Linux Gram articles from May 2005

Linux Gram archives from May 2005

Microsoft To Support Open Source Windows Software Stack for Infiniband.
May 2, 2005... You feel that? That was the earth shaking. Microsoft is going to support an open source network driver and subnet manager, something it's never done before, at least not that anybody knows of. The widgetry is the stuff of a single...

What Would Happen If - Shock! Horror!! - SCO Wins?(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
May 2, 2005... Garner is telling its clients - as it's told them before - to take steps just in case the unthinkable happens and SCO wins its case against IBM. Its advice is along the lines of "Never assume," the reporter's old adage. Gartner...

Orion Starts Shipping its Personal Supercomputer.(Orion Multisystems Inc)
May 2, 2005... Orion Multisystems Inc, the cluster-in-a-box start-up begun by a couple of Transmeta refugees, has started shipping its knee-knocking 96-node desk-side Cluster Workstation, the Linux-based widget it calls a personal supercomputer that fits...

Court Hears Motion To Unseal SCO-IBM Records.
May 2, 2005... On Tuesday afternoon an hour before the Utah court presiding over the great SCO v IBM case heard the G2-Forbes-CNET motion to unseal all the court records in the case, IBM delivered a letter to SCO's lawyers offering to unseal some stuff...

Samba Leader Moves to Novell.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Jeremy Allison, the Samba leader, has left HP to join Novell, a move he's been toying with since HP sent him to Novell's BrainShare user conference last year. Reluctant to go, Jeremy went anyway and says he was delighted to find a company...

Turbolinux Nails Big Chinese Bank.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Turbolinux says it's got a deal in its pocket that will see the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China's biggest commercial banks holding a fifth of the total assets held in all banking institutions in China and a Fortune 500 company,...

SGI Fields Baby Prism.
May 2, 2005... Saying it's answering mounting demand for more visualization capability in the hands of Linux users struggling with big data problems, Silicon Graphics has extended its family of rack-mount Prism boxes with a new deskside model that starts at...

Egenera Takes on Debt To Grow.(Egenera)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Egenera would probably like to go public to pay for its continued growth. Goodness knows it's had its S-1 registration filed with the SEC since last summer. However, the stars over Wall Street haven't aligned for high tech lately so Egenera's...

Casualty Count from the Browser War.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Firefox has doubled its market share, according to Janco's April Browser Market Share Study. It says that Firefox has grabbed 10.28% of the browser market in less than three months and based on conversations with a number of industry...

Novell Eyes China.
May 2, 2005... Novell has signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with China Standard Software Company Ltd (CS2C), a Linux firm, to promote local development and adoption of Linux. The pair is supposed to cooperate in providing technology, services and...

IBM Goes to the Mattresses.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Trying to put a mattress under its stock freefall, IBM Tuesday raised its quarterly dividend 11% and earmarked another $5 billion to buy back its stock. It had to do something to impress its annual stockholders meeting that it was doing...

Dell To Factory Install x64.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Dell says it'll factory install the newly available 64-bit Windows XP Professional x64 Edition on its dual-Xeon Precision 470 and 670 workstations now, the new Precision 380 in May, and the Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition on its PowerEdge...

Who Is Pamela Jones?(internet service vendor Medabiliti Inc.)
May 9, 2005... A few weeks ago I went looking for the elusive harridan who supposedly writes the Groklaw blog about the SCO v IBM suit. The now-famous opinion-shaping open source leader Pamela Jones, aka PJ, doesn't give conventional face-to-face...

Microsoft IP For Rent.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2005... Microsoft, which caught a dose of IBM envy - IBM pulls in over a billion dollars a year in IP royalties - is getting more forward about licensing some of its technology to third parties and monetizing some technology it's developed that it's...

Start-up Seeks To Solve the Processing Burden of XML.(extensible markup language, Conformative Systems Inc.)
May 9, 2005... On the expectation that XML data will constitute 25% of data center LAN traffic by next year, a Texas start-up called Conformative Systems is building a standards-based XML accelerator that it hopes to get to early access customers by early Q4....

IBM Buys its First Open Source Firm.(International Business Machines Corp.)(GlueCode Software)
May 16, 2005... App Server Wars Find New Battlefield IBM has bought its very first open source concern, four-year-old privately held GlueCode, a service outfit in El Segundo, California that sells a version of the Java-based Apache Geronimo application...

Brazil Screws Microsoft.(Banco do Brasil)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... State-owned Banco do Brasil, Latin American's largest bank, has announced the creation of a so-called World Open Source Software Organization to push the adoption of open source software in place of Microsoft by other developing countries. ...

Sun Buys Old SCO.
May 16, 2005... Sun, which gave aid and comfort to the infamous new SCO by licensing its IP, has up and bought the old SCO, now called Tarantella and historically unprofitable, for $25 million cash vowing to integrate its Citrix-like thin client technology...

IBM Sends SCO its Fabled Discovery.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Santa Cruz Operation Inc.)
May 16, 2005... Last week, on deadline day, IBM outside counsel Todd Shaughnessy filed an affidavit with the federal court in Utah that's hearing the SCO v IBM case swearing that IBM had delivered to SCO all the discovery that it was supposed to under the...

SCO v IBM Unsealing Starts.
May 16, 2005... Some previously sealed documents in the SCO v IBM have started dribbling out in response to the joint Forbes-CNET-G2 motion to unseal them. Although presiding judge Dale Kimball rejected the review mechanism that the press offered the...

Ex-SuSE chief quits Novell.(Richard Siebt resigned)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Richard Siebt, the ex-IBMer who was running SuSE when the company was sold to Novell, has resigned from his post as president of Novell EMEA, the job he's had since Novell took SuSE over. Novell was anxious to underscore the fact that Siebt...

Black Duck Joins OSSI.(Black Duck Software Inc)(Black Duck Software Inc)(Open Source Software Institute )(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Black Duck Software Inc, the license compliance outfit that sorts open source code in proprietary software, has become a corporate member of the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI), the four-year- old US trade group championing open source...

Novell Buys Linux Protection.(Immunix Inc)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Novell has acquired Immunix Inc, a Linux host-based application security solutions provider whose enterprise-level AppArmor is supposed to protect Linux environments against malicious attacks and viruses. The product, which will now be...

OpenXRI.org To Create XRI Reference Implementation.(extensible resource identifiers)
May 16, 2005... There is now an OpenXRI.org, modeled after the Apache Foundation and dedicated to providing a stable, freely distributable, open source resolution server that can be integrated into enterprise, ISP or software vender architectures. NeuStar...

Wine Hires Lawyers.(Eben Moglin got the finance from Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... That newfangled Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) that Free Software Foundation general counsel Eben Moglin is putting together on a $4 million "secret" grant from the Open Software Development Labs - nobody knows which OSDL members wrote the...

Haansoft, Korean ISV, Joins OSDL.(Open Source Development Labs)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Haansoft, the Korean company known for its native word processor as well as its run-ins with Microsoft, has joined the Open Source Development Labs. Haansoft, China's Red Flag Software and Japan's Miracle Linux, the Oracle joint venture,...

$100m? What $100m?? Another $100m???(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Earlier this week Red Hat's stock got tickled on the news - complements of an SEC filing - that Michael Dell had put $99.5 million into the company. Red Hat wouldn't say word one about it. It just ran for cover. Except that, if you read the...

Egenera Temporarily Gives Up on Wall Street.
May 16, 2005... Indicating its disgust for conditions on the stock market, Egenera, the blade pioneer, pulled its S-1 IPO registration, which has been getting dusty anyway.

JBoss Chairs Euro, Asian Business.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... JBoss, the Atlanta-based open source house clearly in IBM's competitive sights, has just opened offices in London and Bangalore to meet demand for its JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) in Europe and Asia. It says its European business...

PUBPAT Tries To Educate the Public on Prior Art.(Public Patent Foundation)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... The open source-supporting Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) says it's got a free hour-long audio recording with supporting written material detailing how to find prior art for issued patents. It takes a model patent as an example. It...

Tarantella's Next to Last Dance.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Tarantella, the old Santa Cruz Operation that Sun is buying for $25 million, reported its March results Thursday, a couple of days after the deal was announced, and said it lost $3.5 million, or 12 cents a share, on revenues of $2.7 million. It...

Open Source Start-up Suits Up for Bomb Run on Oracle.(EnterpriseDB Corp.)
May 23, 2005... If he still has it, Larry Ellison might want to take that fighter jet of his on a strafing mission over Edison, New Jersey one of these days. That's where a start-up called EnterpriseDB Corporation has created what it calls an...

Wall Street Guru Predicts Massive Layoffs at HP.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... After listening to Hewlett-Packard's second-quarter earnings call Tuesday, revered Sanford C Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, who's generally on the money, sat down and wrote that "We expect that [HP] CEO [Mark] Hurd will likely articulate...

Hurd Says HP Has To Be 'Bipolar'.
May 23, 2005... HP's new CEO Mark Hurd, the NCR conscript, got on the horn to Wall Street Tuesday after the market closed to make his first quarterly report since he got there. Hurd said he hadn't been at HP long enough yet to detail a remedial plan to...

IBM Out To Rustle More of Sun's Cattle.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... IBM has concocted another Solaris migration program. This one is to Red Hat Linux and it dangles the carrot of a free "what can it hurt" migration assessment and how-to advice from IBM's Systems & Technology Group on moving to xSeries,...

Oracle & Zend Partner on PHP-Based Apps.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Oracle and Zend Technologies Inc, the PHP commercializer, are teaming to produce Zend Core for Oracle, a fully tested and supported free download that's supposed to deliver tight integration between Oracle's 10g database and Zend's supported...

IBM Backs Firefox.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... IBM, which would like to shuck its internal use of the Microsoft desktop, has thrown its support behind the Firefox browser, becoming the first corporate of its size to do so. It's put the thing on its internal server, is encouraging its...

Whoops, There Goes Another One.(Novell Inc. loses out its senior executives)(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Novell has lost its fourth senior exec in six or seven months. This time it's Joe Forgione, who was VP, solutions and quietly decamped two weeks ago. The others have been Novell EMEA president and former SuSE CEO Richard Seibt vice-chairman...

Moto & MontaVista Expand Their Alliance.(Motorola Inc.)(MontaVista Software Inc)(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... In an expansion of an existing non-exclusive alliance, Motorola says it's going to use MontaVista Software's Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) Linux as a preferred software development and deployment system for its Open Application-Enabling...

GlueCode a Problem for BEA: Piper.(GlueCode Software)(BEA Systems Inc.)(Piper Jaffray )(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... In view of IBM's acquisition of GlueCode last week and its backing of the open source Geronimo app server, Piper Jaffray is advising BEA, which is already wearing a big takeover target on its chest, to milk its upcoming Quicksilver and DaVinci...

New IBM BladeCenter Config Targets SMBs.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Small and medium sized companies)
May 23, 2005... IBM has a new pre-packaged blade configuration for small and medium businesses that it grandly claims could fundamentally change the way on-demand business and infrastructure solutions are delivered to the SMB market. It says the new...

Verari & Panasas Partner on Clusters.(Verari Systems)(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Verari Systems, the systems house that used to be RackSaver and fancies it can become a tier-one player, is going to market and sell Panasas' HPC ActiveScale Storage Cluster for turnkey Linux clusters. Verari Systems will co-brand and sell...

Neoware Moves into India.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Neoware, the wannabe king of the thin client hill, has teamed up with Bangalore distributor Parrus IT Solutions to push its wares in India. Parrus will distribute and support Neoware's full line of server-based computing products,...

Xandros Adds Skype.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Xandros has started shipping Xandros SurfSide, a new desktop Linux that comes with free Skype-to-Skype calling worldwide and a Plantronics USB headset combo that it calls "ready to plug in and call." The distro lists for $99.95. As a special...

Scali To Resell IBRIX Fusion.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Scali, the Linux clustering house, is going to resell the IBRIX Fusion Software Suite from the company that invented the Segmented File System underneath Fusion. Under the agreement, Scali will sell the stuff in the United States and Europe....

Fellow Travelers.(Cuban government uses Linux)(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... People who regard open source as a communist conspiracy are gonna love this. The Cuban government is gonna dump Windows and go with Linux, according to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), which got it from the Cuban government daily Juventud...

Infinicon Morphs into SilverStorm Technologies.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... InfiniCon Systems, the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Infiniband house, has changed its name to SilverStorm Technologies Inc. It says it's to emphasize its focus on providing networking solutions that serve the global high-performance business...

Power Shift at Intel Official.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... In the grand tradition of Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove, Intel CEO Craig Barrett passed the baton - except in Intel's case it's more like a scepter and orb - to his successor Paul Otellini on Wednesday. Otellini, Intel's first...

Intel Ready with Mainstream Dual-Core Pentiums, Platforms.
May 23, 2005... After canceling the vaunted 4GHz Pentium last year - among other things - and basically descending into the first circle of PR hell, Intel on Thursday is supposed to announce those dual-core 6xx mainstream Pentiums it decided to focus on...

Mandriva Posta Pre-Merger Numbers.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... Mandriva, which used to be Mandrakesoft before it decided to merge with Connectiva and try to become an international force, says it earned $1.3 million (1 million euros) on revenues of $3.48 million (2.76 million euros), up 9.5%...

SCO Branches into Hardware.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2005... The SCO Group, which insists on behaving like it's something other than that lawsuit against IBM, has partnered with little-known distributors DTR Business Solutions Inc and Terian Solutions LLC to provide SCO resellers with low-priced white...

IBM Claims To Shatter Mid-Range Storage Price/Performance Barrier.
May 23, 2005... IBM has added a new four gigabit per second storage system, the TotalStorage DS4800, priced pretty much the same as EMC's CX700 and HP's EVA5000 but reportedly capable of up to twice the maximum performance. It's supposed to be one of the...

- Summary Judgment Asked in GPL Price-Fixing Suit.(Daniel Wallace, general public license, case)
May 30, 2005... The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has hired Ice Miller, a local Indianapolis law firm, to defend it against the pro se antitrust suit brought by physicist and computer programmer Daniel Wallace in Indiana federal court. Wallace is charging the...

- HP Gains Traction in Servers.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Server revenues came to $12.3 billion in Q1, up 4.1%, according to Gartner, which credited x86 servers. Growth was a point-and-a-half less than in Q4 and 5.4% less than it was in 1Q04. Last year the compare was easier because 2002 and 2003...

- Oh, Lord, More Mischief Uncovered at CA.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Computer Associates' new management, installed because of the company's $2.2 billion revenue-recognition scandal and near brush with government prosecution, says it's uncovered another "handful of contracts that were improperly recorded"...

- Mainsoft Empowers Microsoft Developers To Crank Out.
May 30, 2005... Linux Apps Mainsoft Empowers Microsoft Developers To Crank Out Linux Apps Mainsoft, the cross-platform development company and Microsoft source code partner, has just delivered Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition, aka Grasshopper, a...

- Anti-Microsoft OpenOffice File Format Standardized.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Oasis has ratified OpenDocument 1.0, an XML-based file format for desktop applications, as a royalty-free standard. The OpenDocument format is the default in OpenOffice for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents. Oasis got...

- Layoffs at OSDL.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Word has leaked out that the Open Source Development Labs, which casts itself as "the center of gravity for Linux" and the home of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, has been forced to lay off nine of its 57 people. Despite the Linux momentum,...

- Novell Tries Hail Mary Play in SCO Suit.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Novell is trying to convert its motion to dismiss SCO's two-year-old suit slander-of-title against it into a summary judgment, presumably because it would resound better if Novell was able to simply knock SCO out of the box. See, a...

- Novell Loses Money Again.
May 30, 2005... Novell surprised the Wall Street punters who follow it and came in with a loss of $16 million, or four cents a share, in its second quarter ended in April on revenues up only 1% year-over-year to $297 million. The market's consensus was for...

- Sun Wah Linux Launches Project Liberate.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... To promote open source collaboration in Asia, Sun Wah Linux Ltd has launched what it calls Project Liberate, a venture to transform previously closed source software into open source projects and make them readily available to community for...

- AMD Releases Pacifica Spec.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... AMD Releases Pacifica Spec AMD made the full specification of its Pacifica virtualization technology available on Wednesday. Pacifica is AMD's version of Intel's Vanderpool Technology. It's thought there's little difference between...

- Talwalkar Leaves Intel.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Abhi Talwalkar, who got the job of co-managing the Digital Enterprise Group that Intel set up when it reorganized around its newfangled platform vision in January, is leaving Intel to be president and CEO of LSI Logic. It's the company's...

- Search Provider Joins OSDL.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... San Francisco-based Search Cacher Inc, a developer of enterprise search appliances, has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to participate in OSDL's Data Center Linux (DCL) working group. Search Cacher's Linux-based enterprise...

- Trolltech Gets $6.7m Investment.
May 30, 2005... Trolltech, the Nordic tools house, has gotten $6.7 million in Series B money, which explains what happened to the shares that SCO had in the company, a connection that did nothing at all for Trolltech's standing with the open source community....

- Nokia Internet Tablet Debuts.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Nokia has unveiled its first widget without a phone in it - a so- called Internet Tablet, based on Linux, that offers broadband access to the Internet over Wi-Fi. The gismo, called the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, was trotted out at the...

- EC Funds FOSS Study.(European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... The European Union has earmarked roughly $825,000, 660,000 euros for two year's worth of international research into the impact of open source software and standards on skills development, employment, regional differences in software...

- Unicenter DB Management Goes Cross-Platform.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Unicenter DB Management Goes Cross-Platform Computer Associates has unveiled Unicenter Database Management r11 for DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix and Windows (LUW), which is supposed to let users optimize and streamline database operations across...

- Osprey Aims To Feather its Nest at Microsoft's Expense.(Osprey Solutions)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... A year-old Scottish company named Osprey Solutions, which calls itself a specialist in Microsoft Server systems, is pitting its Linux- and open source-based Osprey Power Server against Microsoft's Small Business Server, improving on Microsoft's...

- Voltaire in IGIB Super Box.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Voltaire is all atwitter because its Infiniband-based grid interconnect switch is part of an 288-node HP supercomputer that the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and...

- Black Duck Rational-Ready.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Black Duck Software, the compliance management people called into existence by liability concerns sparked by code reuse and viral licenses, says that its protexIP/development solution has been validated "Ready for IBM Rational Software" and...

- Linux Desktop Has a Future If... BofA.(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... Banc of America sees a $180 million sales opportunity for desktop Linux client OS by 2008. "We believe that many of the market myths around the Linux desktop (both good and bad)," it says, "have drowned out the fact that while Windows will not...