Linux Gram articles from January 2002

Linux Gram archives from January 2002

Flatrock Aims To Be God's Gift to Extranets.
January 7, 2002... A stealth start-up with the marvelously antediluvian name of Flatrock will shed its cloak of invisibility later this month and materialize on the scene as the solution to the extranet crisis. It claims it can deliver any application to any...

HP Teams with MSC on Linux Clusters.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... MSC.Software Corporation has begun selling turnkey Linux clusters based on Hewlett-Packard's NetServers and Visualize Personal Workstations. HP, in turn, has designated MSC its "preferred" Linux distribution for technical computing. ...

Microsoft To Invest $1m So Globus Grids Stay Windows- Friendly.
January 7, 2002... Microsoft will give the open source Globus Grid Project a million bucks over the next two years to make sure Globus continues to work with Windows. The donation, which is "in the process of closing" according to Globus research scientist...

Microsoft Has Court Date Monday.
January 7, 2002... As predictably as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the nine states that refused to sign the deal Microsoft cut with the Justice Department are fighting Microsoft's notion of pushing off the remedy hearing they've been...

AMD Dumps Duron Server Chip.
January 7, 2002... About a month ago AMD quietly put its Duron MP chip on the back burner and now says it won't bring the widget to market. AMD says there's nothing wrong with the chip and that it's qualified and ready for production. It's just that the...

Microsoft Wants To Push Off Remedy Hearing 4 Months.
January 7, 2002... This story ran over the holidays. On the Friday before Christmas Microsoft asked Judge Colleen Kollar- Kotelly to push back the beginning of the antitrust remedy hearing that the non-settling states are insisting on for "at least four...

On to the HP Proxy Fight.
January 7, 2002... The Walter Hewlett-Hewlett-Packard proxy fight over the future of the company is warming up. Bill Hewlett's son and heir submitted his proxy statement, co-signed by former HP CFO Edwin van Bronkhorst and the William R Hewlett Revocable Trust,...

HPQ Asks EU To Sanction Acquisition.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... HP and Compaq, which have been chatting up the authorities informally to avoid any kind of GE-Honeywell-style problem, have now formally asked the European regulators to approve their combination. The European trustbusters have until January 31...

Mozilla Muddles into 2002.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 7, 2002... The open source Mozilla browser folks got out another beta, rev 9.7, just before the holidays. The thing actually came out on time according to the latest Mozilla schedule. Of course the schedule has been pushed back three years or so. ...

Hewlett-Packard & the Itanium.
January 7, 2002... Hewlett-Packard is claiming hegemony in Itanium workstations and saying that it's put out more of the wee beasts than anybody else, beginning in the third quarter of last year, the first full quarter the things shipped. HP got Dataquest...

Hijacked E-mail & Valentine's New Jihad.(Brian Valentine, senior VP of Microsoft Windows division)
January 7, 2002... Okay, try this for irony. Brian Valentine, senior vice-president of Microsoft's Windows Division, a title that makes him overlord of its operating systems, has gone on a jihad to stamp out every single one of the security holes that have made...

Racemi Drops Box, Runs with Software.
January 14, 2002... Racemi Inc, the ultra-dense blade start-up in Atlanta, is dropping out of hardware to turn into a software shop specializing in server virtualization. The decision is based on money, it says. Racemi doesn't have the means to underwrite the...

Moxi To Challenge Microsoft.(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2002... Microsoft's media convergence effort, eHome, will be getting competition from the newly restyled Moxi Digital Inc, a chi-chi set- top start-up begun a couple of years ago by WebTV guru Steve Perlman as Rearden Steel Technologies, a stealth code...

Lineo, Motorola, Metrowerks Band in Joint Venture.
January 14, 2002... Lineo, Metrowerks and Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector have set up a joint venture to assist developers in designing, developing and testing applications and content for Linux-based interactive digital set-tops. The new operation...

Linux NetworX Debuts New Professional Services.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Linux cluster expert Linux NetworX is expanding the portfolio of its Professional Services Group. The new offerings will include application porting and optimization and cluster certification and training. Linux NetworX already provides...

Linux-laden Zaurus Nearly Ready.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Sharp said Tuesday that it will ship its widely anticipated Linux- based Zaurus SL-5500 by the end of the quarter. It still hasn't said exactly what the widget will cost. Zaurus has been the talk of the Linux world for nearly a year now...

Wasabi Lands $3m.
January 14, 2002... NetBSD house Wasabi Systems is getting ready to disclose its first round of institutional funding. According to Wasabi CFO Jeremy Sohn, the company expects to close on $3 million this quarter from a mix of institutional and corporate...

Thunderbolts from Houston.(Column)
January 14, 2002... We're sitting here squinting at a series of charming NDA'd overheads of up-coming Compaq servers that we're obviously not supposed to have except that the news gods love us. The PowerPoints say - among other things - that Compaq has...

Microsoft Seeks Gag Order.
January 14, 2002... After two years of smarting from the horrid impression Bill Gates made when his videotaped deposition was shown at the antitrust trial, Microsoft has asked District Court Judge Colleen Kollar- Kotelly to seal the depositions it takes in its...

Neoware Takes Over IBM's Thin Client Business.
January 14, 2002... IBM is jettisoning its own NetVault thin clients and will run with Neoware's instead. Neoware has in effect bought the IBM business, believed to be worth $40 million last year, double Neoware's current run-rate. The little Pennsylvania...

And You Thought Ultra-Dense Was the Cat's Meow.
January 14, 2002... Not everybody in the dense server business thinks ultra-dense blades are about to take over the world. Cubix Corporation LLC, a low-profile 27-year-old dense server house based in Carson City, Nevada, thinks its 0.875U dual-CPU servers are...

New Tualatin Server Chip Bows.(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2002... Intel put out a 1.4GHz Tualatin Pentium III chip Tuesday. According to Intel's hyper-segmentation schemes, it's meant for front-end servers. The part, a product of the company's new 0.13-micron process, doubles L2 cache to 512KB. Being 0.13,...

Cat Fight. Cat Fight. HP Board, Walter Hewlett Trade Hissy Barbs.
January 14, 2002... The prospective HP-Compaq acquisition continues to invite comparison to a soap opera. Eight of HP's board of directors this week contested the story that Walter Hewlett, one of their own, told the SEC on December 28 to account for why he voted...

Barksdale VC Operation Shuttered.
January 14, 2002... Netscape's old CEO Jim Barksdale, the guy who dragged Microsoft into court, is shutting down the Barksdale Group, the VC operation he and three other ex-Netscape executives started after Netscape was sold to AOL. The Barksdale Group has racked...

Windows v Lindows Bound for Court.
January 14, 2002... Microsoft and Lindows face each other in court today, Friday, as Redmond tries to convince a judge that MP3 founder Michael Robertson is trying to steal its good name and fool folks into thinking Linux is Windows. Lindows is blending Linux...

Tribble Goes to Apple.(Bud Tribble)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Bud Tribble has gone home. After his ill-fated interlude with the now defunct Linux desktop start-up, Eazel, Tribble has joined Apple as VP of software technology. He started at Apple designing the Mac OS and its famous interface. He...

Judge Tells Microsoft "No Delay".
January 14, 2002... This story has been updated since it broke on Monday morning. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Monday morning sided with the nine states that refused to sign the controversial deal Microsoft cut with the Justice Depart-ment and...

By Golly, Compaq Beats Estimates.
January 14, 2002... Compaq said Monday morning that 2001 closed better than expected and that, as a result, it will eke out a profit in the December quarter rather than post the three-cent-a-share loss it was braced for. It remains to be seen whether the...

Tarantella Warns of Big Shortfall.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Tarantella Wednesday admitted its sales in the December quarter were nowhere near expectations, and fell about a third short of the preceding quarter. In a prepared statement CEO Doug Michaels blamed delays in closing contracts and said...

It's Put Up or Shut Up for ZapMedia.
January 14, 2002... Three years and $29 million into the exercise, it's safe to say it's do or die for ZapMedia, the digital media start-up backed by the Gannett publishing kingdom and audio/video house Harman Kardon. ZapMedia's claim to fame is its...

SuSE Settles Trademark Infringement Flap.
January 14, 2002... German Linux peddler SuSE Linux settled an apparently silly trademark infringement tiff today that briefly stopped it from distributing its operating system in Germany, its main market. A German court issued an injunction Monday barring...

BellSouth Jabbers.(BellSouth said it will begin offering Jabber-based instant messaging)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... BellSouth has become the first domestic US regional Bell operating company (RBOC) to adopt the open source Jabber instant messaging. In a deal with Jabber Inc, the commercial operation that earns its living selling Jabber products,...

Jabber Releases Peer-to-Peer Server Source Code.(Server Connection Manager 1.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2002... Jabber Inc has open sourced a pair of technologies including one that will make it easier to hook together the estimated 50,000 servers running the instant messenger. Jabber, the company built on the open source Jabber IM project, said its...

Red Hat Drops CCVS.(MainStreet Softworks deal)
January 14, 2002... Red Hat has pulled support for its CCVS credit card payment processing software. It's asking customers with support contracts to go to MainStreet Softworks, which offers a similar product called MCVE, for support. As part of the support...

MontaVista Names VP for Europe.(MontaVista Software has named Cees Boshuizen VP of its European operations)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Embedded Linux house MontaVista Software has named Cees Boshuizen VP of its European operations. Boshuizen, who will be based at Netherlands, is credited with helping several US companies penetrate various international markets. Prior to...

BMC, Intel Invest in Aduva.(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Aduva has gotten a $14 million Series C round from BMC, the Intel 64 Fund and existing backers Cap Ventures, Evergreen Management and The Capital Group. Aduva, an Israeli firm with offices in Palo Alto, California, has provisioning and...

Red Hat Linux 7.2 Debuts on Itanium.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2002... Red Hat Linux 7.2 is available on Itanium. It's got the 2.4.9 kernel, ext3 journaling file system, improved USB support and latest versions of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. The configuration is supposed to support Itanium's large...

Thin Computing Debuts WinConnect.(WinConnect remote access software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2002... Thin Computing has introduced WinConnect, a Remote Desktop Protocol 5.1 client that lets Linux PCs, terminals and appliances run Windows apps by connecting to a Windows server over the network or Internet. WinConnect is supposed to run on even...

QuickBlade Kickoff.(Compaq QuickBlade)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 14, 2002... Compaq watcher Terry Shannon figures Tues-day, January 29 is a likely date for Houston to launch the initial members of QuickBlade portfolio. The 29th was supposed to be the Tuesday after the Super Bowl and Compaq, he says, like DEC before it,...

Wasabi in a Box.(Wasabi Systems Inc's NetBSD OS)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... Wasabi Systems Inc, champion of NetBSD, is going to commercialize its first boxed, shrinkwrapped version of the operating system later this month at LinuxWorld in New York. Rather than Wasabi's single CD, the thing now has documentation and is...

Good Riddance.(Ken Lay resigns from Compaq board)(Brief Article)
January 14, 2002... The Compaq board is minus a director. Enron chairman and CEO Ken Lay quietly slithered off on December 31, Compaq said, roughly a month after the shameful Enron meltdown. Since Compaq notifies the SEC every time it washes its hands these days...

Wyse Declares Jihad on IBM-Neoware Axis.
January 21, 2002... "This is war, man." So says the big-talking VP of market strategy at Wyse, Jeff McNaught. McNaught and his gang are grinding their battleaxes and hurriedly girting on their armor so they can menace and destroy the sparkling new...

Fancy That, QuickBlade Specs.
January 21, 2002... A gaggle of smeary "Compaq Confidential" slides on its pending QuickBlade widgetry have been thrown over the transom on our fax. Their age and provenance are un-known though we suspect they're pretty shop-worn and have been making the rounds...

MontaVista Secures Heady Investment.
January 21, 2002... This story is unchanged from the flash we sent out Tuesday. Reports suggest that embedded Linux house MontaVista has defied the rotten economy and raised a substantial investment round from a bunch of marquee names just like in the good old...

Lindows.com Tries To Get Microsoft Suit Thrown Out.
January 21, 2002... Lindows.com filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss Microsoft's trademark infringement suit against it claiming the court lacked jurisdiction. The San Diego start-up said it had no presence or conducted any business in the state of Washington,...

GraphOn Dumps Founders.(Company Operations)
January 21, 2002... GraphOn founders, the husband-and-wife team of CEO Walt Keller and executive VP Robin Ford, have exited their 20-year-old baby, one of the Citrix wannabes, in a euphemistic search for new opportunities. GraphOn, which is supposed to...

Carly Tries Scare Tactics.
January 21, 2002... HP CEO Carly Fiorina gave an interview to USA Today - in itself an interesting choice of vehicles - and told the paper that if the Compaq acquisition doesn't go through, HP's printer and imaging business, its crown jewel, will be hurt, its PC...

HP & Compaq To Bribe People To Stay.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 21, 2002... Why, prithee, are HP and Compaq planning to pay $579 million in so- called "retention bonuses" to get thousands of mid-level employees to stay on the good ship HPQ for a year or two, when there are practically breadlines of out-of-work people...

Nice Move, Walter.
January 21, 2002... Ooooooo. What's this? At press time Business Week was reporting that it had found out that merger opponent Walter Hewlett, a member of HP's executive compensation committee, is applying pressure on the SEC to get the watchdog agency to...

Otellini Achieves Godhood.(Company Operations)
January 21, 2002... Intel has named Paul Otellini, 51, the guy who runs its chip business, president and COO. The apotheosis makes him the heir apparent of Intel CEO Craig Barrett, 62, who was COO and president before succeeding the inimitable Andy Grove....

Aduva's Ambitions.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Aduva, the Linux provisioning and configuration management people, is looking longingly at HP, Compaq, Dell and NEC, all of which kick into the Intel 64 Fund, hoping that since the fund just put money into its $14 million third round, the...

IP Metrics Debuts Linux Port of NIC Express.(NIC Express for Linux)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... IP Metrics Software is offering a Linux version of its NIC Express network traffic management software, previously available only on Windows. The Dallas start-up claims that NIC Express for Linux 1.0 is the first hardware- and...

Penguin's Back with New Boxes.(Penguin Computing's Relion 115, Relion 125)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... Penguin Computing is back. It's come out of hibernation and added three new products to its Relion server line. The company, which went through a major crisis in October that wiped out its top management and a big chunk of its staff,...

VA Replaces CFO.(Kathleen McElwee replaces CFO Todd Schull at VA Software Corp)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... The restyled VA Software Corporation has finally dumped its CFO Todd Schull, who's "resigned to pursue other interests," it says by way of cover story, and replaced him with Kathleen McElwee, who had the same job at 3DO. She's also done turns...

Fancy That, Linux/Intel TCO is Lower than Unix/RISC.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... As one might surmise, Linux on Intel has a lower TCO than Unix on RISC chips on Internet/intranet/extranet and collaborative workloads, but now it's official according to a Red Hat-sponsored IDC study. "Associated costs with Linux are not...

Intel delivers Upbeat Q4; Guidance Dicey.
January 21, 2002... Intel ended last year - Intel CEO Craig Barrett called it simply "a terrible year" - with revenues of $7 billion. Now, you can look at that number two ways. The half-empty view says it was down 20% year-over-year; the more buoyant half-full...

Thumbs Up for AMD.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... AMD did better than expected in Q4, narrowing its $186.9 million Q3 loses down to only $15.8 million, five cents a share, on revenues down 19% to $951.9 million though sales were up a mighty 24% sequentially. Last month it was saying it would...

Foster To Show at CeBit.(Intel Foster CPU)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... Think Foster MP and CeBit. That's where the thing should bow. The fair runs March 13-20.

Back to the Future.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... IDC is now predicting that when server sales for last year are toted up, the total will be less than sales were in 1995, when the worldwide server market was worth $57.5 billion. The total last year is expected to come in around $54.5 billion,...

FreeBSD Goes Home.
January 21, 2002... Wind River Systems is transferring its FreeBSD operations including the FreeBSD Mall, a FreeBSD software publisher and services provider, to Bob Bruce. Bruce's involvement with FreeBSD dates back to 1993 when his old company Walnut Creek...

Who Us?(Correction Notice)
January 21, 2002... At Christmas, we reported that IBM has this little disclaimer dangling from its 390 Linux that reads, "Elements of Linux for S/390 which utilise [sic] internal details of the S/390 system remain the intellectual property and copyright of IBM,...

Well, At Least That's Decided.(shareholders to vote on hp/compaq merger)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 21, 2002... No date for the actual shareholders' votes, which we've been expecting will be in March, but in case it matters Compaq and HP said Thursday that shareholders of record as of January 28 would be eligible to vote on the proposed merger.

Close Your Eyes. Now Imagine Linux Boosting Microsoft in its Web Services Struggle with Sun.
January 28, 2002... Merrill Lynch has tuned into the .NET-or-J2EE noise and the way it makes out the message J2EE, which is restricted to a single language, is going to appeal more to ISVs because Java's multi- platform support offers them the widest distribution....

BMC Unleashes Linux Barrage.
January 28, 2002... BMC Software is gearing up to unleash a barrage of products designed so customers can manage the entire Linux deployment cycle. Targeted at Global 2000s implementing or migrating to Linux, the offerings span all the way from planning to...

IBM Debuts New Dedicated Linux Servers.(Product Announcement)
January 28, 2002... IBM will introduce two dedicated Linux servers today, Friday, targeted at infrastructure applications such as firewalls, web serving, file and print and mail serving. The new boxes are based on the zSeries mainframes and iSeries (the old...

Count on Microsoft To Drop an Acid Word.
January 28, 2002... Microsoft is dispatching its chief Linux masher Doug Miller to LinuxWorld this week but he claims he's going relatively unarmed without an agitprop daisy cutter unless, of course, you count the observations he'll drop about the non-performance...

NEC Picks NetVault.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... NEC has added BakBone Software's NetVault application to its Linux backup line. The partnership lets NEC sell NetVault with its Express 5800 servers. Bragging that NetVault was the "de facto standard" for Linux backup software in the...

Accpac Ports Advantage Series to DB2-on-Linux.(Product Announcement)
January 28, 2002... Accpac International, a division of Computer Associates, has released a port of its Advantage Series Enterprise Edition accounting software for IBM's DB2 Enterprise Edition running on Linux. The program currently runs on Intel servers but...

MontaVista To Ditch Hard Hat Name & Re-brand its Line.
January 28, 2002... Embedded Linux house MontaVista is dropping the Hard Hat name and re-branding its stuff with the MontaVista moniker. Its next-generation Hard Hat Linux code, due by the end of January, will be rechristened MontaVista Linux. The company...

Red Hat Network Beefed Up.
January 28, 2002... Red Hat is expanding the functionality of its strategic Red Hat Network management service to push it into larger enterprises. It's getting a set of workgroup features and a proxy server option. The workgroup services should come with...

OmniCluster Debuts SlotShield.(Product Announcement)
January 28, 2002... OmniCluster Technologies, the Boca Raton, Florida IBM spin-off that's been unsuccessfully peddling PCI server blades is repackaging the widgetry as security appliances and giving it a new brand identity - SlotShield. OmniCluster started...

Platform Computing Debuts Clusterware.(Product Announcement)
January 28, 2002... Platform Computing is introducing a cluster management product for enterprises that have deployed Linux clusters. Dubbed Clusterware, the new software is designed for system monitoring and administration, workload management and...

NEC Japan Moves on Blades.(Product Announcement)
January 28, 2002... Told ya so. NEC Japan has gone to market over there with that blade server we said it was working on. The officially designated Express5800/Blade-Server is expected to hit the American market at some point. The widgetry can put two 1.26GHz...

M'soft Says AOL Crafted States' Ghastly Remedies.
January 28, 2002... Bad tempers flared into a short-lived firefight this week between Microsoft and AOL when Microsoft stomped off to court Wednesday complaining to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that AOL was stonewalling and refusing to produce documents Microsoft...

AOL-Netscape Sue Microsoft for Antitrust Redress.
January 28, 2002... This story is merely retouched since it broke Tuesday night. AOL Time Warner Tuesday in the name of its three-year-old Netscape acquisition sued Microsoft for the damages Netscape says it suffered as a victim of Microsoft's anticompetitive...

Aw, Shucks.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... AOL finally stopped playing coy with the press Tuesday and denied it was in acquisition talks with Red Hat, contradicting that provocative story the Washington Post ran with Saturday morning. Pity, the thing had such lovely geopolitical...

Valentine's Day Promises To Be Sweet for Dell.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... Dell changed its Q4 guidance last Friday and said it will do better than thought. It lifted its revenue forecast from $7.6 billion to $8 billion and its earning projections from 16 cents a share to 17 cents. It said its consumer shipments are...

RLX Recruits Sales Reps.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... RLX Technologies Inc, the struggling blade pioneer, is picking up sales agents to expand its sales thrust.

Fight for Hewlett-Packard's Soul Slogs On.
January 28, 2002... Disaffected HP heir David Packard, who's been less activist than his compatriot Walter Hewlett, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday to attack the Compaq acquisition plan, whistling up the specter of wholesale employee...

HPQ Decision Pending.(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... The EU has until Thursday to decide whether it's going to rubberstamp the HP-Compaq merger. The deadline for any negotiating or for HP to offer to jettison some business or another has passed and a recommendation from the trustbusters is due...

Open Motif Updated.
January 28, 2002... It's been ever so long since they revved Motif, several years at least, but they're about to and that means that Open Motif, the Linux version of the Unix icon and IEEE standard, will get updated too since they're basically the exact same...

Look, Ma, One Hand.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 28, 2002... A Stuttgart outfit by the name of Invair Technologies AG claims to have overcome the PDA's limitation of stylus or keyboard and expects to have the first widget at CeBit in March that's meant for one- handed operation. The Linux-based...

Linuxcare Bolsters Management Team.
January 28, 2002... As part of its continuing makeover, Linuxcare has brought in new folks to run marketing and development. Akmal Khan has been named VP of development and Beat Knecht will oversee marketing. Khan joins Linuxcare with 25 years experience...

AOL-Microsoft Suit Likely To Drag Out.
January 28, 2002... Credit Suisse rushed to chat up some legal experts the second it heard about the AOL-Netscape-Microsoft suit and came back and said that the pros figured it could take a year or two to come to a conclusion. Presumably that timeline includes...