Linux Gram articles from May 2002

Linux Gram archives from May 2002

Gad, There Goes Another One; DeWitt Leaves Sun.(Sun Microsystems' Stephen DeWitt)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Stephen DeWitt, VP of Sun's Content Delivery and Edge Computing Division, the guy ostensibly responsible for its coming push into Linux, has left the company. He didn't wait around for the magic end of fiscal year like the flock of other top...

StarOffice Ships May 15.(from Sun Microsystems)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 2002... Sun is revving up to finally release its forever-in-development rev 6.0 of StarOffice, apparently convinced it will make real inroads against the Redmond money machine, Microsoft Office. Sources report that Sun has picked Wednesday, May 15...

So What Broke Up Scott & Eddie's Marriage?(Sun Microsystems)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Everybody wants to know why Sun CEO Scott Mc-Nealy and COO Ed Zander are getting divorced. The obvious theory suggests that when things went from bad to worse at Sun last year McNealy applied the spurs and started micromanaging, as CEOs...

OpenOffice.org 1.0 Debuts.(from Sun Microsystems)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 2002... Sun's OpenOffice.org 1.0 open source office productivity suite debuted Wednesday. Described as the culmination of 18 months of collaborative work involving Sun employees, volunteer developers and end users, the suite shares the same code...

Dell & Oracle Pair on Linux.(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Dell and Oracle are getting together to push Oracle's database on Linux, with Dell happening to mention that Oracle's next-generation database software for Linux will be developed on Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell's EMC storage. Compaq has...

Caldera Gives Aid & Comfort to Rivals.(Red Hat, SuSE, Turbolinux, Mandrake Linux and Conectiva)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Caldera says it's prepared to support its rival distributions, market leader Red Hat, SuSE, Turbolinux, Mandrake Linux and Conectiva, worldwide. All four of its service practices are being opened up including problem resolution, professional...

IBM Lifts eLiza's Skirt; Anticipates Stage Two.(eLiza Enterprise Workload Manager)
May 6, 2002... IBM is previewing stage-two eLiza technology that's supposed to make systems learn as they work. The widgetry, called Enterprise Workload Manager and due later this year, is meant for both IBM and other people's servers en masse. It claims it...

Servers Flat in Q1.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 6, 2002... Gartner says worldwide server growth was flat in Q1. Shipments total 1.09 million units, up a mere six-tenths of a percent year-over- year, according to preliminary figures. The researcher said, "Businesses are not ready to spend on tech...

Zander Out; Sun Regroups.(Sun Microsystems' COO Ed Zander)
May 6, 2002... This is the same story we flashed on Wednesday. Well, now we know why Sun CEO Scott McNealy last week wouldn't speak to the question of whether the company's number two Ed Zander, responsible for much of its success, was sticking around...

After DAS, SAN & NAS, EMC Says It's Time for CAS.(EMC Centera data storage device)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 2002... Limping storage biggie EMC introduced a new class of networked storage systems Monday aimed at bringing fixed content such as electronic documents, digital X-rays, MRIs, e-mail, check images and broadcast content as well as information...

Carly Wins; Walter Throws in the Towel.(Carly Fiorina, Walter Hewlett)
May 6, 2002... This story has been updated since the news broke Tuesday. The Delaware Chancery Court where HP namesake Walter Hewlett tried to overturn the narrow HP stockholders vote on the Compaq acquisition after a hard-fought and personally bitter...

Microsoft's Loss is Apache's Gain.(Internet server software)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Netcraft's web server survey results for April show Microsoft dropping a couple of points, taking its share down to 31.96%. Apparently, Microsoft was hit by Homestead's transition from free ad-supported hosting model to a fee-based business...

Counting Noses.(Lineo CEO Matt Harris)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Matt Harris, the embattled CEO of Lineo, the struggling embedded Linux house, has been reluctant to discuss who of the executive staff still remains with the company since its last layoffs some weeks ago. Lineo's web site still shows a...

Dell Heffs Hammer.(AMD Opteron microprocessor)(Brief Article)
May 6, 2002... Remember three weeks ago when we said normally standoffish companies like Dell were being open-minded about AMD's Opteron ne Hammer chip (CSN No 446)? Well, Michael Dell told a Merrill Lynch Hardware Heaven get-together the other day that the...

Caldera Retracts After Revenue Failure.
May 13, 2002... Caldera International Inc had another layoff the other day. It's come up short on its Q2 sales projections and will only be able to manage somewhere between $15.1 million and $15.5 million, not the $16 million-$18 million it thought it could...

IBM Tinkles Blue Ice To Woo SMBs.(Product Announcement)
May 13, 2002... IBM has introduced a new infrastructure bundle aimed at enabling small and mid-sized businesses to deploy e-business apps on Linux quickly. Dubbed Blue Ice, the new integrated platform includes xSeries rack- optimized servers, the DB2...

Red Hat Linux 7.3 Out.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 13, 2002... Linux major Red Hat launched the latest version of its Linux operating system, Red Hat Linux 7.3, Monday. Targeted at small businesses and individuals, the upgrade comes with new productivity tools, a firewall configuration at install and...

HP & Compaq: Together at Last.
May 13, 2002... Well, it's all over but the execution. HP and Compaq are finally married and most sensible people are beset with doubts over whether it will work. Such unions never have before and theirs is afflicted by a particularly bad morale problem. ...

Lineo Assembles New Crew.
May 13, 2002... A bunch of new faces has popped up in Lineo's executive suite. Tim Riker, who used to be his predecessor's Tim Bird right-hand man, is now CTO. Ishrat Hakim, who was in sales under Rich Larsen, replaces him as senior VP of sales and...

Apache 2.0 Upgraded Already.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Apache 2.0, the stuff that's supposed to be as good on Windows as on Unix, finally arrived a month ago and they've upgraded it again. The Apache HTTP Server Project is now saying that reaction to the production release led to improvements and...

DOJ Wants Settlement Approved.(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... The Justice Department Thursday asked the antitrust court to enter its settlement with Microsoft "as soon as possible," making no reference to the states-pressed remedies hearing that's still going on. The agency formally certified that it had...

IBM Bolsters Linux Volume Management.(Enterprise Volume Management System 1.0 )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 13, 2002... IBM has beefed up the volume management on Linux through a new open source product called Enterprise Volume Management System 1.0 logically enough. IBM expects EVMS, a collaboration between its Linux Technology Center and the open source...

BSD Version of RTCore Debuts.(RTCore/BSD)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 13, 2002... Finite State Machine Labs has released a BSD version of its RTCore operating system, the kernel for RTLinux/Pro, its commercially licensed version of the RTLinux hard real-time OS. Applications are split between the real-time components...

McNealy To Keynote LinuxWorld.(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Scott McNealy, who is now all things to all people at Sun, is going to keynote Linux-World in San Francisco come mid-August. Sun should be on the threshold of unveiling its Linux boxes about then. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is also going to...

Red Hat Spurns StarOffice 6.0.(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Red Hat has made it clear it doesn't plan to ship Sun's upcoming StarOffice 6.0 office suite. Red Hat said it made a business decision not to ship the stuff because of Sun's decision to charge for the previously free Microsoft-competitive...

Red Hat Establishes Engineering Center.(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... Red Hat has set up an engineering and R&D center in Massachusetts, just now memorializing something that's really existed for a while. The facility, located in Westford, is supposed to house 50 jobs, mostly engineering, among them, ex-DEC...

Thresher Will Hit IBM & Reportedly Oracle Too.
May 13, 2002... The inimitable F@#$%^Company.com claims IBM is gonna lay off 10% of its US workforce and that "D-Day" is Thursday May 23. It says IBM Global Services, which IBM has already been snipping away at, is gonna be hit the hardest. It also says the...

DeWitt's Replacement.(Vivek Mehra)(Brief Article)
May 13, 2002... The chap replacing recently departed Sun VP Stephen DeWitt, head of its Content Delivery and Edge Computing Division, in other words its Cobalt appliances and soon-to-be general-purpose Linux servers, is another Cobalt Networks co-founder, Sun...

"Linux is Already Fragmented" - Sun.(Red Hat Inc. and Sun Microsystems plan for linux)
May 20, 2002... Since Red Hat seems to be in denial about it and since Sun did what it could to muddy the water about whether it was really using Red Hat Linux to create its own Sun Linux (CSN No 441), we had a little chat the other day with Jack O'Brien, the...

Microsoft Foiled Again in Lindows Case.
May 20, 2002... Microsoft has lost another round in its attempt to get a preliminary injunction barring Lindows.com from calling itself and its desktop OS Lindows. In a seven-page ruling Tuesday, Judge John Coughenour said the court "did not err in either...

Compatibility Issues Dog StarOffice 6.
May 20, 2002... If you thought the absence of 100% two-way compatibility with Microsoft Office was the only issue with Sun's newly introduced StarOffice 6.0, think again. Sun executives acknowledged Wednesday that StarOffice 5.2's supposedly eight...

Jareva Fields Blade Software.(Blade-Force Blade Management Suite )(Product Announcement)
May 20, 2002... In its first foray into blade software, two-year-old provisioning house Jareva Technologies Inc should have its shiny new Blade-Force Blade Management Suite out next month. It says the thing was designed to do bare metal discovery,...

HP Org Chart.
May 20, 2002... http://www.g2news.com//HP%20Org%20Chart%205-02_files/slide0001.htm

Sun Begets New RaQ.
May 20, 2002... Sun's got a new Linux 2.4-based Cobalt RaQ 1U built on a 1.26GHz Intel Pentium III - yup, Intel like most of its other RaQs - that it's positioning as a replacement for the traditional enterprise NT server, among other things. By Sun's...

Court Debates What To Do with Microsoft.
May 20, 2002... Now that the last of the witnesses have been heard in the remedies hearing, the court has been kicking around what to do and how broad any sanctions should be. Like whether to insist that Windows be stripped on its middleware and let...

Dell's Newest Servers.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Dell has got itself a rack-optimized 2U server fitted with dual Xeons and says it's the first of the major vendors to use the chip, which can be had at 2.4GHz. It also seems Microsoft is going to use the box, dubbed the PowerEdge 2650, for...

Meta Scoffs at Mainframe Linux.(Meta Group survey)
May 20, 2002... The Meta Group says users aren't migrating to IBM's new Linux mainframe series, merely incorporating Linux into legacy systems, which is exactly what we reported anecdotally some time ago. Now Meta's got a survey saying so. It calls...

IBM Speed Starts Linux App Development.
May 20, 2002... IBM has rolled out a new developer initiative so they can build Linux applications quickly. Dubbed Speed-start your Linux app, the new program, available on Blue's developer-Works site, will provide programmers with free resources such as...

Lineo ARMs.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... It appears that Lineo is putting Embedix on the ARM Prime-Xsys Wireless Platform, making it the first third-party OS on the thing. The port should be finished by the end of the month, they said. PrimeXsys is slated for third-generation mobile...

Opera 6.0 for Linux Debuts.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 20, 2002... Norwegian browser house Opera Software has launched rev 6.0 of its eponymous widgetry for Linux. New features in Opera 6.0 for Linux include support for the Unicode character set, a contact list to keep information about friends and...

ELJ Stays; Smart Business Goes.(Embedded Linux Journal )(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... The Linux brethren had a scare the other day when rumors of the imminent demise of the Embedded Linux Journal started circulating. We called. They said they're not shutting down. The Ziff-Davis folks at Smart Business magazine, the erstwhile PC...

IBM's Layoff Clock.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... IBM insiders say the layoffs that everybody's been speculating about are scheduled to happen on Friday, May 24. It's possible, they say, that IBM might admit to them publicly the day before. Sam Palmisano, IBM's newly minted CEO, had his very...

OSDL & InfiniBand.(Open Systems Development Lab )(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... The Open Systems Development Lab wants to build an InfiniBand development environment and has put out an RFQ for the HCA equipment.

Giga Predicts HP Layoffs Could Double.(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... Giga analyst Rob Enderle thinks the HP job losses now in progress have been seriously understated and that they could ultimately be double the 15,000 they've been quoting. HP isn't planning to give any details on its first terminations until...

StorageTek Does "zLinux".(Brief Article)
May 20, 2002... StorageTek is reportedly working on some software that helps simply deploying and managing Linux on the mainframe. Think Linux virtual servers too. The widgetry is supposed to be unveiled at EuroStorage in early June.

Sherwin-Williams Kicks Caldera Out; Brings in IBM, Turbolinux.
May 27, 2002... Paint giant Sherwin-Williams is giving Caldera's OpenServer the boot to go with Linux at its 2,500 stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. OpenServer is the Unix system Caldera got off SCO when it acquired SCO's supposedly cure-all Unix...

Sun as Software House.(Solaris 9)
May 27, 2002... Well, Sun's introduction of its latest operating system, Solaris 9, on Wednesday has left a lot of people scratching their heads and wondering what Sun is up to - or at least thinks it's up to - and how the heck it's going to monetize it. ...

Linux Comes Up Short: Merrill Lynch.(Merrill Lynch survey)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Merrill Lynch surveyed 75 US and 25 European CIOs to see whether or not they regarded the functionality of a bunch of technologies to be good enough yet. Linux happened to be among them and Merrill says 70% of the CIOs thought it came up short....

Compaq Cans Foster Eight-Way.
May 27, 2002... Before it turned into an HP satellite, Compaq cancelled its long- promised Foster eight-way box claiming that the new 1.4GHz-1.6GHz Foster MP chips from Intel don't offer enough of a performance tickle to justify moving off the old 700MHz and...

Carly & Hackborn Filleted.(Michael Malone condemns HP-Compaq merger)
May 27, 2002... In a positively devastating piece in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Malone, editor-at-large of Forbes ASAP, a former HPer himself, slammed the HP-Compaq merger as doomed and blamed HP director Richard Hackborn, the guy who created HP's...

Remedies Hearing Finally Over.(Microsoft)
May 27, 2002... The inscrutable Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the judge in the Microsoft remedies hearing, seems to have thrown cold water over the idea of a special master that the non-settling states have offered as their enforcement mechanism. A few days ago when...

Ex-Transmeta Exec Lands on his Feet.(James Chapman)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... James Chapman, who was executive VP of sales and marketing at Transmeta and then its chief marketing officer until January when he - um -"retired to see more of his family," has turned up as president and CEO of privately held NuCore...

Ericsson Joins OSDL.(Open Source Development Lab )(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Ericsson has joined the Open Source Development Lab and will participate in the Carrier-Grade Linux Working Group that was established earlier this year. It is unclear what level of membership Ericsson went for. OSDL also says it's got a...

Caldera Dumps SCO Forum.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... The 14-year Santa Cruz party known as SCO Forum is toast. A more dour and financially strapped Caldera says it's going to have "GeoForums" instead and has carted the North American meeting off to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas August 25-27. It's...

Netscape 7 Beta Debuts.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Netscape Communications released a preview version of its Netscape 7.0 browser Wednesday into a world that's now more or less standardized on Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Built around the Gecko engine, Netscape 7 features a quick launch...

Penguin Debuts New Xeon Server.(Penguin Computing Xeon 1U Linux server)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 27, 2002... Penguin Computing has launched a new Xeon 1U Linux server targeted, it claims, at the Fortune 1000 along with clustered computing for the scientific and education crowd and Internet infrastructure customers. Built on the Intel E7500...

ELJ Folds.(Embedded Linux Journal)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Contrary to what the folks at SSC Publications told us last week, Embedded Linux Journal has indeed folded, proving, it seems, that press folk can be just as disingenuous as some of the companies they cover . The May/June 2002 issue will be...

JunC++ion for Linux Coming.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Codemesh Inc is preparing to launch a Linux port of its JunC++ion product. JunC++ion, which makes Java and C++ applications work together, is currently available on Windows and Solaris. The Linux port, as well as rev 2 for Windows and Solaris,...

Linux Scores at Reuters.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Reuters is teaming up with Red Hat, Intel and Hewlett-Packard to port its Reuters Market Data System software to Linux. RMDS integrates real-time data and news that financial institutions use to make trading decisions and interact with the...

VA Loses $7.7m.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... VA Software lost $7.7 million, or 15 cents a share, on revenues of $5.1 million in its fiscal third quarter ended April 27. For the same period last year, it lost $109.7 million on revenues of $20.3 million. On a pro forma basis, the...

Heavens! Intel's Gonna Be on Time.(Itanium 2 )(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Good grief. It's currently looking like Intel will actually deliver McKinley - sorry, the Itanium 2 - mid-year. Unless some insurmountable showstopper upsets the apple cart, the reputation- enhancing widget will reportedly "launch" right after...

IBM Layoffs Start.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Well, our IBM sources were pretty much on the money about the timing of the layoffs. They started Thursday with about a thousand heads chopped in IBM's server unit and the vertical industry-inclined sales and distribution operation. They are...

Zeus Displaces Sun.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Oh, the ignominy of it. Mighty Sun, whose iPlanet web server held third place against the IIS and Apache freebies, has been unseated by upstart Zeus Techno-logy Ltd, according to the latest Netcraft count. The UK company says it's focused on...

Novell Counts eDirectories.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Novell claims 420 million licenses for eDirectory and says it grew 39% in a single quarter. Which quarter is unclear.

StarOffice 6.0 a Hit on Amazon.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Sun is crowing that its new StarOffice 6.0 office suite has grabbed the top rank on Amazon.com's business and office software products list in the US. Star-Office 6.0 is selling for $70 on Amazon, six bucks less than list. Sun claims strong...

Archway Cracks.(Archway Digital Solutions layoffs)
May 27, 2002... According to Venturewire, which talked to Sevin Rosen general partner Steve Dow, one of its investors, Archway Digital Solutions has cut 70%-75% of its staff and abandoned its plan to build massively scalable data center servers. The...

Gnome on Windows Violates GPL.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Global Technologies Ltd (GTL), the little company whose boss, Charlie Northrup, may own the patent on web service, has had a run- in with the GPL police. Its port of the Gnome Desktop to Windows violates the GNU General Public License according...

Blink & They're Gone.(Red Hat keeps layoffs quiet)(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Geez, you've got to be ever vigilant. Red Hat's chief marketing officer James Neiser quietly hit the road last fall to pursue "other opportunities" after being on the job for less than a year. Red Hat's PR chief left more recently. We have the...

Dell's Worries.(Brief Article)
May 27, 2002... Credit Suisse had a little t^ete-`a-t^ete with Russ Holt, the head of Dell's enterprise business unit the other night and it seems its "biggest near-term concern" centers on HP's intentions. "There are two issues; the first is a possible...

Response to Shahin Khan's "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing":.
May 27, 2002... Sun's Newest Strategy Leaves Linux Community in the Dark From: Dr Alexander Tormasov, chief scientist, SWsoft Inc To: Mr Shahin Khan, chief competitive officer, Sun Microsystems Dear Mr Khan: After reading your second letter...

Linux as Common Denominator.(Meta Group survey)
May 27, 2002... Editor's Note: The Meta Group did a survey recently and decided users aren't migrating to IBM's new Linux mainframes, merely incorporating Linux into legacy systems and called it as "sandbox for user experimentation, figuring it'll never turn...