Linux Gram articles from June 2005

Linux Gram archives from June 2005

CA Reportedly Selling Ingres; Oracle Better Duck.
June 6, 2005... The whisperers say Computer Associates is going to sell off the Ingres database to Garnett & Helfrich Capital, the venture buyout operation dedicated to finding "broken and orphaned" businesses neglected by their parents. They're the guys that...

'AutoZone Copied Our Code,' SCO Tells Court.
June 6, 2005... SCO claims it found "extensive copying" of its OpenServer code in the Red Hat Linux operating system that AutoZone, the giant multibillion-dollar auto parts chain, migrated its 3,500 stores to when it replaced its old proprietary OpenServer...

Quest Buys Vintela.
June 6, 2005... Quest Buys Vintela Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya eight weeks ago that Quest Software was going to buy Vintela Inc. Vintela is the Utah outfit financed by Microsoft and the Canopy Group whose widgetry makes Microsoft's widgetry...

Red Hat Enters Directory, Identity Management Market.
June 6, 2005... Red Hat's getting ready to take its next really big plunge, a move that's supposed to help it trash Novell and go mano a mano with Microsoft's fabled infrastructure. By mid-month, it's supposed to release the Red Hat Directory Server,...

Novell Tries To Tickle Linux Desktop App Development.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Novell has set up a so-called Mono Kickstart program to support first-time developers using the open source Mono project for new application development or migrations. It's supposed to create desktop Linux applications. Mono is the...

To No One's Surprise, Cisco Goes with Palamida.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Palamida, Black Duck's rival start-up, said Tuesday that Cisco is going to deploy IP AMPlifier, its system for detecting, managing and reporting on software IP. Black Duck has previously claimed that Cisco spec'd the widgetry. To...

Skyway Claims First SOA Platform for Linux.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... An outfit called Skyway Software Inc, started four years ago by the guys who founded and sold Tradex Technologies to Ariba for $5.4 billion in 2000, says its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform can deliver SOA solutions for Linux, a...

Novell Validates Mixed Source Stack.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Novell Tuesday announced the first offering under its new Validated Configuration Program, which is meant to speed the deployment of multi-application Linux stacks. It says it's put together and tested its SuSE operating system running...

If the Poor Fools Only Knew.(Opera web browser usage)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Opera, which only has a smidge of market share despite the renewed browser wars, figures the reason only 11% of users have switched to something a little more secure than Microsoft's Internet Explorer is that the poor dears are still blithely...

Novell Does Deal with HHS.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Novell says it's cut a deal for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to have unlimited use of Novell's product portfolio and brags that it's the only Linux vendor with such an enterprise agreement with the agency, which also...

SCO Continues To Lose Money.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... SCO lost $1.96 million, or 11 cents a share, in the April quarter on revenues of $9.25 million, down roughly 10% year-over-year, a situation it blamed on the "continued competitive pressure on the company's Unix products and services," language...

OSDL Puts Out CGL 3.1.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Open Source Development Labs has put out its Carrier Grade Linux requirements definition version 3.1 (CGL v3.1), saying that recent announcements indicate that telecommunications equipment manufacturers are moving quickly to implement Linux in...

Black Duck Flies East.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Black Duck Software, the source code and license management start-up, has signed its first international distribution agreement; Ten Art-ni, an open source distributor, is going to handle its software and support in Japan. Black Duck says...

Open Source RFID Foundation Formed.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Refactored Networks and N4 Systems have formed an open source RFID foundation called the RadioActive Software Foundation to develop freely available, mission-critical-class software for the entire suite of EPCglobal RFID standards. There's...

Wax Proves Difficult for IBM.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... SCO is pointing that BB gun the court handed it at IBM and threatening to pull the trigger because IBM won't unseal a stack of documents in the SCO v IBM case. See, as a result of that motion to unseal filed by G2, Forbes and CNET, the...

Office 12 To Go with XML File Formats.
June 6, 2005... This is not going to surprise anybody but Microsoft said Thursday that its next-generation Office 12, expected in the second half of next year, will use the enemy-instigated industry-standard XML 1.0 file formats as its default. Microsoft...

IBM Extends X3 Architecture to 32-Way.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... IBM has upped the ante on its three-month-old eServer X3 Architecture and introduced a four-way box that scales to 32-way called the xSeries 460 meant for always-on environments.

Mini-Drama Continues To Unfold in Brussels.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Microsoft made a last-ditch, eleventh-hour, just-under-the-wire attempt Tuesday night to appease the European Commission, which is chaffed to the point of threatening $5 million-a-day fines with how Microsoft has complied - or from its...

AMD Ships its Dual-Core PC Chips.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... In an effort to catch up with Intel, AMD announced the immediate availability of its desktop and notebook dual-core chips, the Athlon 64 X2, at Computex in Taiwan Tuesday, earlier than scheduled. Intel's mainstream dual-core Pentium Ds are...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Google is sponsoring an open source contest called the Summer Code program. It's offering $4,500 awards to up to 200 students who successfully complete an open source project by the end of the summer. Participants, who will be teamed with open...

EC Official Breaks the Code.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... IBM, HP and Sun "are using the potential of communities as subcontractors - the open source community today is a subcontractor of American multinationals." - Jesus Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society...

Apple Packs its Bags, Leaves IBM for Intel.
June 13, 2005... Think Different's Not So Different Any More Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Monday that "It's true." In a move that's widely believed to show that Apple has lost its cotton pickin' mind, Jobs confirmed that Apple is trashing its...

Will Apple Play Taps over Linux?(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "It's quite possible that this new Apple strategy while obviously harmful to the computer makers in general and to Microsoft somewhat could actually be most dangerous to the emerging Linux OS environment. In fact it could kill Linux and in some...

Jobs: More Osbourne than Osbourne.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "This really smells of Steve Jobs throwing a hissy fit that IBM has not kissed his ring nearly enough while they were off creating multicore designs for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. The strange thing is that one suspects that all these...

Chip Prediction.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Kevin Krewell, editor of the Microprocessor Report, thinks Apple is likely to use Yonah, the 65nm dual-core 2MB shared-cache mobile processor Intel is supposed to have ready next year. Yonah is supposed to make notebooks small. It remains to be...

Tiger Cult Taking Hold.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Apple said Monday right before committing what some people regard as seppuku that it expected it would deliver two million copies of its new Tiger cut of Mac OS X by today. The number includes copies sold at retail, copies delivered under...

Transitive is Rosetta's Champollion.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... The technology under Rosetta, the dynamic binary translator that Apple's got that's supposed to automatically translate existing OS X programs to Intel code, hails from Transitive Corporation, the UK outfit whose first customer was SGI (CSN No...

Microsoft Royalties on Protocols Foil Samba.
June 13, 2005... Microsoft has proposed a last-minute deal to keeps the European Commission from fining it $5 million a day for not complying with its 15-month-old antitrust order that basically freezes the open source community, specifically the Samba project,...

Linux May Be Hitting the Wall: Cowen.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... SG Cowen thinks it's found the "first indication" that Linux adoption "may be hitting a wall." It surveys 500 North American companies every quarter and last September 56% said they were running business apps on Linux servers with 14% planning...

Black Duck Gets Second Round from Intel, SAP, Red Hat.(Black Duck Software)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Black Duck Software, the source code and license management start-up, has gotten a $12 million Series B round from Fidelity Ventures, Intel Capital and SAP Ventures. Fidelity led and gets a board seat. Existing backers Flagship Ventures,...

Perens Lands Amid Ex-Microsoft Folk.(SourceLabs)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Open source pioneer and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, Bruce Perens, who got bounced out of HP and has been working as a consultant, has found a new home. He's been named VP of developer relations and policy at SourceLabs, the...

Jaluna Bound for TI Boxes.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Amino, which does consumer premises equipment (CPE) for broadband digital television applications, has licensed Jaluna OSware, Linux Edition for Texas Instruments' C6000 digital signal processors (DSP) to develop next-generation set-top boxes....

Voltaire Reels in Another $15m.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Voltaire, the Infiniband stalwart, has gotten another $15 million in funding, saying the round was oversubscribed. The infusion brings total funding to $65 million. This time through the check writing was led by Baker Capital, Pitango...

Samsung Bundles Nero.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Samsung has become the first company to bundle the little-known NeroLinux with DVD/CD recorder, the TS-H552U WriteMaster. NeroLinux hails from a 10-year-old German company Nero AG with subsidiaries in California and Japan focused on the digital...

Linux Networx Brings in New CEO.(Chief Executive Officer)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Presumably at the instigation of its VCs. Linux Networx, the HPC cluster house, has named Robert "Bo" Ewald CEO. Bernard Daines will continue as chairman while Dean Hutchings remains as president and COO. Ewald will be on the board. Ewald...

Ravicher Testifies on Behalf of Patent Reform.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Dan Ravicher, the executive director of the open source-advocating Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), testified at this week's hearing on a proposed bill to reform the patent system before the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and...

CA Spends $350m on Niku.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
June 13, 2005... Computer Associates is buying Niku Corporation, now an IT management and governance house, for $350 million cash, or $21 a share, a 27% premium. With the money Niku's got in the bank, CA will really be laying out only $285 million. ...

Siebel Feeds Meat-Hungry Shareholders Watery Gruel.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Siebel's solution to that $2.2 billion it's got in bank not doing its irritated shareholders much good, while it lost money in the first quarter and missed its revenues forecasts, is to declare a two-and-a-half-cent dividend payable July 15,...

Intel Raises Outlook.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Intel now expects its second-quarter revenues to fall between $9.1 billion and $9.3 billion, topping the $8.6 billion-$9.2 billion range it gave at the beginning of the quarter and really topping Wall Street's $8.99 billion consensus. It...

Wyse Turns East.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Wyse Technology, now under new management that's out to realize Larry Ellison old NC vision, has set up new operational bases in mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan to capitalize on an anticipated doubling of the thin client market in Asia over...

NonStops Make the Great Trek.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... HP's NonStop machines, the old Tandem fault-tolerant boxes that it inherited from Compaq, have finally migrated, as promised, to the Montecito Itanium chip that HP isn't quite as fond of as it used to be. As a result, they are now called HP...

IBM Posts Help Wanted Sign.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... IBM is hiking up the skirt on its well-defended Cell multiprocessor in an effort to recruit much-needed developers to write to the novel parallelized 4GHz widget with its 64-bit Power core and eight specialized co-processors. It's not...

PolyServe Takes On NetApp & EMC.
June 13, 2005... PolyServe is going to try to take on Network Appliance and EMC claiming "the old guard of file serving - expensive proprietary network-attached storage (NAS) appliances - can't escape industry trends weakening its grip on the enterprise data...

HP Thin Clients Undergo Heart Transplant.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Hewlett-Packard is replacing the Transmeta chips in its thin client with Via widgets. Via says the new HP Compaq t5125, t5520 and t5525 thin clients will use its low-power Eden Platform. Eden features 128MB of RAM, up to 256MB of Compact...

Unisys Goes On-Demand.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Unisys has gone on-demand with its ES7000 servers. It's now got a so-called Real Time Capacity (RTC) series of boxes that are supposed to scale as customers need capacity. It calls it "an industry first for customers running Intel-based...

VMware Chases Developers.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... VMware has set up an online virtual infrastructure resource center for developers called the VMware Technology Network (VMTN). VMTN includes pre-built application environments in VMware virtual machines. VMware says it wants to lead an...

It Ain't Puppy Love.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "Open source is free like a puppy is free." - Sun CEO Scott McNealy, suggesting its high maintenance and needs cleaning up after.

Will Acer Be HP's Lenovo?(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... The Inquirer claims to have heard rumors - and it underscores the word rumors - that HP may dump its PC business and that the prime candidate to buy it is Acer. It also mentions Fujitsu Siemens as a possibility.

HP Names New CMO from the Printer Side.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... What does this tell you? Mark Hurd, the new boy at HP, has named the senior VP of business imaging and printing Cathy Lyons to be the company's new chief marketing officer, a job that Mike Winkler had. Winkler, once a PC guy, now gets to focus...

The Billion Dollar Apple.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Apple should be worth $1 billion in revenues and six cents a share to Intel once it's fully ramped in 2008, according to Credit Suisse. Next year when the ramp starts, CFSB calculates, it'll only be good for $200 million and about a penny a...

Oh?(Macintosh Computers)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "Future 'Mactel' computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86-compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only...

IBM, Red Hat & Novell Sued for GPL Price-Fixing.(general public license)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Daniel Wallace, the guy who's suing the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GPL for price-fixing, has filed a separate pro se suit in the same Indianapolis federal court against IBM, Red Hat and Novell charging them with having "used or...

UK Start-Up To Demo 100 GFLOPS Workstations.(giga floating point operations per second)
June 20, 2005... Four-year-old ClearSpeed Technology Plc, a UK co-processor start-up that went public in London last summer, believes it's got the fastest standard workstations ever built by man. Apparently so does IBM, which is currently in negotiations...

Groklaw, PJ, Perens, Slashdot, Others Threatened with Multimillion-Dollar Libel Suit.(Jeff Merkey, Pamela Jones, Bruce Perens)
June 20, 2005... Jeff Merkey, once the chief scientist of Novell's old Scaleable Server Division and now an independent programmer, is threatening to sue Groklaw, the virulently anti-SCO agitprop site that follows the SCO v IBM suit; Pamela Jones, Groklaw's...

Mandriva To Acquire Lycoris, Push on Desktop.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Mandriva, the old Mandrakesoft, which was frozen out of the old, spoiled United Linux move, has evidently gotten the consolidation bug. Three months after cutting a deal to merge with Conectiva one of the reasons it changed its name it's...

SWsoft Gets Money & Deal with Intel.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... SWsoft, the hosting virtualization ISV that's been financed by its founders and cash from operations, says it's gotten its first institutional round from Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Intel Capital, but doesn't say how...

Mellanox Moves to 20Gb/s-60Gb/s Infiniband Silicon.(International Business Machines Corp. introduced a new computer)
June 20, 2005... IBM has finally rolled out that Opteron BladeCenter it's been showing around to all and sundry for the last few weeks, the one that was expected long before the previews started. Its arrival marks the first time that IBM will be selling...

HP Printers & PCs Separate Again.(Mark Hurd separated the company's printer unit and PC unit)
June 20, 2005... In his first real reorganization move since he got there two months ago, HP's still honeymooning new CEO Mark Hurd has undone the last substantive thing Carly Fiorina did before she got the bum's rush he's separated the company's printer unit...

Mellanox Moves to 20Gb/s-60Gb/s Infiniband Silicon.(new product from Mellanox Technologies)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Mellanox is set to ship DDR Host Channel Adapter (HCA) silicon and PCI Express cards along with switch silicon that supports 20 Gb/s server-to-server and server-to-storage connectivity and 60 Gb/s switch-to- switch I/O connections over a single...

Intel Courts Multi-Core Use.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Intel has new C, C++ and Fortran compilers that support threaded applications and its own new multi-core widgetry better. They're also supposed to improve security in both Linux and Windows; Intel has reduced both their buffer overflow...

A Bit of Apple Pops Up in Nokia Phone.(Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Nokia is using open source pieces of Apple's Safari browser in a next-generation browser for its Symbian OS-based Series 60 smartphone so the widget can browse full web pages. It's using Safari's WebCore and JavaScriptCore, mojo that Apple...

Flyboy Rides on Linux.(new product from Video Without Boundaries)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Video Without Boundaries (VWB) has introduced one of the first Linux-based portable media players, an ultra-slim MPEG-4 $349 gadget called MediaReady Flyboy. It will record up to 40 hours of video, store 100,000 digital pictures or hold up to...

Black Duck & VA Launch Integrated Product.(Black Duck Software, VA Software Corporation)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Black Duck Software, the source code and license management start-up, and VA Software Corporation, the ISV that used to be the spoiled VA Linux Systems, will be selling an integrated product that includes Black Duck's protexIP compliance...

NetBSD Puts the Begging Bowl Out.(financial arrangement for the development of the software)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... The NetBSD project, the open source project that derives from the original UC Berkeley 4.3BSD and rides on more architectures than God has little green apples, is asking for quick, get the smelling salts money! As in cold hard cash sent to...

ActiveGrid Works Out Arrangement with LAMP Lighters.(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... ActiveGrid, the open source LAMP-based application server start-up, says it's forged partnerships with LAMP vendors Red Hat, Novell, Covalent, MySQL AB and Zend as well as open source systems integrators Cignex and Optaros. The...

Accel Seeds Open Source Content Management Start-up.(Accel Partners London invested on Alfresco)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... A UK start-up called Alfresco doing open source enterprise content management software, a first, got a $2 million seed round from Accel Partners London. Alfresco says it's building an open source content repository and portlet framework...

Open Country Joins OSDL.(Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Open Country, the Linux system management vendor, has joined the Open Source Development Labs to work initially on desktop Linux. Open Country supports a dozen Linux distributions including Red Hat, Novell, Asianux and Fedora. "There is a...

Gentoo Founder Goes To Work for Microsoft.(Daniel Robbins)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... It was discovered this week that Gentoo founder and former chief architect Daniel Robbins is now working for Microsoft and has been since May 23. He said on his web site that "I'm helping Microsoft to understand open source and community-based...

HP Counts Noses.(Hewlett-Packard Co. earnings and market share)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... HP says it's sold one million Linux servers since 1998 when everybody started counting. It says that according to its own internal numbers Linux services and subscriptions were up 10x between fiscal 2003 and fiscal 2004 and up 5x in 1Q05...

TimeSys Secures $6m in Funding.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... TimeSys Corporation, the veteran embedded Linux house, has closed a $6 million round led by Adams Capital Management and joined by the Hillman Company, Philips Electronics and company CEO Larry Weidman. The same people backed TimeSys'...

JBoss Ro Try Government Push.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... JBoss, the unprofitable 130-man open source WebSphere competitor soon to be under some possibly fatal pressure from IBM and its open source GlueCode acquisition IBM intends to give GlueCode away free and cut its support fees has formed a...

New Fedora Out.(enhanced version of the software)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Red Hat has released the latest version of Fedora, Fedora Core 4, the free version the company is using to test the Xen virtualization software that lets multiple operating systems run on a box and competes with VMware and Microsoft's virtual...

Monarch To Help Nagios.(GroundWork Open Source Solutions marketing for its products)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... GroundWork Open Source Solutions, the infrastructure management start-up with $11.5 million in venture funding in its jeans that claims 50 customers, is about to launch Monarch, its first open source software project described as a free...

Destiny Knocks.(Michael Dell planning for a partnership with Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Fortune asked Dell chairman Michael Dell about the Mac OS, now that its gonna be on Intel machines, and got back an e-mail saying, "If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to offer it to our customers." The magazine...

Novell Loses Director.(Wayne Mackie resigned)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Wayne Mackie, an independent director on the Novell's board, is resigning on July 1 because he's been named CFO of CRA International.

FSF Moves To Get GPL Price-Fixing Suit Thrown Out.(Free Software Foundation, general public license, Daniel Wallace)
June 20, 2005... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is trying to get Daniel Wallace's pro se antitrust suit against it and the GPL for price fixing thrown out with prejudice so it can't be filed again. It's trying to do it on a Rule 12 claim that Wallace "fails...

EU Lurches Toward Software Patents.
June 20, 2005... To the consternation of the anti-patent open source community, the European Union inched closer to legalizing US-style software patents Monday when, as part of an ongoing second reading, the legislature's legal affairs committee threw its...

Unix Be Saved?
June 27, 2005... The SCO Group, dismissed as nothing more than a lawsuit and a cynical stock market scam, is going to try to save Unix. Obit writers the world over have been sharpening their pencils against the day the last Unix system is sold. Stone...

Iona To Open Source Back-End Integration.
June 27, 2005... Iona Technologies is kicking off an open source project into back-end integration using a Java Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and has recruited the ObjectWeb community to host it. The project has been dubbed Celtix in honor of Iona's national...

Microsoft Expands its Indemnification.
June 27, 2005... Microsoft is throwing a bigger cloak of legal indemnification around the shoulders of its large OEMs, smaller OEM system builders, OEM distributors and royalty-paying ISVs. It says it will now indemnify them against legal costs and damages...

Microsoft Names Point Man in its Linux Defense.(appointed Jean-Philippe Courtois as Chief executive officers)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Microsoft has named Jean-Philippe Courtois, its CEO of Microsoft EMEA, president of Microsoft International, a newly created position with overall responsibility for Microsoft operations in Japan, China, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the public...

BitKeeper Replaced at linux.org.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Linux.org has released a new kernel, 2.6.11.12, which is expected to wend its way into commercial use later this year. The rev marks the use of a new Torvalds-developed release management tool, aka, the "Git," that's supposed to substitute...

HP Adds Opteron Configurations.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... HP has added its first dual-core dual-processor Opteron 200 Series boxes to its portfolio. That gives it two four-ways and four two-ways running on the newfangled chips. The newcomers include a ProLiant DL385, meant for...

Sleepycat Ships Upgrade.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Sleepycat Software is shipping rev 2.0, a major upgrade to its Berkeley DB Java Edition open source transactional database. It's been certified on Solaris 10 x64. Among other things, the storage efficiency of out-of-cache applications has been...