Linux Gram articles from June 2002

Linux Gram archives from June 2002

Caldera, Turbo, SuSE & Conectiva Pile On to the Life Raft.
June 3, 2002... So, Thursday morning four rickety commercial Linux distros piled into the one-man lifeboat they've christened UnitedLinux in hopes of creating enough of a wake as they paddle around to swamp the good ship Red Hat. The move simply begs the...

LindowsOS Enters Final Testing.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Lindows.com Inc says its Windows-challenging desktop LindowsOS has entered final test. The San Diego, California start-up is asking hardware vendors to submit their machines for certification. The company says its goal is to test and...

Linux NetworX Debuts Eclipse.(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Linux NetworX has launched a high-availability cluster based on the Oracle9i Real Application Cluster architecture. Dubbed Eclipse Database Cluster, the new system is supposed to provide the scalability, reliability and high availability...

Merrill Lynch Ponders Blades.
June 3, 2002... Merrill Lynch has revisited the notion of blades and says the only way they're going to get to the proverbial next level is to make clusters out of them and the only way to do that is to have an "overarching blade OS that makes the cluster act...

A Different Kind of War.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... A Washington Post story claims Microsoft has been hammering away at the Pentagon, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the office of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to get the Defense Department to curb its use of Linux. Microsoft has...

Intel Ups Push on Sun's Telecom Preserve.
June 3, 2002... Intel, which has been gunning for Sun's telecoms market for the last year, is backing HP's CompactPCI blade scheme saying economic conditions have made the switch from low-volume proprietary gear to standards- based equipment imperative. ...

Is eCos Staff Facing the Axe?(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Sources say that following another poor showing in embedded this quarter ending May 31, Red Hat's gonna fire a bunch of folks working on eCos, its Cygnus-inherited non-Linux embedded Configurable operating system, an open source RTOS for deeply...

Caldera Loses $6.6m; Cuts Revenue Estimates.
June 3, 2002... Caldera International lost $6.6 million, or 47 cents a share, on revenues of $15.5 million in its fiscal second quarter ended April 30. Based on a roll call of 480 employees at the end of the quarter, the numbers work out to a loss of...

Linux Oils Petroleum Sector.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM and Halliburton's Landmark Graphics unit have signed a three- year deal to peddle Linux-based products to the oil and gas explorers. IBM and Landmark plan to provide Linux for advanced desktop 3D graphics, server and mobile computing...

Neoware Raises $12m.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Neoware, the thin client house, has privately placed $12 million worth of its common stock, 1.6 million shares, with unidentified institutional investors. The new financing gives the feisty little debt-free company a $20 million war chest. The...

Intel Quits InfiniBand.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Intel has dropped out of the InfiniBand chip market and it's been months since anyone much has had confidence that InfiniBand, the next-generation fabric for linking systems and nominal replacement for PCI, was coming together. At least not in...

Die, Sparc, Die.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Intel turned up in Munich the other day with its arms loaded with benchmarks on how absolutely splendiferously McKinley, aka the Itanium 2, performs. The meat of the matter is that the widget is supposed to trounce Sun's UltraSparc III, Intel's...

IBM Kills Sequent.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... According to the Wall Street Journal IBM got snookered when it bought Sequent in 1999 for $810 million. It's gotten practically nothing out of the exercise and when it started cutting server people last week as part of its restructuring it...

Transmeta Makes 1GHz.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Transmeta has apparently started delivering its coveted 1GHz chip.

Red Hat Debuts Alliance Program.
June 3, 2002... Red Hat launched a partner program Wednesday to strengthen its relationship with companies that support its enterprise products including the all-important Red Hat Advanced Server. Dubbed the Red Hat Alliance, the new program will focus on...

It's IBM's Play.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM can rest easy. HPQ has pulled out and it looks like Dell won't be a player in the Foster eight-way market either. Not that Dell was that interested to begin with. Eight-ways aren't exactly its forte but ServerWorks says it won't support...

Open Group Conference Set.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... The Open Group is going into the conference business and is pulling together a little weeklong user-oriented number called "Boundless Information Flow: The Role of Web Services" in Boston July 22-26. It's got W3C director Tim Berners-Lee,...

Swisscom Goes Linux on Big Iron.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... IBM has enticed Swiss telecoms house Swisscom to use Linux on its mainframe. It's the usual cut-costs server consolidation stuff. It's gone live with order processing and billing. They got WebSphere- based apps on the thing with Orbix-Orbs and...

2,000 Business Plans Later.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... John Slitz, who was marketing VP of Novell under the Schmidt administration during Chris Stone's first tenure there, is now interim CEO of SRD trying the job on for a couple of months to see how he likes it. If he does, and it's not far from...

Free Software Foundation Program Under Fire.
June 10, 2002... The Free Software Foundation's new fee-based compliance certification program is attracting strong criticism from some sections of the open source community even before it gets off the ground. Masterminded by FSF general counsel and...

LynuxWorks Gets $4m in Bridge Funding.
June 10, 2002... Embedded software house LynuxWorks said Tuesday it raised $4 million in bridge financing and is talking to VCs for additional funding. Apparently the bridge funding came from insiders. Sources say LynuxWorks CEO Inder Singh provided the...

MySQL Setting up US Unit.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... MySQL AB, developer of the MySQL database, said Tuesday it's setting up a subsidiary in the US to better serve its customers. "It's our No. 1 market and we want to be very close to our customers," said MySQL CEO Marten Mickos. The US...

Lindows.Com Debuts another Sneak Preview.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... Lindows.com Inc has released another sneak preview of its Lindows.com OS. Dubbed LindowsOS SPX, the third version of the sneak preview is supposedly designed to take advantage of broadband technology. The upgrade is said to come with...

Linux, IBM Score with German Government.(deployment of Linux and open source software)
June 10, 2002... The German government has signed a deal with IBM and German Linux house SuSE that will give a fillip to deployment of Linux and open source software. The contract lets government agencies at the federal, state and local level buy IBM...

Taiwan Embraces Open Source.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... The Taiwanese Government plans to implement an open source project to save millions of dollars in royalties to foreign software manufacturers such as Microsoft. The project, to run from 2003 to 2005, will encourage research and development...

HP Servers Do Realtime in DreamWorks Lab.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Movie studio DreamWorks SKG was able to get its Linux production servers up to speed with the help of HP. Cartoon artists at DreamWorks use in-house software called ToonShooter to animate each cell they draw. The software runs on Linux, but...

Terix Jumps Aboard Sun's Linux Strategy.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... Sun Microsystems has expanded it OS offering to include Linux and Terix Computer Company Inc is coming along for the ride. Terix provides hardware and software support for Unix workstations and servers. The company says many of its current...

Virtual Command Center for Linux.(Global Maintech ports software to Linux platform)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... Datacenter management firm Global Maintech has ported its Virtual Command Center (VCC) to Linux. VCC is a software solution for the enterprise used to remotely monitor any computer screen, graphical or text. No software modifications are...

Mozilla Is Actually Done.(from Netscape Communications)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... Mozilla, the open source, multi-platform browser project funded by AOL Time Warner-owned Netscape, has finally hit the 1.0 mark. The project was launched in 1998 and deemed a failure two years ago by most of the technology industry. Only the...

IBM Plans $2.5b Charge.(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... IBM plans to take a mammoth pre-tax charge of $2 billion-$2.5 billion related to cost-cutting and asset sales. Most of the charge is expected in the current quarter, which ends June 30. The Street had estimated EPS of 87 cents for the...

Intel Lowers Q2 Outlook.(Statistical Data Included)
June 10, 2002... Intel lowered its second quarter revenue forecast Thursday blaming softer than expected demand in Europe. In its planned mid-quarter business update, Intel said it now expects revenues to come in between $6.2 billion-$6.5 billion compared...

Microsoft Tackles Web Services Security with TrustBridge.
June 10, 2002... Microsoft is taking yet another stab at rival Sun in the web services arena. On Thursday Redmond started talking up new web services security technology code named TrustBridge. Due out some time next year, TrustBridge is supposed to make...

Xbox Hacked.(Microsoft's Xbox game console)
June 10, 2002... Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Andrew Huang has figured out how to hack Microsoft's Xbox game console. His 15- page report describes how to circumvent a boot block that prevents unauthorized code from loading on the...

Gateway Looks To Digital Media To Move PCs.
June 10, 2002... What does it take to sell a PC these days? Companies that aren't hiring certainly aren't buying PCs. Companies that are hiring probably have extra machines lying around from their last round of downsizing. And the inventory in retail outlets is...

Say Yes to Intel.(multi-million-dollar worldwide ad campaign)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Intel has rolled out a multi-million-dollar worldwide ad campaign highlighting innovation, reliability and stability, themes that the chip giant claims its brand is associated with by businesses. Dubbed the Yes campaign, it includes all...

Nader Urges US To Buy Non-Microsoft Software.(Ralph Nader)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Consumer activist Ralph Nader wants the Bush administration to use its purchasing power to fight Microsoft's dominance in desktop operating systems and office productivity software and promote competition. Nader suggested that the Office of...

Zend Passes Microsoft.(Zend Technologies' open source PHP software)(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Zend Technologies Ltd, the Israeli firm that created the PHP web scripting technology and the Zend Engine on which all PHP sites are run, is crowing that its open source PHP software has surpassed Microsoft's ASP as the most popular server-side...

Intel Beefs Up Server Building Blocks.
June 17, 2002... Intel will announce on Monday a dozen new server building block offerings for OEM system builders, resellers and product integrators. Most of the new products are based on the Xeon processor and Intel's E7500 chipset. The new offerings...

LynuxWorks Debuts BlueCat RT.(Linux operating system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 17, 2002... Embedded software house LynuxWorks has released an embedded hard real-time Linux OS called BlueCat RT. Targeted at systems that only require real-time functionality in a subset of their applications, BlueCat RT integrates the RTLinux/Pro...

Sun's New Linux Box Coming Soon.(according to Merrill Lynch)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... After talking to Sun COO Ed Zander, Merrill Lynch believes the company's first general purpose Linux box should be out this summer. The brokerage reckons it'll be a two-way, 1U server with Sun highlighting its SunONE stack. Merrill also expects...

Red Hat Gets a New Global Services Chief.(Anthony Moretto)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Red Hat has named Anthony Moretto VP of global services as it looks to expand its global support operations. Moretto was previously VP of professional services at Sybase, responsible for a 700-person field services organization that supposedly...

MS Outlook and IE Under Linux With CrossOver Office.(CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office 1.1)(Product Announcement)
June 17, 2002... The latest version of CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers adds Microsoft Outlook and IE its list of applications that can be run under Linux. Version 1.1 has improved font rendering as well, which was God-awful in version 1.0. CrossOver Office...

Cadence Anticipates Linux Demand.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Cadence is porting its integrated circuit design software to Linux, in anticipation for growing demand of Unix solutions on cheap Intel hardware. Right now over three-quarters of Cadence's IC design tools are sold to Solaris users. But the...

RLX Debuts Pre-installed Hosting Blade Servers, Expands Cluster Products.
June 17, 2002... Blade server pioneer RLX Technologies has launched what it considers to be the first pre-installed web hosting blade server product by packaging Ensim's WEBppliance software with its ServerBlade 800i. RLX executives claim that web service...

AMD Debuts Athlon XP 2200+.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 17, 2002... AMD introduced its new Athlon XP 2200+ processor on Monday. Athlon XP 2200+ is AMD's first desktop processor based on 0.13 micron technology, the processor core previously code named "Thorough-bred." AMD is touting the Athlon XP...

IBM Makes Super Storage Density Breakthrough.(IBM Millipede technology)
June 17, 2002... The researchers at IBM labs have done it again. In what is considered a breakthrough in the storage arena, scientists at IBM's research lab in Zurich have used nanotechnology to demonstrate data storage density of a trillion bits per square...

PC Shipments Up.(according to IDC)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... IDC has raised its estimates for worldwide PC shipment growth this year from 3% to 4.7%. Japan is still in a bit of a slump, but growth in all the other major regions - the US, Western Europe and Asia/Pacific - was slightly ahead of forecasts....

Hackers Code Xbox Divx Player.
June 17, 2002... A computer hacker that goes by the name of "d7o3g4q" has released an alpha version of a movie player for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The software can play VCDs, a cheapo MPEG-1 and CD-R based sort of DVD, and movies in the 3.x and...

Online Profitability Rising.(according toShop.org, Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 17, 2002... According to a new report from Shop.org, The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research, 45% of retailers had profitable online operations last year, up from 43% in 2000. The report found that shoppers spent $51.3 billion online in 2001, up...

Lindows Challenges MS Desktop Dominance.
June 24, 2002... In its first offensive move, Lindows.com has gotten its Windows- compatible, Linux-based LindowsOS operating system pre-installed on desktop machines sold by online retailer Walmart.com. Wine, an open source project that seeks to...

Red Hat Cuts Losses; Revenues Fall 9%.(fiscal first qtr ended May 31, 2002)
June 24, 2002... Linux major Red Hat lost $4.3 million, or three cents a share, on revenues of $19.5 million in its fiscal first quarter ended May 31. The losses were down sharply year-over-year as well as on a sequential basis. Red Hat lost $27.6 million,...

How To Make It in the Linux Biz, According To HP.
June 24, 2002... For Unix shops, Linux running on Intel hardware is turning out to be the deal of the century. Early adopters are ditching proprietary Unix systems running on pricey RISC hardware for Red Hat on cheap Intel iron. Intel's fast processors coupled...

IBM Targets Linux at Wall Street.
June 24, 2002... IBM is setting up a Linux Center of Competence in New York City to woo financial services providers to deploy systems based on the open source operating system. The center, which includes hardware, software and services from IBM and...

Intel Readies Tiger, Bandera & Miniboon.(Itanium 2-based servers)
June 24, 2002... Intel plans to provide OEMs and systems integrators with complete servers based on its Itanium 2 processor in the second half. Code-named "Tiger," the complete server building block is aimed at enabling OEMs and systems integrators to...

Server Sales To Fall 14.5% in Q2.(IDC forecast)(Statistical Data Included)
June 24, 2002... In more gloomy news for large server vendors IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Dell, IDC forecasts that the worldwide server market will decline 14.5% in Q2 citing weaker than expected recovery in the US and Japan. This suggests that any revenue...

Red Hat on All HP Servers Under New Agreement.
June 24, 2002... Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat have expanded their relationship to offer Red Hat Linux Advanced Server on all of HP's IA-32 and Alpha servers and workstations. HP has agreed to develop Itanium2-based servers and workstations as well. HP...

Fujitsu To Offer NetCOBOL on Linux.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... In another sign of Linux' increasing acceptance in the corporate market, Fujitsu Software Corporation will begin beta testing its NetCOBOL development environment for Red Hat Linux in July. Ron Langer, Fujitsu Software's director of languages,...

Kim Clark Lands at Linux NetworX.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Lineo's former VP of engineering Kim Clark has landed at cluster specialist Linux NetworX. Clark will lead development of ClusterWorX, ICE Box and other clustering products. A Linux NetworX spokesman said the company was "becoming more...

FSMLabs, Digital First To Boost RTLinux.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... FSMLabs Inc and Korean PC server distributor Digital First have teamed up to peddle FSM's RTLinux/Pro hard real time operating system in Korea. The two companies will also work together on building RTLinux-based devices for global resale....

Google's Search Appliance Finds Customers.(GB-1001 and GB-8008)(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... In February, search expert Google hopped the firewall and offered a boxed version of its Internet search service called the Google Search Appliance. The venture appears to be a success. The company now claims Boeing, Cisco Systems, PBS.org,...

Moody's Downgrades HP.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Moody's Investor's Service lowered the long-term and short-term ratings on $7 billion of Hewlett-Packard's debt citing the challenges of integrating the Compaq acquisition, ongoing operating losses in the personal systems and enterprise...

Gift of the Nimda.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... Several thousand South Korean software developers received a surprise, unwanted gift from Microsoft in the form of the Nimda worm recently. Apparently, the worm was transmitted to 50,000 developers when Microsoft carelessly distributed Korean...

Intel Has a Ways to Go.(Brief Article)
June 24, 2002... After meeting with the management of Broadcom's ServerWorks business unit, Merrill Lynch put out a research note saying that the company continues to dominate the chipsets market with 80% market share despite an offensive from Intel....