

HP Goes with Mobile Thin Client.
February 4, 2008... HP is about to put out a novel 1GHz Celeron laptop it calls a mobile thin client, its first, apparently the result of its acquisition of Neoware. Wyse, the other remaining thin client maven, beat HP, now the market leader, to the punch a...

Concurrent Supports Ubuntu.(Concurrent Computer Corp.)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Concurrent will be supporting the utterly fashionably Ubuntu Linux server and desktop right alongside Red Hat and Novell in its next-generation NightStar LX debugger and analysis GUI toolkit. The tools are for developing time-critical apps...

Novell Adds Mainframe Tool.
February 4, 2008... Novell's got a new pre-built installation server that simplifies the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM's mainframes by using z/VM tools natively. It's called the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z...

SCO & Novell To Meet in Court in April.
February 4, 2008... SCO has got a court date in Utah of April 29 for the trial that didn't come off last year after it filed for bankruptcy protection knowing that the Utah federal court was more than likely to award Novell round about $30 million and slap a...

Sun Open Sources SPOT.
February 4, 2008... Sun is open sourcing SPOT, its Java-based Small Programmable Object Technology research project under the GPLv2 license. It said the contribution, made in search of Java-based wireless sensor and embedded apps, will include so-called eBones...

Purple Creates Mass-Market 3G Linux Phone Reference Platform.
February 4, 2008... Purple Labs and the Philips-founded NXP Semiconductors have released an ARM-based 3G Linux feature phone reference platform called Magic that they say offers video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming at a...

Google Plugging Away at Offline Docs.
February 4, 2008... As one might expect, Google is trying to give its Google Docs SaaS applications a life offline, complements of its Google Gears browser extension according to some experimental work on its web site that Blogoscoped fell over. Don't nobody hold...

Counter-Android Spec Due Momentarily.
February 4, 2008... The LiMo Foundation, the counter-Android mobile Linux consortium that Nokia's new acquisition, Trolltech, belongs to is supposed to unveil its LiMo Platform and APIs come February 4. It's calling it "the world's first globally competitive,...

Acer Spends $45.8m on Packard Bell.(Packard Bell NEC Inc.)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Acer has reportedly bought 75% of Packard Bell's parent company PB Holdings, which together with Clifford Holdings owned 75% of Packard Bell. It cost Acer $45.8 million. Both PB Holdings and Clifford were controlled by eMachines founder John...

Sun Will Get To Hum 'Maria'.(MySQL AB)(Oracle Corp.)(Brief article)
February 4, 2008... Remember two odd years ago when Oracle went and bought InnoDB, the source of MySQL's crucial storage engine, and there for a heart-stopping minute or two it looked like MySQL was toast? Well, MySQL founder Monty Widenius says the company is...

Dell Abandons US Kiosks.
February 4, 2008... Now that it's stopped fighting retail, Dell will be closing those 140 kiosks it erected in US malls and airports since 2002 as a way to let people see and touch its computers. Its kiosks outside the states haven't been affected yet.

Sun Gets EC Contract.
February 4, 2008... Sun has gotten a $141 million two-year contract from the European Commission for around 1,100 Unix servers. The EC can pay for it out of those fines Sun helped it get out of Microsoft.

'Air' Chip Demand.
February 4, 2008... Press reports claim that Lenovo and Fujitsu will be using the "Air" chip, the special energy-efficient Core 2 Duo enabler that Intel ran up for Apple's anorexic MacBook Air, which, by the way, is now shipping.

Microsoft Pushes SUSE Certificates to Renault.
February 4, 2008... Looks like Microsoft has persuaded Renault, the French carmaker, to take 1,000 of those scandalous support certificates for SUSE under Microsoft's infamous patent agreement with Novell. Renault is consolidating on SUSE and virtualizing.

Intel Turns a Healthy Shade of Green.
February 4, 2008... Intel said Monday that it was in effect taking 185,000 passenger cars off the roads or avoiding using the electricity it takes to power 130,000 American homes by purchasing 1.3 kW hours of so-called RECs or renewable energy certificates. The...

EU Court Supports Refuseniks.
February 4, 2008... Copyright holder rights were set back the other day when the European Court of Justice decided that Europe Union countries can refuse to name file sharers' names in civil cases.

No Time To Open Source.
February 4, 2008... Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, that peon to the LAMP stack on which the nine-billion-hits-a-month site is built, says he's thought about open sourcing some of the company's caching widgetry to be "neighborly," but hasn't gotten around to...

Dell Phone?
February 4, 2008... There's a rumor going around saying Dell is gonna do a Google Android phone given legs by the fact that Motorola's ex-mobile guy Ron Garriques now runs Dell's consumer operation.