Linux Gram articles from March 2004

Linux Gram archives from March 2004

Real Software Gives Linux Desktop Apps a Nudge.(Real Software Inc. upgrades RealBasic application development kit)
March 1, 2004... IDE maker Real Software Inc, which started out in the Mac arena, has upgraded its flagship RealBasic kit to create native Linux apps, either newly made or recompiled from existing Windows and Mac programs. The move to RealBasic 5.5 puts the...

Cray Buys Its Idea of a Low-End Linux-on-Opteron House.
March 1, 2004... Cray is buying a two-year-old development-stage HPC start-up called OctigaBay Systems Corporation that says that two racks worth of its widgetry, which is supposed to go to beta this June, will provide enough bandwidth for all of the...

IBM Pushes Sun To Open Source Java.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... IBM, which has a vested interest in Java - heck, it has more Java programmers than Sun does - has written Sun, which owns Java and has been pretty darned persnickety about its so-called "stewardship" of Java over the years, an open letter...

DOJ Sues To Stop Oracle; Oracle To Fight.(Department of Justice)
March 1, 2004... The Department of Justice has filed suit to block Oracle's $9.4 billion hostile offer for PeopleSoft because it says it would result in higher prices, less innovation and fewer choices. The DOJ's not alone either. The attorneys general of...

Celestica Wants To Design Your Server.
March 1, 2004... A year ago, Celestica Inc, the $8 billion-a-year Toronto-based contract manufacturer that quietly makes the computers that people with big, important computer brands sell, decided to go into a different but related line of work, one that would...

HP Goes with Opteron Big-Time.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
March 1, 2004... Displaying the kind of agility that's supposed to mark its Adaptive Enterprise scheme, HP picked its way through a minefield carrying an elephant the other day trying to convince folks that the Itanium chip that was supposed to displace x86 and...

Itanium's Left with More Than Just Crumbs.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Despite Opteron and Yamhill, the 64-bit extensions twins, chip groupie Nathan Brookwood says Intel can still make money on Itanium, even though it's not gonna be a mainstream processor and even though it cost a fortune to bring it to market....

Microsoft's IIS Used To Provision Linux.(Open Systems Management Ltd. enhances Microsoft's Identity Integration Server 2003)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... With Microsoft's blessings, a software outfit in the UK called Open Systems Management Ltd (OSM) has extended Microsoft's identity management scheme, Identity Integration Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (MIIS), to Linux and Unix as well as...

Limping Wind River Falls into Linux' Arms.(Wind River Systems)
March 1, 2004... Red Hat's gonna dabble in the embedded market again, this time in company with Wind River Systems, the premier proprietary embedded OS supplier, which is obviously hopping on the Linux express to ensure its future. Wind River previously...

BakBone Joins OSDL.(BakBone Software Inc., Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Membership in the Open Source Development Lab, which wants to be the heartbeat of the Linux movement, is getting more diverse. Its latest recruit is BakBone Software, which means to participate in the consortium's Data Center Working Group and...

HP Services To Peddle PolyServe Clustering Software.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... HP Services is going to resell PolyServe's Matrix Server shared data clustering software to commercial accounts. Customers can call either company for support. The two will cooperate on training sales and reseller channels. The PolyServe...

Lindows Hitches Ride on Motherboards.(Lindows.com persuades Taiwanese board maker for bundling LindowsOS 4.5 with its motherboards)
March 1, 2004... Lindows.com says it's got a publicly traded Taiwanese board maker called Albatron bundling LindowsOS 4.5 on some of its motherboards, claiming the scheme will save OEMs time and millions of dollars and "circumvents Microsoft's iron lock in OEMs...

SCO Using Web Site for Linux Tax.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The SCO Group has taken to peddling its Linux license off its web site, which means it's finally gotten its EULA written down. The company is offering paid-up licenses ranging from $699 to $4,999 depending on the number of CPUs and has...

Fujitsu Adds Mid-Range Blade Server.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Fujitsu has added a mid-range 7U blade server to its line. That gives it two blade servers so far. The new Primergy BX600 can house 10 compact server blades, each with two Xeons (2.8GHz-3.2GHz), 12GB of ECC DDR-SDRAM and two hot-plug...

Dell Sets Up Cluster Center with Scali.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Dell and Scali have opened an EMEA HPC validation center in Scali's facilities in Oslo, Norway called the Cluster Expert Center (CEC) so customers can do pre-sales design, validation and testing in a controlled environment. Dell has an...

Novell Earns a Bit.
March 1, 2004... Earning $10 million, or three cents a share, on revenues of $267 million in the January quarter, Novell claims its Linux strategy is already having a positive impact on its business. Revenues rose 3% year-over-year but declined 7%...

Linux Jinxed It.(theft of Microsoft owned source code)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Microsoft and Mainsoft are saying diddly about the great source code fiasco of the week before last when some of Microsoft's source was plucked from a Mainsoft computer and put out into the wild to be pawed over by gawkers. Reports, however,...

Color Roman Desktops Linux.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The city of Rome is going to start replacing Windows with desktop Linux in May, according to La Repubblica.

American Ingenuity and Know-How Running Out of Steam.(international patent filings by Americans decrease)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The confirmed anti-patent set will be gratified to learn that international patent filings by Americans were down 12% last year from what they had been the year before, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and only...

Ex-Cobalt CEO Surfaces.(Stephen DeWitt working with Azul Systems)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Stephen DeWitt, the guy who conned Sun into buying Cobalt Networks for $2 billion in stock, has been tracked down to a new stealth-mode start-up in Mountain View called Azul Systems. The Register claims the super-secret operation, which only...

Dell Debuts New SMB Servers.(small and medium sized businesses)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Dell has introduced two new uniprocessors aimed at small and mid- sized businesses, corporate workgroups and remote offices. The new servers are the PowerEdge 700 and 750. Both feature a Pentium 4 worth up to 3GHz or a 2.4GHz Celeron, a...

VMware Upgrades GSX.(GSX Server 3, enterprise-class virtual infrastructure software for x86-based servers)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... VMware, the virtualization/server consolidation house that's soon to become an EMC satellite, has revved its GSX Server. The new cut can handle 3.6GB of memory per virtual machine to support larger server applications, teamed network...

ICS Offers QicTable.(Integrated Computer Solutions Inc. offers a grid/table object that can be used to build applications)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Integrated Computer Solutions Inc (ICS), the UI development tools house in Cambridge, Mass, has put out a thing called QicsTable, a sophisticated grid/table object that Qt developers can use to build apps with a more powerful spreadsheet-like...

Hyperion Goes Red Hat.(Red hat Linux)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Hyperion claims to have the first end-to-end business intelligence solution for Red Hat.

HP Starts Pushing Desktop Linux.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
March 15, 2004... HP has supposedly been selling MandrakeSoft Linux on the desktop for a while but it's been so quiet about it that for all intents and purposes it's been a stealth operation. But now that the desktop Linux hype meter is registering new...

SCO Wants Suit It Files against Novell in Federal Court Moved to State Court.(The SCO Group Inc)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... In what is sure to be characterized as a cynical delaying tactic by its many critics, the SCO Group wants the slander suit it filed against Novell in the Third District Court in Salt Lake City in mid- January moved to state court. SCO...

Sun Mulls Free Hardware.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Things have reached a pretty enough pass at Sun Microsystems, a company that because of its CEO's background has always thought of itself as a car company, that it is actually considering giving its boxes away for nothing and charging for its...

SCO People Can't Look at IBM's AIX & Dynix Source Code.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Any AIX and Dynix source code that IBM turns over to the SCO Group during discovery - and remember SCO's whole case now rests on proving that AIX and Dynix code deriving from Unix was illegally put into Linux - can only be reviewed by SCO's...

Voltaire Gets More Funding.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Infiniband house Voltaire Inc has gotten another $15 million in funding bringing total investment to $50 million. Baker Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and new backer Vertex Venture Capital led what Voltaire says was an oversubscribed round....

Linux Becoming the Darling of the Set-top Set.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... UK-based Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices thinks Microsoft would have more luck penetrating set-top boxes if it had a "competitive licensing scheme." The outfit says Microsoft needs to get off the stick because Linux momentum is...

Dell Drawn into EMC-VMware Alliance.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... EMC partner Dell has cuddled up closer to EMC acquisition VMware and is going to sell bundled two- and four-way PowerEdge 6650 server scale-out configurations with EMC's CX300 and 500 storage systems and VMware's ESX 2.0.1 server virtualization...

HP & Tatung Debate Blade Density.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
March 15, 2004... HP is expecting to field a new enterprise-class small-footprint BL30p two-processor blade server in June or July that's supposed to offer more processing power per rack than anybody else's blade server. It fits 16 Xeon blades to a 6U space, or...

Sun Gets Indian StarOffice Win.(Sun Microsystems)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Sun says the government of the northern Indian state of Haryana, a kind of obscure place, let's face it, plans to standardize on StarOffice 7 to cut costs and use the savings to buy more PCs or funnel the money to "more pressing social...

SGI Puts Linux SSI on 256 Itaniums.(single system image supercomputers)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... SGI has delivered on its promise to productize a large-scale Altix system running up to 256 Itanium 2 chips in a single instance of Linux. It said it would scale Linux to 512 processors in an SSI by the end of the year; it's already got an...

Stratus Unveils its First Linux Box.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Stratus Technologies is previewing the first in a new line of fault- tolerant NEBS Level 3-compliant servers bound for the telecoms market that's also the company's first widget based on Linux. It's called the ftServer T30. The machine,...

OSDL Nails Another Supporter.(Japanese Linux distributor becomes Open Source Development Labs member)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... The Open Source Development Labs has snared three-year-old Japanese Linux distributor IP Telecom as a member. The concern intends to participate in the consortium's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux initiatives. The outfit's core...

SCO To Buy Back its Stock.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... The SCO Group said way late on Wednesday that its board had given management the nod to buy back up to 1.5 million shares of SCO common stock over the next two years. There are 14.4 million SCO shares outstanding. Any stock SCO buys back...

Astaro To Upgrade Security Linux.(product enhancement)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Astaro has upgraded its Security Linux package, which combines a firewall, virus protection, spam protection, VPN gateway and URL filtering. Rev 5 adds intrusion protection and HTTP virus scanning for e-mail and files downloaded via browsers....

Napster, IBM Help Offload Network Traffic.(developes an active cache management system using IBM's eServer BladeCenters running on Linux)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Besides selling per-track downloads and premium subscriptions to individual users of its music service, the reborn Napster is trying to boost revenue and traffic by partnering with universities on bulk license agreements so schools can offer...

Oracle Linux VP Found at Olliance.(Dave Dargo at the Olliance Group)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Dave Dargo, the VP in charge of Oracle's Linux Program Office until he quietly disappeared a few weeks ago, has turned up at the Olliance Group, the open source consultant as one of its experts.

Red Hat, HP, IBM Plan Promotion Tour.(Linux to users)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Red Hat, HP and IBM are embarking on a seven-city jaunt to promote Linux to users and existing customers, developers and community members in Tokyo, Brisbane, Sydney, Munich, London, Boston and Toronto. They're supposed to talk about IP...

Oracle Eyes Other Acquisitions.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Faced with a tough, if not losing, battle for PeopleSoft, Oracle executives said Thursday that they were considering other acquisitions. "PeopleSoft was the first and we hope to be successful there, [but] there's a number of other...

SCO Suits Could Boomerang.(SCO Group Inc)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... The gossip mill says that the companies that the SCO Group has, well, pissed off in the last two weeks are talking about returning fire for fire and filing suit against it. DaimlerChrysler was thinking harassment and you just know that AutoZone...

Yamhill Baptized.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Intel has officially designated its Yamhill AMD-like 64-bit extension technology, aka CT, aka Clackamas the Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology or Intel EM64T. As Intel has already confessed, the widgetry is supposed to turn up in its IA-32...

Viruses Believed Connected.(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... SCO said Monday that its sco.com web site was back up. MyDoom Distributed Denial of Service attacks paralyzed the site since before the end of January and forced the company to use an alternate URL. Another version of the virus could easily...

RLX To Use Yamhill on Blades.(RLX Technologies Inc )(Nocona Yamhill Xeon )(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... RLX Technologies Inc, the blade pioneer, says it's going to put the upcoming Nocona Yamhill Xeon, the first 32-bit Intel part with AMD- aping 64-bit extensions, in a line of High-Performance ServerBlades this year. The chip isn't expected...

Money Could Defeat Open Source.(forecasts )(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... "The open source community will have an increasingly difficult time keeping pace for innovation/integration, especially as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle invest billion of dollars to shape the next generation." - The Burton Group

Hey, Didn't They Used To Be Friends?(Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
March 15, 2004... Microsoft is back wooing the Chinese government. They're going to set up .NET technology labs. Microsoft is kicking in $10 million worth of hardware and software, technical support and training over two years in aid of local concerns. Local...

Didn't HP & Microsoft Used To Be Friends?(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
March 22, 2004... Hewlett-Packard, which already sells the Mandrake desktop, is diversifying its desktop Linux interests. It's going to resell the Turbolinux distribution on its Compaq business desktop PCs in 12 Asian countries. The territory includes...

Wyse Provokes Food Fight with Neoware.(Wyse Technology Inc., Neoware Systems Inc.)
March 22, 2004... In a move designed to get Neoware's goat, rival Wyse Technologies has extended its Rapport software to manage Neoware's Linux-based thin clients. Wyse director of corporate marketing David Rand, who cited customer demand, claimed Rapport...

SCO Insurance.(Open Source Risk Management)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Year-old SCO-inspired Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) has formally unveiled that open source insurance policy it's been promising. It's proposing to scan people's code - everybody's open source code is presumably different because you can...

IBM Offers Partners Incentives To Push Linux.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... IBM said Tuesday that it had signed up new partners and rolled out new programs and incentives to boost the adoption of Linux in small and mid-sized businesses. IBM is offering new co-marketing incentives to get its business partners to...

IBM Reportedly Pricks Novell's Bubble.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Novell is days away from its traditional BrainShare user conference and Credit Suisse was thinking that any news surrounding its augmented commercial agreement with IBM could be a drag on Red Hat. However, the broker may feel better knowing...

SuSE's Yast To Go Open Source.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... SuSE is on the threshold of throwing its proprietary Yast installation/configuration tool into open source and getting the majors to agree to support it. SuSE was interested in getting IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Computer Associates to co-operate....

Open Source Viability Claimed To Depend on Dual Licensing.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... MySQL AB, Sleepycat Software and Trolltech AS, which refer to themselves as second-generation open source vendors, claim the trick to a viable open source business model is dual licenses, which were reportedly responsible for the companies' 65%...

Dell & Oracle Ally on Linux in China.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Dell is going to push Oracle on its Linux servers, according to a new pact between the two that scratches the Chinese government's Linux itch. The market for business software in China was all of $86 million in 2002, but IDC says it's growing...

Lindows Claims It Can't Comply with Court Order; Wants Microsoft Enjoined.
March 22, 2004... Lindows.com is complaining about Microsoft asking the Dutch court that forbid Lindows to sell or promote its operating system locally to fine the start-up 100,000 euros for letting its web site remain accessible to visitors from the Benelux....

W3C Standardizes First Phone Specs Despite Rutgers Patent.(World Wide Web Consortium)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... VoiceXML 2.0 and the Speech Recognition Grammar (SRGS) are now W3C standards. VoiceXML 2.0 is meant for voice response applications and the SRGS is key to VoiceXML's support for speech recognition. Developers use it to describe end-user...

IBM To Debut Promised Opteron Workstation.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... IBM is building Opteron chips into a workstation line called the IntelliStation A Pro, according to AMD. The boxes, promised last fall when it said it would build servers out of the processors, are aimed at applications such as financial...

SuSE Runs with 2.6 Kernel.
March 22, 2004... Novell used SuSE's home turf at CeBit in Germany to announce the $30 desktop SuSE 9.1 Personal and the $90 SuSE 9.1 Professional. The latter includes network and server functionality and is meant to be a development platform. SuSE characterized...

Open Source Java Unlikely.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... The head of Sun Software Jonathan Schwartz told the press on Tuesday that Sun is reluctant to open source Java despite pressure from both IBM and the open source community because it would open the door to creeping incompatibility, a story Sun...

Portlock & Chinese Government-Backed Unit Join OSDL.(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... The Beijing Software Testing Center (BSTC), a two-year-old Chinese government-backed science and technology group, has joined the Open Source Development Lab, the consortium's second Chinese recruit. OSDL says BSTC is China's largest...

EU Has Trouble Swallowing Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger.(European Union)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... If, as PeopleSoft claimed, Oracle's real reason behind its hostile takeover attempt was just to discombobulate PeopleSoft, then the Europeans have handed Oracle another excuse to gracefully abandon the field. The European Union, like the...

Start-up Gets $5m First Round.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... An obscure three-year-old open source infrastructure outfit by the name of Gluecode Software says it got a $5 million A round from Rustic Canyon Partners and Palomar Ventures. The money is supposed to be used for product development, sales...

Appro Sports 1U Quad Opteron.(Appro Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Appro has been showing off a 1U quad Operton server at CeBit, the Appro 1142H. It says its thermal management and innovative mechanical and air duct design provides efficient cooling for the four tightly packed processors. The box...

Sun Brags about StarOffice's Penetration.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Against the backdrop of CeBit, Sun said Markement, a German distributor and local favorite, has sold more than a million copies of StarOffice. Markement distributes StarOffice to German OEMs and retail stores along with its own software bundle,...

Sun To Make StarOffice Worthier Office Rival.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Sun says that it's going to make it possible to move macros created in Excel to StartOffice sometime this year. It's also going to have a remote management scheme for StarOffice and the Java Desktop System by mid-year.

Linux POS Terminals See Faster Growth than Windows.(point-of-sale terminals)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... The number of point-of-sale terminals running Linux increased 35% last year but the speed of Linux' adoption has been slowing down since Windows XP Embedded was released, according to the IHL Consulting group. The IHL also finds Linux...

OpenSSL Security Holes Fixed.(Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... The folks behind the OpenSSL project have put out two security fixes to their eponymous web security program. One flaw would have allowed a denial of service attack; the second would have let a remote attacker do a carefully crafted Secure...

Zend Gets More Funding.(Zend Technologies Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Zend Technologies Ltd, the Israeli firm whose co-founders created the PHP web scripting technology and the Zend Engine on which all PHP sites are run, has picked up another $6 million in funding to add to the $6 million it already got. The...

McObject & Sysgo Tie Up.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... McObject, developer of the eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database, has teamed up with Germany's embedded house Sysgo on a development package for embedded Linux applications. A development copy of eXtremeDB-XML Shared Memory Edition for x86...

IBM Linux Grid To Study Brains.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... IBM, the University of Oregon and Electrical Geodesics Inc have implemented a grid using Linux and IBM supercomputing technology to speed and improve the diagnosis of brain conditions such as epilepsy, stroke and depression. The ICONIC...

Supermicro Backs Yamhill.(SuperMicro Computer Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Supermicro Computer Inc, one of the third-tier houses, is throwing in its lot with Intel and Yamhill, Intel's version of AMD's 64-bit extensions for the x86. Supermicro says it's going to build servers out of out of the upcoming Xeon EM64T and...

Just Another Two Months: Sun.(Sun Microsystems to release Linux version of Java Enterprise System )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Sun says the Linux version of Java Enterprise System will be out in two months. The Windows and HP-UX version are due at the end of the year.

Red Hat Now a $126m-a-Year Company.
March 29, 2004... Red Hat just posted the best quarter in its history though its CEO Matthew Szulik says privately that "It's not enough." The outfit came in with fiscal Q4 earnings of $5 million, or three cents a share, on revenues of $37 million, up 11%...

Lindows Judge Offers Microsoft a Deal on Windows.(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... The US court hearing Microsoft's trademark infringement suit against Lindows has proposed a trade-off. Lindows asked the court to stop Microsoft from routing it out of foreign markets, and the judge, bowing to Lindows' wishes to hear its...

Gee, HP & Red Hat Ought To Talk More.(Hewlett Packard)
March 29, 2004... Hmmm. That's interesting. Red Hat doesn't seem to be sharing its plans with HP. On Tuesday Red Hat posted its earnings and CEO Matthew Szulik said the company was going to go into the Linux desktop business this year. The next day HP...

Novell To Cross NetWare with SuSE To Create Hybrid.
March 29, 2004... Novell talked up a combined NetWare-SuSE product dubbed Open Enterprise Server (OES) at its BrainShare user conference this week that it expects to have in the can at the end of the year. It says this bridge between its past and future will...

China "Disappoints" Lindows CEO.(chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... After a flying trip to Mainland China to test the waters Lindow.com CEO Michael Robertson says he is completely unimpressed with the penetration of desktop Lindows there and that Windows is a real competitive stumbling block because of the...

Does Your Linux Need Shots?(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... Eset Software, not quite buying the Linux myth, has run up a scalable real-time Linux anti-virus to protect Linux networks against the maraudings of nasty e-mail and web-bourn viruses, worms and Trojan horses. The vaccine, so to speak, is...

First Apple G5 Servers Priced Way Less Than Dell, Sun or IBM.(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... After an unexplained delay that's still affecting its new two-way models, Apple has started moving the first of the 64-bit 1U Xserve G5 servers that it's counting on to carve out a credible position for it in the server market up against Linux-...

Microsoft Disowns EC-Designed Windows.(European Commission)
March 29, 2004... "It ain't Windows and nothing will make it Windows," Redmond says. If Microsoft is forced to put out a version of Windows that is shorn of the Windows Media Player, Microsoft won't recognize it as Windows. It'll be a bastard program...

IBM Puts Red Hat on its Power Boxes.(64-bit proprietary Power-based machines)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... Red Hat has beaten SuSE to a deal with IBM for the 64-bit proprietary Power-based machines IBM is so anxious to push into the Linux arena. IBM's initial preference for Red Hat is unremarkable since it's the market leader. The deal, an extension...

IBM Gets 2% of Novell.(acquistions)(Brief Article)
March 29, 2004... On Wednesday Novell finally got that $50 million from IBM that was supposed to lubricate Novell's acquisition of SuSE and save the world from Red Hat turning into Microsoft II. In return IBM gets slight less than 2% of Novell. IBM took Series B...