Linux Gram articles from September 2001

Linux Gram archives from September 2001

More Layoffs Rumored at Caldera.(departure of another 150 employees at Caldera Systems)(Company Operations)
September 3, 2001... Sources claim Caldera is planning the departure of another 150 employees. Rumors of new layoffs have been circulating inside the company for the last few days. Caldera declined to comment, saying only that times are "very tough" and that...

Patents Safe - For the Moment.(Industry Trend or Event)
September 3, 2001... The initiative to open up other people's patents to the open source movement - the one put in train in late March by Bruce Perens, one of open source's founding fathers - has been derailed. Well, kinda. Perens said his approach was way...

Twenty-man Start-up with $10m Budget & Corel's Discarded Linux Distro Seeks To Challenge Microsoft's Desktop Monopoly.(Company Business and Marketing)
September 3, 2001... It's one thing to be courageous. It's another to be courageous unto recklessness, especially around matches and money. After maybe 10 or more months of negotiating, Corel has finally dumped its desktop Linux distribution. The...

Korean Revenge: Haansoft Hits US with Office Rival.(HancomOffice 1.2 from Haansoft)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Korean ISV Haansoft, formerly Hangul and Computer Company, is coming to the US with HancomOffice to torment its old nemesis, Microsoft. HancomOffice, as the name implies, is aimed at Microsoft Office. Besides Windows it also runs on Linux...

SuSE Loses its Highest-Profile Manager.(SuSE CTO Dirk Hohndel resigns)(Company Operations)
September 3, 2001... SuSE CTO Dirk Hohndel, who doubled as president of its tiny US unit, has left the company. He was based in Germany and traveled back and forth to the company's Oakland, California headquarters. Hohndel's departure comes roughly a month...

Microsoft Third Column Infiltrates LinuxWorld.(Doug Miller's Linux forecast)(Company Business and Marketing)
September 3, 2001... Microsoft's agitprop commandant Doug Miller, the guy who's supposed to poke a stick in Linux' wheel, claims the wheel is already losing air. Miller, who was at LinuxWorld this week sewing seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt, waves around...

HP Cluster Software Coming in October.(MC/ServiceGuard Linux)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its MC/ServiceGuard Linux high- availability clustering software, which is running several months behind schedule, in late October. HP originally planned to debut the stuff early this year and demo'd it for...

VA Names SourceForge Customer.(SourceForge Portal Edition purchased by HP)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... VA Linux Systems, out of the hardware business now and depending on its SourceForge software to save its bacon, identified HP as one of its first customers. It said its newfangled SourceForge Portal Edition would power the HP Embedded Software...

One-time CompuAdd CEO Steps into Boxx.(Boxx Technologies new CEO is Rick Krause)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Rick Krause, the past CEO of failed PC house CompuAdd, has been named president and CEO of digital content creation systems house Boxx Technologies. Krause was most recently operations and sales VP at Canadian Windows-based kiosk and ATM...

Amiga Offers $20 Kit To Turn Windows & Linux PCs into Amiga-powered PDAs.(AmigaDE)(Product Information)
September 3, 2001... Amiga's at it again. Now it imagines that Windows and Linux users won't rest unless they can run applications written for the "new" Amiga, which is a software platform, not a computer. It even imagines that users are going to pay $20...

Embedded Open Motif Released.(Embedded Open Motif from Integrated Computer Solutions)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Integrated Computer Solutions, the Open Motif people, turned up at LinuxWorld with an embedded version of the thing and a bunch of PDA apps code named Usable after an illusive technological model akin to the Unicorn. The widgetry is targeted at...

Timing is Everything.(4,500 people at LinuxWorld 2001)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... There were supposedly 4,500 people at LinuxWorld this week. It was as ill-timed an event as any the industry has ever staged. Not only did it run right into a big holiday weekend, practically the last celebration of summer in the new...

Tivoli Goes Linux.(Risk Manager 3.8 on Linux)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Taking its lead from its IBM parent, Tivoli said Tuesday that it's going to add Linux support to its entire line of security and web management software. Tivoli, which already supports Linux on some of its infrastructure management...

Mission Critical To Offer New Cluster Software.(Mission Critical Linux powers NetGuard)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Mission Critical Linux is adding new cluster software to its Convolo line with NetGuard 1.0 for IP-centric apps. NetGuard is supposed to support two to 128 systems and is designed for applications that require rapid response to failures and...

Lineo Bags Motorola Deal.(Motorola has selected Lineo's Embedix Digital Media)(Product Information)
September 3, 2001... Motorola has selected Lineo's Embedix Digital Media core as the first Linux for its DCT5000 interactive digital set-tops. The Lineo product consists of the Embedix OS, some graphic and transport stream drivers, TV and video extensions for...

Turbo Cuts Joint Venture with Samsung SDS.(Turbolinux Systems to provide Linux systems integration support)(Company Business and Marketing)
September 3, 2001... Turbolinux has established a 50-50 joint venture with Korean IT solutions provider Samsung SDS called Turbolinux Systems to provide Linux systems integration support and enterprise applications to the corporate and public sector in Korea,...

Cuadra Ports Star to Linux.(Cuadra Associates Star 3.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Los Angeles-based Cuadra Associates has ported its flagship Star information management and retrieval program to Linux. The application was previously available on NT, Windows 2000 and various flavors of Unix. Cuadra president Carlos...

MandrakeSoft Launches Release 8 for PowerPC.(Mandrake Linux 8 for PowerPC)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... MandrakeSoft has put out Mandrake Linux 8 for PowerPC, the company's first software for the chip. The release, which targets Apple G3 and G4 owners, is supposed to be optimized for the PowerPC G3. The PowerPC release builds on the...

RedSonic Drops Anchor in Singapore.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Embedded real-time Linux start-up RedSonic has set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore as part of its drive to expand into Southeast Asia and India. RedSonic SEA, the new subsidiary, will offer its parent's Red- Builder graphical...

Embedded Linux Support Reported Cheaper.(study by Venture Development Corp)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Embedded developers are paying less for Linux support compared to traditional embedded operating systems, according to a study by Venture Development Corporation (VDC). VDC says 69.2% of its respondents said they were paying less for Linux...

MontaVista To Support XScale.(Hard Hat Linux for XScale OS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... MontaVista is adding support for Intel's XScale microarchitecture, which is tailored to wireless Internet devices and network infrastructure devices like routers, network attached storage and switches. The San Jose, California-based...

MontaVista Debuts New Offerings.(High Availability Framework)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... MontaVista introduced High Availability Framework software and two graphical development environments for its Hard Hat embedded operating system at LinuxWorld. The High Availability Framework software, an add-on to Hard Hat Linux...

ActiveState Puts Komodo on Linux.(Komodo IDE for Linux)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Canadian start-up ActiveState plans to release a Linux version of its Komodo Integrated Development Environment (IDE) this fall. Komodo IDE for Linux, currently in beta, lets developers edit and debug scripting languages such as Perl,...

IBM Hits Wall Street Up for Linux.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... IBM is crowing about its success with the financial community in moving their key apps to Linux. Blue says that the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and its subsidiary Sector Inc are moving their ArtMail application, which...

Tuxia Teams Up with System-on-Chip Vendor.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Embedded Linux appliance software concern Tuxia has partnered with system-on-chip vendor Rise Technology to jointly provide embedded Linux solutions for thin clients and information appliances. As part of the alliance, Rise plans to...

Dolphin Interconnect Supports Itanium.(WulfKit Scaleable Coherent Interface)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 3, 2001... Dolphin Interconnect on Monday released the software needed so its WulfKit Scaleable Coherent Interface (SCI) can work with Itanium. WulfKit is the sexy interconnect used in many "supercomputers" and Beowulf clusters built out of hundreds...

SGI, Linux NetworX Win Cluster Deal for Nuclear Project.(National Nuclear Security Administration's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)(Government Activity)
September 3, 2001... SGI Federal, a wholly owned subsidiary of SGI, and Linux cluster expert Linux NetworX have jointly won a bid to build three Parallel Capacity Resource clusters totaling 472 Pentium 4 processors for the National Nuclear Security Administration's...

Astaro Upgrades Linux Security Software.(Security Linux 2.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... German ISV Astaro AG has upgraded its Security Linux firewall software. Rev 2 of Security Linux, based on a hardened Linux kernel, features various enhancements including the ability to send backup files by e-mail to enable cold standby...

Penguin Unveils AMD Servers.(Penguin Computing's Altus 1240)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... Penguin Computing has introduced a new line of 1U dual-Athlon MP 1.2GHz Linux servers, continuing the company's love affair with AMD. Dubbed Altus 1240, the server includes a 266MHz front-side bus, up to 4GB of DDR RAM and four...

SuSE Launches Linux Enterprise Server 7.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... SuSE has released Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA-32, IA-64 and 390 systems. The new OS, based on the 2.4 kernel, is supposed to include all the server services required for implementing e-mail, Internet and application services as well...

Tarantella Debuts Enterprise 3 Starter Kit.(Tarantella Enterprise 3 Starter for Linux)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 3, 2001... The recently reconstituted Tarantella Inc has released Enterprise 3 Starter for Linux targeted at small workgroups and departments. The new software is supposed to be useful for remote systems administration, accessing company applications...

Lineo To Fire More Staff, Spin Off Businesses, Close Overseas Offices.
September 10, 2001... Lineo, the embedded Linux house and sister to Caldera, is putting the finishing touches on a major restructuring exercise that will see the company fire another 20%-25% of its employees, spin off non- core businesses and close some of its...

Ah, It Was a Bitter Day for Caldera.(Q3 losses, layoff)
September 10, 2001... Caldera had a really bad day. On Thursday, it confirmed it would make more layoffs, proposed a reverse stock split to avoid de-listing from the Nasdaq, reported a net Q3 loss of $18.8 million and warned investors that revenues this quarter...

Ahh, The Infamous HP-Compaq Deal.
September 10, 2001... Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq in a huge, possibly reckless, stock deal initially valued at $25 billion, a number that sunk to $19.1 billion in the first three trading days since they went public with the announcement Monday night. The...

DOJ Throws in Towel on Tying & Breakup.(Microsoft)
September 10, 2001... The Justice Department Thursday finally conceded that its Clinton- era plan to break up Microsoft was dead and for good measure it abandoned the original antitrust charge it brought against Microsoft alleging that Windows and the Internet...

MandrakeSoft Debuts Paid Support.
September 10, 2001... Maybe, MandrakeSoft's support customers weren't generous enough with their tips. The French Linux distribution house on Wednesday launched a premium- paid support channel for its Mandrake Linux OS as part of MandrakeExpert V2, the latest...

Red Hat To Debut New Embedded Linux Suite.(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... Red Hat figures to expand its embedded portfolio by launching a new Embedded Linux Developer Suite in October. The new offering is targeted at device makers looking to open source as an alternative to proprietary run-time systems. The...

Caldera Debuts Volution Online.
September 10, 2001... Caldera has introduced Volution Online, an online software management service for Linux and Unix systems. Caldera got the technology for Volution Online when it acquired the WhatifLinux product line from Acrylis Inc for $3.55 million in...

Indian Start-ups To Debut Linux PDA in November.
September 10, 2001... Two start-ups in the southern Indian city of Bangalore are gearing up to launch a Linux-based PDA called the Simputer. Executives from Encore Software, which is involved in developing DSP-based modems, speech codecs and embedded systems,...

Control Tower Flies.(LX Technologies introduces Control Tower)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... Dense server pioneer RLX Technologies is ever so pleased with itself because it got what it thinks is some pretty sexy software out the door this week. Density requires efficient management, it says, and Control Tower, its proprietary...

HP-Compaq Merger Explained; Well, Kinda.
September 10, 2001... This story was flashed on Wednesday and hasn't been changed. Okay, so now we've had 24 hours to get used to the idea of HP acquiring Compaq. Thousands of words have already been written about the deal and, with one or two exceptions,...

AOL Lays Off Mozilla Chief; Bug-Infested Lizard Pushed Out Another Year.
September 10, 2001... Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chief Lizard Wrangler, an actual title, is out of a paying job. Baker was a Netscape employee and was caught up in the massive AOL layoff, according to Netscape communications director Catherine Corre. It's not...

DOJ Opposes Microsoft's Appeal.
September 10, 2001... This story is unchanged from when it broke. The Friday before the Labor Day weekend, the Justice Department objected to Microsoft's appeal to the Supreme Court. Claiming bias, Microsoft wants the Supremes to throw out all of Judge...

Intel Hangs Tough.
September 10, 2001... The semiconductor, PC and financial communities let out their collective breaths late Thursday after several days of fretting over what Intel would say at its mid-quarter seance. Intel ended the suspense by saying that it's going to do...

FSMLabs Lands Red Hat Deal.(startup Finite State Machine Labs)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Tiny embedded systems vendor Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) is all atwitter about its recent deal to provide Red Hat with its RTLinux hard real-time processing technology. FSMLabs CEO Victor Yodaiken expects the deal to give his...

Intel Joins Funding of Irish Web Services Security House.(Vordel Ltd)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Intel has joined a $10 million venture round in Irish security software house Vordel, a specialist in XML-based web services security. The funding of the Dublin company was led by Elderstreet, and provides cash for Vordel to expand the...

Availant Ports Windows Management Software to Linux,.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... Solaris Availant has released a "technology preview" of the Red Hat Linux and Solaris ports it's doing of its flagship Availant Manager for Windows systems management software. Availant president and CEO Mark Gagne says the...

SteelCloud Rushes Out with 1.7GHz Xeon Appliance.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... SteelCloud has rushed to be first to market with a server appliance built using Intel's new 1.7GHz Xeon. SteelCloud's widget, called the X42, is a 2U rack-mount powered by one or two of Intel's new CPUs and sporting up to 2GB of RDRAM and...

Penguin Computing To Launch Blade Servers.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Linux hardware vendor Penguin Computing is reported to be getting ready to launch blade servers, those newfangled dense single-board computers. The San Francisco start-up is believed to be planning to launch a 5.25-inch tall rack-mountable...

Mizi Wins PDA Deal.(with CITT for Linuette embedded Linux OS)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Mizi Research is tooting its horn about a deal it's won to supply its embedded Linux OS Linuette to fellow Korean CIIT for its multimedia PDA. Based on the Linux 2.4.5 kernel, the Linuette package also includes Trolltech's Qt/Embedded GUI...

Iona To Add Linux Mainframe Support.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 10, 2001... Iona plans to support Linux on IBM's z900 and 390 mainframes in some of the products in its e-Business Platform suite. Iona's e-Business Platform includes a J2EE-compliant application server, a mainframe and enterprise application...

OnCore Establishes New Design Center.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... Embedded Linux vendor OnCore Systems Corporation has set up a new design center in Ottawa. The center, which is starting off with a small team of eight developers, plans to be involved in creating custom ports of OnCore's microkernel...

LynuxWorks Debuts New Tool Bundles.
September 10, 2001... Embedded systems house LynuxWorks has launched four tool bundles with its BlueCat Linux OS. The San Jose, California concern expects that the bundles, which come with support, will help companies reduce time to market for developing new...

Carly-Capellas Gossip.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2001... One of the ex-Compaq mob says that Compaq CEO Michael Capellas has always been "starry-eyed" about Carly and that she was one of the two people in the industry that made him act like a "rock star groupie," the other being Bill Gates. All in...

Death Count.(Air crashes and New York World Trade Center disaster of Sep 11, 2001)
September 17, 2001... Akamai CTO Danny Lewin, 31, Sun Microsystems Boston Center for Networking director Phil Rosenzweig, 47, Compaq Global Services Group technical consultant Jeffrey Coombs, Cahners VP, business development, electronics and manufacturing divisions...

New Dense Server Ships.(Egenera's BladeFrame)
September 17, 2001... Egenera Inc has gone GA with its newfangled BladeFrame system after beta testing the thing at Credit Suisse, Storage Net-works and five9s uptime house Server-Vault. Pricing starts a $250,000. Egenera's Intel-Red Hat-based Processing Area...

Penniless Ebiz Files Chapter 11.
September 17, 2001... Ebiz, the largest self-proclaimed independent online reseller of Linux software and systems in the world, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company vows it won't close up shop and slink off into the night. The-LinuxStore...

Great Bridge Collapses.
September 17, 2001... Great Bridge, the company Frank Batten, Red Hat's original angel investor, was trying to build around PostgreSQL, the open source database, has failed. Its charter was to do "for databases what Red Hat did for Linux and operating systems."...

States Make Obstructionist Noises, Draw Bead on XP.(Microsoft case)
September 17, 2001... Maybe it was plain thunderstruck, but Microsoft publicly received the Justice Department's historic turnabout a week ago Thursday when the government abandoned breakup and tying, the centerpiece of its case, with near total silence. Which is...

Mozilla Beta Missing in Action.(Mozilla 0.9.4)
September 17, 2001... At press time there was still no sign of the Mozilla open source browser 0.9.4 beta now missing in action for a week. Work on Mozilla 0.9.4 was ostensibly finished almost two weeks ago, and the thing was scheduled to appear for download on...

Lineo Restructures.(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... Told ya so. Told ya so. Embedded operating system house Lineo restructured its operations on Friday, September 7 after we went to press. The company cut its headcount by 60 people and disclosed plans to spin out peripheral technology...

Caldera Says 51 Employees Laid Off.(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... Sources say Caldera laid off 51 people, about 8% of its total workforce of 618 employees Monday. Caldera announced the layoffs on September 6 but didn't provide details. The terminations were described as across-the-board affecting...

Caldera Fires LKP Guru.(Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) team)(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... Caldera canned Juergen Kienhoefer, a key member of its Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) team, in its layoffs a few days ago. Kienhoefer was considered the architect and original champion of LKP, which lets Linux programs run native on...

LynuxWorks To Raise More Funds.(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... LynuxWorks, the embedded OS house, says it's in the midst of a private placement to raise $10 million-$15 million. LynuxWorks VP of marketing Bob Morris said the funds weren't earmarked for a specific project but would be used for general...

NuSphere Responds to MySQL Counterclaim.
September 17, 2001... NuSphere, which filed suit against its database supplier in June, has responded to MySQL AB's counterclaim in the US District Court in Boston and denied MySQL's allegations. NuSphere, the Progress Software subsidiary, was set up last year...

Landmark Graphics To Add Linux Support.(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... Landmark Graphics, a supplier of software and services for the oil and gas industries, plans to port its full suite of 200-odd exploration and production applications to a range of Linux platforms. With the exception of its geographical...

everStor Launches jb Driver for Linux.(Product Announcement)
September 17, 2001... everStor has added Linux support to its jb Driver storage management software tool, which previously ran only on Solaris. jb Driver for Linux 2.0, targeted at enterprises doing automated backups, lets users integrate one or more automated...

Linus on Linux.(Brief Article)
September 17, 2001... The Computer Museum History Center is to host a lecture by Linux' presiding deity Linus Torvalds on "The Origins of Linux" in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, September 19. See http://...

Here Comes Another Linux Kernel Upgrade.(LInux 2.4.10)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Another cut of the Linux 2.4 kernel is brewing and set for imminent release. The new release will be 2.4.10 and when last seen was in its twelfth pre-release. The 2.4.10 kernel will eventually replace 2.4.9 released on August 16. That...

Red Hat Admits to Layoffs.
September 24, 2001... Red Hat confessed during the conference call illuminating its second-quarter report the other day that it had quietly laid off 17% of its staff bringing its worldwide headcount to roughly 600 people. Red Hat is the last of the Linux houses...

Heads Roll in Red Hat's International Operations.
September 24, 2001... Red Hat has brought in new faces to lead its EMEA and Asia-Pacific operations. Confirming the reorg, Red Hat COO Tim Buckley said that "in both cases we made a decision to change the management." Red Hat has replaced Colin Tenwick, who...

Mozilla Bug Reports Hit 100,000 as New Beta Emerges.
September 24, 2001... The Mozilla bug count hit 100,000 last Friday as the missing 0.9.4 beta emerged, a week late. Evidently the number isn't quite as bad as it sounds; 45.4% of the bug reports are said to be duplicate, invalid or spurious. On the other...

FSMLabs-FSF GPL Flap Comes & Goes.
September 24, 2001... FSMLabs Inc, which was denounced last Friday by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for violating the GPL, rushed out a press release Tuesday afternoon to say that it had reached an agreement with the FSF and that the tempest in a teapot was...

Linux Developers Embrace Web Services.
September 24, 2001... Linux developers are showing a high degree of commitment to the web services Internet application model a new study by Evans Data Corporation says. Web services are modular Internet applications that can interoperate across the web with...

Opera Adds Linux Support to Composer Kit.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 24, 2001... Opera has upgraded its Composer toolkit, which lets users import custom graphics and links to customize their version of the Opera web browser. Besides adding support for the Linux platform, rev 2 of Composer increases the number of...

Red Hat Debuts GNUPro Tools for XScale.
September 24, 2001... Red Hat has released its GNUPro embedded toolset and related services for the Intel IQ8310 Development Kit, the evaluation board for the IOP310 I/O processor chipset based on the XScale architecture. The Intel kit is supposed to include a...

Lineo, Philips Team Up.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Philips Digital Networks and Lineo plan to work together to offer Philips' Multimedia Home Platform middleware stack on Lineo's Embedix Digital Media platform for digital TVs and set-top boxes. Embedix Digital Media contains a Linux kernel...

Tibco To Support Linux on Mainframes.(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Tibco Software plans to make its integration software support Linux on IBM 390 and z900 data transaction servers. With Linux on the mainframe, Tibco, an old hand in integrating mainframe technology with other enterprise systems, plans to...

Dot Hill Enters Storage Appliance Market.(Product Announcement)
September 24, 2001... Storage subsystem vendor Dot Hill is jumping into the storage appliance market with a series of devices that it says combine functions now available only by buying multiple pieces of hardware and software from different vendors. The new...

Chintzy.(Linux Global Partners)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001... Informed sources say that Linux Global Partners, the outfit that acquired Corel's discarded Linux distribution and some of its people, stiffed headhunter Korn Ferry on the fees owed for the CEO search it conducted on behalf of the new company...