Linux Gram articles from July 2005

Linux Gram archives from July 2005

IBM Finally Kills Off OS/2.(the company stopping the production of the operating system)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... OS/2, the Windows might-have-been and the source of IBM's hereditary hostility for Microsoft, is finally and irrevocably dead. IBM should have driven a stake through its heart long ago it pissed away a billion dollars on the thing back...

As the Ancients Observed, Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts.(market share of International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... If we've got this right, Microsoft has taken a new approach in dealing with Linux. It's reportedly been seeking out open source projects like Apache trying to entice them to optimize their widgetry on Windows. And if the implementation turns...

Cool Blue Cools Servers.(a new technique from International Business Machines Corp. cools the server)
July 18, 2005... It took IBM three years to do it, but it says it can cut the heat dissipated by a server anybody's server by maybe as much as 55%. Considering the datacenter's contribution to global warming, if the widgetry works as advertised and gets...

Sun Open Sources Authentication Widgetry.(Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to release few source codes)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Sun says it's going to open source its web site authentication and web single sign-on (SSO) technologies through what it's calling the Open Source Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project. Naturally that means Sun's version of open source. It...

IBM & Zend Trot Out Zend Core for IBM.(Zend Technologies Ltd.)
July 18, 2005... IBM and Zend have announced the availability of Zend Core for IBM, calling it the first integrated solution specifically designed to help developers deploy database applications and services based on the PHP web language. IBM and Zend said...

OSDL Opens European Front.(Claude Beullens appointed at Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs is opening an office in Luxembourg, a politically neutral site, and has named Claude Beullens its director for EMEA. OSDL said government interest, economic opportunity and the location of leading open...

Fujitsu Picks Up SuSE Worldwide.(contract)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Fujitsu, one of the Big Five OEMs worldwide, is going to r support SuSE on its PrimeQuest and Primergy servers. In 2000 Fujitsu Siemens Computers cut a deal with SuSE to deliver and support the SuSE on Primergy servers in EMEA. The new...

Whoops, There Goes Norway.(implemention of open source code in public sector)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... According to what we read in the papers Norway would like nothing more than to outlaw the use of proprietary code at all levels of the government. At a press conference the country's minister of modernization Morten Andreas Meyer outlined plans...

SCO Part of New Russell Microcap Index.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs may wind up taking over the Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base charter.

AMD Comes in with Upside Surprise.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... AMD came in with better-than-expected Q2 results, a nice little capper for its mammoth antitrust suit against Intel and the EC raid on Intel offices the other day. Market momentum remains with Intel, however, and some say AMD is merely riding...

Neoware Narrows the Thin Clients-PC Gap.(new product from Neoware Systems Inc.)(Image Manager)
July 18, 2005... Neoware Systems has what it figures is a breakthrough piece of software called Image Manager that it says eliminates the functional differences between PCs and thin clients. It also makes deployed PCs more secure and manageable by letting...

Patent Cliff Notes Nixed.(Russell Investment Group includes The SCO Group Inc. in the index list)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Russell Investment Group has included SCO as part of its brand new Russell Microcap Index. The irony of this situation is practically incalculable considering the open source radical fringe claims SCO is nothing more than cynical stock...

Whither the LSB?(linux standard base from standards committees)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Open Source Development Labs may wind up taking over the Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base charter.

Madison Catches the Uptown Bus.(enhanced product introduced)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Intel is about to upgrade the bus on the Madison Itanium to 667MHz but the only company with a chipset that can take advantage of it right now is Hitachi. It'll be the last single-core Itanium.

Vienna Creates Its Own Linux.(new software from Vienna Software Publishing Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Vienna has come up with its own Linux desktop distribution, called Wienux of course, that puts at risk Microsoft's hold on the city government's 16,000 PCs currently running Windows 2000 and Office 2000.

HP Takes Pot Shots at Dell's New Intel Dual-Core Server.(contract)
July 18, 2005... Dell brought out a low-end server the other day based on Intel's dual-core Pentium D chip, causing HP to sniff that it's a desktop disguised as a server and a cover-up for the fact that Dell is behind on the dual-core front. HP claims it's...

HP Steals Dell's CIO.(Randy Mott appointed)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Hewlett-Packard raided Dell and picked off its CIO Randy Mott. Mott will be HP's CIO. HP's incumbent CIO Gilles Bouchard will remain executive VP of global operations. Before Dell, where he's been since 2000, Mott spent 22 years at...

AMD Sues Intel.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
July 18, 2005... AMD has filed what promises to be an historic, protracted and highly entertaining antitrust suit against Intel that drudges up no end of dirt. AMD's move was encouraged as we predicted it would be by Intel's "no contest" reaction to...

SCO v Novell Suit On.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The court has rejected Novell's second bid to get SCO's slander of title suit against it dismissed. That's the one in which SCO alleged that Novell falsely represented that it, not SCO, owns the Unix and UnixWare copyrights. The court...

Court Throws Out SCO's Precious Third Amended Complaint.(SCO v IBM case)(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... SCO's many critics have had reason to dance in the streets. The court hearing the SCO v IBM case has refused to let SCO file its third amended complaint the one where it thought it had nailed IBM dead to rights and wanted to sue IBM for...

Microsoft Pays IBM $850m Not To Sue.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... In another one of those now legendary deals necessitated by its US antitrust suit, Microsoft will pay IBM $775 million and give it a $75 million credit towards Microsoft software. IBM's business was identified in Judge Thomas Penfield...

Oracle Hires Old Microsoft CFO.(Greg Maffei)(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... Oracle has hired Greg Maffei, CFO of Microsoft during the Evil Empire's greatest expansionist period, to be its own CFO and third yes, third co-president, presumably irritating Microsoft and definitely clouding Oracle's succession plans. ...

Symantec-Veritas Deal Done.(Brief Article)
July 18, 2005... The Symantec-Veritas merger sailed though stockholder approval despite the fact that Symantec shares crashed 32% because of the odd acquisition. Merrill Lynch is of the opinion that "given the increasing clarity into the combined company...

Pro Se GPL Price-Fixing Suit Survives IBM Motion To Dismiss.(Daniel Wallace's case against International Business Machines Corp., Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc.)(general public license)
July 25, 2005... It looks like the courts are taking Daniel Wallace's pro se suits against the GPL a tad more seriously than the dismissive open source community. The federal court in Indianapolis threw out IBM's motion to dismiss Wallace's suit against it...

SCO Holds Gun So Open Source Left Can Shoot It in the Foot.(The SCO Group Inc.'s case against International Business Machines Corp.)
July 25, 2005... One thing about SCO and its high-priced legal talent - they do the worst crisis management imaginable. When a train is barreling down the track - and you're standing on the track - and there's a switch at hand that would send the train on...

Petition To Open Source OS/2 Afoot.(written communication of OS2World.com)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Since IBM took OS/2 off the market last week, OS2World.com, a five-year-old community news site that claims 35,000 unique visitors a month, has been collecting signatures on a petition calling on IBM to open source the operating system. At...

Open Source Takes On BI.(financing of JasperSoft Corporation)(business intelligence)
July 25, 2005... JasperSoft Corporation, the outfit now commercializing the JasperReports open source reporting widgetry, has gotten an $8 million C round led by Partech International, an early investor in Business Objects, which bought Crystal Reports a while...

HP To Whack 14,500 Staffers.(layoffs at Hewlett-Packard Co.)
July 25, 2005... Hewlett-Packard's new CEO Mark Hurd said early Tuesday morning that he's going to can 14,500 people over a morale-draining year and a half, roughly 10% of HP's work force. Hurd, a lopper by reputation, said he was going to cut HP's staff...

HP Labs among the First Hit.(corporate reorganization)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... HP R&D isn't getting out of the latest company bloodletting unscathed, though it was supposed to be a relatively protected enclave. And the reorg apparently means HP Labs is going to have to get more practical. According to the...

Oracle Prices Multi-Cores.(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Oracle has made what may or may not be a grudging move on the multi-core pricing front. At least it's stated a position. It says it still recognizes each core as a separate processor, but claims it's changed how it defines a processor to...

IBM Loses Global Services Chief.(John Joyce resigned from IBM Global Services)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... IBM has lost John Joyce, the head of IBM Global Services, described as the most powerful man at IBM next to CEO Sam Palmisano. It lost him to private equity house Silver Lake Partners, the place where Ed Zander turned up between Sun and...

Mistress of DB2 To Leave IBM.(Janet Perna to resign from Information Management Group of International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Oracle must be tickled pink. That black and blue mark that IBM has tattooed on its rump over the years might finally have a chance to heal. Janet Perna, general manager of IBM's Information Management Group and mistress of DB2, a pretty...

AMD Extacts Ounce of Flesh from Intel.(market share of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
July 25, 2005... AMD must have tied one on the other night. Intel sold a record number of chips in Q2, but its gross margin came up short of guidance at 56.4% and it cited the pricing pressure that AMD exerted on its server ASPs as part of the reason. ...

Florian Mueller, Open Source Pin-Up.
July 25, 2005... Florian Mueller, the software programmer and open source advocate who started the NoSoftwarePatents.com web site and successfully lobbied for the defeat of US-like software patent legislation in the European Union, has made the chi-chi-annual...

What OS Was CardSystems Using?(operating system)(technology application by CardSystems Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Visa and American Express say that come October they will be breaking with payment processor CardSystems Solutions Inc, the Tucson company whose unmitigated irresponsibility caused the biggest privacy breach to date, the piracy of 40 million...

Paxville Moves into '05.(launch of Paxville Xeons by Intel Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Intel suggested when it posted its Q2 numbers the other day that it might be able to move up the 1Q06 due date on its dual-core Paxville Xeons to 4Q05. It's planning on flooding the market with pilot dual-core Xeon machines this half.

GroundWork Brings in New CEO.(appointments)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... GroundWork, the open source IT management start-up, is bringing in a new CEO to take it to the proverbial next level. The company reportedly looked at 200 candidates, seriously considered 20, and picked Ranga Rangachari, a long-time Legato...

Mandriva Settles Trademark Suit.(cases against Hearst Publications-Hearst Business Group and Kingfisher Syndicate)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Mandriva said Monday that it had settled the long-running trademark suit lodged by Hearst Publications and Kingfisher Syndicate over a comic book character "Mandrake The Magician." The suit, filed five years ago, was the reason Mandrakesoft...

RackSpace Goes with ZENworks.(Rackspace Managed Hosting's contract with Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... Novell is all atwitter. Rackspace Managed Hosting, called the fastest-growing enterprise hosting company, is going to use Novell's ZENworks Linux Management software to administer its new enterprise Linux hosting solution. With the launch...

MySQL Preens over Quarter.(financial results)(Brief Article)
July 25, 2005... MySQL AB brags that it just closed the best quarter in its 10-year history. It says it generated more than twice the revenue than it did in the June quarter last year. Unfortunately, being privately held, it's not saying how much that...

LinuxWorld Set for the Olympia.
July 25, 2005... LinuxWorld is set to take place at the Olympia in London October 5-6. IDG, the organizer, says it's the UK's only Linux and open source trade show this year.