Linux Gram articles from March 2005

Linux Gram archives from March 2005

SCO Suit Saved from Potential Dumpster.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
March 14, 2005... SCO has reportedly just escaped intact from its latest "Perils of Pauline"-style brush with the train tracks. The hazard-prone company's many detractors have been lighting vigil candles hoping that the fight over control of the Canopy...

Patent Critics Foiled.(European Union. European Parliament planning to have its own patent system)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The controversial pro-software patents directive that has garnered so much opposition was sent back to the European Parliament for reconsideration Monday without any changes, infuriating its critics who call it a "mockery" and claim it's a...

Intel Nailed for Antitrust in Japan.
March 14, 2005... Japanese regulators said Tuesday that Intel cuts prices and throws "Intel Inside" marketing money around to make sure Japanese PC makers buy Intel CPUs, not AMD or Transmeta widgets. They've told the company to knock it off or face prosecution....

Oracle Wrestles SAP for Retek.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Barely three months after its acquisition of PeopleSoft, and Oracle, true to its consolidation theories, has put an offer on the table for retail software specialist Retek Inc, outbidding rival SAP, which also wants to buy the company....

IBM-Lenovo Deal Sprung.(Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The IBM-Lenovo deal has been sprung from the rare review that the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) kicked off because of congressional security concerns that were aroused when IBM, the pre-eminent...

Q1 Rosier-than-Thought: Intel.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Going into its mid-quarter update, Intel raised its worst-case scenario for the first quarter from $8.8 billion to $9.2 billion but continued to say that the best it could do was $9.4 million. The first quarter is historically Intel's weakest...

AMD Starts Selling Centrino Rival.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AMD picked the day Intel had set aside for its mid-quarter update to launch its rumored Centrino rival, the Turion 64. It's the first AMD chip designed specifically for mobile computers rather than adapted. Unlike Centrino, Intel's...

Consolidation-Minded Neoware Strikes Again.(Neoware Systems Inc acquires eSeSix Computer GmbH )(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Neoware, the Pennsylvania outfit trying to become the king of thin clients through consolidation, has bought the thin client business of privately held eSeSix Computer GmbH near Munich along with its development and engineering affiliate in...

Opteron Cast as Embedded Chip.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AMD is pitching Opteron as a high-end embedded chip alongside its Geodes and Alchemies. It's guaranteeing designers that certain models like the 152, 252 and 852 or their functional equivalents will be around and supported for at least the...

Cray Gets a New President.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Cray, which is knee-deep in Linux, has made its senior VP of sales, marketing and service Peter Ungaro president, reporting to CEO Jim Rottsolk. Ungaro was an IBM refugee, once Blue's VP of worldwide deep computing sales, who joined Cray...

AMD To Explain Pacifica.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AMD is supposed to explain its Pacifica virtualization technology by releasing the specification by the end of the month. It wouldn't say much of anything else about the stuff at it counter-IDF meeting. Pacifica is AMD's version of Intel's...

Did You Get an Invitation to the Coronation?(Employee appointments)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... BusinessWeek thinks HP could name Carly's successor before the end of the month. It claims Rick Belluzzo, the ex-HPer who flunked as both CEO of SGI and president of Microsoft and now runs Quantum, has emerged as "a strong candidate." It's also...

Jedox Out To Siphon Off Microsoft MOLAP Biz.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Jedox GmbH, a three-year-old company in Freiburg, Germany that has a web-accessible multi-user Excel solution, says it's developing a real-time Linux OLAP server that it will put out for free by the end of the year. A pre-release is expected in...

AMD Dons Racing Stripes.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Lehman Brothers thinks AMD is racing to get its dual-core Opteron, due mid-year, to market in Q2, giving it a three-quarter lead over Intel's dual-core Dempsey Xeon not due until the first quarter of next year. The broker calculates that AMD...

Wind River Expands its Open Source Support.(Wind River Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Wind River, the embedded operating systems house that's taken a hammering the last few years, is getting increasingly involved with the open source tools Eclipse Foundation by proposing and leading an Eclipse project for device software...

Ah, Some Good News for a Change.(Product Sales)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Sales of SGI servers and supercomputers were up 20% last year and the company is waving around some IDC numbers that say it grew three times faster than the market, which was only 6.2%. It attributes its return-from-the-mouth-of-hell to its...

TimeSys Launches New LDKs.( Linux Development Kits )(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... TimeSys has launched 2.6-based TimeStorm Linux Development Kits for Intel's IOP321, IOP331, IOP332 and 802.19 XScale I/O processors for storage, telematics, security, print/imaging, iSCSI, control plane processing and customer premise equipment...

At Least It's Consistent.(United States. Department of Justice, Corel Corp., contract)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The Justice Department, Microsoft's old bete noir, is buying 50,000 copies of WordPerfect from Corel; lawyers having remained the software's last bastion evidently because of the way it handles long files. WordPerfect reportedly has some 20...

Arkeia Upgrades Server Backup Tool.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Linux backup specialist Arkeia has upgraded its Server Backup and rolled out a new pricing model. Version 2 of Server Backup supports tape auto-loaders, automatic multi-flow backup from disks, simple or detailed log reports and...

IBM Gets IETF Chair.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... IBM distinguished engineer Brian Carpenter is going to be the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Carpenter, who will also chair the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the body responsible for managing the...

Microsoft Backs Patent Reform.
March 14, 2005... Despite all the open source fears it might flex its patent muscles, Microsoft's a patent piker compared to IBM, the big bruiser of patents, whose patent maestro Microsoft hired to monetize its IP. Anyhow, playing contrary to type, Microsoft's...

Open Source, Java-Style.(Java Internal Use License)(Java 2 Standard Edition)
March 21, 2005... Caught between a rock and a hard place, Sun is using Mustang, the upcoming Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0, to experiment with an adaptation of open source it's come up with. It's more than likely to rile the open source zealots. The...

IBM Asks for More Time To Turn Over SCO Discovery.
March 21, 2005... In an appeal that will come as a surprise to no one, IBM has asked the Utah district court hearing the SCO case for more time to comply with the court's January 18 order to turn over most of the discovery SCO's been after for almost two years....

SCO Sends Legend to Beta.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... SCO says OpenServer 6, the next major release of SCO's hereditary Unix operating system, the one code name Legend and different from the UnixWare OS that SCO got from AT&T via Novell, has gone into formal beta and will begin shipping in May....

Red Hat Hires Old Unix Hand.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Red Hat has hired an old Unix hand as senior VP of marketing. Tim Yeaton was a DEC in the early days of Unix and when Compaq bought DEC stayed on as general manager of its Unix unit. He was subsequently general manager of server products at...

Rosen Claims GPL Would Never Stand Up in Court.(General Public License)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Larry Rosen, the former general counsel of the schismatic Open Source Initiative (OSI), basically declared a heretic by the purist Free Software Foundation (FSF) for recognizing open source licenses other than the GPL, wrote a book last year...

Linspire Five-0.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Linspire, the ex-Lindows, has released Linspire Five-O, the latest 2.6.10 take on its Linux distribution, said to incorporate 1,200 "improvements" that touch on all of its core applications and include a completely revised and streamlined GUI,...

Microsoft & Quest Claim They've Run Off 1.5m NetWare Users.(NetWare migration program)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Microsoft and its buddy Quest Software say they've migrated 1.5 million NetWare users to Windows Server 2003, people Novell was hoping to shift to Linux. Launched in November, the NetWare migration program offers tools, guidance, training...

Novell CTO Leaves.(Chief Technology Officer)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Novell has lost its CTO Alan Nugent to another company whose identity is supposed to become clear in the next few weeks. The timing could have been better. Novell's annual BrainShare user conference starts in a few days. Novell's PR people...

Debian Mulls Dropping Sparc, Mainframe.(product development)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Debian, the most respected of the Linux distributions, is thinking about dropping support for Sparc and the S/390 and reducing the number of architectures it will actively support from 11 to four. The architectures the Debian community is...

SCO Appears at Nasdaq Hearing.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... SCO spent St Patrick Day at a Nasdaq hearing about why it didn't file its 10-K on time, which put the company on the market's delisting watch list. SCO said it expects to file the 10-K, which was delayed mostly by differences with its...

Novell Ships OES, SuSE Pro 9.3.(Open Enterprise Server)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Novell has started shipping the mixed Linux-NetWare Open Enterprise Server (OES) and SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 should be in the stores in the next few weeks. The new consumer code is based on the 2.6.11 kernel, includes OpenOffice 2.0...

Google Shows Affection for Open Source.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Google has set up a new web site called Google Code (http://code.google.com) to serve as a repository for open source software and APIs from the search engine king. Google is initially releasing a bunch of software tools including...

Court To Hear Motion To Intervene & Fabled Third Amended Complaint Arguments.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... The Utah federal court hearing the SCO v IBM case will hear oral arguments on the motion to unseal all the filings in the case that was lodged by this paper, CNET and Forbes on April 26. Judge Dale Kimball, not the magistrate, is going to...

Yarro Gets Canopy's Shares in SCO.(Canopy Inc.)(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... That nasty situation between Canopy, SCO's biggest backer, and its ex-management worked out the way we said it would. Canopy's ex-CEO Ralph Yarro walked away from the fight with all of Canopy's 32% of SCO plus an undisclosed amount of cash,...

Euro No-Patent Movement Needs Help.(Software patents)
March 21, 2005... Florian Mueller, the guy who put together NoSoftwarePatents.com, the open source effort to stop the European Union from adopting American-style software patents, says the lobbying initiative, which has come a long way since it got started, will...

Black Duck Spreads its Wings.(Black Duck Software)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Black Duck Software, the folks with the IP risk management and mitigation software, is going to launch an on-demand hosted version of the stuff before the end of the month. It validates a company's proper use of open source software.

Linux Doubts.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to 'securifying' the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix - it could...

Cognos Extends Linux Support.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Business intelligence ISV Cognos has put out its ReportNet web-based report and query authoring application on the Intel Linux platform. In November, Cognos said ported ReportNet to the Power-based Linux pSeries platform from IBM.

HP Mum on Executive Search.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... HP's interim management frustrated any shareholder attempts to find out how its CEO search is really going at its annual meeting Wednesday. The company's non-executive chairman Patricia Dunn said she wouldn't answer any question about the...

Infocom To Resell Egenera.(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Infocom is going to resell Egenera's BladeFrame boxes in Japan, focusing on communications service providers.

Zend Confab On.(Event Forecast)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... Zend Technologies, who's itching for PHP, the LAMP constituent, to take on J2EE, is going to host a Zend/PHP conference and expo October 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency at the San Francisco Airport.

Linux Virtualization Consortium Reportedly in the Works.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... The tom-toms say that Computer Associates, anxious to flex its leadership muscles, is quietly pulling together a consortium that would optimize virtualization technologies like the open source Xen hypervisor software, and presumably the very...

Noorda's Daughter Commits Suicide.(Ray Noorda, Val Noorda Kreidel, Ralph Yarro)(case)
March 28, 2005... Val Noorda Kreidel, Ray Noorda's only daughter, shot herself to death at her home in Huntington Beach, California at 8am last Thursday morning, March 17, according to Orange County supervising deputy coroner Cullen Ellingburgh. She shot...

NoSoftwarePatents.com Issues Call to Action.(Andreas Gauger, Marten Mickos)
March 28, 2005... In an open letter, the CEO of 1&1 Internet AG Andreas Gauger and the CEO of MySQL Marten Mickos, two sponsors of the NoSoftwarePatents.com attempt to keep American-style software patents out of Europe, have called on the industry, including...

IBM Gets 45-Day Grace Period To Turn Over SCO Discovery.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... IBM got its 45-day extension in turning over the discovery that it's under court order to hand over in the SCO v IBM suit. IBM basically told the court that the task was so utterly Herculean - not to mention unprecedented - that no matter what...

EC Rejects Microsoft's Licensing Terms in the Name of Open Source.(Jeremy Allison)
March 28, 2005... Microsoft is in Dutch with the European Commission over how it's complying with the EC's antitrust order and the person who deserves credit for what many will regard as this happy turn of events is Jeremy Allison, one of the Samba leaders, who...

Ummm, Carly, About that $2 Billion in Linux We Sold....(investment of Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... The gossip mill whispers that, post-Carly, the HP board has been going over her sums and can't figure out where she got that $2 billion number back towards the end of 2002, the beginning of 2003 claiming HP was the big kahuna in Linux-based...

HP Dumps High-End Archiving System; RISS Faces Hard Road vis-a-vis Centera.(reference information storage system)
March 28, 2005... Hewlett-Packard quietly dropped the high-end version of its StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS) archiving widgetry seven months after it launched. HP's marketing director for ILM products and solutions Gary Lyng said...

Novell Turns Mentor.(planning to open an Open Source Technology Center)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Novell is going to open an Open Source Technology Center in out-of- the-way Provo, Utah as an incubator. It says part of the reason for putting it in Utah is to drive technology development in the state. It says it'll promote new companies and...

OSDL Gets First Korean Member.(Open Source Development Labs, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute )(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), becoming its first Korean member. It says it will join OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux working groups...

IBM Tosses Spam Back at Spammers.(new email filtering software)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... IBM is offering a new tool to battle the spam scourge that verifies the sender's identity instead of the usual, ineffective content filtering that identifies spam by scanning the content of every e- mail message entering a network. Dubbed...

IBM Pays Compuware $400m To Settle Piracy Suit.
March 28, 2005... IBM watchers who bet that the company would never let the Compuware trade secrets case get to the jury can pick up their winnings at the window. Otherwise, the way the deal is structured there's really no clear winner and no reform of...

Novell CFO Turns Up at CA.(Al Nugent joined Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Novell's ex-CFO Al Nugent, whose departure was noticed right before BrainShare (CSN No 588), has turned up at Computer Associates as senior VP and general manager of CA's key Unicenter operation, reporting to Russell Artz, the company's sole...

Dell Debuts New Database Servers.(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Dell has launched two new four-way 64-bit Xeon servers targeted at database environments, server consolidation, virtualization and RISC migration. The new PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 servers featuring DDR2-400 ECC memory, PCI Express I/O,...

Novell To Buy Tally Systems.(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Novell is buying IT asset management specialist Tally Systems to expand its ZENworks systems management products for an undisclosed amount of money. Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Tally sells a set of integrated tools that does discovery and...

Oracle Profits Fall.(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Oracle reported lower earnings in its fiscal third quarter ended February 28 because of charges related to its PeopleSoft acquisition. Net income was $540 million, or 10 cents a share, on revenues of $2.95 billion. For the corresponding...

SCO Finally Takes Groklaw Stand.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... SCO has finally gone and done something it should have done ages ago so the Groklaw hate-SCO site wouldn't have a monopoly on posting all the legal filings in the SCO cases. It's set up at site at www.sco.com/scoip where people who want to read...

Novell Pulls Together Small Business Linux.(new software)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Novell has put together a Linux Small Business Suite 9, an end-to- end server-to-desktop Linux solution. It says it's packed it with collaboration, security and management products, all engineered specifically for Linux. It says it's got "big...

Novell Puts a Few Leaves on Sequoia.(about the workgroup software)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... At BrainShare this week Novell was showing off a pre-release of its upcoming Sequoia update of GroupWise, the collaboration software that's supposed to be better than Exchange, and was saying that it includes enhanced client code for Windows,...

Red Hat Woos TicketMaster.(Red Hat Software Inc., Ticketmaster Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... Red Hat is preening, Ticketmaster is going to use StrongMail on Red Hat Linux for its e-mail marketing. StrongMail will do the e-mail generation and delivery.

AMD Chases Blades.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. enhanced its Opteron processor)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... AMD has wheeled out a low-power Opteron targeted at blade servers. The thing is called the 248 HE, a version of its 2.2GHz 248 chip, meant for one- and two-processor configurations, both servers and workstations. Its power envelope is 55w, less...

Well, Somebody Out There Likes SCO.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 28, 2005... This little snippet is likely to irritate a few people. CMP's VARBusiness has recognized SCO - of all people - for the breadth and depth of its Unix-based channel partner programs. SCO got a Five- Star Rating.