Mark Hachman

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. intends to position its AMD64 64-bit processor architecture as the ultimate enterprise solution, singling out Intel Corp.s disparate architectures as a weakness. In an odd lunchtime meeting with customers and partners that was part strategy session, part revival and part historical analysis, analysts compared AMDs Opteron to steel mini-mills, able to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Following its pledge at last years LinuxWorld to develop all of its products for Linux, Oracle Corp. will now actually develop future products using the Linux operating system, an Oracle executive said Wednesday. Last year at the LinuxWorld show here, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison pledged to run the companys entire business on the […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. at LinuxWorld Monday demonstrated a PDA reference design based on its Alchemy embedded processor. /zimages/5/26680.gifClick here to see the new PDA. The PDA, a mockup manufactured by a contract manufacturer, nevertheless showed off Metrowerks Qtopia PIM application running on top of the Metrowerks OpenPDA software suite. The OpenPDA application ran on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, Red Hat Inc.s chief executive harkened back to the old rabble-rousing populist days of Linux, delivering a wakeup call to developers at LinuxWorld here. Michael Szulik, who had put his companys money where his mouth was Monday when Red Hat filed suit against The SCO Group, claimed that the industry has “devolved” […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell Inc. will ship the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES operating system with select PowerEdge servers, the company announced Wednesday at the LinuxWorld conference here. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES is especially designed for print and file servers and other edge-of-network applications. The package will be sold for $349 on the PowerEdge 4600, 2650 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The legal issues surrounding Linux “will eventually be forgotten,” according to a top IBM executive speaking Wednesday at LinuxWorld. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, general manager of e-business on demand at IBM, said that he expects over time that the industry will forget SCOs efforts to enforce what it considers to be copyrighted material at the heart […]

Continuing its bid to diversify itself into a supplier of consumer electronics solutions, Gateway introduced its first MP3 player that also doubles as a USB memory key and voice recorder. The first version of Gateways Digital Music Player will hold 128 Mbytes worth of data, with a 256-Mbyte version due Aug. 14. However, the device […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc.s chief software engineer took the LinuxWorld stage here today to show off “Mad Hatter,” the companys upcoming unified desktop, which he said the company will sell for half the price of a Windows environment. Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice-president of Suns software group, also said that a broad software-license deal struck with […]

SAN FRANCISCO—LinuxWorld started off on an enterprise note Tuesday, when Hewlett-Packard Co.s Peter Blackmore took the keynote stage to talk about Linuxs latest moves into top-tier deployments. Blackmore, vice-president of the enterprise systems group for Hewlett-Packard, said that HP is as much a user of Linux as it is a solutions provider. “Linux is really […]

Red Hat Inc. on Monday fired a warning shot at The SCO Group with a pair of legal actions aimed at disarming SCOs claims of copyright violation over Linux. Red Hat announced it has requested a pre-emptive judgment to find it innocent of all potential copyright violations. The Linux vendor also announced the formation of […]