Linux Gram articles from May 2004

Linux Gram archives from May 2004

How Did Oracle Get into This SCO Business?(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... IBM has subpoenaed Oracle, whose name has yet to come up in the controversy, to appear in its defense at the SCO trial, if it should come to that. IBM has put a bid in for summary judgment. What Oracle has to add to the conversation remains...

Start-up Develops Linux Chip.(Stretch Inc.)
May 3, 2004... A start-up chip company called Stretch has been quietly running through $52 million in first-round capital since February 2003 developing a compute-intensive embedded RISC chip that's supposed to be the first widget to embed programmable logic...

Mozilla & Gnome Talk Defensive Alliance.
May 3, 2004... Mozilla and Gnome folks are talking about throwing in their lot together so as not to fall under Microsoft's hooves especially when Longhorn hits town. It's pretty much a survival issue. From the notes posted of their conference call,...

Lindows Mimics Mentor, Rips Off Apple.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Lindows, the Windows wannabe, has shown that it's cut from the same cloth as its Microsoft role model. It's ripped off Apple's iTunes widgetry, down to the look-and-feel, and turned it into Lsongs, an open source digital music management and...

CA's Internal Investigation Pulled its Punches.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
May 3, 2004... The internal investigation of its books that Computer Associates' board spent $30 million on has wrapped up without clarifying the state of things prior to 1999, when the company's top three executives, ex-CEOs Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar and...

Turbolinux To Pay Microsoft Royalties.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Tokyo-based Turbolinux, which is in the throes of changing owners and going more retail, says it's got what it calls a new desktop Linux operating system designed for home users that includes a media player capable of streaming pure Windows...

Dell Says Proprietary Systems Might As Well Lay Down & Die.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Dell CEO Michael Dell, who says tech spending is improving, climbed on a stage in New York Wednesday claiming that his proprietary RISC rivals might as well roll over because the industry is at another one of those world famous inflection...

MontaVista Financing Pushes Past $72m.(MontaVista Software Inc)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... MontaVista Software Inc, the embedded Linux house, has banked a $7 million check that it got from Siemens Venture Capital, Samsung Venture Capital, Infineon Ventures and China Development Industrial Bank in exchange for a piece of the action....

Sometimes Things Really are Real, Too Real.(RealNetworks Inc. revenues)
May 3, 2004... It's not exactly like things are going swimmingly for RealNetworks, the company that has handed Microsoft its worse nightmare - the EC's challenge to its business model. Real's first-quarter losses widened year-over-year to $10.4 million,...

Concurrent Fields Opteron Systems.(Concurrent Computer Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Concurrent Computer Corporation, the high-end RTOS house, is buying Opteron boxes off of Celestica and bundling them with its RedHawk real-time Linux system to create a new iHawk Series 870 system family. It figures the things for...

Autozone Wants SCO's Suit Delayed; DaimlerChryser Wants its SCO Suit Quashed.(The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Autozone Inc, one of the two Fortune 500 Linux users that the SCO Group has sued, has asked the district court in Utah to put SCO's suit against it on a peg until after the litigation between SCO and IBM, SCO and Red Hat and SCO and Novell is...

Xandros Betas Deployment Software.(cases)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Xandros, the desktop Linux start-up that Lindows is suing to get back a $750,000 loan, is beta testing a GUI-based xDMS Desktop Management System that deploys, configures and upgrades extensive networks of Linux desktops. It's due to GA in...

Ballmer Warns Troops About Linux.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a around a company-wide strategy memo the other day making these points: * "IBM's endorsement of Linux has added credibility and an illusion of support and accountability, although the reality is there is...

Intel To Sponsor Linux Reference Platform.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... If they ever stop postponing the announcement, Intel and a bunch of cronies are supposed to proclaim their support for a common Linux reference platform that incorporates Infiniband, a market Intel dropped out of because it wasn't going to be a...

Topspin To Play Utility Card.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Topspin has a utility computing card it want to play. It's reportedly got software that can be used to program policies into TopSpin's server switches that let them provision virtual servers on-demand. It figures people will be able to pick...

What? No Smell of Napalm in the Morning?(Oracle Corp. joins Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Apparently we can expect some perestroika-style joint movement between those old belligerents Oracle and Microsoft. Seems Oracle wants to sell more of its software to Windows folk. In exchange, maybe it'll stop harping about Linux.

Gateway Cuts Another 1,500 People.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Having posted its 13th losing quarter out of 14, Gateway is going to cut another 1,500 people on top of the 3,500 it terminated a month ago when it closed its stores. Gateway, which is now being run by eMachines people, says the new cuts will...

LinuxWorld Set.(LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... The next LinuxWorld is scheduled for August 2-5 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

AMD CEO Suggests Dell Is In.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is putting it out and about that Dell will go with the Opteron, breaking its sacred Intel-only policy.

Distinctive Order.(Distinctive Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Distinctive Devices Inc says it's gotten a $3.2 million contract that it's supposedly landed to provide embedded Linux-based digital set-top boxes to Italian digital TV maker Goldtop. The set-tops are aimed at the terrestrial and...

Will SCO Survive Tuesday?(The SCO Group Inc. cases)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Tuesday' kinda a big day for SCO. The Utah federal court is gonna hear arguments about whether SCO's slander-of-title suit against Novell should go to trial or be thrown out and, if tried, whether it should be in a state or federal court. If...

Ready for Another Commercial Linux Distro?(Ignalum, from Canadian company of the same name managed by four students of University of Western Ontario.)
May 10, 2004... Linux has produced a new fledging commercial distribution called Ignalum from a little two-year-old Canadian company of the same name manned by four kids who are still going to school at the University of Western Ontario. A modern...

Red Hat Goes For the Desktop.
May 10, 2004... Red Hat management went to London Tuesday to say that, despite whatever reservations they might have, they're going into the desktop Linux business come mid-May when the new Red Hat Desktop becomes available. The company is pitching the...

Mono Goes to Beta.(Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Novell has posted the first of two proposed public betas of Mono 1, the open source version of Microsoft's .NET development platform that it assumed sponsorship of when it bought Ximian, the desktop start-up. Mono is supposed to make it...

StarNet Offers Free Linux Support as Come-on for its PC X Server.(StarNet Communications Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... StarNet Communications Corporation, a Windows-to-Unix/Linux connectivity developer, says it's got the first PC X server for 64- bit Opteron boxes running Microsoft's still unreleased 64-bit operating systems for the chip. It says its...

Intel Kills Tejas & Jayhawk.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Intel has scrubbed Tejas, its next desktop chip, the follow-on to Prescott, its current desktop Pentium 4. The server version of Tejas code named Jayhawk, the follow-on to the anticipated Nocona chip, has also been canceled. The two were...

'Intel Security is Broken & Can't Be Fixed': Green Hills.
May 10, 2004... Dan O'Dowd, the founder and CEO of 22-year-old RTOS house Green Hills Software, who thinks Linux is the work of the devil, has released his third white paper on why Linux is a security threat to US defense systems like the Future Combat System...

Stinger Beta Posted.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... IBM has posted the long-awaited Stinger open beta of its next DB2 rev, which, thinking of ISVs, is supposed to be wizard embedded technology. It's supposed to support Microsoft Visual Studio.NET - apps can be written in Microsoft's C Sharp...

Red Hat Lowers Price of Non-Intel Software.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Red Hat has lowered its price on non-Intel servers to be in line with the price of its Intel goods. Non-Intel shipments have historically accounted for less than 1% of its product mix, Prudential observes, so any demand stimulation would be...

HP Finishes Moving the Furniture Around.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... HP has finished reorganizing its service and server units. They are now combined as one big Technology Solutions Group worth $29.6 in sales, roughly 40% of its whole business. Ex-service chief Ann Livermore, who didn't get to be CEO, is running...

Ireland Snubs Open Source as Too Expensive.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Ireland has looked into the long-term cost of various architectures and found that "The long-term cost of open source may outweigh the short-term savings," according to the country e-minister Mary Hanafin as quoted in The Register. The...

Exhausted Bookkeepers Delay CA's Quarter.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
May 10, 2004... Computer Associates says it'll be a week or two late with the final results of the fiscal year that ended on March 31 and, oh, yes, after thousands of hours checking it's still finding things wrong with its books so now it'll be amending its Q2...

Dell Buys into Topspin.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Dell is making a strategic investment in Topspin Communication, which this week started claiming that it had the first open solution for utility computing. Topspin declined to say how much Dell put in or whether it's got any other strategic...

IBM's New Power5 Servers Debut.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... IBM launched the first servers, the eServer i5, one of its iSeries boxes, the old AS/400, powered by its new 64-bit Power5 processor, aka Squadron. It's supposed to knock the socks off HP and Sun. The i5 runs AIX 5L, Linux and Windows as...

Gateway Launches New Small Biz Windows Servers.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... The incredibly shrinking Gateway has launched two entry-level Windows uniprocessors targeted at small businesses. They can have a Celeron or Pentium 4 chip with integrated RAID controllers and serial ATA drives that scale to 250GB. The...

HP's Dual-Core Itanium Boxes in the Blocks.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... HP is planning to ship Integrity servers with its so-called Hondo dual-core Madison processor modules in June, with Superdomes following in July. Intel isn't supposed to have dual-core Itaniums until next year when it delivers Montecito....

Linux To Handle a Third of World's Travel Tickets.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Linux is going to be handling a third of all travel bookings in the world now that IBM has persuaded Cendant Corporation to switch its Galileo 360 eFares engine to Linux-based xServers. Cendant is supposed to save a massive 90% over three...

Germany Cuts Deal with Microsoft.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Against the backdrop of the spread of the Sasser worm this week, Microsoft cut a security deal, of all things, with the federal government of Germany, a place that's, umm, not exactly hospitable to Microsoft. There was Munich's...

Mandrake Offers AMD64 Support.(Advanced Micro Devices' 64 bit microprocessor)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... MandrakeSoft is willing to sell you a $130 MandrakeLinux 10 Official for the AMD64. The 64-bit part is supposed to be an average 20% faster than straight 32-bit versions.

Will CA Go to the Block?(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... There are people making book that Computer Associates is being packaged to be shopped.

Keynoter, Ex-US Secretary of State, Drops Out of CAWorld.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... At the eleventh hour, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has pulled out as the keynote speaker of CAWorld later this month. Using all her diplomatic skills and best party manners, she canceled for "personal reasons," according to...

Prosecutors Ticked over Sanjay.(Sanjay Kumar, Ex-CEO, Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... IPO superstar Frank Quattrone's conviction on obstruction of justice charges Monday obviously doesn't bode well for the Computer Associates execs who haven't copped a plea yet, especially since CA's sins are more mortal than Quatrone's....

NEC Sells Linux Tablet.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... NEC is selling a Linux-based tablet PC called Lookpal in Japan for whatever 600 bucks is in yen. The device is fitted with a 400MHz Intel PXA255 chip, an 8.4-inch LCD and a built-in CD-ROM.

Latest SCO News is Plain Weird.(The SCO group Inc.)
May 17, 2004... SCO CEO Darl McBride, the most hated man in the computer industry, says he's reached for an analogy to describe SCO's experience since suing IBM. "This is like..." he's said to himself, groping for an elucidating comparison, only to conclude,...

Cripe, Microsoft Open Sources Second Widget.(Windows Installer XML, toolkit for building installation packages from XML)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Microsoft's not exactly a habitue but for the second time lately it's turned up on SourceForge, the open source development site, with an offering. Earlier this week, it released the source code for its Windows Template Library (WTL) under...

IBM Dreams of Pushing Microsoft Off the Desktop and Stomping its Clinging Fingers.
May 17, 2004... IBM, whose CEO wants Linux to replace Microsoft internally, a plan that's stymied by the shortage of Linux apps, is going to offer customers a platform-independent alternative to ease Microsoft's grip on the desktop, adopting a scheme...

No Decision Yet on SCO v Novell Suit.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Utah Judge Dale Kimball disappointed SCO's many watchers Tuesday when he listened to Novell and SCO argue over whether SCO's suit against Novell should be thrown out or not then said he would think about it. Expectations are he'll decide in...

Tiny Company Builds World's Biggest Linux Cluster.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... California Digital Corporation, a small, low-profile, 55-man concern that, when last we looked a couple of years ago, had quietly acquired the server operations of VA Linux Systems, the spoiled Dell wannabe that still holds the record for the...

Linux-Inflicted Microsoft Body Count.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... According to IBM, upwards of 50,000 NT servers worldwide were migrated to Linux in Q1. IBM is expecting to capitalize on the fact that Microsoft is supposed to pull the plug on service and support for the two million NT servers in the...

Novell Open Sources Linux-Exchange Connector.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Putting a pea under Microsoft's stack of mattresses, Novell is open sourcing the Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server, the stuff that lets Linux desktops manage Exchange 2000/2003 e-mail, calendars, group schedules, address books,...

Intel Invests in Open Source Concern.(contract with JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Intel has put money in the so-called "professional open source" Java-based application server maker JBoss Inc. JBoss says its software has been downloaded four million times since it was released in 2001 and is now deployed in nearly 30% of...

Wall Street Rates Red Hat's Desktop Chances.
May 17, 2004... Red Hat's desktop initiative is further along than we appreciate, according to Prudential, which is counting the 4,000 copies of its largely unsung WS workstation software that Red Hat installed at Oracle. WS, which Red Hat aims at the...

AMD Cuts Opteron Prices.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... AMD has quietly done some serious price-cutting on its Opteron chips. Representative of its move the other day, its standard mid-range 24x series chips, the ones most frequently compared to Intel's Xeons and good for two-way machines, now...

Fister Abandons Intel for Cadence.(Mike Fister joined Cadence Design Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Mike Fister, the head of Intel's Enterprise Platforms Group, is leaving to become president and CEO of the $1.1 billion electronics design house Cadence Design Systems Inc. Fister is being replaced by Abhijit Talwalker, who was Enterprise...

Novell Adds Linux Support.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Novell is expanding its Premium Service support program to cover its Linux products, claiming the move makes it the only company to provide comprehensive enterprise-level support for a customer's whole Linux environment from servers to desktops...

Xandros Wins Start-up OEM.(Original Equipment Manufacturer )(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... A start-up Linux-only white box maker called Element Computer, whose claim to fame is its development of the first sub-$1,000, says the Linux operating system called Ion that it's currently bundling with its hardware is based on Xandros' Debian...

SCO Critic Bruce Perens Joins OSRM Board.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc., Open Source Risk Management)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Open source spokesman and SCO gadfly Bruce Perens has joined the board of start-up Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), the outfit that's offering to indemnify users against any open source IP infringement, a sort of insurance policy. OSRM...

Microsoft Wants Lindows Totally Erased.(cases)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Microsoft wants it all. It isn't content with the fact that it forced Lindows into changing its brand name in order to do business in foreign markets where Microsoft has dragged the upstart into court for trademark infringement. ...

SuSE 9.1 Ships.(Novell Inc., new product)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Novell has started shipping its SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal and Professional software like it promised in March. The widgetry is based on the 2.6 Linux kernel and supports both 32- and 64-bit x86 machines. The $30 Personal edition is meant...

NeTraverse, Lille To Peddle Linux to the Healthcare Market.(Lille Corporation, contract)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... NeTraverse has teamed with systems integrator Lille Corporation to provide Linux and thin client-based offerings to the healthcare market. NetTraverse provides a WINE-free way to run Windows on Linux through its Win4Lin Terminal Server...

CodeWeavers Create Home Package.(CrossOver Office Server Edition, new software)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... CodeWeavers Inc, the WINE-based Windows-to-Linux house, has reached the third release of its flagship CrossOver Office, which lets 30 of the most popular Windows programs run on Linux. Rev 3.0 adds Lotus Notes 6.51, Microsoft Outlook XP and...

Platform Mulls IPO.(Initial public offerings from Platform Computing Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Grid specialist Platform Computing is thinking of joining the industry's slow migration back to the IPO trough. The profitable Canadian outfit says it's considering an offering but claims it's not imminent.

Gateway Recruits New Marketeer.(Cathy Stauffer appointed)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Gateway's new eMachines managers, who have kicked out almost all of the old Gateway senior staff, said the Gateway guy running marketing was only going to remain there momentarily and on Tuesday they named long-time Good Guys senior executive...

CA Users Turn Squeamish.(Computer Associates International Inc. reputation in the market)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Customers are reportedly getting squeamish about continuing to do business with Computer Associates, a company the government has labeled "corrupt." CA may already be a dead man walking. If its biggest customers take their business elsewhere,...

How To Bypass Sun & Open Source Java.(Sun Computers Inc., new technology)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Since Sun flatly refuses to open source Java, Rick Ross, the founder of the Java Lobby, is publicly toying with the idea of a group effort to build an open source Java implementation from scratch led by IBM, which has a bigger investment in...

PlateSpin Converts Physical-to-Virtual Linux Boxes.(conversion of servers)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Toronto-based PlateSpin Ltd is supposed to have a way to convert servers between physical and virtual architectures, accelerating physical-to-VMware virtual server consolidation by eliminating manual tasks and reducing human error through...

CA Replaces Ex-Secretary of State with Bill Cosby.(Computer Associates International Inc., Madeline Albright)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Late last week and late in the day, former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright backed out of her commitment to give the keynote speech at the impending CAWorld - presumably so she wouldn't be associated with a company in as much hot water...

SuSE Q2 Revenues Estimates at $10m.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Novell is supposed to post its fiscal Q2 results on May 24, its first full quarter to include SuSE's results. Prudential estimates $10 million in Linux revenues. It projects Novell as a whole did $258.8 million in revenue, something like $2.5...

CA Exorcises Linux' Hooking Demons.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
May 24, 2004... Computer Associates has contributed a significant piece of widgetry it calls K-Gem to the Linux kernel that should put Linux in the running for B1 security clearance by "hardening" it. K-Gem, short for Kernel General Event Module, will also...

Free Software Foundation To Resist SCO Subpoena.(The SCO Group Inc.)
May 24, 2004... The Free Software Foundation (FSF), the fount of the GPL, is going to resist the subpoena that it got from SCO late last year in connection with SCO's hackles-raising suit against IBM. SCO wants the Free Software Foundation to produce...

Wanna Duck Open Source IP Issues?(Black Duck Software)(internet protocols)
May 24, 2004... Black Duck Software, the start-up begun by an ex-Microsoft guy to create IP risk management and mitigation solutions, has left the nest and is heading straight for the water. Since publicizing its existence in January, Black Duck, named for...

Linuxcare Morphs into Levanta.
May 24, 2004... Linuxcare, the infamous Linux service pioneer, has gone through the final transformations of morphing it into an honest-to-God Linux ISV. First of all, it's not Linuxcare anymore. It's finally ditched the name that hardly added any luster...

Inventor of the World's First Unsung PC Sues Intel for $1.5b.(All Computers Inc.)
May 24, 2004... Our New Year's prediction that 2004 would be the year of IP litigation is turning out to be true. The latest quirky indication of that fact is the $1.5 billion suit that was leveled at Intel Thursday morning charging that the Pentium, a...

IBM Brings Close Friend into OSDL Fold.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab has signed up Marist College, its first school member under a newly inaugurated College and University affiliate program. The school, which is very tight with IBM, an OSDL founder and big- time Linux...

RLX Gets $12m D Round.(RLX Technologies Inc.)
May 24, 2004... Blade pioneer RLX Technologies has taken in another investment round, this one worth $12 million and booked as a D round. That means $120 million will have passed through its checkbook. RLX' new profitability target is mid-next year,...

AMD Ups Opterons.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
May 24, 2004... AMD has expanded its Opteron line by adding high-end members to each of the three Opteron siblings, specifically models 150, 250 and 850. The chips are understood to be good for 2.4GHz. The company has tagged the on-board memory controller...

Sun Makes x86 Chief Permanent.(Sun Technology Enterprises Inc. appoints John Fowler)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Apparently Sun couldn't find anybody else to run Network Systems, its new low-end x86 unit, because it formalized the temporary appointment of John Fowler, the CTO of Sun Software when Jonathan Schwartz, recently apotheosized as the company's...

IBM Extends its VMware Alliance Three Years.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Ironically, IBM will be lining the pockets of its storage rival EMC in the name of its on-demand strategy. IBM has extended its alliance with EMC's new virtualization subsidiary VMware through 2007 and will offer VMware's VirtualCenter,...

BEA To Open Code.(BEA Associates Inc.)
May 24, 2004... BEA plans to create an open source project called Beehive designed to be the first easy-to-use open source base for building service- oriented architecture (SOA) and enterprise Java-based programs, an anti-.NET thrust. Based on BEA's WebLogic...

Dell MP3 Player Supports Lindows.(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Lindows, which makes the consumer-oriented Linux-based Linspire desktop operating system, has struck a music deal with Dell. Dell's Digital Jukebox portable MP3 player is now compatible with Linspire and the company's Lsongs music...

PolyServe Signs Pact with the Devil.(Microsoft Corp.)
May 24, 2004... PolyServe, the once pure Linux house, is pure no longer. It has done a deal - a strategic alliance - with Microsoft that is supposed to bring "first-of-its-kind" clustering software to the Windows data center. PolyServe has built Microsoft...

PathScale Gets Another $15m To Accelerate Clusters.(Adams Street Partners)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... PathScale Inc, which started out in life calling itself Key Research, reportedly a Mips, yes, by God, a Mips developer, that changed its name, CEO and orientation, has gotten a reportedly oversubscribed $15 million third round to advance its...

Celestica Rocky.(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... Moody's has put contract manufacturer Celestica, which makes Opteron boxes for AMD, on notice that its debt may be downgraded. It cited Celestica's "weak operating performance" and the "uncertainty" surrounding its core business. Celestica,...

China, IP & Linux.(Internet Protocol)(Brief Article)
May 24, 2004... "Surprisingly, the entire operating system pie totaled a mere $310 million in all of China in 2003. So ending piracy would suggest the price tag for technology would go up as Microsoft has 90%+ share of the desktop for instance. So the...