Linux Gram articles from November 2002

Linux Gram archives from November 2002

Microsoft Antitrust Remedies Decision Due Today.
November 4, 2002... The fateful Microsoft antitrust remedies decision is due to be handed down today Friday, November 1 at 4:30 pm Eastern time after the market closes. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the district court jurist who heard the remedy phase of the...

SuSE Latest Linux To Skip Down the "We Run Windows Apps" Desktop Path.(SuSE Office Desktop)(Product Information)
November 4, 2002... Rumor has it that SuSE, which raised an apparently last-minute $13.9 million third round a year ago when it sacrificed another 24% of its workforce, taking it to 380 people, is looking for more financing again. Competitors wonder whether...

Lindows Grabs a Tiger by the Tail.(TigerDirect Inc switches to LindowsOS)
November 4, 2002... Lindows.com has gotten TigerDirect Inc, the Systemax Inc subsidiary, to pick up LindowsOS, the operating system it expects to go to general release in a couple of weeks. Lindows preens that Tiger, a multi-channel computer hawker, is supposed to...

NEC Set To Deliver 32p Itanium 2 Box.
November 4, 2002... NEC is about to become the first company to land a 32-way Itanium 2 machine squarely in the market. SGI is promising to delivering a massive 64-way McKinley system with hysterically aggressive benchmark performance early next year (CSN No...

Etagon & IBM Flirt with Each Other.
November 4, 2002... Etagon Inc, the New York City start-up with the newfangled data center-centric multi-tier Power Appliance, the cross between a server appliance and a blade server that'll initially be dedicated to running the Oracle9i RAC (LNX 240), much to...

Sun Sets its New App Server Free...Well, Almost.(Application Server 7.0 )(Product Information)
November 4, 2002... Sun has trashed its tail-dragging application server, the code that wended its way from Kiva to Netscape to the Sun-Netscape Alliance, where it was blended with NetDynamics, which Sun had bought, to iPlanet and finally to Sun ONE without...

Polyserve Gets Another $19.5m.(Greylock heads funding round)
November 4, 2002... Polyserve, the three-year-old Linux cluster people, has pulled down another $19.5 million investment from its standing backers, Greylock, which led this third round, New Enterprise Associates and the Roda Group plus a bunch of individuals. That...

Hammer Lab Kicks Off.(AMD's Hammer microprocessors)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... AMD opened its new Sunnyvale, California Developer Center the other day and SuSE kicked in a beta of its x86-64 Hammer distribution, which AMD is supposed to make available to the 150 ISVs that it claims are working with its Opteron server...

Red Hat Prognosticates.(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Red Hat has been telling Wall Street that it thinks the server market for the next 12-18 months is a replacement market and that since Unix-to-Linux migration is cheaper than Unix-to-Windows migration it's got a good chance. Red Hat CFO Kevin...

SCO Woos Linux Developers.
November 4, 2002... The reconstituted SCO Group, the old Caldera plus the old SCO, has launched a series of programs to get developers to write applications for the upcoming United Linux that SCO's supposed to sell. The new programs, which are being rolled out...

SCO Names Sontag Head of OS Division.(Chris Sontag)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The SCO Group has named Chris Sontag senior VP of its Operating Systems division. Sontag will be responsible for directing the marketing and strategy of the unit, guiding corporate marketing and overseeing the development of SCO's IP. ...

Windows Media Audio Reverse Engineered.(Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format)
November 4, 2002... An open source digital media project called Ffmpeg has released the source code for a reversed-engineered decoder for Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. The code could offer consumer electronics makers and software developers a...

Progeny Gets a New Boss.(Garth Dickey named CEO)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Linux services provider Progeny has named Garth Dickey CEO. The Indianapolis firm founded by Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock expects Dickey will help the company to "realize its vision of becoming an end-to-end provider of Linux platform...

Butler Prognosticates.(Butler Group forecast)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The Butler Group says that by 2009 Linux and .NET will take a significant market share from the proprietary Sun-IBM-HP Unix systems, which sounds like a pretty safe bet. It figures that as more ISVs certify their applications for Linux, IT...

Real Turns First Code Drop Loose.(source code to its Helix DNA Client from RealNetworks)(Product Information)
November 4, 2002... RealNetworks just made its self-imposed deadline on Tuesday to open source the source code to its Helix DNA Client, the engine powering its RealOne player, part of its gambit to avoid having to up its engineering staff and try to become...

ISM Releases Linux Nanny.(Information Systems Manager Inc )(Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Pennsylvania-based Information Systems Manager Inc (ISM) has adapted its PerfMan for Unix performance management and capacity planning solution to Linux. The thing analyzes the historical usage of Linux system resources, including CPU, memory...

Lindows Ties Up with Speakeasy.(marketing of LindowsOS 3.0 )(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Lindows.com has arranged for Speak-easy Inc to offer users of LindowsOS 3.0, its first general release due in a few weeks, dial-up and broadband connections. That includes the people who bought one of those $199 Lindows-based computers off of...

First TV Linux Spec Arrives.(TV Linux Alliance consortium)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The TV Linux Alliance consortium of digital media technology suppliers that's working on defining a standards-based Linux environment for the digital set-top market has come out with its first specification - version 0.8. It defines a...

Transmeta Cozies Up with MontaVista.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Down-on-its-luck Transmeta Corporation, the revolutionary x86 chip house where Linux creator Linux Torvalds works, has been looking for ways into the embedded market and has arranged with MontaVista Software Inc for customers of its Linux...

Penguin Debuts New Linux Server for Power Users.(Penguin Computing's Relion 5000)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... Penguin Computing has launched a quad-processor Linux server targeted at database and application customers requiring large amounts of parallel processing power, connectivity and storage options as well as high availability and reliability. ...

VA Upgrades SourceForge Enterprise Edition.(VA Software's SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.2)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... VA Software has launched an enhanced version of its SourceForge Enterprise Edition collaborative software development environment. Rev 3.2 features a new Project Management Console to provide real- time visibility into the entire...

IBM Picks Linux for $100m Blue Gene Project.(Blue Gene/L supercomputer)
November 4, 2002... IBM's research gurus have lighted on Linux as the operating system for their gee-whiz Blue Gene supercomputer project. Blue Gene is the code name for the $100 million IBM project to build a petaflop supercomputer. (A petaflop = one...

Gerstner Era Winds Down.(IBM names CEO Sam Palmisano)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... IBM has named its president and CEO Sam Palmisano, eight months into the job of running the behemoth, chairman as well, replacing the last vestige of the Gerstner administration - or it will come January 1 when Gerstner retires and Palmisano's...

Gallatin Announcement Due.(Xeon MP microprocessor)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The widget is already out and about with OEM customers so on Monday, November 4 Intel is going to make it official and say Gallatin, the new Foster-displacing Xeon MP chip, has arrived. That's the part, done up on a 0.13-micron process, with...

All Things Are Relative.(United Linux plans OS)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The United Linux folks claim an "impressively high rate" of beta downloads of their upcoming OS since the thing became available on September 15. They say there have been 15,000 of them.

Security by Obscurity.(mi2g report lauds SCO Unix, the Apple Mac OS and the HPQ Tru64 Unix operating systems)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... UK-based mi2g, which has been collecting data on overt digital attacks going back to 1995 and sticking them in its Security Intelligence Products and Systems (SIPS) database, figures that SCO Unix, the Apple Mac OS and the HPQ Tru64 Unix...

Desktop Conclave Set.(Desktop Linux Summit)(Brief Article)
November 4, 2002... The first Desktop Linux Summit is scheduled for February 20-21 in San Diego. Sponsors include HP, Code-Weavers, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, Sun, SuSE and Ximian. See www.desk toplinux.com/ summit.

Ex-Sun Unit To Do Carrier-grade Embedded Real-time Linux.(Jaluna SA restore Chorus)
November 11, 2002... Sun Microsystems has quietly dumped the Chorus embedded RTOS that it bought five years ago for somewhere between $20 million and $40 million as part of the cost cutting that the sick economy and Sun's own poor health has forced on it. It...

IBM Servers & Storage Back Together Again; Storage Boss Lands Top On-Demand Job.(IBM combines storage and server divisions)
November 11, 2002... IBM is pushing its storage and server divisions together under server chief Bill Zeitler less than three years after it cut the storage business loose as a separate unit. In the reorg, storage boss Linda Sanford gets a new role with a mandate...

TigerDirect To Go Head-to-Head with Wal-Mart.(low-cost Lindows-based PCs)
November 11, 2002... TigerDirect, the folks who sell boxes on the web the way Dell does, isn't going to stop with that $229 Lindows widget it introduced on Halloween (CSN No 474). It's going to take on rival wal-mart.com with a $199.99 Lindows entry that ups...

EnFuzion Resurfaces.(Axceleon purchases clustering technology from Turbolinux)
November 11, 2002... Turbolinux' sold-off clustering technology EnFuzion is now being peddled by the ex-Turbo guy, Michael Duffy, who bought it off of the flailing Turbolinux for a song - $80,000, we now understand, not the $100k previously reportedly - and the...

MySQL, NuSphere Settle Historic GPL Legal Hassle.
November 11, 2002... MySQL AB, the Swedish outfit behind the MySQL open source database, and its one-time partner NuSphere Inc have settled their incendiary 17-month legal battle, historic for being the first time a company - in this case NuSphere - was ever...

NEC Linux, Anyone?(NEC operating system development)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... NEC US is currently facing a naming dilemma. It's not sure whether to call the Linux it'll be selling on its otherwise Windows-based fault-tolerant machines Red Hat or NEC Linux. See, its people started with the freebie Red Hat Linux...

OSDL Gets CEO.(Jerry Greenberg named Open Source Development Lab CEO)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Fretting over its messaging - or lack of it - the board of the Open Source Development Lab has named a CEO over the head of incumbent lab director Tim Witham, a gent with little tolerance for marketing. OSDL hasn't a CEO before. The former...

SGI To Show its 64p Linux Box.(64-processor Linux-on-McKinley supercomputer)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... SGI is going to turn up at Super-Computing 2002 this week coming with its sexy 64-processor Linux-on-McKinley machine, the first time the public will see the beast supposedly running real-life apps. The company is still being secretive...

Gallatin's Here.(Intel ships Gallatin processor)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Intel Monday officially released Gallatin, the next-generation Xeon that's been in OEM hands for a while already. The new Xeon MP, which basically pushes Foster aside, is intended primarily for the same mid-tier and back-end (well, some away)...

AMD Plays Coy on Cuts.(Advanced Micro Systems layoff plans)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... AMD has yet to come to grips publicly with how many people it's going to lay off to survive. At its annual analyst meeting Thursday, all CEO Hector Ruiz could manage to admit to was "a significant number," but AMD chairman Jerry Sanders...

Lindows Suggests Ballmer Had a Word with Wal-Mart.(antitrust action suggested)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson, in one of those "Michael's Minute" e-mails the company sends out, claimed this week that "when we started selling computers at walmart.com, Microsoft's CEO [Steve Ballmer] contacted the world's largest...

Wind River Moves to Subscriptions.(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Wind River is switching to a subscription scheme to build deferred revenues, trying to hit the barn with broad solutions rather than point products. Payments will still apparently be up-front. Seat licenses, now 40% of its revenues, are...

Dell Debuts New Small Biz Server.(Dell Computer PowerEdge 1600SC)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Dell has introduced a new server for small businesses and corporate workgroups. Dubbed the PowerEdge 1600SC, the box comes with optional remote management capabilities so customers can control or diagnose it regardless of its operating...

The Things You Hear over Dinner.(Sun Microsystems embraces Linux)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... So Prudential Securities gave a bunch of Sun senior managers, all direct McNealy reports, including Neal Knox, executive VP of volume systems products, dinner and they chewed over Sun's labored decision to get into Linux and bottom line they...

Linux-based PVR Emerges from Sony's CoCoon.(Sony Channel Server CSV-E77)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Sony this week launched an anticipated new line of digital media products in Japan called CoCoon, a cute way of saying COnnected COmmunity On Network. The first product is a non-Windows-, non-Intel- , non-Tivo-based personal video recorder. If...

Jabber Expands Deal with France Telecom.(instant messaging)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... Jabber Inc, the company that has its roots in the Jabber open source instant messaging software project, has expanded its software agreement with France Telecom in a three-stage distribution deal that could potentially be worth millions of...

MIT Dreams of Newfangled Alexandrian Library.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology develops digital library )(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a digital library called Dspace that it hopes will encompass virtually the entire intellectual output of its scholars and researchers. A joint venture between MIT and Hewlett-Packard is...

Linus on the Desktop.(Linus Torvalds sees Linux replacing Windows on the desktop)(Brief Article)
November 11, 2002... "I absolutely believe in a Linux desktop. I think the way it will happen is through corporate desktops, where Windows maintenance and licensing costs are just going to eventually cause more and more corporations to realize they just don't need...

If You're Gonna Pull a Gun, Best Make Sure There's a Bullet in the Chamber.(Sun Microsystems' Sun One)
November 18, 2002... Sun is cultivating a reputation of going off half-cocked. Sun ONE is a good example. Sun's Linux desktop gambit, supposedly its way of nibbling at the fringes of the Microsoft empire, looks like it's shaping up to be another. What...

Microsoft Changes Tack To Counter Linux.
November 18, 2002... Microsoft has enlisted Dell in its latest scheme to checkmate the spread of Linux. The two have embarked on a Unix-to-Windows migration campaign meant to deprive Linux of its natural market. Linux has been dining out on Unix for...

Psst! Wanna See .NET 64 for Opteron?(Newisys)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... Oracle has ported its 9i database to AMD's hybrid 64-bit Opteron chip on Linux though why AMD hasn't thought to mention it is a wonder. So far the only known snazzy software to support the part is IBM's Oracle rival DB2. One assumes AMD has...

Capellas Quits HP Reportedly for - Oh My Sainted Aunt - WorldCom!
November 18, 2002... Before most people, even the early birds, got to work in California Monday morning, HP had announc-ed that its ranking Compaq legacy, former Compaq CEO Michael Capellas, had resigned from both his job as HP president, the operations guy who was...

Sun Lay-offs Start.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... The expected second round of Sun layoffs, which is supposed to claim 4,400 souls, started in the US on what some dubbed "Black Tuesday" just like the Great Crash of 1929. Insiders said the pruning began with the "peons," and was expected...

United Linux To Surface.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... The promised rollout of the United Linux release that SuSE, the SCO Group, Turbo-linux and Conectiva are all supposed to unify on is set to happen on Tuesday, November 19 at Comdex and since it's an American venue SCO is expected to take the...

SWsoft Moves In on VMware Turf.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... VMware's corner on the IBM virtualization market may have just gotten a tad smaller. After jumping through hoops, little SWsoft has reportedly pulled off a sales agreement with the great one that will have IBM selling its Virtuozzo stuff on its...

Red Hat To Distribute Oracle Cluster File System.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... Red Hat plans to sell the Oracle Cluster File System to its enterprise customers. Oracle Cluster File System, combined with Red Hat's Advanced Server, is supposed to let customers manage their database storage in an Oracle9i Real...

Wal-Mart May Brand Its Own PC.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... Remember us saying that we had heard that Wal-Mart had very serious intentions in low-end PCs (CSN No 472)? Well, now Barron's is repeating speculation that Wal-Mart may bring out its own brand of PCs in the next 12-18 months. Barron's...

AMD To Cut 15%.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... AMD said Thursday that it was going to terminate 15% of its worldwide work-force by the end of calendar Q2, roughly 2,000 jobs, starting with the first thousand that day. The revelation represents a change in stance. As of last week, it...

Judge Signs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... After getting the few marginal changes that she wanted put in the Microsoft-Justice Department antitrust settlement last Friday, making it briefly the third revised proposed final judgment, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly signed the darn thing on...

LindowsOS 3.0 To Debut on Monday.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... The general release of LindowsOS is scheduled to start shipping on Monday, November 18. Lindows describes it as "the version that makes it possible for almost any computer user to install and run LindowsOS." LindowsOS 3.0 Membership...

FSF Gets $25,000 from MySQL.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... The Free Software Foundation has gotten $25,000 from MySQL AB, the Swedish concern behind the MySQL open source database. MySQL previously announced the donation but not its value. It will go toward supporting FSF's GPL Compliance Lab,...

Etagon Pairs with NetApp.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... Blade start-up Etagon Inc, the so-called power appliance people, says it's partnered with Network Appliance for the storage on one of its newfangled high-end Oracle9i RAC-made-simple "appliances" that ECB Processing, an international...

IBM, Sharp To Offer Enterprise Apps on Linux PDA.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... IBM and Sharp have teamed to enable businesses to extend enterprise applications to mobile workers on a new version of Sharp's Linux- based Zaurus PDA. The new Enterprise Edition Zaurus is supposed to let employees access databases to...

Yamaha Invests in MontaVista.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... Embedded Linux software house MontaVista Software says it's gotten an equity investment from Japan's Yamaha Corporation, without disclosing any details. Yamaha executives said embedded Linux was proving to be a good match for their digital...

IBM Claims Linux Speed-Start Program a Hit.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... IBM says that its recently introduced program to woo Linux developers has drawn a significant response. Dubbed Speed-start your Linux app, the IBM program, launched in late May, provides programmers with free re-sources such as trial copies...

Dell Meets Estimates.
November 18, 2002... Dell earned $561 million net, or 21 cents a share, on revenues of $9.14 billion in its fiscal third quarter ended November 1. Its EPS and revenues were both in line with Wall Street's expectations. In the preceding quarter, Dell earned...

New Unix Standard.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... Ah, yes, well, there now exists the ISO/IEC 9945: 2002 international standard, basically the Open Group's Single Unix Specification Version 3, a revision of the combined POSIX-Single Unix spec.

SCO Forms Volution JV.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... SCO has thrown its Volution technology into a joint venture with Center 7 called Volution Technology Inc targeting distributed retail and financial institutions.

Enterprise Linux Forum Set.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2002... There's an Enterprise Linux Forum set for Boston December 3-4 at the Marriott Copley Place. Red Hat, Oracle and IBM officials are expected to show up and wax eloquent. BMC, CA, Dell, Egenera, Sun, SuSE and Ximian, among others, are also...

SCO Aims United Linux Distro at M'soft.
November 25, 2002... The SCO Group says it's going to take its version of the United Linux distribution - on which it, SuSE, Conectiva and Turbolinux are banding together in search of collective strength - into the small and medium-size business market that's...

Ah, the Old End-Run around the File Formats Gambit.(Oasis committee to advance an open XML-based file format specification for office application)(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Oasis has formed a technical committee to advance an open XML-based file format specification for office application. Since such a creature could be used to rot Microsoft's hold on the desktop, you just know Sun Microsystems is party to it,...

IBM's On Demand Plan Gets Another Boost.(On Demand Innovation Services)
November 25, 2002... IBM will give its on demand computing initiative another shot in the arm and set up a new services unit inside its Research Division supported by billions in investments over the next three years. Dubbed On Demand Innovation Services, the...

AMD Adds to x86-64 Roadmap.
November 25, 2002... AMD has acknowledged the truth of those reports saying that its move to a 90-nanometer process has been pushed from the second half of next year into the first half of aught four, delaying its game of catch-up with Intel (CSN No 476). In...

No RAND Mojo Need Apply.(World Wide Web Consortium)(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... W3C figures it's resolved all the internal issues and is circulating a revised so-called Last Call Working Draft of its royalty-free patent policy. It thinks it's simplified things. The public now has until December 31 to stick its two...

Lindows Boxes 'Sold Out'.
November 25, 2002... Lindows.com said late Thursday that TigerDirect has "completely sold out of thousands" of those $229 Lindows-based computers it's sold for maybe all of a month - gee, I wish I could raise an eyebrow the way Sister Rita Gerard, the prefect of...

Linux NetworX To Set Up Joint Venture in Japan.(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Linux cluster specialist Linux NetworX is setting up a joint venture with its Japanese reseller Best Systems called Linux NetworX Asia to address the Far East and South East Asian markets. The JV is expected to focus on further penetration...

Xeon Line Overhauled.
November 25, 2002... weeks earlier, Intel had overhauled its complete Xeon line from top to bottom, trotting out seven new processors, two new chipsets and five new server boards. Basically, all the stuff we said at the beginning of October would get here by now...

Sun Buys Another Jejune Virtualization Player.
November 25, 2002... Sun Microsystems said last Friday that it had acquired TerraSpring, an infrastructure automation developer whose technology it intends to use in its ambitious N1 management scheme. Sun called TerraSpring, which is supposed to create a...

China, MontaVista & CE.(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... It seems those Mips-based Student PCs that AMD is whipping up for the huge Chinese education market out its new joint venture are spec'd to support both MontaVista Linux or Windows CE.NET. The Chinese are writing the apps and they may be...

Wang Out at CA.(Charles Wang)(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Charles Wang, the controversial and not-very-popular founder of Computer Associates, up and retired from the company's board on Monday, immediately turning over the chair to his lieutenant Sanjay Kumar, CA's president and CEO. Wang's...

HP Delivers on Expectations.(Q4 2002 results )
November 25, 2002... The market was dying for upbeat Q4 results from HP Wednesday and got them, giving rise to an after-hours buying flurry on Wall Street and a certain general buoyancy on Thursday. HP ended the day up 13% to 19 bucks and change. The company...

Ex-eMachines People Tie Up with Lindows.(StepUp Computing )(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Lindows.com has identified the company it'll be using to try to put a $500 Lindows-based Tablet PC-style widget on the market - without the handwriting recognition that would seem to be the Tablet's whole point - as two-month-old start-up...

With RISC's Connivance, Intel Will Pass It: Dataquest.(Dataquest prediction)(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Dataquest is predicting that next year Intel will make the great breakthrough it's been praying for and beat out RISC servers in terms of revenue for the first time ever. Intel's been the unit leader for a while now, but has never even been...

Sun, Check Point To Debut Linux Security Appliance.(Sun LX50 VPN/Firewall)(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Sun and Check Point Software Technologies have come together to offer a Linux-based VPN and firewall appliance to protect the privacy of online business communications and to secure network resources against unauthorized access. The new...

Egenera Picks Up Ex-EMC Exec.(Al Lanzetta as VP, worldwide enterprise services)(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Egenera has named Al Lanzetta VP, worldwide enterprise services. He is to oversee installation and deployment, technical support, field engineering, training, consulting and professional services through both direct and third-party channels....

AMD Picks Up Hammer Support.(Apache web server software )(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... AMD is going to be getting Apache web server software for its hybrid Opteron chip from both Apache specialist Covalent Technologies and from Red Hat. Red Hat's doing it as part of the Advanced Server package that it's moving to the Opteron....

Arrow to Hawk SuSE Linux.(Brief Article)
November 25, 2002... Arrow Electronics has signed an agreement with SuSE Linux to distribute SuSE's United Linux-based Enterprise Server 8 and Open exchange Server through US VARs. The distribution deal with Arrow's IBM-focused Support Net Division is supposed...