Linux Gram articles from May 2003

Linux Gram archives from May 2003

CA To Piggyback on Unbreakable Linux.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Computer Associates, a fervent Linux disciple these days, is planning on hopping on Oracle's Unbreakable Linux initiative and turning it into Secure Unbreakable Linux, a clever idea that, if we're not mistaken, could see Oracle representing...

Red Hat Cuts Key Deal with Fujitsu.
May 12, 2003... Fujitsu, which practically has co-developer status on the Sparc chip and has been one of Sun's most loyal resellers, is cuddling deeper under the covers with Red Hat in the name of its new Intel initiative - the one that will see it create...

SCO Hit with DoS Attack; Penguinistas Thought Responsible.
May 12, 2003... The SCO Group, an industry pariah since it sued IBM alleging that it misappropriated SCO's Unix trade secrets and put them in Linux, says it experienced a massive denial of service (DoS) attack last Friday that consumed 90% of its ISP's...

SCO Leaves the Door Open To Suing Linux Distros.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... SCOsource general manager Chris Sontag, the guy in charge of monetizing the SCO Group's IP, says that the company has IP issues with the major Linux distributions and with the Linux kernel itself, but that "what we chose to do about it has not...

Egenera Claims Virtualization Championship.
May 12, 2003... Egenera is scoffing over Sun, HP and IBM and their "slideware" virtualization promises. The start-up claims it can do what the majors only wish they could. Egenera's BladeFrame system was designed so the blades are stateless and anonymous...

HP Moves the Furniture Around.
May 12, 2003... A few days before laying out its latest strategy to revive its loss- making enterprise business, HP reorganized its Enterprise Systems Group (ESG). Mimicking IBM, HP has created a single hardware business unit called Enterprise Storage and...

HP Spins a New Strategy Tale.
May 12, 2003... Last year's enterprise strategy, Adaptive Infrastructure, never left the nest - lest it be picked off by IBM's upstaging better-thought- out $10 billion On Demand strategy - so the other day HP - to celebrate the first birthday of its merger...

Ah, the Old Numbers Game.
May 12, 2003... There seems to be some debate among the punter class about how many Opteron chips AMD can get off. Merrill Lynch's chip watcher Joe Osha has said 170,000 this year, maybe 1.5 million next year (CSN No 498). Nathan Brookwood, Insight 64's...

PeopleSoft Portfolio Falls to Linux.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... PeopleSoft is going to port its whole software portfolio to Linux under a joint development deal with IBM to optimize the stuff for IBM's hardware and software. IBM's xSeries machines, DB2 database and WebSphere application server and Red Hat...

Red Hat Previews Opteron Code.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Red Hat has released a technology preview of its 64-bit Opteron code for the Linux community to play with. The real product, due later this year hopefully, will be a version of what used to be called Advanced Server 3. The preview, called...

Dell Turns Orange.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Dell wants everybody to know that it knocked out a proprietary dual- processor RISC system at Orange, the UK telecoms house, and is replacing it with a cluster of four Xeon-based Dell servers running Oracle9i RAC and Red Hat Linux Advanced...

HP To Challenge Microsoft.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Reports out of HP Labs say it's well advanced in using Linux as the operating system for a variety of handheld products under development as opposed to any version of Windows. The story is that HP plans to challenge Microsoft's software...

My, How Times Change; Lindows To Drop Netscape.
May 12, 2003... In late September, after selecting Netscape 7.0 to be the default Internet suite in LindowsOS 2.0, Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson couldn't stop raving about it and its parent AOL. "To millions of people," he said, "AOL IS the Internet." ...

Athlon MP Gets More Cache.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... AMD Tuesday released its Athlon MP 2800+ for one- and two-way servers and workstations, a 32-bit chip that will theoretically compete against AMD's new 32/64-bit hybrid Opteron. The 2800 is based on the Barton core borrowed from the mainstream...

No Place To Hide.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Sun stock rallied 12% last Friday - relax, that's only 41 cents these days - but it did hit $3.75 setting off vague rumors of a possible takeover fueled apparently by a buy of five million Sun shares, a big transaction even by Wall Street...

Newisys Demos 4p Opteron Box.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Newisys, the company hoping to OEM its AMD Opteron systems to the tier-one vendors, turned up at WinHEC this week with Sobek, its anticipated 4p 3U, as expected (CSN No 497). The box, which is supposed to become available as a beta late...