Linux Gram articles from July 2003

Linux Gram archives from July 2003

SCO To Try To Slap a Tax on Linux.
July 14, 2003... The SCO Group is going to try to levy a licensing fee on all commercial Linux users of the 2.4 Linux kernel, sources say. An announcement is believed to be imminent. SCO believes most of the Linux plagiarisms of its Unix code occurred in the...

Sun & Microsoft Agree on SCO License.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... The other big company - other than Microsoft - that has anted up and started paying the SCO Group a license fee has accidentally been discovered to be Sun Microsystems. Sun and Microsoft together are supposed to pay SCO $13 million this year....

OSDL Picks Up Number Two Linux Guy.(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... The Open Source Development Lab, which just gave Linux creator Linus Torvalds a new home to help it become the center of the Linux universe, has gone and hired Andrew Morton, reportedly the number- two guy in Linux development. Not exactly...

Opteron Start-up Reportedly on the Block.(Newisys)
July 14, 2003... Newisys, the star-studded Texas server start-up that bet the farm on AMD's new Opteron chip, reportedly canned 20%-25% of its people the other day in preparation for being acquired. Sources suggest the potential acquirer is a contract...

Lindows Dreams Up New Lure.(LindowsCD)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... In order to entice more people to try its Linux desktop operating system, Lindows.com has come up with a LindowsCD that just pops into a CD-ROM and lets them get a taste of Linux and what we gather is StarOffice without disrupting their Windows...

Beware the ServerWorks GC-LE Chipset.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... There's a bug in some of the ServerWorks Grand Champion LE chipsets that's bad enough to hang the servers they're used in. The company says that - after IBM found the problem - ServerWorks ran up a software utility that will let OEMs screen out...

Oracle-PeopleSoft Deal Sways on the Fence.
July 14, 2003... Prudential Financial doesn't think Oracle will get PeopleSoft because of PeopleSoft's potentially lethal poison pill, its increasingly imminent takeover of JD Edwards which raises all sorts of anticompetitive flags if the second-largest...

VMware Claims Great Breakthrough.(with Control Center)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... VMware, the virtualization maven, says it's beta testing some new widgetry intended to manage distributed, heterogeneous computing environments as a single pool of hardware resources. Meant for Intel servers, the software is called Control...

Athlon64 Debut Set.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... AMD is supposed to release the hybrid 32/64-bit Athlon64 chip, the desktop and mobile versions of Hammer, on Monday September 22, according to an internal document the company inadvertently e-mailed around to lots of people. (However, we...

Now What Do You Suppose They're Up To?
July 14, 2003... Well, well, well. The "Big 61/2" - IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle, Computer Associates, Intel and Novell - were closeted away a few days ago under a strict NDA, provided compliments of IBM, reportedly discussing a broad range of Linux-related issues.

Oh, So That's Why.(Oracle's offer for PeopleSoft)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... "People ask why we offered so little for PeopleSoft. Well, we thought we could get it for that. Why not give it a whirl? I didn't graduate from college, and I know that's held me back. But I know paying less is better than paying more." -...

Mainframe Linux Consolidation Short-Term: Meta.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2003... "Users face more art than science when trying to build a quantifiable Unix/Intel-to-Linux/mainframe business case. Increasingly sophisticated modeling of prospective mainframe Linux- base consolidation can quickly confirm or deny potential...

Japanese Government Toys with Running Linux.(Linux-based payroll system)
July 14, 2003... According to Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Japanese daily, whose coverage is sometime, um, hit or miss, Fujitsu, IBM Japan and Oki Electric have pulled down a $1.6 million contract to design a Linux- based payroll system by March for roughly...

Well, That's One Way To Outstrip Microsoft.
July 14, 2003... Geez, it looks like Oracle might have 30 states pawing over its hostile bid for PeopleSoft. Why, that's more states than lashed out at Microsoft. It's not yet a done deal that they'll combine against Oracle in a suit or even launch formal...

Classic Ellison.
July 14, 2003... "If I said to you, 'I'll give you $10 for your dog and then I'll shoot it,' what would you do? Would it make any difference if I offered you $20?" - PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway after Oracle raised its bid to $19.50 a couple of weeks ago. ...