Client Server News back issues from December 2003:
Source Claims SCO Will Sue Google.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003; ... A source claiming to be in the know says that the SCO Group is going to sue Google for not paying its Linux taxes. Last week SCO threatened to make an example of a big-time Linux user that hadn't paid SCO the license fees it's demanding and take it to court for copyright ...
Microsoft Loses Another Patent Suit.(from Imagexpo L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Microsoft has lost another patent infringement suit. This time a Virginia federal jury has awarded Imagexpo LLC, a little-known subsidiary of $5 billion-a-year SPX Corporation, an initial $62.3 million in compensatory damages for allowing its NetMeeting Whiteboard widgetry, ...
Top Sun Software Exec Defects to Microsoft.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Sun's former VP of worldwide software sales Barbara Gordon, reportedly once Sun CEO Scott ...
Microsoft Follows Sun with China Deal of its Own.(with Chinese National Computer Software & Technology Service Corporation )(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Well it seems that seconds after Sun announced that it was carving its initials into God knows how many Chinese desktops, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who happened to be in Beijing pledging $10 million to computerize Chinese primary and middle schools in the hinterland and develop distance ...
Windows Trademark Case Delayed.(with Lindows.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... The federal court in Seattle has delayed hearing Microsoft's case against Lindows.com until March 1 because of a scheduling conflict with a criminal matter, Lindows said. The jury trial was supposed to start on ...
HP Loses More Execs.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Hewlett-Packard, which is having a stickiness crisis as far as its staff goes, has accepted the resignation of Jeff Clarke, the former Compaq CFO who led the Compaq side of the HP-Compaq integration team when the two companies merged. Clarke's HP counterpart was long-time HP ...
Intel's Next-Generation 65nm Process Working.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Intel, which is a bit behind its own schedule for moving its chips to a 90nm process, said Monday that it had built fully functioning 4-megabit SRAMs on 65nm technology, the next step after 90nm. The development will make it possible for Intel to double the number of transistors it can put ...
Microsoft Kisses its Services Boss Good-bye.(Mike Sinneck)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Mike Sinneck, the high-profile guy it recruited from IBM Global Services in January 2002 to run worldwide services is leaving Microsoft to return to the East Coast to "pursue new opportunities outside of Microsoft." Microsoft said. ...
Oracle Still Lusts after PeopleSoft.
Dec 01, 2003 ... Oracle staged a conference call Monday to clear up "misconceptions in the market" and to say that it hadn't been dissuaded from the PeopleSoft acquisition by the length of time the process was taking but that it wasn't going to pay any unreasonable price for the joint either. Oracle made ...
Microsoft Settles with Tennessee.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Microsoft is going to pay Tennessee consumers a nominal $64 million in vouchers to settle the class action claiming it charged too much for Windows. How much it actually pays depends on how many claims are ...
Former Unify CEO Convicted of Cooking the Books.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Former Unify CEO Reza Mikailli has been convicted of cooking the books, defrauding investors and enriching himself to the tune of $4 million at their expense following a trial in federal court on charges that were brought in the summer of 2000. The company's former CFO Gary Pado ...
Burney Ousted as CEO of Corel.
Dec 01, 2003 ... Vector Capital, the VC operation that took over WordPerfect owner Corel Corporation, has kicked Corel's CEO Derek Burney upstairs as chairman and put its own guy in as interim CEO pending an executive search. Burney, who was Corel's engineering chief before the company's ...
HP Still Has a Lot To Prove.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Tracing HP's upside Q4 last week to consumer PCs and printers, Bear Stearns remarked that "The bigger issues for Hewlett-Packard are execution and consistency, as HP has not yet demonstrated an ability to deliver consistent revenue and earnings growth. Moreover, given Q403's upside from ...
Indian Support Didn't Work for Dell.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... The papers say that Dell is repatriating jobs because its Bangalore support outpost flubbed it. Apparently Dell's stopped routing corporate calls ...
McDowell Joins Nokia.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Mary McDowell, who ran HP's nee Compaq's Intel server operation until last spring when HP reorganized her out of a job, is going to Nokia as head of its enterprise solutions business starting January 1. After HP clumped servers and storage together a la IBM and ...
Sleepycat Upgrades Berkeley DB.(Berkely DB 4.2)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Sleepycat Software, which makes Berkeley DB, which claims 200 million deployments, has added a new Java API, based on the existing Java collections standard that should make building Java data storage applications easier. So it's putting out a new rev ...
HP Takes on IBM, EMC & Dell with New Storage Packs.
Dec 01, 2003 ... Hewlett-Packard has rolled out a new storage family and packaged up server-storage offerings for small and mid-sized customers that it claims are 50% cheaper than products from IBM and Dell/EMC. Part of HP's new SmartOffice initiative for SMBs, the Modular Smart Array (MSA) ...
Sun Storage Replaces Marketing Veep; Ex-EMC Exec To Head.(Fidelma Russo)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Quality Sun has made a bunch of changes in its storage unit roping in a former EMC manager to head quality engineering and bringing in a new marketing VP. Sun has named Fidelma Russo to the new post of VP of quality engineering. Before joining Sun, Russo was VP of ...
Emulex Buys Trebia Assets on the Cheap.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Emulex has acquired the assets of storage network processor start-up Trebia Networks for a song. In its quarterly SEC filing, Emulex, a host bus adapter vendor, said it paid $2 million, $500,000 of it placed in escrow for at least 90 days. The acquisition happened on ...
Quantum Restructures; Storage Solutions Chief Out.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Quantum is firing 110 people and the president of its Storage Solutions Group Larry Orecklin is leaving as part of the restructuring. As part of the reorg, Rick Belluzzo, the HP veteran who was president of Microsoft there for a while, continues as chairman and CEO while tape ...
Linux Exec Reportedly Joins the Evil Empire.(Microsoft)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... A source claims that the former head of Turbolinux in China, ex- Compaq exec Ashok Pandey, has joined Microsoft. What with the Thanksgiving Day holidays almost upon us, Microsoft said it couldn't confirm or deny that it had hired Pandey. It just didn't know. China, a ...
SCO's Pariah Status Validates its Claims: Barron's.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... A Barron's piece on the SCO Group pushed its stock up 14% to $15.99 Monday and on Tuesday it was still climbing, setting 52-week records. The stock was a buck a share before it sued IBM for breach of contract. Barron's reasoned that the level of animosity directed at SCO was ...
OSDL Circulates FSF Arguments against SCO.(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... To try to hold SCO's feet to the fire, the Linux-loving Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is circulating a position paper written by the general counsel of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Eben Moglen disputing SCO's Linux claims about the GPL. Moglen wants to reassure users ...
Stoned Beaver Let Loose; Linux Folks Hope It Bites SCO.(test patch)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Over last weekend the 2.6 Linux kernel took another step closer to actualization when Linus Torvalds released 2.6.0-test10, a patch "tentatively" dubbed Stoned Beaver. Its predecessor, test 9, had been circulating for about a month. Linus said he was going to leave it ...
You Could Call It Skimmer or Bowler or, Hey, How about.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Cloche Researchers at Cornell University, a Microsoft sympathizer, says they're going to protest Red Hat's intentions to trademark Fedora, the name given to the open source project that's replacing Red Hat's free and retailer distributions. The Cornell ...
Lindows Claims Big Win in Canada.(30,000 Lindows-based machines deployed)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Lindows.com claims deployment of 30,000 Lindows-based WebStation machines has started in Canada, Nova Scotia specifically, but then it also says that trials are underway. It says the 30k rollout will take a year. To oversee the push, it says it's opened an office in ...
IBM Claims GPFS Vital to Grids.(General Parallel File System )(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... IBM's is going around saying the high-performance shared-disk file system it developed called GPFS or General Parallel File System is vital to grids. IBM talks about it as a new paradigm. The widgetry provides data access in a Linux or Unix clustered environment ...
Novell-SuSE Leaves Prudential Unimpressed.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... "We think the noise created by Novell's November 4th announcement of its acquisition of Linux distributor SuSE has been concentrated in the investor market with little impact on customer behavior. While Novell may have the ...
Bill Joy's Meditation Wall.
Dec 01, 2003 ... I'm figuring out a meditation wall for my apartment in New York. Eight feet high by 12 feet wide, with an array of overlapping rear projectors, each with a tiny Linux box and connected by gigabit Ethernet. I would love to get 72 dpi but will probably settle for less - about 30 megapixels ...
Microsoft To Spend $10b To Make $10b.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Microsoft intends to spend $10 billion give or take developing its small business software ...
Veritas Professes Acquisition Ambitions.
Dec 01, 2003 ... CEO Gary Bloom, striking exactly the right metaphor for Paris, told ...
Intel Watch.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Intel continues to promise its new 90nm Prescott and Dothan chips will ship this quarter despite reports that they were pushed into Q1 because of delays attributed to the process. Of course, no OEM adds SKUs in November and December. We gather Prescott will be formally launched in January ...
French Government Tells EC To Take a Hike.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... In exchange for a $60 million investment, France's becalmed computer flagship Group Bull SA may turn control over to the Gores Technology Group, according to Les Echoes. When last seen Gores was turning the old MicronPC, now called MPC Computers, around. Or, if Bull doesn't do that, it ...
Call Amazon at 800-201-7575.
Dec 01, 2003 ... Amazon treats customer service number like it was unlisted but BusinessWeek went on a ...
Stratus Raises $170m.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2003 ... After 22 years in operation, privately held Stratus Technologies has gone to the public trough for the first time and placed $170 worth of corporate bonds. The bonds are five-year senior unsecured notes yielding 10.375% and due in 2008. Stratus claims the fact that it was ...
Kleiner Dead.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Dec 01, 2003 ... Silicon Valley pioneer Eugene Kleiner, the Kleiner in Kleiner in Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers - yes, Virginia there really was one - died Thursday, November 20 of heart failure according to a statement issued by his family Monday. He was 80-years-old and hasn't been active in the ...
IBM Software To Play Scrooge, Fire Cratchits Wholesale, Source Says.
Dec 08, 2003; ... IBM is reportedly supposed to play Scrooge and fire 13,000 people from its software unit. At least that's what the scuttlebutt inside says. The first indications of whether this news is true or not could reportedly start becoming apparent this Wednesday. The job cuts ...
Microsoft Says It's Willing To License All its IP.
Dec 08, 2003 ... Microsoft's chief counsel Brad Smith got on the blower Wednesday morning and basically threw all of Microsoft's IP, "100%," he said, of its patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights, on the table to be picked over and licensed by the industry on both royalty-free and "commercially ...
Hong Kong Signs Up for Microsoft Source Code.(part of Microsoft's Government Security Program)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... The Hong Kong government, or at least its IT bureau, has signed up for controlled access to Microsoft source code during the next three years as part of Microsoft's year-old ...
HP Ventures Off the Beaten Track with Startup-Aping Blade PCs.(HP's Consolidated Client Infrastructure)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Hewlett-Packard, whose "Invent" slogan is observed more in the breach than in practice, lifted a "revolutionary" PC-as-blade concept from a start-up called ClearCube, the first company to rethink the Personal Computer since PCs came out in 1981. Then it re-engineered what it ...
EC May Force Bull into Bankruptcy.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... The European Commission says it won't approve Bull's latest bailout plan before the regulators take the uppity French government to court and challenge the legality of the scheme. The EC's suit won't be heard by the European Court of Justice before 2005, which kinda throws a ...
Stinky Wireless Business Weighs Intel Down.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Intel tightened up its Q4 guidance Thursday for its mid-quarter review. It said it's sure to clear $8.5 billion in revenues, pulling up its socks from a previous low projection of $8.1 billion but it still doesn't think it can do better than $8.7 billion, some $200 million-$300 million ...
John Who?(John Chen, CEO of Sybase, on Disney board)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Hong Kong-born Sybase CEO John Chen, of all people, has been named to the Disney board effective January 1 replacing - take your pick - either vice-chairman Roy Disney, Walt's 73-year-old nephew, or Roy's go-fer Stanley Gold both of whom quit the other day in a rebuff to Disney chief ...
Candles Are Lighting Up.(corporate spending on increase)(Industry Overview)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Dell COO Kevin Rollins told a Credit Suisse gathering the other day that corporate IT demand was "improving" rather than stagnating or merely staying "stable" like it was a quarter ago. However, the change is apparently not all that perceptible or at least not enough to make ...
Sun as the Anti-Dell.(releases new blade servers)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... As a distraction from its financial plight, Sun this week unleashed another raft of so-called Network Computer widgetry, the stuff it's talking every quarter now, including new x86 blade servers that run either Solaris x86 or Linux and reference architectures to help folks migrate or ...
IBM Still Top Dog in Servers; Sun Takes a Hit.(Industry Overview)
Dec 08, 2003 ... IBM retained its revenues-from-servers lead worldwide in Q3 when revenues grew 2% overall to $10.8 billion, according to the latest IDC numbers, the second consecutive quarter of revenue growth after nine crummy quarters. Revenues were up a point more than IDC expected largely ...
J2EE 1.4 Blessed.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... The long-in-the-making Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, which Sun figures is the most complete approximation of the interoperability spec WS-I Basic Profile around, has gotten the collective and unanimous blessing of the Java Community Process (JCP). The specification and compatibility test ...
Oracle Joins CERN Grid Project.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Oracle has joined the CERN Openlab for Datagrid applications. IBM, Intel and HP are already involved, but Oracle is apparently the only database. They're supposed to build and test prototype apps of increasing power and functionality. CERN emphasizes a common development ...
Happy Birthday.(Eclipse consortia)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... How time flies. The Java-based Eclipse open source IDE consortium that IBM dreamed up has turned two. On hitting the milestone, Sun decided that it wouldn't join or merge its own NetBeans open source tools project with Eclipse, leaving two competitive approaches that gives ...
HP To Join the Music Crowd.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... For its next trick HP is reportedly going to ape Apple and the other music buffs and join the music download fray with a service of its own next month. HP's is supposedly going with a partner. The Wall Street Journal cites sources who say that HP, which is keeping mum on the ...
IBM Out To Poach EMC Customers.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... IBM has rolled out a new program aimed at rustling EMC users. Launched on Wednesday, the migration program is designed to get customers to replace EMC storage with IBM gear. IBM said it's put together a team of 100 consultants and technologists to kick off the ...
McData's Sales Chief Bolts.(Alain Andreoli)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... McData's executive VP of worldwide sales and services Alain Andreoli has left the company reportedly ...
Exavio Gets New CEO; Debuts New Storage System.(Thomas Jackson and ExaVault FC Media Storage System)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Storage and streaming start-up Exavio has brought in Thomas Jackson as its new CEO. He replaces Exavio co-founder Ji Zhang, now CTO and chairman. Jackson was most recently CEO of TeleSuite, an Englewood, Ohio start-up involved in high-end video conferencing. The San ...
EMC Claims Momentum Driving Centera.
Dec 08, 2003 ... EMC claims its Centera content addressed storage system is seeing momentum in the marketplace. EMC executives say that 300 resellers have signed up for the Centera partner program and that it's shipped 10 Centera petabytes since the system was introduced in April 2002. ...
NetApp Expands Product Portfolio.(including Network Appliance FAS980 and FAS980c and SnapMover software)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Network Appliance rolled out a bunch of new products and enhancements to coincide with its analyst day on Wednesday. Highlights include the new FAS980/FAS980C and NearStore R200 storage systems, SnapMover software and enhanced versions of the gFiler Gateway and SnapVault ...
FIA Debuts Small Biz NAS Servers.(First Intelligent Array's POPnetserver 1000)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... First Intelligent Array has introduced a family of NAS servers aimed at small business, remote offices and home offices. Dubbed POPnetserver 1000, the NAS servers come in three models and are designed to provide high-level protection with flexible RAID options. They are offered ...
Hitachi IP SAN Debuts.(HP TrueNorth iSCSI SAN Solution )(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Hitachi Data Systems has rolled out its first IP SAN offering by combining its Thunder 9570V storage system with McData's Eclipse 1620 SAN internetworking switch. The TrueNorth iSCSI SAN Solution is the first product to embody HDS' iSCSI strategy. Eclipse 1620, which ...
Red Hat's Sales Boss To Leave.(Tim Buckely)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Red Hat says its sales chief, COO Tim Buckley, is going to retire so it has expanded the brief of Alex Pinchev, the Russian the company brought in nine months ago to advance its offshore fortunes as president of international operations. Pinchev is now also responsible for ...
Wind River Joins OSDL & Eclipse.(Open Source Development Lab)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Wind River Systems, the embedded operating system house that bought Berkeley Software Design Inc (BSDi), the 10-year attempt to commercialize Berkeley Unix, an adventure that doesn't seem to have netted the company much, has joined the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). It's ...
Novell Adds to Board.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Novell has named two women, Claudine Malone and Kathy Brittain White, to its board of directors. Malone, 67, is the president and CEO of Financial Management and Consulting Inc and has taught business administration at Harvard, Georgetown and the University of Virginia. She ...
'I Ain't So Tough': Linux;.(security breaches of Debian)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Debian Breached A series of security breeches that occurred on November 19 and just became public information the day after Thanksgiving compromised at least four of the Debian project's Intel servers, project administrator James Troup said in an e-mail to the Debian mailing ...
DoCoMo Preps Linux Phone.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... NTT DoCoMo, Japan's number one mobile carrier, is rumored to be readying a 3G handset based on Linux that it would release in the second half of next year. The company, which expects its 3G phones to hit 25 million units by 2006, is supposed to have given suppliers like NEC a ...
Lindows Trots Out OS for Laptops.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Lindows.com, which is fast becoming a past master at segmenting, has dreamed up a Laptop Edition of its operating system that's supposed to have improved power management, a high degree of compatibility with Wi-Fi cards and the ability to take advantage of keyboard shortcuts to e-mail ...
Red Hat Won't Pander to ISVs.(independent software vendors)(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik made a presentation this week to a standing room only crowd at Credit Suisse and worried out loud that Red Hat won't pander to ISVs and make the kernel-invasive changes they want, but that SuSE would. He also foresaw ...
Red Hat Willing To Cut Academe Godfather-like Deal.(Brief Article)
Dec 08, 2003 ... Red Hat is running after the education market with a $25-a-year desktop system and a $50-a-year server platform that would be good for network infrastructure, web hosting and HPC server farms. It's also making schools an offer it figures they can't refuse that will ...