Client Server News back issues from May 2001:
RLX Outed.(RLX Technologies introduces RLX Technologies System 324 Web server)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001; ... We're altogether pleased with ourselves because we managed to sneak this story out past all those watchful sentries at RLX Technologies who kept saying no in their sweet Texas drawls. Actually the start- up is mere days away from the magic moment of self-revelation so the information can ...
Microsoft Slags Open Source.(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft on Thursday staged its strongest attack to date on open source, floating its own notion of what it calls "Shared Source" in which chosen partners can see source code, but only under strict controls. Trotting out the Shared Source concept, which Microsoft said ...
Whistler Server Slips - Again.((now Microsoft Windows 2002) still not out)(Product Development)
May 07, 2001; ... It's been a goodly time since we visited the state of the Whistler Server, in beta 2 for the last six weeks and now officially dubbed Windows 2002, but provoked by all this talk about maybe the Whistler client, otherwise known as Windows XP, getting delayed until next year, we thought we'd ...
Told Ya So, Told Ya So, Compaq Ditches Unisys.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001; ... Unisys has had to eat crow and take back all those mean things it said to us privately after we reported that Compaq was joining Hewlett-Packard in dumping Unisys' 32-way CMP machine (CSN No 397). In a press release issued Sunday, April 29 Compaq, which called the Unisys box the ...
Microsoft Releases Upgraded MSN Client.(Microsoft MSN Explorer 6.1)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft on Thursday quietly posted an expected point upgrade to MSN Explorer, the "consumer" client built on top of Internet Explorer. For some reason, the MSN Explorer 6.1 release is a few weeks late. Microsoft is expected to make a big megillah out of the release in the ...
Oracle Out To Poach Microsoft's VB Developers.(giving away Oracle JDeveloper)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Never one to miss a shot at Microsoft, Oracle is giving away copies of its JDeveloper Java and XML integrated development environment and telling developers not to worry about changes to Visual Basic that may pop up in Redmond's forthcoming Visual Studio.NET. Oracle claims that ...
Marathon Wins, Ships 5Nines Win2K.(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001; ... Marathon Technologies has won the race to ship 99.999% (5Nines) high-availability Win2K-based clusters. On Monday, May 7, the Boxborough, Massachusetts company will announce that the first revenue-producing 5Nines system, built using its Endurance high-availability interconnect ...
Judge Trashes Rambus' Case Against Infineon.(Robert Payne)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... US District Judge Robert Payne on Monday threw out 54 of Rambus' patent infringement claims against Infineon, and is spending the weekend reading written arguments as to why the last three shouldn't be dismissed too. Payne, who is presiding over the jury trial, ruled that Rambus ...
Gartner Predicts Microsoft-AOL Web Services Armageddon.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 07, 2001 ... Gartner predicts the two will clash head-on by 2003, as they vie to dominate web services. By then the prize will bigger. Gartner thinks that 50% of all mid-sized and large businesses will "rely on" web services by 2006 for all kinds of "instant commerce." While Microsoft has a ...
M'soft Buys its Web Content Management Pal.(NCompass Labs)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft is buying its long-time buddy, e-business web site content management specialist NCompass Labs Inc for $36 million in cash. Microsoft said that it's buying the Vancouver outfit "in response to customer demand for web content management." It cited the "essential nature" ...
L&H Founders Jailed as Company Goes to Block.(Lernout and Hauspie)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... All of Lernout & Hauspie has been put up for sale to pay off its staggering debts and its founders are festering in jail waiting to find out if they will be put on trial for stock manipulation and falsifying documents. When we last left the soap opera-like spectacle, L&H ...
Micron Pays Gores To Take its PC Unit.(Gores Technology Group)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... After a futile search for someone willing to buy its faltering MicronPC unit, Micron Electronics is paying acquisition, management and turnaround specialist Gores Technology Group $70 million to take the thing off its hands. Micron Electronics is a majority-owned subsidiary of ...
W3C Finalizes XML Schema.(World Wide Web Consortium)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... The XML Schema, a key piece of XML, became a W3C formal recommendation on Wednesday at the W3C's 10th International Conference in Hong Kong. The action was the final formal stamp of approval that was expected following the W3C's listing of XML Schema as a proposed ...
Compaq Offers $266m for Consultant Proxicom.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... As our last issue was going to press Compaq said it signed a deal to buy e-business consulting and services house Proxicom for $266 million in a stock tender. Compaq wants the unit to beef up its global services business, a $7- billion-a-year DEC-inherited unit with 38,000 ...
DataCore Extends its Reach.(SANsymphony 4.0 now also runs on Windows 2000)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... DataCore is about to come to market with a version of its flagship SANsym-phony storage software that supports asynchronous data mirroring, extending its reach to drives hooked to any IP network anywhere in the world. The new SANsymphony 4.0 software has also been upgraded from ...
A Tale of Two Worms.(security flaws in Microsoft Internet Information Server and Microsoft Windows 2000)(Product Information)
May 07, 2001 ... Computerdom was set aflutter this week by the news that there's a major security hole in Microsoft's Internet Information Server and Windows 2000, one that Redmond itself described as "very serious." The incident could haunt Microsoft for years. Microsoft didn't ...
Attorneys Cash In on Microsoft "Permatemp" Case.(Government Activity)
May 07, 2001 ... The lawyers who handled the Microsoft "permatemp" lawsuit that was settled in December have come out the big winners in the case and will walk off with $27 million of the $96 million Microsoft offered in settlement, a federal judge has ruled. The 12,000 former Microsoft ...
Gadzoox is Awfully Rickety.(losses up March quarter 2001)(Company Financial Information)
May 07, 2001 ... As it warned it would in late March, Gadzoox reported a simply horrid quarter and doesn't see any improvement for the next two quarters. It's out looking for cash to "fund the fiscal 2002 plan" - in other words keep the doors open. Gadzoox said it's only got $10.9 million in the ...
NEC "Reforms" its PC Unit.(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... NEC is accelerating the restructuring of what's left of its PC- related business, an ongoing process that saw it withdraw from the US market after the death of the ill-fated Packard Bell NEC. In a move that the company says will "reform" its domestic PC business, NEC is melding ...
AOL Shift to Netscape Would Still Leave Microsoft on Top.(Microsoft Internet Explorer still leads market share)(Product Information)
May 07, 2001 ... Speculation that a decision by AOL to use the Netscape browser instead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer would disastrously impact IE's market share are totally overblown, according to estimates by Internet user trend analysis service StatMarket. The outfit, a subsidiary of ...
Redmond Unveils New Digital Dashboard Kit.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft released a new cut of the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit (DDRK) on Tuesday, a toolkit to build code that hooks applications to the digital dashboards in Redmond's SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and SQL Server 2000. The new kit, DDRK 3.0, lets developers build the ...
XP Pirates Plague Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft was tearing its hair out this week trying to deal with rogue copies of both the upcoming Media Player 8 to go into Windows XP and copies of a near-final version of Office XP being sold in Malaysia for two bucks and change. Redmond is reportedly trying to force web ...
Allchin Explains .NET.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft Platform Group VP Jim Allchin turned up at a Gartner Group bash called "Windows 2000 & Beyond" and admitted .NET was "confusing." There are five parts to it, he said. A new loosely coupled XML programming model that Microsoft doesn't expect to make money on; ...
NTP EASEs Network-Wide Defragging for Raxco.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... NTP Software and Raxco Software have gotten together and integrated Raxco's PerfectDisk 2000 defragmenter for Win2K/NT and NTP's Enterprise Application Services Extension (EASE) technology. The pairing creates a kit that will manage the defragmentation of all the computers on a network ...
Microsoft Buys Another Games House.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft is buying another games developer, the latest in a string of games houses it's picked up as it as heads toward the Xbox launch. This ...
webMethods Helps HP Beef Up OpenView for e-Business.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Hewlett-Packard has signed a deal with webMethods to co-develop software that will add business process management to the roster of things HP's OpenView network management kit already does. OpenView currently manages the performance of networks, systems, applications and services. The ...
Vista's VB Control Grounds Microsoft's Jet.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... On May 4 Vista Software will release a Visual Basic control that lets users of its xBase database engine manage FoxPro 2.6 and Clipper database files without recourse to Microsoft's Jet dB engine. The offering, called Apollo Data Control 6.0 for VB, uses data access objects ...
Windows Host Access Kit Gets SSL Security.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Aviva Solutions Inc has added secure sockets layer (SSL) to its Aviva for Desktops terminal emulation software for Windows access to mainframe hosts. The upgraded package, Aviva for ...
Inheritance.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Marvin Adams, the CIO of Ford Motor Company has joined the Citrix board. Citrix just closed on its $184.6 million cash acquisition of Sequoia Software and Adams is a legacy from Sequoia's board. Sequoia is supposed to make Citrix more web-enabled. Sequoia ...
CA Staked Out over an Anthill.(Company Financial Information)
May 07, 2001 ... The New York Times doesn't bare its teeth that often, but on Sunday it clamped down on CA's rump and tore off a piece of flesh about the size of $2 billion in market cap. The paper claimed that CA's growth has been illusory, that "measured by standard accounting rules CA's sales ...
It's the IP, Stupid.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... While we had Collab.Net chief Brian Behlendorf on the phone regaling us with how he tried to shove a stick in Microsoft senior VP Craig Mundie's bicycle when Craig was answering questions after his anti- open source speech in New York Thursday, the subject of the recent failure of ...
Turbolinux-Linuxcare Merger Collapses.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... Linuxcare Turns Anorexic; Turbo Will Cease To Be an OS House We've combined the two stories we broke Tuesday and added some information that came in late. The Turbolinux-Linuxcare merger has collapsed. Its failure is going to cost Linuxcare a "significant ...
Hail, LSB 0.9.0.(Technology Information)
May 07, 2001 ... Having been shaken out of their prolonged somnolence, the Linux Standard Base people under the aegis of the newfangled Free Standards Group (FSG) are suddenly making galumphing progress. On Monday, May 7, they're going to release LSB 0.9.0 for public review. Amazing, considering ...
Eazel Takes Up Begging.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Eazel is in worse shape than we thought. To cope with the burn rate and its reported inability to land a second round of venture capital (CSN No 394), the high-profile Linux start-up that was supposed to help Linux wrestle the desktop away from Microsoft is asking people to ...
Pre-nuptial Slimming.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... While Caldera was busy cutting 17% of its people last week in anticipation of taking over SCO's operating systems and services businesses, SCO was also reportedly busy laying off 63 people, most of whom were previously earmarked to make the transition to Caldera. The deal, which ...
Avaya People Told: "Mums the Word".(Product Information)
May 07, 2001 ... Last week we broke a story saying that UnixWare, which becomes a Caldera property today, is going to lose its historically big customer, Avaya Inc, the old Lucent Technologies Enterprise Networks Group, to Sun's Solaris operating system. The news is very closely held and hard to ...
Linux Breaks into Big-Time Banking.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Venezuela's $3 billion Banco Mercantil has ripped out 30 NT servers and replaced them with an IBM S/390 mainframe running SuSE Linux, a showcase win that IBM says is the first known case of a bank entrusting mission-critical functions to Linux. IBM says the bank is about to do ...
SGI Names CFO President.(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... SGI has named its CFO, Hal Covert, president. He's the ex-Adobe CFO who then dumped Red Hat for SGI after a brief Carolina sojourn. The news comes only a few days after SGI announced that it would can a thousand people, 15% of its worldwide workforce, in an attempt to break ...
SGI Unleashes XFS Journaled File System for Linux.(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Come May Day SGI unexpectedly released the finished Linux version of its XFS journaled file, only two years after it promised the stuff. The promise to open source XFS and port it to Linux was first made back in May 1999 (CSN No 301). While there are other open source journaled ...
Linux Sweep of IBM Servers Near Complete.(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... On Friday, May 25 IBM will release Linux support for the iSeries, the old AS/400, the last of IBM's hardware lines to support the upstart operating system. The PowerPC-based iSeries will run up to 23 copies of Linux in multiple partitions. It is the same mainframe-style dynamic ...
Debian's Namesake Goes Commercial.(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Oops. While we weren't looking Progeny Linux Systems, the outfit started by Debian founder Ian Murdock, got boxed copies of Progeny Debian out the door on April 23 at $50 a pop. Murdock, who organized Debian in 1993, decided last year to try to earn a living out of his love - ...
eBiz Acquisition of Linux NetworX Aborted.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... Linux NetworX has walked away from its deal to be acquired by eBiz Enterprises, saying that after thinking it over the match really wasn't made in heaven. It says that it was afraid that, as part of eBiz, it would lose its vertical market focus as a Linux clustering house. ...
partnerAxis B2B Launch Accelerated.(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... PartnerAxis, the former Caldera Linux B2B unit that eBiz Enterprises sold to VC bySynergy a week ago, has found new vigor - to say nothing of money - and has moved its business launch plans up from October to June. PartnerAxis is flush with an instant $1.1 million cash infusion ...
Crystal Proffers 0.87U Shoebox Appliance.(Crystal Group Rackmount Integrated Applications)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... An Iowa system integrator and white box server maker called the Crystal Group has gone into the server appliance business. It's starting out small - literally - with an unusual shoebox-shaped widget called RIA that's in a 0.87U form factor. Up to 52 of the widgets can be stuffed ...
Open Source Exchange Rival in Works.(WorkSpot's Groupware)
May 07, 2001 ... Next month two-year-old WorkSpot will launch a Linux-based suite, built mainly out of open source code, aimed directly at Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. WorkSpot hopes to sell the thing, simply called Groupware, to ASPs and eventually corporate users. It estimates its total ...
Aladdin Lets Linux StuffIt.(beta for Stuffit for Linux and Stuffit for Solaris)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Aladdin Systems has gone to beta with Linux and Solaris versions of its StuffIt compression technology, a direct competitor to the ubiquitous Zip file compression. StuffIt is best known in the Mac community but is also available for Windows. Aladdin said that it's adding Linux ...
RTLinux Released for SMP PowerPC.(Finite State Machine Labs' RTLinux SMP)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... FSMLabs has released a multiprocessor version of its RTLinux real- time Linux distribution for the PowerPC. The initial release of RTLinux SMP supports IBM RS/6000s in dual and quad configurations and dual-G4 PowerMacs. An embedded version for Synergy Microsystems' line of PowerPC boards ...
Opera's Linux Browser Goes to Beta 8.(Opera 5.0 for Linux beta)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 07, 2001 ... Opera has sent the forthcoming Linux version of its Opera 5.0 browser into an eighth beta. The tiny Norwegian company hasn't set a date to go gold with the Linux cut of its new browser, which is number three in the worldwide browser market, though that's still less than 1%. Like ...
Fonix Teaches Linux to Talk Faast.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Text-to-speech (TTS) specialist Fonix Corporation has released Red Hat Linux on x86 and Solaris on Sparc versions of its Fonix Accelerated Application Solutions Technology (FAAST) 5.1 TTS kit, previously available only on Win2K/NT/9x. FAAST lets everything from computers to car ...
O'Reilly Sets Open Source Bash.(Calendar of Events)
May 07, 2001 ... O'Reilly & Associates will stage an Open Source Convention July 23- 27 in San Diego, California. For its shindig O'Reilly has rolled up a clutch small open source shows to look like a big affair. The show combines the Perl ...
Arco Releases Linux Raid Controller.(Arco Computer Products DupLinux)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Arco Computer Products has released a Linux IDE Raid controller utility called DupLinux for its DupliDisk II IDE Raid 1 controller. According to Arco the utility is the first one for ...
LinuxPPC Co-Founder Goes Back to School.(Jason Haas to finish college degree)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001; ... LinuxPPC Inc co-founder Jason Haas said on Monday that he's calling it quits and going back to college to finish his degree. In an e- mail message posted on the LinuxPPC web site, Haas said he was "burned out" after almost four years as LinuxPPC's marketing director, webmaster, ...
Security ASP Pilot Crashes & Burns.(Pilot Network Services suspends operations)(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... E-business security services ASP Pilot Network Services laid off its entire staff and suspended operations as our last issue went to press, leaving a roster of companies of all sizes scrambling for alternate service. The Alameda, California said it sees no way to resume ...
Interliant CEO Jumps Ship.(Herb Hribar)(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... The CEO of ailing ASP Interliant, Herb Hribar, walked out last Thursday night and popped up hours later as executive VP and general manager of VeriSign's Global Registry Services group. The guy was obviously planning to leave. A few weeks Interliant decided to slash its staff by ...
Hammer is Screwed.(AMD 64-bit Hammer chips delayed)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Intel rushed to ask if we heard the news that AMD has pushed back its 64-bit Hammer chips another six months until the third quarter next year. Intel pointed out it's the second time in three months and doubts it can make even the new ...
Drinking from the Same Cup Again.(Compaq Quick Blade and Egenera Blade Frame Intel-compatible systems to come to market)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Even if they all do talk to the same product-defining users for inspiration, it still never ceases to amaze how the industry manages to come to the same technical epiphanies in lockstep all the time. The latest case of uncanny kinship reportedly exists between Compaq's unannounced Quick ...
Dead Skunks Work.(Bill Smith not seeking reelection for Organization for Structured Information Standards (OASIS))(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Sun's boy Bill Smith, president of the OASIS board of directors, isn't standing for re-election, having apparently lost a contest of wills to IBM and its program director for XML technology Robert Sutor, who thinks the old OpenSGML organization-turned-ebXML standards body should be more, ...
Allchin Challenges 2002 Branding.
May 07, 2001 ... Frankly we were surprised when Microsoft up and dubbed the Whistler Server Windows 2002 earlier this week. We thought that it had abandoned that kind of designation. Well, as it turns out, we weren't ...
No Soap.(SOAP protocol)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Microsoft is getting its kickers in a twist - and its agitprop engines humming - over the fact ...
SGI Sales Chief Out.(Ken Coleman)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... Survivors are carrying tales of a big shake-up inside SGI marketing department. Apparently Ken Coleman, executive VP, global sales, service and marketing, is gone - to the delight of some it would appear - and Jan Silverman, the HP guy who followed Rick Belluzzo over to SGI and became VP ...
Turbolinux Savior Close to Beta.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... That systems management platform that Turbolinux is depending on to get it out of the Linux distribution business is reportedly finished and about to go to beta in ...
Requiescat in Pace.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 07, 2001 ... We've seen the very last of HaL Computer Systems, the quirky company founded years ago by IBM RS/6000 architect and all-around hell raiser Andy Heller to do its own version of Sun's Sparc boxes, 64- bit chips included. Its last day was May 1. Everything HaL was still doing has been pulled ...
It's Back.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 07, 2001 ... The next JavaOne developer conference runs June 4-8 at the Moscone Center ...
Speculation Mounts over New Dell Layoffs.(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... We've suddenly gotten a lot of company on Wall Street predicting there'll be deeper layoffs at Dell than the first batch of 1,700 full-timers. US Bancorp Piper Jaffray terror analyst Ashok Kumar, for instance, waded in after we broke our story last week saying basically what we said. That ...
Zander Quashes Donuts.(Company Operations)
May 07, 2001 ... Sun employees have enjoyed the historic right of company-provided donuts every Wednesday morning, a little perk that has reportedly always irritated Sun president Ed Zander. Now with the ...