Linux Gram articles from June 2003

Linux Gram archives from June 2003

SCO to Novell: We Do To Own the Unix IP.
June 2, 2003... Embattled SCO Group CEO Darl McBride, currently the most maligned man in the industry, both publicly and privately, says that despite Novell's contention that SCO doesn't own the Unix patents and copyrights, his legal councilors say SCO does...

Novell Tries To Shoot Down SCO IP Claims.
June 2, 2003... This is the same story that ran the other day as the news broke except for the last paragraph. Practically at the crack of dawn Wednesday morning Novell had what is basically a "cease and desist" letter hand delivered to the SCO Group...

SCO Makes Money for First Time in History.(Q2 2003)
June 2, 2003... There must be a moral here somewhere. SCO gets out of the Linux business and for the first time in its nine years of existence, it makes money. From the way SCO CEO Darl McBride was talking SCO won't be back in the Linux business -...

SAP Jettisons Database; Passes It to MySQL.
June 2, 2003... Swedish open source database house MySQL AB MySQL has acquired commercial rights to the SAP DB database, which it plans to offer free of charge under the GPL as well under a commercial license to businesses that don't want to be bound by GPL...

MySQL on a Roll; Looks to Double Revenues.(2003)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... After tripling its revenues last year, Swedish open source database house MySQL AB expects to double its revenues this year. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos said that although he was "promising a doubling" he was personally shooting for tripling...

Microsoft Suffers First Serious Loss to Linux.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Over Microsoft's protests and reported offers of deeper discounts and despite a pilgrimage Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made there to plead the company's case, Microsoft has lost the city of Munich to Linux. The city fathers decided the...

CA Follows its Mentor, Oracle, to China.
June 2, 2003... The chief architect of Computer Associates' uniquely cross-company Linux Technology Group Sam Greenblatt took a flying trip to the Orient a few days ago and, following in the footsteps of CA's role model in the Linux arena, returned with an...

Novell Gets Lion's Share of Unix Revenues.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Because of the great SCO brouhaha, the open source community has been thumbing through the SCO Group's old SEC filings and one of them came across this passage in the 10-K SCO filed covering its 2002 fiscal year, which ended October 31. "The...

SCO May Sue Linus.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... CBS MarketWatch interviewed SCO CEO Darl McBride and says that he said that "unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds," the creator of Linux. Then, in the face of inflamed public passions, he told...

Is Doug Michels Liable?(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Speaking of people to sue, it seems possible the old SCO, now Tarantella, and Doug Michels, CEO of both, might get added to the list. According to an e-mail we got from one stockholder, if SCO didn't acquire all the patents, copyrights and Unix...

SCO Tax a Rounding Error: Boies.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... "That's a cost that gets lost in the rounding. The cost efficiency of Linux won't rise or fall." - SCO's fancy lawyer David Boies, the hero of the Microsoft antitrust trial, on the $1 billion suit he filed against IBM on SCO's behalf and the...

Red Hat Claims SCO Hasn't Unsettled Business.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Red Hat, which wishes the whole sorry situation would go away and stop threatening business, claims that SCO's letters to CEOs and the publicity surrounding the uproar haven't derailed any of the contracts it was counting on. Almost everybody's...

Opera 7.11 for Linux Goes Gold.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Norwegian browser developer Opera Software has put Opera 7.11 on Linux, the first Opera 7 release for the open source OS. The release, which puts the Linux version on a par with Windows, features several enhancements over Opera 6 such as a...

VA Losses Narrow.(Q3 2003)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... VA Software has narrowed losses in its fiscal third quarter ended April 26 to $3.61 million, or seven cents a share, compared to $7.73 million, or 15 cents a share year-over-year. Excluding non-recurring charges, the losses came in at $2.8...

MySQL Debuts on Opteron.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... MySQL AB has put out a version of its eponymous open source database on AMD's newfangled Opteron processor. It can be downloaded at www.mysql.com/downloads. Separately, MySQL said the database was also available now on the QNX Neutrino...

Lindows Signs Japanese Reseller.
June 2, 2003... A publicly held Tokyo company called the Edge, reportedly as leading ISP, is going to sell a localized version of the Lindows operating system in Japan, the start-up's first known venture overseas. Lindows says it's also going to localize...

PlayStations: The Latest Thing in Supercomputers.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The serious sounding National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has rigged up a supercomputer by connecting 70 Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles using HP network switches and running Linux....

People's Notebook Proves Popular.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... We read in the papers that HP has just started supplying a cheap so- called "people's notebook" based on Linux TLE and an 800MHz Celeron chip in Thailand and the $450 widget is so popular the country's Information and Communications Technology...

Usenix Panel To Pick Over SCO Issues.
June 2, 2003... Open source advocates are assembling a Usenix panel on "Intellectual Property in an Age of Commerce" that expects to tussle with the issues raised by the SCO v IBM case and its implications for Linux kernel developers and distributors, folks...

Fujitsu Siemens Cuts Server Prices.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... In an effort to get its channel partners competitive, Fujitsu Siemens has cut prices on its entry-level Intel-based Primergy servers, including its two-way Xeon F250s and next-generation TX150 tower uniprocessors, by roughly 12%-15%. The...

Tarantella Buys New Moon.
June 2, 2003... Tarantella, nee the Santa Cruz Operation and now a Citrix wannabe, is acquiring privately held New Moon Systems in a bid to expand its product line and market reach. The courtship has been going on for about six months. Tarantella is...

Oracle-PeopleSoft, God Bless 'em, Turns into an Old- fashioned Donnybrook.
June 21, 2003... Oracle raised its bid for PeopleSoft, the company it's pursuing with a hotfooted hostile tender offer, from $16 a share to $19.50 Wednesday morning in an attempt to woo PeopleSoft stockholders to its side. The move raises the value of...

OSDL Wants To Be Linux' Center of Gravity.(Open Source Development Lab )
June 21, 2003... The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), which we called OSF 2 when it first got organized three years ago now, took a dramatic step this week on the road to becoming just that by going and hiring the father of Linux Linus Torvalds away from...

Red Hat Turns Penny Profit.(fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2003)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Red Hat squeezed through another quarter turning in a penny in profit and returning it to the black, which proves, one supposes, that it has a certain amount of staying power, but not yet proving that its business model works. The company...

SCO Files for AIX Injunction against IBM.
June 21, 2003... The story below is the one we broke on Monday. We've subsequently had a chance to read SCO's revised suit. It's now asking for damages of at least $3 billion in addition to all the revenues from IBM's AIX business going forward for...

IBM Hangs Tough.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Once the SCO Group pulled IBM's AIX license and went to court seeking an injunction to stop any more AIX sales and to pull the plug on AIX systems worldwide, IBM issued the following statement saying it would hang tough and ignore SCO's...

Sun Throws AIX Users its Kind of Life Preserver.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... "Attention AIX Users: Sun is here to help. You chose Unix as your network computing platform because you knew you were in it for the long haul. You'd expect your IT partner to show the same kind of commitment. Unfortunately, our friends in Blue...

IBM Sell Linux PC in India.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... IBM is peddling a Linux PC in India, hoping to push it into government and education circles, SOHOs and small and mid-sized businesses. The thing is an entry-level Pentium 4-based NetVista A30 with a CD-ROM and is priced at $850 or 39,000...

StorageTek, FalconStor in Appliance Deal.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... StorageTek and FalconStor plan to work together to develop a StorageTek-branded replication and mirroring appliance that can work with heterogeneous storage systems. Targeted at mid-sized companies, the appliance will be based on...

SuSE Needs To Put the Begging Bowl Out.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Folks are saying that SuSE is hurting for money again. Of course it's bound to be rescued because the industry won't tolerate just one Linux supplier.

Sucking Up.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Rumor has it that Novell has another legal bombshell to explode over the head of the SCO Group, presumably one that won't backfire on Novell the way the last one did when it claimed SCO didn't own the Unix IP. Novell's purpose in lighting out...

Gateway Four-Way Coming.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Gateway is supposed to have its first four-way, a Xeon MP box, out this summer. It's also supposed to shift from custom integrating Red Hat's retail edition to having a standard install of Red Hat's two- way and four-way Enterprise editions....

Skip Walmart's Linux Box: Consumer Reports.
June 21, 2003... Forbes was leafing through Consumer Reports and discovered that the revered publication was telling people to bypass the Linux systems Walmart.com is peddling compliments of Lindows.com and Microtel, spend the extra 200 bucks and get a Windows...

How About Siebel-JD Edwards?
June 21, 2003... Maybe Siebel, which doesn't want to be thought of as lunch, even if it's had a For Sale sign on its front lawn for ages, will buy JD Edwards if PeopleSoft doesn't get to.

Athlon64 Watch.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Quoting motherboard makers Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, DigiTimes claims AMD is planning on delivering small quantities of its long-delayed 64-bit desktop Athlon64 chip in August, better than a month ahead of schedule. Sensible,...

Apple Walks Panther.(Mac OS X 10.3)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Apple is about to take Panther for an outing. Panther is Mac OS X v10.3, its new 64-bit operating system update, the follow-on to Jaguar, due to preview at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference this Monday.

CA Gets Linus To Hop a Plane.(Brief Article)
June 21, 2003... Computer Associates has reportedly enticed Linus Torvalds to hop a plane and turn up at CAWorld in Las Vegas next month. It's also supposed to have a lot of other brand-name penguinistas coming too. It's got a lot of Linux tracks organized.

Mail Box.(Letter to the Editor)
June 21, 2003... To the Editor: From your article Bill Claybrook, who has not been a Unix developer for 20 years, who can not identify where the code that SCO sent him, has never attended a Linux kernel summit (held every year), is very unlikely to have...