Linux Gram articles from September 2004

Linux Gram archives from September 2004

Start-up Reinvents Technical Workstation as Personal Cluster.
September 6, 2004... Sounds like a good idea. Which immediately makes it suspect. Why hasn't it been done it before? See, two of Transmeta's co-founders have reinvented the technical workstation, which reached its apogee in the 80s and has been in decline ever...

SCO's Linux Licensing in Shambles; Company Caps Lawyers' Fees.
September 6, 2004... SCO's abject failure to threaten, cajole or persuade practically anybody to buy its so-called Linux licenses without a court-loaded shotgun - coupled with the small fortune it's been spending on lawyers to get that shotgun loaded in the face of...

Schools Out To Oust Oracle, PeopleSoft.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... While Oracle is still off trying to buy PeopleSoft - if the courts let it - two universities, saying " a pox on both your houses," are off writing open source software that would deprive both companies of millions of dollars. Indiana...

IBM Teases Industry with talk of Open Blades.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... IBM server folks and Intel's board people seem to have remembered that they have a two-year-old blade alliance that hasn't been getting much exercise lately so IBM decided it was time to make the design specifications for its BladeCenter...

AMD Tweaks Intel with PR Coup.
September 6, 2004... In a move as predictable as the sun rising in the east, AMD drew a PR bead on Intel this week and managed to get a small bottle of ink spilled over how it had showed off a dual-core x86 90nm Opteron at its facilities in Austin, Texas on...

Novell Moves its Chess Pieces Around.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... To organize things logically Novell says it has moved its SuSE acquisition and its Nterprise NetWare operation in together and will probably call the unit Platform and Application Services. The unit has been given to former Ximian CEO David...

Red Hat Finds New CFO.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Red Hat has found itself the slick new "big company" CFO that it was looking for. It's gotten Charlie Peters, the former CFO of the textile multinational Burlington Industries, who's had 20 years experience with public companies. Red Hat's...

Lindows Now Officially Linspire.(Linspire Inc)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Lindows, the Linux upstart that managed to get Microsoft to pay it $20 million to change its name - and thereby save the Windows trademark - is now officially Linspire Inc. It says it has removed all references to Lindows from its marketing...

Red Hat Stock Show No Sign of Comeback.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... "We had expected Red Hat stock to rally as a result of the reduction in uncertainty following the filing of its restated 10K and uneventful resolution of the SEC's questions. In fact, Red Hat's stock has fallen by an additional 20%, reflecting...

Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio better brace herself because she's likely to catch the peculiar disapproval of the outspoken open source community when they find out that she's telling corporate users that throwing out Windows may not be...

Japanese Outfit To Support New Red Hat App Server.(Ten Art-ni)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Red Hat says it's expanded its relationship with Japanese open source integrator Ten Art-ni, an outfit funded by Intel, HP, SGI, NEC and Oracle, and that Ten Art-ni will support Red Hat's new Application Server. Ten Art-ni also intends to...

Fujitsu Claims Most Compact Four-Way Blade.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Fujitsu has laid claim to having the world's most compact four-way SCSI server blade, which it's put in a new Primergy BX600 blade server. The company also claims to have the most diverse blade portfolio. It says each blade can accommodate...

Oh God, the CA Miasma Spreads to Oracle.(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... A federal appeals court reinstated a billion-dollar securities fraud suit against Oracle brought by irate stockholders. The three-judge panel found strong evidence of accounting irregularities, falsified sales reports, overstated projections...

Java Desktop Claims To Take its First Steps to World Domination.
September 13, 2004... Chinese rivals, who ought to know what's going on in their own country since everybody's tied into the government one way or another and the government sets the pace, claim that Sun has yet to move a single Java Desktop System under that...

SCO & IBM To Square Off in Court.(Santa Cruz Operation Inc)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... On Tuesday SCO and IBM are supposed to turn up at an all-important discovery hearing related to SCO's $5 billion suit against IBM. SCO claims IBM hasn't turned over everything it was ordered to cough up. Imagine, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano never...

Oracle Wins.(cases)
September 13, 2004... Oracle has won the suit brought by the Justice Department to stop it from acquiring PeopleSoft just as the armchair speculators who kept tads on the four-week trial said it would. The judge said the government failed to prove its case but...

Intel Shows Mystery Dual-Core Desktop Chip.
September 13, 2004... Well, Intel did say - dismissively of course - that wasn't going to try to match AMD's little dual-core Opteron demo coup of last week and show off a dual-core Xeon at the Intel Developer Forum this week and - as good as its word - it didn't....

Shock!! Horror!!! Intel Admits Itanium Ain't Cutting It.(market share)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Abhi Talwalkar, the general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, was seen alive and well at the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday, the day after he publicly admitted during a Q&A that the company's precious multibillion-dollar Itanium...

Horus, the Falcon-Headed God, Morphs into ExtendiScale.
September 13, 2004... Newisys, the Opteron developer now owned by Sanmina-SCI, has formally christened the so-called Horus widgetry that's supposed to leapfrog Opteron's native eight-processor limitation and build 32- way or better Opteron boxes (CSN No 561). ...

IBM To Support AMD Dual Cores.(Advanced Micro Devices )
September 13, 2004... While Intel was in the midst of its Developer Forum and promising to go dual-core from top to bottom next year, IBM threw its weight behind AMD's rival dual-core x86 chips. It said it has this box called the eServer 326 that is already...

AMD Makes Dual-Core Pricing Noises.(Advanced Micro Devices )(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... AMD, which is doing its best to challenge a supposedly bemused Intel to some kind of dual-core shootout although Intel allows that IBM and Sun already won it, is recommending that ISVs license their applications by the socket when AMD's...

NEC To Bundle Microsoft's New Virtual Server with FT Rig.(fault-tolerant)
September 13, 2004... NEC US has decided that it wants to be known as the high- availability company. That's why, it says, it's picking up the four-way Xeon MP-based fault-tolerant server that its partner Stratus has been selling over here for the last year....

Sybase Launches Freebie.(Adaptive Server Enterprise)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Sybase has put out a free but limited version of its Adaptive Server Enterprise database for Linux. Dubbed, logically enough, Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition for Linux, the thing is targeted at developers and small businesses....

Novell Joins China Linux Standards Group.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Novell has become the second Western company, and the first Western commercial Linux outfit, to join the four-month-old China Linux Standards Group set up by the Chinese government. SAP's China Research Center is the other formal Western...

CA's Get-Out-of-Jail Card Could Cost It Half-a-Billion Dollars.(Computer Associates International)
September 13, 2004... Supposedly Computer Associates is going to announce a deal with the SEC and federal prosecutors in the next few days and ring down the curtain on the two-year investigation of CA's books that found the company "corrupt." Supposedly it's a...

Sun Exec Goes to MontaVista.(MontaVista Software )(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... MontaVista has plucked Peder Ulander out of Sun where he was senior director of marketing for its Desktop Products Group, and made him VP of marketing.

OSDL To Host Summit.(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... The Open Source Development Lab is putting together a three-day Enterprise Linux Summit scheduled for January 31-February 2 in Burlingame, California on the issues surrounding successful Linux deployment. The summit is directed towards...

Intel Raids Samsung for Marketing Chief.(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Intel has hired Eric Kim, a guy out of Samsung Electronics to run corporate marketing, an odd place to go for a skill historically associated with American companies, but as Intel has explained before the emerging Asian markets represent a lot...

Red Hat Shores Up its Defenses.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Red Hat has moved up several security enhancements that weren't supposed to appear until early next year ostensibly to tout the value of having a Red Hat subscription. The widgetry, packaged as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 and...

Infiniband Spec Revised.(specifications)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... The Infiniband Trade Association (IBTA) says it's completed the 1.2 rev of the Infiniband spec, which extends the bandwidth to 120 Gbps in each direction by introducing double and quad signaling rates. There are also revisions covering...

KDE To Enhance Search.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... The KDE folks plan to provide an enhanced desktop search feature in the next version of the KDE desktop. Look for it to debut in the next 18 months. KDE developers say the Google-style search feature will be included in the control...

Open-Xchange GPL'd.(Netline)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... German ISV Netline Internet Services has released a free GPL version of its Linux-based Open-Xchange collaboration server. Open-Xchange, the engine behind SuSE's Openexchange server, is a modular tool that provides e-mail, calendar,...

Wall Street Show Set.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... The one-day 2004 High Performance Technology on Wall Street show is set for Monday, September 20 at the Roosevelt Hotel in mid-town Manhattan. It focuses on HPC, blades, clusters and Linux systems. Admission is free and the doors open at 8am....

Rave Creates Multi-OS Fire Blade.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Rave Computer Association has launched an integrated Sun Fire Blade 1600+ system that can run Windows XP or 2003, Solaris 9, Solaris x86 and Red Hat Linux simultaneously. The Sterling Heights, Michigan integrator says the server offers...

Red Hat Sells More, Makes Less.
September 27, 2004... Red Hat trotted out its new CFO Charlie Peters - you know, the "big company" dude it's been praying for - for the first time Monday for its quarterly conference call with Wall Street and his debut was not exactly what anyone would call an...

Ex-CA CEO Sanjay Kumar's Lookin' at Doing 100 Years.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
September 27, 2004... Ex-Computer Associates CEO Sanjay Kumar could be sentenced to 100 years in the slammer if he's found guilty of everything he was charged with on Wednesday, according to the Justice Department. Not exactly a Martha Stewart reprise. Ditto...

CA Founder Charles Wang Government's Next Target.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
September 27, 2004... One thing about the "get-out-jail" deal that Computer Associates signed with the government the other day - the government's investigation ain't over yet. Now it's out for restitution and has bound the company in an unbreakable promise to...

HP Seeks To Create 'Blades for the Masses'.
September 27, 2004... Hewlett-Packard has formed a new virtual blades group that cuts across the company in an effort to capture the blade standard from IBM, which purports to own it. HP says it wants to own the volume blade market and that the recipe it's...

PeopleSoft Watch.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... Supposedly the European Commission, which put its own review of the proposed Oracle-PeopleSoft merger on a peg while a US court pondered the matter, is going to docilely follow the court's decision and not try to block the takeover, according...

Neoware Buys Visara Assets, Ups Revenues 10%.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... Neoware Systems, the company that took over IBM's thin client business, has now acquired Visara International's thin client business for roughly $3.7 million in cash plus a potential earn-out based on performance. Visara, which owns the...

Novell Cuts Deal with Tarantella.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... Novell has cut an OEM deal with the struggling old SCO, now Tarantella, to develop the new Tarantella Secure Global Desktop Software Appliance, a widget that's supposed to combine Tarantella's application management and access software with...

Sun Renews its Vows To Open Source Solaris.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... Sun has been repeating itself lately and saying that it really is gonna open source Solaris 10, the next major update of the Unix operating system, by the end of the year, to get other people to contribute to it and hopefully revivify interest...

VMware Betas ACE.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... VMware, the virtualization maven that now belongs to EMC, is moving into provisioning enterprise desktops, particularly laptops and telecommuter boxes, with a retrofit of its workstation mojo. It's got beta code for a thing called ACE that...

And Let That Be a Lesson to You.(Merrill Lynch's warning to Sun)(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... Merrill Lynch, in a warning to Sun and its ambitions for x86 Solaris, says it thinks that IBM has put AIX on the x86 architecture but put the thing on a shelf in the closet and hasn't tried commercializing it because people prefer Linux

PathScale Hits Key Milestone.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2004... PathScale, the start-up with the compilers for Opteron-Linux clusters, says it's reached a milestone and that a thousand sites have downloaded its widgetry. The company counts NASA, the US Air Force, the US Navy, four of the US Energy...