Linux Gram articles from July 2004

Linux Gram archives from July 2004

New Commercial Linux Rival To Bedevil Red Hat & Novell.(Specifix Inc)
July 19, 2004... By the end of the year, Red Hat and SuSE will have a new commercial Linux rival to worry about, one that Red Hat nurtured in its own bosom in its core OS and tools development teams. Two ex-Red Hat VPs, Kim Knuttila, once VP of Red Hat's...

SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF.(Executable and Linking Format)(The SCO Group Inc.)
July 19, 2004... SCO's two latest filings with the Utah district court hearing its $5 billion suit against IBM claim that SCO's Unix Executable and Linking Format (ELF) codes are in Linux illegally. The charge was made by SCO VP of engineering Sandeep Gupta...

Open Country To Crowd CA, Veritas et al.(Computer Associates International)
July 19, 2004... Well, Linux has spawned a rare management company, which is odd, you see, because one would have thought that by now there would be a slew of them, but there aren't, are there? Enter one Open Country and its flagship Linux systems...

Scooter: The Poster Boy for Classic Management Screw-ups.(Sun Technology Enterprises Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Sun CEO Scott McNealy has made the cover of the latest Business Week, which asks whether it's "too late for Sun to recover." Somehow we doubt this one will make Scooter's collection of framed cover stories. The magazine dubs Sun's...

Well, Somebody Wants Sun.(TRC Capital Corp.)(Sun Technology Enterprises Inc.)
July 19, 2004... A private Canadian investment house by the name of TRC Capital Corporation has made what is called a mini-tender offer for up to 25 million Sun shares, less than 1% of Sun's outstanding stock. The offer, dated June 24, was unsolicited, Sun...

SCO Holds its Own in AutoZone Suit.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... AutoZone, the showcase Fortune 500 Linux user that the SCO Group is suing for copyright infringement as a warning to other alleged infringers, isn't faring too well in court. On Monday, the Nevada federal bench, where SCO filed suit,...

Red Hat To Restate Last Three Years; Stock Blanches on Credibility Issues.
July 19, 2004... Red Hat is going to restate its financials for fiscal 2002, 2003 and 2004 based on the advice it's been given by a new auditor from PricewaterhouseCoopers, who thinks that the company should recognize subscription revenues daily rather than...

SCO Accuses IBM of Ducking Court's Discovery Order.(The SCO Group Inc.)(International Business Machines Corp.)
July 19, 2004... IBM is trying to shoot down SCO's $5 billion suit against it and get a summary judgment by claiming that it can't possibly infringe on SCO's IP because SCO's Unix copyrights are "invalid and unenforceable," a broad latecomer counterclaim SCO...

CA Comes Up Short of Guidance.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Computer Associates, whose books have previously been a creative masterpiece, says revenues were short somewhere between $35 million and $55 million in the June quarter, its first fiscal quarter, and that it won't make its previous guidance of...

Intel Makes Big Mess Right in the Middle of Wall Street.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... That bus that wrapped itself around a lamppost down on Wall Street on Tuesday was Intel, which created a minor tsunami out of its stock when it reported its Q2 numbers because its transition to 90nm chips on 300mm wafers, no mean feat, went...

Oracle Persists.(to acquire PeopleSoft)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Oracle, which is waiting to make its closing argument on July 20 in the Justice Department's suit to derail its controversial, yearlong attempt to acquire PeopleSoft, has extended its tender offer for the company yet again - this time till...

OSDL Sidles Up to Schools.(Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... The Open Source Development Labs has created an affiliate membership program for colleges and universities and has already enrolled five institutions: IBM's buddy Marist College, Oregon State University, Stanford, Tokyo University of Technology...

Egenera on Third-Generation 4P Blade.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Egenera, which will soon be the first blade start-up to go public, has developed its third-generation 4p blade using 3GHz Xeon MP chips. The widgets support a maximum 24GB of memory, way more than anybody else, the company preens, making it...

Ex-CA Bosses May Get To Know What Poor Is.
July 19, 2004... Computer Associates nemesis Sam Wily, who tried and failed to get CA's management ousted a couple of years ago, has made good on his threat to sue the company's two founders and 10 of its compromised former senior managers seeking the return of...

Note to Sun: Ask the Last Guy Out To Turn Off the Lights.(Sun Microsytems rumored to be planning layoffs)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... The Sun rumor mill is working overtime churning out tales of new impending layoffs coming this month or early next. The whispers suggest that another 9% of Sun's workforce could be thrown out on the street but that what the benighted company...

Perp Walks Pending.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... If the rumored schedule holds, and the fact that one of the prosecutors is up and going to work for the UN doesn't upset the apple cart, ousted CA CEO Sanjay Kumar and 14 other CA culprits will be indicted next week, or at worst the week after,...

Ahh, Numbers.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... 241 - The number of CDs SCO has turned over to IBM reportedly containing "hundreds of thousands of pages of documents." 700 million - The number of lines of code SCO says it has turned over to IBM, reportedly "all of the source code for its...

French Ministry Smiles on Native Son.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... The French Ministry of Equipment is going to replace 1,500 NT office and infrastructure servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate Servers, a nice little "Buy French" move. There were no financial details. The ministry's infrastructure includes...

Mandrake Buys Support Start-up.(acquires Edge IT )(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Mandrakesoft is buying a little year-old local support start-up called Edge IT in a stock swap that will give Edge shareholders a 1.47% interest in Mandrake, or 70,000 shares. The six-man concern, whose clients reportedly include a few...

Scali Gets More Financing.(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Norwegian cluster house Scali AS, where Intel has dropped a dime or two, has picked up $7.5 million in C round venture money. A new investor, Atlas Venture, led with existing backer Four Seasons Venture coming in again. Scali says it'll...

Lindows-on-Dell.(Questar Technologies Inc)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Questar, a Dell reseller in Milan is going to sell a line of Dell desktops with Lindows' Linux operating system on it and reportedly ship the stuff with Dell technical support though Dell in the US distanced itself from the move.

Somebody Buy CA a Calculator.(Computer Associates Inc.'s incorrect fianancial starements)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Computer Associates just can't get it right. On June 14, one short month after going through the wrenching exercise of restating its tainted fiscal '99 and '00 results, admitting it had overstated $2.2 billion in revenues and acknowledging that...

Did the Earth Just Shake?(people move)(Brief Article)
July 19, 2004... Today, Friday, in a historic transition Michael Dell will turn over his job as CEO to Dell president Kevin Rollins at the company's annual shareholders meeting. Rollins also gets a seat on Dell's board. Michael, of course, founded the killer...