Client Server News back issues from November 2000:
Whistler Betas, Spells Trouble for Intel.(Microsoft begins beta testing 64-bit Whistler operating)(system)(Product Development)
Nov 06, 2000; ... Microsoft released the first beta of Whistler on Tuesday. It includes the first public drop of 64-bit Windows. Now don't hold your breath. It'll be another year at least before all of Whistler actually hits market (CSN No 372). Microsoft's secret, internal schedule ...
Linux 2.4 in Sight.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... On Halloween Linus Torvalds released what may be the last beta before the long-awaited Linux 2.4 kernel arrives. Torvalds, in a notice on the kernel.org mailing list, said that the latest cut contains no known showstoppers. "And when I don't know of a bug, it doesn't exist," he ...
Samsung Capitulates on Rambus Tax.(agrees to pay fees to license RDRAM architecture)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Samsung, the world's largest memory maker, has come off the fence and joined the ranks of companies agreeing to pay Rambus patent license fees for double data rate (DDR) RAM, the stuff that competes directly with Rambus' own vaunted RDRAM. The Samsung license gives Rambus a ...
Conspiracy Anyone?(IBM-Transmeta relationship affects IPO plans)(Company Financial Information)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Transmeta is supposed to IPO and start trading on Tuesday November 7. Everything was going pretty smoothly for the radical semiconductor start-up - well, it's exercised a lot of paranoid control - when it mysteriously got bushwhacked - and by one of its own investors too. ...
Land-5 Promises Linux-based Hi-Rel RAID.(new RAID-n architecture)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Land-5 Corporation claims to have developed a radical new RAID architecture, one that can provide the data security of a Level 1 RAID while still yielding the higher performance characteristics of a Level 5 RAID, doing it with half the drives of other architectures to boot. Land-5, which ...
Sun: Creeping Open Source.(Sun Industry Standards Source License strategy)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Well, Sun has confirmed that its Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) has been sanctified as an authentic open source license by the full and entire board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) - not just its president Eric Raymond like we had originally been lead to believe (CSN No ...
StarOffice Support: Not Quite So Free.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Every wonder what would happen to a user if he had trouble using Sun's "free" StarOffice? Well, Sun never promised free support, as StarOffice users found out this week when e-mails started arriving in their mailboxes with a price list for support. Now why aren't we surprised? ...
NetIQ Management Kit Adds SQL Server 2000 Support.(AppManager for SQL Server 2000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... NetIQ has added support for Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000 to its AppManager applications management kit. The new AppManager cut supports multiple instances of SQL Server running on a single server. SQL Server 2000 is the ...
Microsoft Franchises BSquare for Embedded NT.(company licensed to resell embedded NT)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Microsoft's leading WinCE cheerleader, BSquare Corporation, has joined the ranks of the saints. Microsoft has licensed it to resell embedded NT 4.0 (NTe). Those permitted to sell NTe licenses are an elite group. BSquare is only the fourth company in the US to get a license ....
Legacy Perl Gets .NET'd.(ActiveState building kit for running Perl-language)(programs in Microsoft's .NET environment)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Canadian software house ActiveState said that it's building a kit to let apps written in the current version of the Perl open source language work without modification in .NET environments. ActiveState and the open source Perl community committed to a .NET version of Perl back ...
Wannabe Friends Parry for Court's Attention.(Microsoft antitrust case)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Microsoft's lawyers are bucking those amici curiae briefs that AOL, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the Project to Promote Competition & Innovation in the Digital Age (ProComp) want to file in the appeal ....
Jackson Might Pick Up His Toys and Go Home.(judge in Microsoft antitrust case)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... This one's good for a wry chuckle. Hanging Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who's publicly said he never wanted the Microsoft case to begin with and has publicly professed himself uncertain about his competence to frame a verdict, which is why the government got its way, has been ...
Compaq, IBM Ready Shark Attack.(first public demonstration of IBM Shark storage systems)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Compaq and IBM dragged a truckload of hardware to Orlando, Florida last week for the first public demonstration of Compaq widgetry working with the IBM Shark storage systems that Compaq will be selling soon. Compaq's sales theme for the Storage Networking World show was that it ...
IBM Launches Sub-$1,000 Server.(IBM eServer x200)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... IBM has formally released its first sub-$1,000 server to market, trailing Dell at that price point by a week. Actually, IBM may have been the first to bust the $1,000 price point. Dell planned to unveil its new server, the PowerEdge 300, at a bit above $1,000. At the last minute ...
MSN-Compaq Internet Appliance Goes for Free.(Product Information)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Microsoft and Compaq have a new iPAQ Internet Appliance to connect to the Microsoft Network (MSN). And they've got a new price point - they'll pay you a dollar if you'll take the widget. Gosh, that's better than free. Of course there's a little catch. To get the dollar consumers ...
Software Updates Go into Zero G.(plans tool for adding live updating capability to applications)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Zero G has set a November 13 release date for a program that lets ISVs and corporate developers add live updating capability to their applications. The Zero G kit, powered by Marimba's Castanet technology, manages the download and installation of software updates. It can also ...
CA Brings Some SANITI to SAN Management.(Computer Associates Storage Area Network Integrated Technology Initiative)(framework)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Computer Associates has released its promised SAN management framework, shipping it initially as part of its ARCserver data backup kit. CA's SAN plan, which it calls its Storage Area Network Integrated Technology Initiative (SANITI) Framework, is ...
Gartner Puts Infiniband in Perspective.(new technology not expected to become common)(until 2004)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... The Gartner Group figures it'll be 2004 "before a preponderance of devices in the field support the Infiniband standard, out of which enterprises can build a useful environment." Garter reckons Infiniband compatibility "could ...
Intel Releases New Rack Mounts.(SRPM8, SRKIA4, SPKA rack-mount computers)(available to systems integrators)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Intel has sent a batch of new rack-mount computers into the channel, including a high-end eight-way model designated the SRPM8 built with Intel's Profusion chipset. The 7U rack-mount eight-way widget, powered by Xeons, is available only to what Intel calls "qualified systems integrators" ...
Network Security Audit Kit Upgraded.(Intrusion.com releases Kane Security Analyst 5.0)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Intrusion.com on Monday will unveil a new, speedier version of its Kane Security Analyst (KSA) for Win2K and NetWare, a kit to audit network security. KSA 5.0 gets an analyst run-time optimizer that Intrusion says speeds up security audits 30%-50%, which ...
CA's COOL Kit Gets Webbed.(release of Web-enabled COOL:Gen 6.0 development)(toolkit)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Computer Associates has web-enabled its COOL:Gen business applications development environment. The new version, COOL:Gen 6.0, can work with web clients as well as ...
New NetApp Unit Targets Feds.(Network Appliance Federal Systems Inc)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Network Appliance has set up a marketing, service and support subsidiary to target US, and eventually foreign, government customers. The new unit, called Network ...
Ilog C++ GUI Kit Upgraded.(Views Component Suite 4.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Ilog has released a modularized upgrade to its C++ GUI software library, the Views Component Suite, adding features designed to make it easier for Windows developers to control and edit graphics. Views Component Suite 4.0 comes with a kit to make it easier to create ActiveX components and ...
Intergraph Pays for its Hardware Exit.(posts $5.3 million loss in September quarter)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Intergraph lost $5.3 million in the September quarter, taking a hit for the costs associated with its exit from the hardware business. It said that sales from its remaining software units, now the company's only business, were profitable. Sales in the quarter were $159 million, ...
HP Names New Senior Execs.(Richard DeMillo appointed CTO; Stephen Squires)(chief science officer)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Hewlett-Pack has named Richard DeMillo CTO, a new post. DeMillo was with Telecordia Technologies, the old Bell research division, where he was in charge of developing web-based software and online services for telcos. He reports to HP goddess Carly Fiorina, herself ...
WinCE To Speak Eloquently.(Eloquent Technology Eloquence 5.0 voice recognition package)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Eloquent Technology is about to make WinCE sit up and speak. The 17-year-old text-to-speech specialist said that it's planning a December release of a WinCE version of its flagship ETI-Eloquence 5.0 software that will let widgets like the PocketPC read documents in any of a ...
SOS Gets Cash To Fuel its SAN/NAS Ambitions.(Storage Computer Corp. obtains $12 million from)(unidentified institutional investor)(Company Financial Information)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Storage Computer Corporation (SOS) has picked up $12 million in new, badly needed capital to fuel its planned transition from RAID maker to SAN/NAS contender. The cash, which comes from a single unidentified institutional investor, will help SOS digest CyberStorage Systems ...
S3 Turns into SONICblue.(company changes name, stock symbol as part of image)(makeover; involved in joint venture with Taiwanese)(firm Via Technologies)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Having finally gotten rid of the last vestiges of its one-time flagship graphics business, S3 is ditching its name as part of its corporate makeover into an Internet appliance house. It's going to call itself SonicBlue, effective November 15, and change its stock symbol from ...
First Products Emerge on Sun's Jiro Scope.(Sun Microsystems introduces StorEdge 3, A5x00 storagearrays using Jiro specifications)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Sun has finally come to market with the first deliverable in its two-year-old Jiro heterogeneous storage management scheme, the stuff it's trying to paint as an "industry initiative." The Jiro 1.0 specs were formally released in July (CSN No 357). Sun's initial ...
Brocade Switches Get Bigger, Faster.(Brocade Communications Systems introduces SilkWorm)(6400)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Brocade has gone to market with a 64-port integrated-fabric Fibre Channel switch and is promising to deliver a new generation of 64- and 128-port switches along with 2 GB/second speeds across its entire product line early next year. Brocade says that its new switch, the SilkWorm ...
EMC Beefs Up its NAS Arsenal with $300m CrosStor Buy.(network attached storage)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... To put some teeth in its head so it can take a bigger bite out of the NAS market and Network Appliance along with it, EMC is buying privately held network storage software specialist CrosStor Software Inc for $300 million in stock. EMC is already in the NAS market with its ...
Bristol Finally Gets a Win2K Wind/U To Market.(introduces Wind/U 4.4)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Bristol Technology, whose survival is nothing short of a miracle following its bruising legal battle with Microsoft over the terms Microsoft wanted to extend Bristol's access to Win2K source code, has finally released an upgrade to its Wind/U Windows-to-Unix porting kit based on the ...
Microsoft Rewrites Hack Story.(settles on minimalist approach to admitting security breach)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Microsoft, to the amusement of its legion of enemies, seems to be having trouble getting its story straight about how it was hacked. After several redactions about what happened Redmond's finally settled on a minimalist approach that leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Somehow ...
API Fields Mighty Linux-on-Alpha 1U.(marketing firm formed by Compaq and Samsung changes name)(from Alpha Processor Inc to API NetWorks, will)(develop dedicated rackmount servers)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Alpha Processor Inc (API), the marketing operation that Samsung Electronics and Compaq put together to peddle the Alpha chip, is going into the Linux-dedicated rack-mount server business. Two-year-old API is also changing its name to API NetWorks Inc. It claims confusion between ...
Huh. VA Bests Sun & Microsoft.(VA Linux has better Web-site uptime than rivals)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... VA Linux has done a better job keeping its company web site up than either Sun or Microsoft, according to a survey by Netcraft. Best known for its work sniffing out what web sites run which OS, Netcraft has branched out with a new survey assessing web site uptime. It's clocking ...
TurboLinux Files To Go Public.(Company Financial Information)(Statistical Data Included)
Nov 06, 2000 ... After breaking the basic story, we combed the 300-page filing as promised for pungent details. The story is all brand new from the sixth paragraph onward - not to mention some corrections to the top of the story. Hey, even the great Homer sometimes nods. Told ya they were close. Told ya, ...
Linuxcare "Restructures" - Again.(Company Operations)
Nov 06, 2000 ... If you read this when we broke it Friday, pass by. Linuxcare, whose service and support charter makes it the epitome of the Linux business model, made its second round of layoffs in close to six months last Friday morning October 27. Linuxcare has closed down its ...
Oh, Brother.(Caldera twists facts in VAR Business trade magazine)(user survey)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... In an act lifted directly out of the theatre of the absurd, Caldera has been bragging about how it topped every other Linux distribution around in a so-called "Annual Report Card" issued by the trade magazine VAR Business. The magazine claims it surveyed 4,600 solution providers to come up ...
LynuxWorks Resolves Branding Crisis.(SpyKer operating system enhancement)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... After almost a month's delay to rework all its plans because of a trademark conflict with Microsoft, LynuxWorks has released an event trace and visualization tool for embedded systems developers. LynuxWorks, which just filed to go public (CSN No 373), was gonna call its kit ...
Ebiz Re-Launches Caldera's Channel Operation.(Ebiz Enterprises)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Ebiz Enterprises has re-launched Caldera's ELM (Electronic Linux Marketplace) operation, the unit that Ebiz got in trade for some of its equity. The initiative is now called PartnerAxis. Initially PartnerAxis is providing the same kind of channel consulting services as ELM did, ...
MandrakeSoft Starts its Odyssey.(Linux-Mandrake 7.2 OS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... MandrakeSoft has released the latest version of its distribution, Linux-Mandrake 7.2, developed under the code name Odyssey. The latest version of Linux-Mandrake represents mainly an amalgamation of upgrades, new versions of old favorites and new add- ons. For instance, the ...
Panther Pounces on Open Source.(JYACC's Panther Open Source Software for Linux application development software)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... JYACC has decided to open source the Linux version of its Panther enterprise application development environment, widgetry primarily used to build applications for IBM's WebSphere Application Server. The 22-year-old New York City company says modestly that by open sourcing ...
Linux, the Public Utility.(in Hasbro's Monopoly.com board game)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Hasbro, the toy maker, has declared Linux a national utility. Ditto Sun. The designation, which, come to think of it, treads dangerously close to saying they're "essential facilities" and raising the antitrust hairs on the back of everyone's neck, is how the new ".COM" version ...
SuSE Mainframe Linux Ships.(SuSE Linux for IBM S/390 OS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... SuSE got its promised Linux for S/390 mainframes out the door Tuesday. The distribution can run in an IBM Virtual Image Facility, which lets several thousand Linux images run at the same time on the same machine. More conventional installations, either in a logical partition or as a guest ...
IBM Makes Big Linux Kill.(Lawson contract)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... IBM can rightly claim the trophy du jour. Its Japanese contingent has bagged one of the biggest Linux contracts to date. Japanese convenience store Lawson Inc is buying two of IBM's recently rechristened industry-standard xSeries servers for each of its 7, 600 stores and will ...
Linux Luminary Lights at TRG.(Timpanogas Research Group)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Timpanogas Research Group, the renegade Novell spin-off, has hired Andre Hedrick, one of the so-called tier-one Linux developers, the college of cardinals that control Linux under the direct supervision of Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Hedrick, who manages the ATA and ATAPI disk drives ...
Great Bridge Hires Gurus.(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Great Bridge LLC, the start-up that's on the verge of its delayed attempt to commercialize the open source database PostgreSQL, is picking up Postgres experts in the fashion of the times. It has hired Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL global development team and author of ...
IDC Predicts Surge in Training Biz.(International Data's report on Linux training)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... IDC thinks that Linux training in the US could be a $311 market by 2004, but warns that actually providing Linux training is "no easy task" because of the inherent nature of Linux. "Because it is an open source operating environment, Linux is constantly being updated," and keeping up with ...
How to: Dual-Boot Linux on Apple's G4.(O'Reilly and Associates' primer)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... The folks at O'Reilly & Associates have published a primer on how to load Linux on to an Apple G4 in three easy steps. Running Linux on a G4 is no innovation - lots of folks know how to do that says author Michael Norton, a Cisco software engineer - but Norton's got a new twist. His method ...
Red Hat Demigod Joins Tucows Board.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Red Hat co-founder and chairman Bob Young has joined the board of Tucows, the guys who are trying to distribute e-business ...
Lineo Moves on to Mips Chip.(Lineo's Embedix for IDT's RC322334 microprocessor)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Lineo has expanded its universe to the Mips chip, as it's been promising to do. It says it's got Embedix on IDT's version of the 32-bit Mips widget, the RC32334, and that it'll be part of IDT's evaluation kit. It'll also be available from Lineo, which ...
CA Upgrades ARCserve for Linux.(CA-ArcServe 7.0 for Linux backup software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Computer Associates has released a Linux version of its ARCserve 7.0 backup kit. The new cut is the first major upgrade to CA's initial ARCserve kit for Linux, ARCserve 6.6.1 released in April. The stuff extends application support including "hot" online Oracle database backup. It also ...
Swedish Company Readies Embedded Linux System-on-a-Chip.(Axis Communications Etrax 100LX)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Sweden's Axis Communications is crafting a new generation of its system-on-a-chip technology designed specifically for embedded Linux applications. The Axis widget, called the Etrax 100LX, will be targeted at just about everything including vending machines, barcode scanners and ...
Caldera Server Management Kit Gets a Name.(Caldera Systems' Caldera Volution network management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Caldera has chosen a final name for Cosmos, its Linux server management solution, currently in open beta. The stuff will come to market as Caldera Volution. The kit is a browser- and LDAP directory-based management system for Linux that creates policies and profiles to manage anything from ...
UK Food Giant Orders Israeli Linux/NT "Thin-Store" System.(from Point of Sale (now known as Retalix))(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Giant UK food retailer Tesco has inked a pact with Israel's Point of Sale Ltd to put a hybrid Linux/NT point-of-sale system that uses software originally designed for ASPs into all of its 800 stores. Point of Sale calls the architecture its ASP/thin store concept. It ...
SGI Ships First Itanium Cluster & Of Course It's Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... SGI has shipped its first Itanium-based cluster, a four-node beast with two pre-release Itaniums per node, to the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus Ohio. SGI's widgetry is running Linux, a favorite with the scientific set. SGI said that once the university got the boxes ...
Zona on the Linux Religion: "Great Revolution Yet To.(market researcher issues report)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Come" Zona Research, in a report entitled "The New Religion: Linux and Open Source," concludes that Linux still has a long way to go before the operating system has a significant impact on computing. "The Great Revolution is yet to come," says Zona senior industry ...
FutureLink ASP Sales Still Trivial.(Company Financial Information)
Nov 06, 2000 ... FutureLink has again proved that, despite the hype and hysteria, the ASP business is still so small that it takes a string of zeros to calculate market share - a long string of zeroes. The Lake Forest, California would-be ASP king said that it amassed $2.1 million in ASP ...
Kiosk House Uses ASP Model to Attract Small Business.(launches new design site for Internet kiosks)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Netkey Inc, the first company to apply the ASP model to store kiosks, has launched an online Internet kiosk design site that it hopes will leverage it into the small business market. Netkey's customers have typically been large companies, including folks like Microsoft and Yahoo. The new ...
Fujitsu & Amdahl Are Up to Something.(mainframe vendors plan major announcement)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Fujitsu and its US lackey Amdahl are supposed to make a BIG announcement on Tuesday, November 14. Everything is tryingly hush- hush right now but one would imagine that they're gonna say how they're getting back into the hardware business since they're dropping their hallmark mainframes ....
Hmmm. Larry Ellison Reported Dead.(rumor)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... There's some mischief afoot on Wall Street. Apparently a rumor got started Thursday that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Oracle CFO Jeffrey Henley were leaving the company. Heck, it didn't even stop there. It looks like Ellison will be able to say along with Mark Twain that "reports of my ...
Moonlight Spreads to Sun.(Moonlight Systems beta testing server farm software)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Moonlight Systems, the start-up with hybrid open source ideas like just give the code to paying customers has its Host Factory software automation system for server farms almost though beta and ...
Buyer's Remorse?(HP purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting business)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Hmmm. It seems HP may be reappraising its proposed multibillion- dollar IBM-envy acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting arm. Carly was keynoting at a Prudential Securities confab and just happened to let slip that HP is "re-examining every aspect of the transaction," - changing ...
HP Finds its Voice.(company rebuts public attack by Eric Raymond)(Company Business and Marketing)
Nov 06, 2000 ... In the last episode, Eric Raymond, resident of the Open Source Initiative, was giving HP CEO Carly Fiorina a public tongue lashing for not being open source in deed, only in lip service (CSN No 372). If he had his way, HP would dump HP-UX and embrace Linux. HP initially greeted Raymond's ...
Sybase To Buy its Own Stock.(repurchase plan)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
Nov 06, 2000 ... Feeling that it's stock is undervalued, Sybase is ...