Linux Gram articles from September 2005

Linux Gram archives from September 2005

Sun To Unveil Andy Bechtolsheim's Fabled Opteron Boxes.
September 5, 2005... Sun co-founder and prodigal-sheep-returned-to-the-fold Andy Bechtolsheim, inventor of the workstation that originally catapulted Sun to the front racks and first backer of Google, is about to deliver a couple of the Opteron boxes that he was...

Open Source Patron Saint Pairs with Industry Pariah.
September 5, 2005... At the risk of courting the uncivil wrath of the open source scolds, MySQL AB, the "M" of the storied Linux- based LAMP stack, has cut a business and market development deal with SCO, the company the open source community most wants to implode....

U.S. Loses New Orleans, Microsoft Loses Massachusetts.
September 5, 2005... Massachusetts has decided to dump Microsoft Office into Boston Harbor. The state and its revolutionary mood could easily spread is proposing to mandate that all documents created and saved by state employees be based on open formats...

David Boies Esq Gets His Tit Caught in the Wringer.
September 5, 2005... Well, it seems that Adelphia Communications has fired Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP as its chief counsel because of a conflict of interest that Boies didn't bother to tell Adelphia about. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, of course, is the...

Curtain Rises on Second Act of Historic AMD v Intel Suit.
September 5, 2005... Intel has just filed its answer to the antitrust suit that AMD lodged against it right before the Fourth of July. Young as it is, the case already has the bookmakers laying odds that it'll produce a crushing 70 million-90 million pages of...

JBoss To OEM Hyperic.(JBoss Group L.L.C., contract)(original equipment manufacturer )(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... JBoss, the service model open source house, reportedly sought out 18-month-old Covalent Technologies spin-out Hyperic Inc and, after of couple of months of negotiations, has cut an OEM deal to put Hyperic's proprietary inventory, monitoring,...

Zend Core for Oracle Hits Beta.
September 5, 2005... PHP commercializer Zend Technologies is closing the loop on its promised Oracle deal, first announced in May. The other day it made a free beta version of its so-called Zend Core for Oracle available, saying it would have a production...

Canopy Group Regroups Again.(Brent Noorda joined the company)(Bill Mustard)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Rumors are circulating that there's been another switch in management at the Canopy Group, SCO's former VC. Reportedly Bill Mustard, the New York import brought in when they fired long-time incumbent Ralph Yarro in December, is out and Noorda...

EFF & ACLU Intervene in Merkey Suit.(Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, Jeff Merkey)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Lawyers for both the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Association of Utah filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the federal court hearing Jeff Merkey's pro se libel-cum-tortious interference suit against a...

Linux Version of VB.
September 5, 2005... Nine-year-old Real Software Inc, the Austin, Texas-based providers of REALbasic, which the company calls a "cross-platform that really works," is supposed to ship REALbasic 2005 for Linux on September 13. It's a rapid application development...

Trinity Claims Big Cluster.
September 5, 2005... According to Voltaire, which supplied the interconnect, Trinity College in Dublin has deployed the largest IBM-powered InfiniBand cluster deployed to date. It's got 356 Opteron-based eServer 326 nodes and will be used for physical...

Chalk Up Another One for AMD.
September 5, 2005... Fujitsu Siemens Computers says it's going to add dual-core Opteron boxes to its lily-white Intel-based Primergy server line and that it expects first shipments before the end of the year. Primergy servers currently use Xeon MPs and...

SCO Date.
September 5, 2005... SCO is going to treat its many detractors to its latest numbers on September 7.

OpenOffice/StarOffice There's a beta 2 of OpenOffice 2.0 out for Windows and Linux. Nothing for the Mac. It's got a redesigned.
September 5, 2005... interface and new database component. Meanwhile, Sun is now supposed to release StarOffice 8 on September 12, a tad late.

Credit Suisse Tells Novell To Dump its Management.
September 12, 2005... Who Says There's No Independent Research on Wall Street? By Maureen O'Gara Credit Suisse First Boston, which owns 1% of Novell and has Novell as an investment banking client or did before this has written an open letter to Novell's board...

CA Pledges Patents to Open Source.
September 12, 2005... Computer Associates, which is now, we might point out, being run by an ex-IBMer, has cut a patent cross-license agreement with IBM and followed IBM down the path of pledging a set of 14 of its reportedly "key" US patents and their overseas...

Sun Retires SISSL License.
September 12, 2005... Sun has canned SISSL, the Sun Industry Standards Source License, the original open source license that it created and started using five years ago for OpenOffice and a piece of the seminal Network File System (NFS) and later added GridEngine....

SCO, Poor But Hanging in There.
September 12, 2005... The hated SCO Group reported its fiscal Q3 results Wednesday and lost $2.372 million, or 13 cents a share, on $9.353 million in revenues as compared to $11.2 million in the comparable quarter last year. The revenues are up slightly...

Red Hat To Learn Russian.(new language teaching software)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Red Hat says that because of increasing demand in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia it's going to expand its Russian-language support services starting at the end of September as an integral part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The...

MySQL Catches Flak for SCO Deal.
September 12, 2005... It will come as no surprise to anybody that MySQL has been having to defend its decision to partner with SCO, the industry's untouchable. Open source true believers, feeling betrayed and already ticked by MySQL's GPL- skirting dual-license...

Oracle's Potential Worst Nightmare Gets Funding.(EnterpriseDB gets finanace from Valhalla Partners Co. and Charles River Ventures)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... EnterpriseDB, the Linux start-up with the potential to stick it to Oracle, has picking up $7 million in venture capital financing. To date it's been operating on a million-dollar seed round. Charles River Ventures and Valhalla Partners co- led...

Novell Anticipates Delivering Desktop SuSE 10 to Retail.
September 12, 2005... Novell expects SuSE Linux 10.0, the first output of the company's new openSuSE project and targeted at enthusiasts and home users, to be in stores and available online early next month. Novell has cut its prices 44% over older retail kits to...

MontaVista Moving to 2.6.(new product MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 4.0 from MontaVista Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... MontaVista has started shipping MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 4.0, its first cut to run on the 2.6 Linux kernel. It is described as the company's most horizontal operating system product yet. It will initially support 25-30 processor...

SCO To Present at DEMO.
September 12, 2005... This is gonna come as a shock to a lot of people but SCO has been invited to present its new unseen reportedly platform-agnostic mobility widgetry at the chi-chi Demo conference later this month. DEMO is where TiVO, Palm Pilot and Java first...

Office Ban Could Have Thorns.
September 12, 2005... CIBC points out that if Massachusetts goes ahead and bans Office in favor of open formats such as OpenOffice and Adobe's PDF, as it's proposing, it will be isolating state government since other people like other states and the federal...

Hewlett-Packard Knocks Sun's Galaxy Boxes.
September 12, 2005... HP is pouring bile on Sun's first homegrown Opteron boxes ahead of their announcement on the 12th saying that Sun knows diddly about the x86 marketplace, has no proper management support, ecosystem, channel expertise or working relationships...

So Now It's eBay and Skype.
September 12, 2005... After a flurry of speculation that Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gate or Yahoo might buy Skype, followed by Skype hinting around that it wasn't for sale, followed by IPO talk sparked when the Luxembourg firm hired Morgan Stanley, the latest buzz,...

Google Hires Vince Cerf.(appointment)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Google, who thanks to Microsoft now has the reputation of the being the omnivorous employer, has hired Vince Cerf, the man called the Father of the Internet, to be its chief Internet evangelist or CIE, creating in the process a new "C" title....

Intel Twiddles Q3 Guidance.
September 12, 2005... Intel said late Thursday during its mid-quarter update that it expects to see revenues of $9.8 billion-$10 billion, both an up and down adjustment of the guidance it gave when it posted its Q2 results. Then it said it might do $9.6...

AMD Hires Hester To Replace Weber as CTO.
September 12, 2005... AMD has hired Phil Hester, the former CEO of Newisys, the start-up that gambled on building Opteron servers and lost, and an old IBM guy who had a lot to do with IBM's first Unix boxes, as CTO reporting to Dirk Meyer, president and chief...

VMware Tries Freebie.(new service P2V Migrations Jumpstart)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... VMware said Thursday that customers purchasing its P2V Migrations Jumpstart service, its on-site consultancy to move from physical to virtual boxes, will get its P2V Assistant migration tool for free. The tool, which is supposed to telescope...

Issue Interruptus.
September 26, 2005... This sorta goes against the John Wayne-aping newspaper credo of "never explain, never-complain," but this issue is like an unfinished sonata, truncated by a light-running SVD that totaled my car and sent me to the hospital. Under the...

SCO's Phoenix is Rising.
September 26, 2005... Well now isn't this ironic. It looks like the much demonized SCO Group, which in its short sharp life has aroused more articulated fear and loathing than Microsoft and IBM combined the company that's widely dismissed as nothing more than...

Wallace Takes His GPL Complaints to the FTC.(Federal Trade Commission )
September 26, 2005... Daniel Wallace, the guy who's taken the GPL, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), IBM, Red Hat and Novell to court for price-fixing, has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission complaining about the GPL. In it he says the GPL is...

Oracle's Week.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... Oracle dropped an inch worth of press releases at Oracle OpenWorld this week. Weeding through the stack, it said: ? It will make its all-important SOA/ESB-based Fusion Architecture, which is supposed to link its applications, middleware and...

Oracle Database Sales Nosedive.
September 26, 2005... Oracle earned a flat $519 million, or 10 cents a share, in its fiscal first quarter ended August 31 on revenues of $2.77 billion, up 25% thanks to software license renewals and consulting. Earnings would have been 14 cents a share without...

EC Investigating New Microsoft Complaints.(European Union. European Commission)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... Well, take your pick. Either the European Commission may bring a new antitrust case against Microsoft or not. According to a New York Times-owned International Herald Tribune story, the EC's new antitrust chief Neelie Kroes said in an...

HP Buys Peregrine, AppIQ.
September 26, 2005... Hewlett-Packard said Monday that it's buying Peregrine Systems for OpenView and AppIQ for StorageWorks. Credit Suisse wondered whether the moves portended a plan. It suggested that the buys might mean HP was committing itself to building...

SCO Denies Novell's Countersuit Charges.(cases)(The SCO Group Inc)
September 26, 2005... SCO has filed its answer to Novell's countersuit, denying Novell's raft of charges, which, if upheld, would put SCO out of business. In its retort, SCO insists that it owns the Unix and UnixWare copyrights that Novell insists remained with...

Novell Appears To Respond to Stockholder Complaints.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... Novell, which has been under pressure from stockholders to do something productive with all the money it has in the bank, apparently bowed to complaints Thursday when it announced a $200 million share repurchase program. Novell is supposed to...

Pick Your Poison.
September 26, 2005... The Firefox alternate browser has nearly double the vulnerabilities of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to Symantec's newest Internet Security Threat Report compiled from first-half data, 72% of them deemed "high severity."

Concurrent Unbundled.
September 26, 2005... With people demanding the instantaneous transfer of time-sensitive mission- critical data, Concurrent is going to unbundle its open source applications development toolset and offer it standalone so developers can add mission- critical...

SCO Hearing Set.
September 26, 2005... Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells has a hearing set for October 7 on SCO's motion to compel discovery from IBM.

The French Are Acting, Um, French.(Hewlett-Packard Co)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... The Financial Times says the French government is pressuring Hewlett-Packard to scale back its planned job cuts in France before a meeting between the head of HP EMEA Francesco Serafini and French employment minister Gerard Larcher on Monday....

Will a CEO Fall Out?
September 26, 2005... Microsoft's reorganization earlier this week into three divisions, each with its own president, has armchair observers speculating over whether the move will ultimately shake out Microsoft's next CEO. Despite the consolidation, Microsoft will...

Merkey Watch.
September 26, 2005... The ever-entertaining Jeff Merkey, the former Novell chief scientist, has dropped his federal suit against Groklaw, SCOfacts, et al for libel in favor of criminal charges of stalking and copyright infringement at the state level and involving...

BEA Pinioned by JBoss & GlueCode: Piper Piper Jaffray figures JBoss and GlueCode are pressuring BEA's app server.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... business on the pricing front and delaying WebLogic sales until GlueCode releases its J2EE version of Geronimo later this year. The broker says it's been tracking the open source movement and "recent checks indicate the open source technology...