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22nd October 2008 Archive

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  • Sun shares DARPA dough with photon biz (again)

    Chipping the light fantastic

    As it fashions optical chip links for the US military, Sun Microsystems has enlisted the help of another optically-minded partner. Last month, Kortura Inc. leapt aboard the Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) project, a DARPA-funded undertaking run by Sun, and this month, it's the California-based …

    Enterprise 22 Oct 2008, 06:02

  • Samsung flees SanDisk bid

    Hariri pushes the beast off

    Samsung has pulled out of its SanDisk bid because it looks far too risky - with SanDisk making increased losses, selling off some manufacturing capacity, and its share price tumbling well below the bid offer. A Samsung bid withdrawal letter, quoted by Objectve Analysis's Jim Handy, said: “Your surprise announcements of a …

    Enterprise 22 Oct 2008, 08:24

  • QLogic dodges recession in second quarter

    Host bus adaptors swerves downturn for now

    QLogic is doing its best to be immune to economic doom and gloom scenarios with a 22 per cent year-on-year increase in quarterly revenues and a 20 per cent net income rise. The maker of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs) and switches posted second quarter fiscal 2009 (Q2 fy09) results to September 28 with net revenues …

    Enterprise 22 Oct 2008, 08:51

  • VMware freezes hiring, gives chilly outlook

    Full year to be low end of estimates

    Virtualisation company VMware increased turnover by 32 per cent in the last three months, but warned that earnings for the year are likely to be on the low side of previous estimates and that it has started a hiring freeze. Revenues were $472m in the third quarter of 2008 and the firm made GAAP operating income of $101m - up …

    Enterprise 22 Oct 2008, 09:17

  • Microsoft sued in China for black screen of death

    WGA wins more enemies

    A Chinese lawyer has filed a legal complaint against Microsoft for installing Windows Genuine Advantage on his computer. He has asked the Ministry of Public Security to file criminal charges against Microsoft. Dong Zhengwei accused the company of hacking into people's computers. He said: "I respect the right of Microsoft to …

    Software & Security 22 Oct 2008, 11:42

  • EMC's double-digit growth run will finish this quarter

    For the good times...

    Storage industry bellwether EMC has delivered its 21st consecutive double digit growth quarter with revenues of $3.76bn for the third quarter. These are up 13 per cent on last year's revs, which were $3.3bn. But the company is forecasting low single-digit growth next quarter. GAAP net income for the quarter to the end of …

    Enterprise 22 Oct 2008, 13:12

  • HP boss places bets on 1,000 staff at UK race track

    They shoot horses, don't they?

    Hewlett-Packard boss Mark Hurd has spent the morning at Ascot’s racing course with 1,000 hand-picked UK employees mulling the future of the company, after announcing earlier this month that 3,378 jobs are off to the knacker's yard. According to the union Unite, EDS staff will account for up to 90 per cent of UK workers to be …

    IT Channel 22 Oct 2008, 13:20

  • What is a Linux distro worth?

    A lot more than people pay for it

    Here's a thought experiment proposed by the Linux Foundation today: If you had to start from scratch, what would it cost to create a Linux distribution? The short answer is: about $1.4bn for the Linux kernel and about $10.8bn for the Red Hat Fedora 9 development release, the latest one out this summer. Because Linux is an …

    Software & Security 22 Oct 2008, 15:46

  • Oracle cites 'screw up' for BEA support outage

    No conspiracy here folks, move along

    Oracle has moved to re-assure users on legacy versions of BEA Systems software their products are safe, after online support became suddenly unavailable. The database giant blamed a "logistical screw up" in moving WebLogic and AquaLogic upgrades, services packs, and old release from the old BEA site to Oracle's Technology …

    Software & Security 22 Oct 2008, 19:00

  • Dell: 'We will out-pace the rest of the industry'

    Faster than the slow

    Dell claims it will out-pace the rest of the PC industry this year. But that may not be much of a boast. The company doesn't know whether the industry is actually on the way up. "For the first nine months of this year, according to IDC, Dell grew a few points faster than the overall industry for our unit growth," Michael Dell …

    IT Channel 22 Oct 2008, 20:01

  • IBM defers New Coke financing

    z10 mainframes get 'buy now' Linux discount

    Launching a new server platform of any kind in this economic environment is never an attractive option - unless it costs a lot less money than the alternatives. With mainframes, just being a lot cheaper than last year's model is progress, and with the System z10 Business Class entry mainframes announced this week, IBM has cut …

    Enterprise 22 Oct 2008, 20:31

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