Sun posts break-even quarter
Sun Microsystems barely achieved profitability for a second straight quarter, ending a fiscal year that saw the company's revenue drop 8.5 per cent from fiscal 2002 to $US11.4 billion.
Stories by Robert McMillan
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Moore ponders on the end of his law
Two hundred Intel employees gathered on the front lawn of the company’s Californian campus last week to mark its 35th anniversary. There they buried a time capsule containing, amongst other things, an Itanium 2 processor, chopsticks donated by Intel’s Malaysian subsidiary, and a copy of Time Magazine featuring Intel co-founder and Chairman, Andy Grove, on the cover.
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Tim O’Reilly: Software licenses don’t work
PeopleSoft may be spending its nights tossing and turning about a hostile takeover by Oracle, but maybe Oracle should be the one losing sleep. At least that’s what O’Reilly & Associates Chief Executive 0fficer, Tim O’Reilly, says. Robert McMillan asked the questions.
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Linux advocates doubt validity of SCO licensing scheme
Open source advocates have blasted a Linux licensing scheme that The SCO Group is proposing to address alleged copyright violations in the Linux operating system.
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Quantum announces DLTSage tape storage software
Quantum has released new software for its DLTtape line of storage drives that are designed to warn users when their backup tapes are about to go on the fritz.
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SCO readies new Linux licensing program
The SCO Group Inc. is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation.
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Lucent's return to profitability delayed
Lucent Technologies will not be profitable in 2003, the company has warned.
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Legato shareholders sue to block EMC acquisition
EMC's $US1.3 billion acquisition of Legato Systems has hit a snag.
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Test version of Linux 2.6 released
The new version of Linux is finally here, in beta form at least. A test version of the much-anticipated version 2.6 of the Linux kernel has been released by Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds.
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Sun to woo Tru64 users with HP Away program
Sun Microsystems is readying a new customer migration program aimed at enticing users of HP's 64-bit Tru64 Unix operating system on the Alpha microprocessor to Sun's UltraSPARC processor and Solaris operating system.
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SCO documents reveal Sun is mystery licensee
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems finally have something in common: they have both signed Unix licensing agreements with The SCO Group in the last year.
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Dell stops prison labor for recycling program
Dell Computer has dropped a federally-owned company that employed prison laborers as the provider of its consumer PC and printer recycling programs.
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Report: Bugbear, Sobig top viruses so far in 2003
The Bugbear and Sobig viruses top a list of the most frequently occurring viruses of 2003, according to a report released by antivirus company, Sophos.
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Marketing hijacks everything, grid developers told
"Remember, everything we do gets hijacked by marketing." That was the warning Sun Microsystems chief researcher John Gage had for developers working on emerging grid computing standards at the Global Grid Forum in Seattle this week.
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IBM readies new Opteron cluster system
IBM will ship its first cluster server based on Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron microprocessor, according to IBM officials at the ClusterWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose.
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