Linux Gram articles from January 2007

Linux Gram archives from January 2007

Apple & Cisco Squabble Over iPhone Name.
January 15, 2007... Cisco peed on Steve Jobs' running shoes late Wednesday when it up and sued Apple for infringing on its iPhone trademark a day after Jobs announced the June arrival of a radical new eponymous widget at MacWorld in San Francisco that the New York...

Novell Wants SCO's Bank Account Seized Before SCO Goes Bankrupt.
January 15, 2007... Novell Monday told the Utah district court that recently gave the SCO v Novell case precedence over SCO v IBM that SCO is "hemorrhaging assets at an unsustainable rate" and that it is on the verge of "imminent" and "inevitable" bankruptcy. ...

Fleury's Return to Red Hat in Doubt.(Marc Fleury)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... It's looking increasingly unlikely that JBoss founder Marc Fleury will be returning to Red Hat from that extended paternity leave he's been on. Apparently the $150 million he made selling JBoss to Red Hat hasn't made him very happy. ...

Red Hat Opens Linux R&D Center in the Czech Republic.
January 15, 2007... Red Hat is going to sink about $1.7 million in a new open source R&D center in Brno in the Czech Republic, where Sun, Microsoft and Skype also have R&D centers. Apparently it will benefit from the favorable treatment the country now accords...

MySQL Snubs GPL Rewrite.(general public license)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... MySQL has changed its licensing scheme from "GPLv2 or later" to "GPLv2 only" to avoid any obligation to move to the GPLv3 rewrite, it said, and MySQL co-chairs a GPLv3 advisory committee. It was the co-chair Kaj Arno who blogged a few days...

Penguin Claims Lowest-Cost HPC Node.
January 15, 2007... In an attempt to elbow past the competition, Penguin Computing has put out a dual-Opteron compute node that's priced to start at $1,499, about 25% below rivals like IBM, HP and Dell, according to senior vice-president of product development and...

ActiveGrid Gets New CEO.(Peter Yared replaced by Christopher Keene)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... ActiveGrid, which bills itself as a Web 2.0 company and offers open source software to the Global 2000 in place of .NET and Java widgetry in developing rich interactive web applications, has switched CEOs. Founder Peter Yared is now CTO...

OpenVZ Moves to Niagara Machines.
January 15, 2007... Swsoft's open source OpenVZ Linux virtualization software, the basis of the company's proprietary container-style Virtuozzo widgetry, has been ported to Sun's multi-core Sparc-based T1 "Niagara" machines. Containers aren't as, well,...

Intel's Prices Hit AMD's Fourth Quarter.
January 15, 2007... Late Thursday, very late in fact, AMD put out a statement saying that its Q4 revenues - excluding anything it might see out of its ATI acquisition - would only be up 3% from the $1.33 billion it reported in calendar Q3, a number, roughly $1.37...

Feds Charge HP Operative.
January 15, 2007... Federal authorities have moved against one of HP's operatives, charging Bryan Wagner, "a/k/a mike@yahoo.com," apparently HP's chief pretexter, with conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. It could mean seven years in the calaboose and a...

Dell To Carve Up its Main Business Unit.
January 15, 2007... Joe Marengi, the 51-year-old general manager of Dell's commercial business group, which includes servers, storage and PC and accounts for 85% of the company's revenues, will be leaving at the end of March, retiring they say, and then Dell is...

NCR To Spin Off Teradata Later This Year.
January 15, 2007... NCR said Monday that it's going to spin its Teradata data warehousing business off into a publicly traded company. When exactly depends on board authorization, an IRS ruling, SEC filings and the usual IPO preparations, but it won't be for...

Intel Releases First Mainstream Quad.
January 15, 2007... Intel came out Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show with its first mainstream quad chip, a part branded a Core 2 Quad for the occasion and made immediately available. There are also two other new quads, giving Intel a total of nine...

Intel Won't Buck Discovery Decision in AMD Antitrust Case.
January 15, 2007... Intel has decided not to contest the special master's decision handing AMD certain discovery rights in its US antitrust suit against Intel. The discovery relates to Intel's business dealings and sales transactions with customers in foreign...

AMD Designs Reference Platform.
January 15, 2007... AMD say it's going to make what it calls an "open standard specification," also known as a reference platform called DTX, available to OEMs, ODMs and component vendors to stimulate the development of small form-factor PCs that are quieter than...

Jim Clark Leaves Shutterfly Citing Sarbox Regs.
January 15, 2007... Jim Clark, co-founder of both Silicon Graphics and Netscape, has quit as chairman of Shutterfly, the digital photography web site, complaining about the restrictions Sarbanes-Oxley regulations impose. In a letter to Shutterfly management...

Murder Charge Spurs Namesys Sale.
January 15, 2007... Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer charged with murdering his estranged wife, has put Namesys, the open source file system company he started, on the block to pay his legal bills, according to an interview he gave Wired from the California jail...

Intel To Close its Korean R&D Center.
January 15, 2007... As part of its austerity campaign, Intel is going to close its only R&D center in Korea, which is jointly operated with the Korean government. The government claims it's going to keep on trucking alone. The operation has focused on digital...

Apple Clone.(Axiotron's ModBook laptop computer)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Oh, dear, Steve Jobs will have apoplexy. Someone is attempting an Apple clone. Axiotron, a hardware maker that designed the thing, and Other World Computing, an Apple after-market house that's going to sell it, have been showing off the first...

iTunes Hits New Milestone.
January 15, 2007... Apple's iTunes shop has sold two billion songs, 50 million TV episodes and upwards of 1.3 million feature-length films, the company said on Tuesday. It claims to have the greatest library of such things.

It Must Be Nice To Be Indispensable.(SAP AG wants Henning Kagermann to extend his contract)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... SAP wants its CEO Henning Kagermann, whose employment contract runs out at the end of 2007, to extend it at least another year to the end of 2008, according to an interview given to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung by the chairman of the company's...

Dell Discovers the Color Green Not a Moment Too Soon.
January 15, 2007... Michael Dell issued a long-overdue call for the PC industry to adopt free global recycling programs at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, calling the idea the "right thing to do for our earth." For the last six months Dell, the company,...

PTO Does Bang-Up Business.
January 15, 2007... The US Patent and Trademark Office issued a record 173,222 corporate patents last year, up 21% year-over-year according to IFI Patent Intelligence. And for the 14th year in a row IBM got more than anybody else, 3,651 of them, a personal best....

Backdating Watch.(Comverse Technology Inc.'s William Sorin settles his stock option fraud)(Brief article)
January 15, 2007... Comverse Technology's former general counsel William Sorin is going to pay $3 million to settle a criminal SEC backdating-cum-stock manipulation suit. He will also be barred from ever again serving as a lawyer, officer or director of a public...

Microsoft Discovers E-Commerce; It Will Sell Vista & Office 2007 Online.
January 22, 2007... With only 12 day left to go before the Great Vista Rollout to consumers on January 30 and missing no trick, Microsoft said late Wednesday that it would break with its tradition of boxed or pre-loaded software and supply the thing online. ...

Dell Eats More of HP's Dust.
January 22, 2007... For the second time in a row HP beat out Dell in moving PCs worldwide, this time increasing its lead, according to both Gartner and IDC. Gartner reckons HP shipments in Q4 grew 24% in Q4, giving it 17.4% of the world market, and it figures...

SCO Earnings Down Again.
January 22, 2007... Last week, ahead of SCO reporting its latest quarter this Wednesday, Novell claimed in court that SCO was on the brink of bankruptcy. SCO isn't exactly bankrupt - it's still got $12.6 million in cash - but the $23.4 million SCO claims in...

EnterpriseDB To Sell Generic Postgres Support.
January 22, 2007... EnterpriseDB, whose venture-backed Oracle-replacing open source Postgres-based database could really give Oracle a run for its money, has started selling generic Postgres technical support packages beginning at just under a thousand bucks per...

uXcomm Segments.
January 22, 2007... uXcomm, which claims to have the first unifying system management solution so any legacy, proprietary or open source mojo can connect and interoperate in any data center, has started segmenting XManage into pre-integrated modular cuts of...

Dargo Leaves Ingres.(Dave Dargo)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Dave Dargo, the ex-Oracle guy who's been acting as Ingres' CTO and senior VP of strategy since September of 2005, claims on his blog that his job is done and that it's now a matter of execution. He'll continue as an advisor to Ingres and...

Zend Recruits New CEO from BMC.
January 22, 2007... Zend Technologies, the PHP commercializer, has gone to BMC Software to recruit a new CEO and fill a slot that's been empty since last spring. Harold Goldberg was BMC's senior VP of worldwide marketing. The company, which Oracle is believed to...

EC Backs Open Source.
January 22, 2007... The European Commission has thrown its weight behind open source. An EC-commissioned study published last week on business deployments of open source in six European countries says that a cost savings in long-term cost of ownership would...

Penguin Names New Head of Sales.
January 22, 2007... Penguin Computing has hired a new senior VP of sales and service, Charles Wuischard, a veteran of IBM, Perficient and Versant and lately VP of worldwide sales at GoldenGate Software. He's at Penguin to produce "aggressive" revenues, the company...

Red Hat Hires Ex-Novell Exec.
January 22, 2007... Red Hat has tapped Petra Heinrich to be director of channels and partners in EMEA. She used to be with SuSE leading indirect sales and when Red Hat rival Novell bought SUSE she ran indirect sales for the combined operation. Now she'll get to...

HP Operative Pleads Guilty; Plea Bargain Dangled in Front of Others.
January 22, 2007... One of HP's low-level operatives, Bryan Wagner, "a/k/a mike@yahoo.com," apparently HP's chief pretexter, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. It could mean seven years in the calaboose and a...

Intel Feels the Pinch Too.
January 22, 2007... Cutting AMD off at the knees in Q4 left Intel limping a bit too. Sequentially Intel did great - revenues up 11%, hitting the top of its projections, income up 15%, operating income up 8% - enough for CFO Andy Bryant to characterize Intel's...

HP Creates New Software Division.
January 22, 2007... HP has created a new division inside its software operation called the Business Information Optimization Group. The new unit will be broken into two groups, a business intelligence group and an information management group. The...

Rackable Crushed.(Brief article)(Column)
January 22, 2007... Rackable share were crushed bad - try 47% - after it warned Tuesday that it wouldn't meet Wall Street expectations for Q4 and Wall Street didn't buy its reasons. It blamed the cost of DRAMs, lower-than-expected sales of its RapidScale widgetry...

Feds Poke Around Apple.
January 22, 2007... Despite Apple's attempts to make it all go away, the SEC, which is known to be sensitive about forged documents, has reportedly started poking around Apple and that imaginary October 19, 2001 board meeting that voted Steve Jobs options on 7.5...

Transmeta Changes its CEO.
January 22, 2007... Transmeta, the spoiled semiconductor contrarian now locked in a patent suit and countersuit with Intel, is switching CEOs, replacing Art Swift, the guy who's held the job for the last couple of years and delivered its only profitable quarters,...

Microsoft & Teradata To Work Together.
January 22, 2007... Microsoft and Teradata, the data warehouser that NCR is going to spin out this year, say they're going to optimize the interoperability between Microsoft's business intelligence widgetry and Teradata, starting with SQL Server Analysis Services,...

Symantec Pre-announces.
January 22, 2007... Symantec said Tuesday it will miss its numbers on Wednesday when it posts its third-quarter results. It figures earnings will be 10-11 cents rather than 14-15 cents and sales will be $1.29 billion-$1.31 billion, not $1.35 billion, blaming the...

Microsoft To Build Online Center in Texas.
January 22, 2007... Microsoft is going to build a $500 million data center in San Antonio, Texas for its online services like Windows Live. The 400,000-square-foot facility is supposed to house tens of thousands of servers and employ 75 people once construction is...

IBM OEMs First Blade-Specific 10GE Switch.
January 22, 2007... IBM now has what it calls a Virtual Fabric Architecture, new interconnect technologies and management tools, that it claims can boost the bandwidth of its BladeCenter H 43% past what HP's BladeSystem can offer. The widgetry includes...

EC Reportedly Hot To Hit Intel with Antitrust Charges.
January 22, 2007... European Commission staff is pressing antitrust chief Neelie Kroes to bring formal antitrust charges against Intel, according to Reuters, which quotes an unnamed source. Intel says it doesn't know anything about it and hasn't been informed of...

LG Electronics Copies Apple's iPhone.
January 22, 2007... Apple watchers may get to see how Apple's notion of an iPhone will fly a bit earlier than they expected. LG Electronics said Thursday that it has a button-less touch screen phone called the Prada that plays music and takes pictures that will be...

Third CA Exec Sent to Jail.(Steven Woghin)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... CA's former general counsel Steven Woghin has drawn two years in prison and another three-years probation. He is the third of CA's old management team to be sent to the slammer. Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, regarded as the mastermind behind the...

Intel Gets First 45nm Silicon.
January 22, 2007... CEO Paul Otellini said the other day during Intel's fourth-quarter conference call that the company had hit first silicon on its 45nm process and that the so-called Penryn family of chips had booted four operating systems. Intel expects Penryn,...

Neoware Runs Kantrowitz Off.(Michael Kantrowitz resigning and replaced by Klaus Besier)(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... Michael Kantrowitz, who made upstart Neoware something of a force in thin clients, has apparently been run off the reservation. After ceding his post as president and then CEO to former SAP America top dog Klaus Besier last year, Neoware said...

IE7 Bulks Up.
January 22, 2007... Microsoft says upwards of 100 million people are now using Internet Explorer 7, making it the second-most ubiquitous browser after IE6. According to WebSideStory, which counts such things, 25% of American web visitors now use IE7.

TeleHealth To Get Visibility at Hanover Messe.
January 22, 2007... CeBIT and the Hanover Fair are going to dedicate part of their Public Sector Parc to telehealth this year, making it the first event in Europe devoted to telemedical products and solutions. The new congress will run March 19-20 and push...

Music Folk Still Ticked Off.
January 22, 2007... The value of online music sales doubled to roughly $2 billion last year, 10% of all sales, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), but it failed to make up for the drop in CD sales. The IFPI said it would...

Microsoft Poaches a Plum.
January 22, 2007... Don Ferguson, IBM Software's chief architect, the guy responsible for building IBM's middleware and the guy instrumental in its software integration, is trading the rarified company of IBM's small company of IBM Fellows for the even smaller...

IBM To Open SOA Centers.
January 22, 2007... IBM says it's going to open SOA centers in both Dubai and La Gaude in France. Eight are planned worldwide. Customers, partners and universities are supposed to be advantaged.

HP Taps New Services Talent.(Hewlett-Packard Co. appointed Onagh Ash and Bob Pryor )(Brief article)
January 22, 2007... HP has tapped Onagh Ash, whom it acquired with Mercury Interactive in November, to run its Services' Consulting and Integration unit and recruited Bob Pryor out of Capgemini, where he was CEO of Outsoucing Service for North America, reportedly...

ebXML BPSS 2.0.4 Standardized.
January 22, 2007... Oasis has standardized the ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (ebXML BPSS or ebBP) 2.0.4. It defines a business process foundation that promotes the automation and predictable exchange of business collaboration definitions using XML.

Something's Afoot at Intel Israel.
January 22, 2007... An Israeli press report in TheMarker.com claims Intel is going to sell off its local Flash memory fab to STMicroelectronics and close another local factory, shifting its personnel to other operations, but Intel CFO Andy Bryant said Tuesday in a...

IBM Hit with Mega-Buck Antitrust Tying Charges.
January 29, 2007... Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI), the mainframe wannabe whose Itanium-based servers can run IBM's z/OS mainframe operating system as well as Windows, Unix and Linux, has sued IBM for antitrust, charging Big Blue with, among other things, tying the...

Sun To Use Intel Chips. Will Wonders Never Cease.
January 29, 2007... In a move akin to the Peace of Westphalia that brought an end to that nasty little European episode known as the Thirty Years War, Sun and Intel this week formally ceased hostilities. Laying religious differences aside like the Protestants...

Good Lord, Sun Returns a Profit!!!(Financial report)
January 29, 2007... On a roll after its detente with Intel, Sun Tuesday came in with respectable numbers for a change and announced that - for some illusive reason - Guernsey-based KKR Private Equity Investors LP had put $700 million in the company in the form of...

Apple Chief Grilled.(Steve Jobs )(Brief article)
January 29, 2007... Federal prosecutors and SEC lawyers interviewed Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week about Apple's backdating practices. Nobody's talking about what transpired but doubtless the ground they covered included how an options award that went to him...

Wal-Mart Takes Some SLES Off Microsoft.
January 29, 2007... Wal-Mart is gonna be taking some of those SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription certificates that Microsoft agreed to pass out as part of its alliance with Novell. It's unclear whether Wal-Mart, a big Microsoft user, the alma mater of...

OSDL & FSF Disappear into The Linux Foundation.
January 29, 2007... The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a consortium increasing uncertain what its charter really is, and the Free Standards Group (FSG), a consortium whose charter many people have doubted is attainable, are merging. There is now...

AMD Shot Down in Mid-Flight.
January 29, 2007... The war with Intel has left high-flying AMD shot full of holes with its precious server ASPs limping and its stock price in tatters, a situation that might maintain at least until it can get Barcelona, its highly touted quad-core, out and take...

AMD Makes Further Inroads in China.
January 29, 2007... In the ping-pong game of processor chips, AMD returned Intel's Sun volley Thursday by winning a notebook and desktop contract with TCL Computer, the fourth-largest PC supplier in China. The win gives AMD representation at the Top 7 Chinese...

Brain Drain Continues at CA.
January 29, 2007... A lot of CA's corporate memory walked out the door last Friday when Sam Greeenblatt, lately senior VP of innovations, bolted to HP where he will be a vice-president in strategic planning. Sam was the sedative CA administered to a lot of...

HP Accused of Spying on Dell.
January 29, 2007... According to ex-HP VP of business development and strategy Karl Kamb, a guy HP fired in 2005 and is suing, HP paid the former president of Dell Japan Katsumi Iizuka for Dell's printer plans - product configurations, specifications, target...

Somebody Get Dell a Calculator.(Brief article)
January 29, 2007... The Nasdaq is willing to let Dell stock continue to trade provided the company explains a few things to the exchange about that completely opaque audit committee investigation that's been going on internally seemingly interminably by March 1...

Lenovo Americas Chief Resigns.
January 29, 2007... Lenovo Americas president Scott Smith, an IBM legacy, has resigned "to pursue other interests." Another IBM legacy Rory Read, senior VP, operations, will take over temporarily. Lenovo is battling serious headwinds in the US, up against HP and...

Politically Incorrect Patent Top 10 a Thing of the Past.
January 29, 2007... Adopting the new political correctness, the US Patents and Trademark Office said Monday that it will cease to release its annual Top 10 list of companies that got the most patents after the 2006 list comes out in April. Seems the agency wants...

HP Labs To Open Russian Center.
January 29, 2007... HP Labs will be opening an R&D center in St. Petersburg to go along aside the ones it has in India and China. The Russian lab is to pursue advanced information management technologies, working on new methods for extracting, analyzing and...

Transitive in Luxembourg.
January 29, 2007... Transitive, which turned its hand to translating Solaris-on-Sparc applications into Linux-on-x64 at Intel's behest - a pre-Sun accord Intel, that is - says the Luxembourg Stock Exchange is using QuickTransit-ported apps in a VMware virtualized...

My, Those Are Big Shoes You're Filling.
January 29, 2007... Now it's official. Revenue-wise HP is the biggest computer company on the face of the earth raking in $91.66 billion in the year ended October 31 to IBM's $91.4 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal, that's the first time in more than...

Sun Shines.
January 29, 2007... Could Jonathan Schwartz be Sun's Mark Hurd in miniature? At press time Thursday, Sun stock had grazed $6.42, its highest point in FOUR, count 'em, FOUR years and closed at $6.34. It was the most heavily traded stock on the Nasdaq, with more...

Correction.(Correction notice)
January 29, 2007... Last week we said something entirely stupid. We were quoting Nathan Brookwood and said he said Intel had 100-200 million chips in inventory. That, of course, is ridiculous, What he said was he figured its inventory was worth $100 million-$200...