Linux Gram articles from October 2002

Linux Gram archives from October 2002

Lindows Unchastened.(AOL denies marketing relationship)(Company Business and Marketing)
October 7, 2002... When last we looked AOL was reaching for its lawyer having grown impatient with the shenanigans of publicity-seeking Lindows.com and its inflated claims - which it refuses to recant - about having a strategic relationship with AOL that AOL...

LSB Certification Starts Taking Hold.(Mandrake ProSuite 9.0, Red Hat Linux 8.0, SuSE Linux 8.1 and SCO's Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1)(Product Information)
October 7, 2002... The Linux distros are starting to get their operating systems LSB- certified at a clip now. So far this week, the Mandrake ProSuite 9.0, Red Hat Linux 8.0, SuSE Linux 8.1 and SCO's Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 have all gotten the open source...

Maddog Gets a New Patron.(SGI hires Maddog Hall)
October 7, 2002... In the tradition of the industry, SGI is going to pick up the salary of "Maddog" Hall, president of Linux International (LI), something DEC, Compaq and VA Linux have all done before it. SGI is hoping that Hall, the archetypal missionary and a...

Red Hat, Political Correctness & Order Out of Chaos.(Red Hat Linux 8.0)(Product Information)
October 7, 2002... Red Hat is "drawing an increasingly sharp circle around Advanced Server as the 'correct' Linux product for enterprise deployments. Red Hat isn't really fighting the other Linux distros - that battle is now mostly about clearing the battlefield...

Walter Mitty Lives.(Veritas CFO Kenneth Lonchar)
October 7, 2002... Veritas CFO Kenneth Lonchar, one of the company's executive VPs, was forced to resign Thursday morning because he was found to have embellished his resume and claimed educational credentials - like an MBA from Stanford University - that he...

4,500 Sun Workers Could Be in Jeopardy.
October 7, 2002... Sun, whose pricey Unix servers are bedeviled by cheaper Intel gear, told the SEC that it would probably take a charge of as much as $2.2 billion against its goodwill balance this quarter if its market cap didn't rebound to the $29 billion level...

AMD Says Q3 Sucked.
October 7, 2002... AMD said the pretty notions it had about how the third quarter would go were chewed up and spit out by reality and that it's gonna turn up on the short side in revenues and post a "substantial" operating loss when its financial results come out...

Dell Raises its Forecast.($9.1 billion in fiscal Q3 )
October 7, 2002... Contrary to just about everybody else's experience and for the third time in three quarters, Dell Tuesday lifted its guidance, saying it should do a record $9.1 billion in fiscal Q3 and realize 21 cents a share by the time the quarter ends on...

Barrett-Taylor Negotiations Fail.(Intel CEO Craig Barrett and Intergraph CEO James Taylor )(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Intel CEO Craig Barrett and Intergraph CEO James Taylor failed to come to terms during their court-ordered settlement summit last week in Texas, leaving the decision up to the judge. Intergraph claims Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip trespasses on...

Sun's Own.(Linux kernel planned)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Gossip says Sun is going to put proprietary technology in the Linux kernel as a differentiator for its so-called Red Hat-derived Sun Linux. If true, such a move could be met with one of several reactions: There's not enough value-add and nobody...

New Xeons Due.(Intel Xeon microprocessors)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Between, oh, say, mid-October and mid-November, Intel will be overhauling its Xeon line, bringing out new DPs and MPs, new chipsets and new white box boards. The new Xeon DPs will get a 533MHz bus; otherwise, speeds and process stay the same....

Is Lucy Holding the Football Again?(AMD Hammer considered by Bear Stearns)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Bear Stearns says that Intel-pure Dell said it was looking at the AMD Hammer chip during the cocktail party before Dell's analyst meeting this week. Guess that puts them on the record about something that was broadly assumed. We can't wait to...

Sun's Geography Lesson.(Sun Microsystems Inc)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... "We're hoping they drop servers en masse on Iraq." - Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, who knows a thing or two about being under heavy fire. Among other things, Sun is accused of selling computers to Egypt in 1998 and Hong Kong in 1997...

x86 Solaris Returns.(from Sun Microsystems Inc)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Well, it seems Sun is going to resurrect x86 Solaris free from the confines of the new low-end LX50 Intel edge server that's currently the only way you can get the thing, but not free of charge. Back towards the beginning of the year,...

Egenera Opens Japan.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Moving quicker than it originally thought - well, IBM will be baring down on it soon claws extended - enterprise blade maker Egenera has hired another Stratus graduate - a lot of its people are ex-Stratus - to open up the Asian market for it....

Software Recovery Seen in 2003.(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... IDC thinks it sees a little light at the end of the tunnel for packaged software worldwide. In a new study, the market researcher said the packaged software market will see a slow to moderate growth recovery in 2003 despite economic...

Open Source Security Summit Set.(Red Hat's Open Source Security Summit)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Red Hat is putting together an Open Source Security Summit co-hosted by Dell that's set for Tuesday, October 29 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Apparently they're going to explore the assertion that the open source development model...

Antitrust Chief Quits.(Charles James quits Justice Department's Antitrust Division )
October 7, 2002... Charles James, the head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the guy who cut the government's highly controversial settlement agreement with Microsoft, has quit ahead of getting any clear resolution on whether the courts will accept...

Lindows Asks Court To Nix Windows Trademark.
October 14, 2002... That legal hand grenade that Microsoft lobbed at Lindows.com to force it to change its name because it was too close to Windows may wind up blowing up in Microsoft's own face In a turnabout highly dangerous to the software giant, Lindows...

Red Hat Buy NOCpulse for the Red Hat Network.
October 14, 2002... Red Hat has confirmed reports that it has bought privately held systems managementhouse NOCpulse Inc for its provisioning and its real-time end-to-end monitoringabilities. Ironically the start-up, whose technology will be merged into the...

Lindows Does the UK.(Evesham Technology's Escape Li)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Lindows is now an export. It's turned up in the Britain in company with establishedwhite box shifter Evesham Technology Ltd, which will sell a Lindows bundle calledEscape Li for 250 quid, not exactly the tantalizing $199 Lindows come-on that...

IBM's Intel Server Boss Bolts to Stratus.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Stratus Technologies has picked up James Gargan, the guy who's had P&Lresponsibility for IBM's xSeries line of Intel-based servers, as senior VP, worldwidemarketing Earlier this year Stratus lost senior VP of worldwide sales and marketing...

Intel Loses Itanium Infringement Case to Intergraph.
October 14, 2002... Intergraph Thursday won the patent infringement case it brought against Intelcharging that Intel's precious 64-bit Itanium chip, so long in the making, treads ontwo of its parallel instruction computing patents The decision puts Intel at...

The Economy & the Stock Market Are Cursed.
October 14, 2002... One of the talking heads on television said Wednesday night that the stock markethadn't been this bad since FDR was in office and we were preparing for World War II- and, remember, it was WWII that got us out of the Great Depression if that's...

Supreme Court Hears Copyright Case.(overturning the "Sonny Bono" Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998)
October 14, 2002... The Supreme Court seems to be judiciously paused over the prospect of overturningthe "Sonny Bono" Copyright Term Extension (CTEM) Act of 1998 that madecorporate copyrights good for 95 years, and 70 years, not 50, after an artist's death,same as...

Ximian Lays Out the Red Carpet.(Red Carpet Enterprise)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 14, 2002... So now Ximian is finally in the Red Carpet Enterprise business hoping companieswill use its widgetry to automatically update groups of systems on demand or onpreset schedules with the latest versions of custom software, Ximian stuff,...

Penguin Hatches Another Machine.(Penguin Computing's 1URelion 1X)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Penguin Computing has come out with a new general-purpose Red Hat 7.3-based 1URelion 1X that it's priced to start at $1,199, but the money only buys a 1.8MHzCeleron with 128KB of cache, 256MB of DDR memory, a 20GB drive, no removablemedia, no...

Lineo Will Reportedly Change Hands Again.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... Embedix, aka Lineo, the embedded Linux firm that hit the wall running thenreorganized, thinks it's going to get bought soon. It's something like 60% owned bythe Canopy Group, 20% owned by Egan Venture Capital, the venture arm of EMC'sfounder....

Linux Comes One Step Closer To Liberating the Xbox.
October 14, 2002... On the theory that Microsoft's Xbox must be a Unix widget because it's got a "X" inits name, the so-called open source Xbox Linux Project has been laboring for monthsto displace the stripped-down Windows 2000 kernel that runs the thing with a...

Free Standards Group Moves on Internationalization.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... The Free Standards Group says it's ready to start certifying Linux distributions ascompliant with its recently rechristened OpenI18N internationalization standard,which is supposed to save developers gobs of time thanks to its idea of "write...

Advisory Issued on Linux Use.(TowerGroup's estimate of Linux use in North American brokerage houses)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 14, 2002... TowerGroup, the market researcher, estimates that Linux is now deployed on 14% ofthe servers at North American brokerage houses, where Microsoft, represented byboth NT and Windows 2000, controls 54% of the boxes and Unix 27%, leaving 5%,which...

Warburg Wipes the Floor with AMD.(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... "After pre-announcing a 25% revenue shortfall, AMD closed down 32% at $3.65, along way down from the low-teen level when Jerry left. AMD still seems to beworking through a never-ending pile of channel inventory, a key member of theHammer team...

Gartner Writes Off Opteron.(AMD's hybrid 64-bit Opteron chip)(Brief Article)
October 14, 2002... At Gartner's big industry bash in Florida this week - despite the economy it got 6,000people to come - two of its analysts, George Weiss and John Enck, trashed thechances of AMD's hybrid 64-bit Opteron chip having any impact on the...

AMD To Develop Boxes for China.
October 14, 2002... AMD and one China Basic Education Software Company Ltd are setting up a jointventure called the Beijing CBE AMD Information Technology Company Ltd todevelop a Student PC, Teacher PC and Classroom Server using AMD's x86 chips,Mips-based embedded...

StarOffice Turns Profitable: McNealy.
October 21, 2002... Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who's looking at losing 20% of his company to forced terminations between his last round of layoffs and the next one coming up, said that StarOffice, his stick-it-to- Microsoft-Office scheme, turned...

Turbo, SuSE Combine Linux Development Efforts on IBM Machines.
October 21, 2002... Erstwhile rivals Turbolinux Inc and SuSE have forged an alliance to combine their enterprise Linux software development efforts for IBM's zSeries mainframes, iSeries and pSeries servers. The two companies said Wednesday that they plan to...

Sledge Moves Up in the Pecking Order.
October 21, 2002... AMD has switched tacks and is now saying the so-called 64-bit hybrid "SledgeHammer die will be first to market" and that its initial Hammer focus will be on the server, where it's confident of an "absolutely clean kill." Its remarks, made...

SuSE Debuts Openexchange Server.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... German Linux house SuSE Linux has bundled e-mail and groupware applications in with its Linux Enterprise Server to create a product called Openexchange Server. Targeted at business, Openexchange Server includes features such as a web mail...

Red Hat Advanced Server's Trying To Get in School.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Red Hat says it's working on a discount schedule for Advanced Server that it hopes universities find attractive enough that they quit using Red Hat's free code. Red Hat is currently getting nothing out of most of these vaunted cluster...

Linux NetworX Teams with German Research Center.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Linux cluster specialist Linux NetworX has combined forces with German research center Fraunhofer Institut fur Techno und Wirtschaftsmathematik to address the increasing demand for high- performance computing in Germany. The partnership...

Xandros Desktop To Include CrossOver.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Xandros Corporation, the Canadian outfit that picked up Corel's Debian-based desktop Linux distribution last year, plans to include CodeWeavers' CrossOver software in its upcoming Xandros Desk-top product. The CrossOver technology should...

Is the Future Here Yet?(Via Technologies' C5XL to be sold by Walmart)
October 21, 2002... Via Technologies expects to take its el cheapo C3 x86 chip, an 800MHz species of which is being used in that $199 Linux box walmart.com is selling, into the 1.4GHz-1.5GHz realm early next year with a widget code named Nehemiah, an Old Testament...

Sun, the Sick Man of Silicon Valley, To Cut 11% of Staff.
October 21, 2002... Down on its uppers, Sun Microsystems ended rampant speculation Thursday and said it'll cut another 11% of its people, some 4,400 folks, as well as eliminate more facilities to ward off the boogieman of revenue shortfalls. Merrill Lynch hit...

Sun Does its Apple Imitation.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... "Although we aren't ready to write off Sun, we are concerned that it could lose the war of perception....[Because of its failure to join the mass migration to Intel], Sun risks becoming the next Apple, in our view - cool but less relevant,...

Dell Tops HP-Compaq Combine.
October 21, 2002... After losing the number-one slot to the brand new HP-Compaq combine in Q2, Dell in Q3 regained the title as the world's ranking computer vendor, a category that includes Intel servers, desktops and notebooks. Before its brief Q2 setback,...

Intel's Q3 Numbers, Q4 Promises Soft & Squishy like Mud.
October 21, 2002... Intel's touchstone Q3 results came in Tuesday short of expectations, casting a further pall over the already bleak computer landscape. The not-very-happy company put a smiley face, as best it could, on the situation, calling its...

Deuces & Treys.(Intel branding strategy)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Despite certain references we've seen styling Madison the Itanium III, Intel's gonna call the thing Itanium 2, just like McKinley. (Ahh, do we see a branding mess like Xeon coming?) McKinley, Madison and the Montecito, slated for 2004, are all...

Intel Servers Show Vague Signs of Life: IDC.
October 21, 2002... After we went to press last week, IDC took a backward glance with its misnamed Quarterly Server Forecast and said Intel server sales should have worth $5 billion in calendar Q3, the first time since the beginning of last year that the sector...

AMD Still Believes in Santa Claus.(Q3 losses of $254 million)
October 21, 2002... So AMD dragged in Wednesday with Q3 losses of $254 million, 74 cents a share, on revenues of $508 million, down 34% year-over-year and 15% sequentially. Excluding restructuring and other charges, it lost $97 million, 28 cents a share, on...

IBM Profits Fall; Beats Estimates.
October 21, 2002... After Intel's results butchered the fragile Wall Street rally this week, IBM's healing touch restored it although we can all sit around and debate whether its numbers deserved to be the antidote. IBM's net income dropped about 18% in Q3...

AMD Creates Corporate Marketing Job.(Patrick Moorhead appointed Marketing VP)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... AMD, which could use a bit of marketing, according to its OEM customers, has anointed Patrick Moorhead, one of its own, VP of corporate marketing, responsible for corporate branding, positioning, communications and what the company calls...

Interact-TV Launches Wintel-free Digital Media Server.
October 21, 2002... Embedded digital media software developer Interact-TV is testing the consumer electronics waters with a $695 set-top called Telly. The device is based on a Linux-based Interact operating system called EOS, or Entertainment Operating System....

Lane15 Launches InfiniBand Kit.(Lane15 Software )(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Infiniband fabric management software vendor Lane15 Software has released a Vendor Extension Kit that provides a rapid application development environment for enterprise hardware and software developers to adapt their value-add products for...

Wasabi Ports NetBSD to SH-5.(Wasabi Systems SH-5)(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Embedded BSD specialist Wasabi Systems has ported the NetBSD OS to the 64-bit SH-5 processor from SuperH, a joint venture between Hitachi and STMicroelectronics. SH-5, which is targeted at system-on-chip designs and embedded applications,...

The Carly Factor.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... Terry Shannon, the DEC watcher turned Compaq watcher turned HP watcher, says that come November 1 Hewlett-Packard's gonna stop calling itself Hewlett-Packard except in legal documents and settle for the clipped HP.

LinuxWorld Preparations Underway.(Brief Article)
October 21, 2002... IDG has started promoting the next LinuxWorld set for January 21-24 at the Javits Center in New York. They've got AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, who'll doubtless be touting the Hammer, keynoting along with Steve Mills, the head of IBM's Software...

All Hail, the Power Appliance: The Next Next Thing.
October 28, 2002... Well, it looks like we're standing by waiting for a New York start-up by the name of Etagon Inc, that's a year or so old, to deliver some widgetry that it calls a Power Appliance that says is a platform hosting appliance. A...

So How Come the New Economy Bombed.
October 28, 2002... Well, it seems it wasn't just God's work smiting - like Sodom and Gomorra - the insufferably stupid, vapid and hollow ideas that flourished under the New Economy's brief sojourn and the insufferably greedy and undeserving people who went along...

Linux Upstart Wants To Rip a Piece out of Microsoft's Flank.(Trustix AS)
October 28, 2002... Norwegian Linux house Trustix AS, all of 50 people strong and backed by three rounds of financing worth $10 million, has got itself some global ambitions lately and is going to take a shot at breaking out of the confines of the Scandinavian...

Lindows Set Scene for General Release.(Lindows.com push into the market )(Product Information)
October 28, 2002... The great Lindows.com push into the market is about to hit the next phase. The company has a put a date, well, kinda put a date, more of a timeframe, on when the general release of its long-awaited desktop operating system will finally arrive....

Mitch Kapor Ventures into the Lion's Den.(heads Chandler open source initiative)
October 28, 2002... Lotus co-founder Mitch Kapor is venturing into the lion's den. Kapor, one of the key people behind the wildly successful Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet of yesteryear, is now the leading light behind a new open source initiative, code named Chandler...

Opteron Gets Sexy Win.(AMD's Opteron chip for Cray's Red Storm supercomputer)
October 28, 2002... Cray Inc is going to build a $90 million supercomputer system out of AMD's hybrid 64-bit Opteron chip for the Department of Energy's Sandia National Lab, a pretty chi-chi design-win for a part that isn't out yet, has no confirmable benchmarks...

Xandros Hits Market.(Xandros Desktop-CrossOver )(Product Information)
October 28, 2002... Xandros has finally made it to market, several quarters late, but its Debian-based desktop Linux instantiation, the one that Corel dumped, has made it out. Now all it's got to do is pray the timing is right and the market's ready. ...

Imagine the Web Ceasing To Be a Maintenance Nightmare.(Netfrastructure Inc)
October 28, 2002... Well, now we get to see if the old boy can do it again. Jim Starkey, the guy who, among other things, did InterBase, the first relational database to support little things like multi- versioning, event alerts, arrays and triggers, and then...

Chrysler Crash Tests Linux Cluster.(IBM's M Pro 6850 Intellistations )(Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Auto giant Chrysler Group has deployed a 108-node Linux cluster based on IBM's M Pro 6850 Intellistations to simulate mission-critical crash tests. IBM, Red Hat, Intel and Livermore Software Technology Corporation collaborated in putting...

Linux Demand is More than Merrill Lynch Can Handle.(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... "The list of people in the queue who are saying, 'When I have a new project, I'm going to use Linux' is larger than we can handle. I'd say it will be significant over the next year. A majority of new projects are interested in Linux." - Rick...

HP Claims To Be Linux' Big Kahuna.($2 billion worth of gear)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Hewlett-Packard claims to be the largest Linux vendor having moved $2 billion worth of gear. Gee just when Dell has been waving around those IDC figures that give it the lead in deploying Intel-based Linux technical clusters in the first half....

MySQL To Ship with NetWare.(MySQL for NetWare 6.0)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Novell will ship a commercial version of the MySQL database with NetWare 6 and any subsequent releases. Since Novell is distributing a commercially licensed version of the database, there are no user restrictions or open source requirements...

BlueCat Linux To Support Carrier-Grade Linux.(LynuxWorks' product enhancement)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Embedded software house LynuxWorks plans to integrate the feature set of the so-called Carrier-Grade Linux 1.0, defined by the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) into the next version of its embedded Linux OS BlueCat Linux, scheduled for...

Avamar Debuts Backup & Restore Appliance.(Avamar Technologies' Axion)(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Storage start-up Avamar Technologies has launched an appliance to manage enterprise backup, restore and archival. Dubbed Axion, the fledgling's so-called Snapup technology is supposed to eliminate the need for full-scale recurring backups...

Trebia Debuts Storage Network Processors.(SNP-1000, SNP-1000i and SNP-500 )(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Trebia Networks has introduced a set of storage network processors for deploying enterprise IP SANs. The two-year-old Acton, Massachusetts outfit announced three storage network processors Monday targeted at both network switches and...

HP Turns Madison into Siamese Twins.(Brief Article)
October 28, 2002... Hewlett-Packard had taken the upcoming Madison chip, the next- generation Itanium 2, and stuck two of them on the same-size module that Intel is using for just one of the gismos and added a whole swat of L4 off-die cache, 32MB to be exact, to...