18th December 2009 Archive

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Ingres goes after disgruntled MySQL customers, partners

'Google is the Tiger Woods of technology', says software veep

Open source database maker Ingres is hoping to benefit from concerns about the future of MySQL, by luring customers over to its VectorWise product. In an interview with The Register, Ingres senior engineering veep Emma McGrattan admitted that the company had had a tougher year than it had hoped for, despite hitting most …

Software & Security 18 Dec 09:01
Emulex licences TOE technology

Alacritech shakes its moneymaker

Emulex is licensing Alacritech TCP/IP speed up technology for its OneConnect converged network adapter (CNA). Alacritech owns intellectual property which includes support for Microsoft’s Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Chimney architecture. This offloads TCP/IP processing to an Ethernet network interface card (TOE) and so …

Enterprise 18 Dec 09:56
Mobile internet to eat world, apparently

Attack of the 50-foot MID

Morgan Stanley has issued a set of reports asserting that the mobile internet will be much bigger than the desktop internet: "Regarding pace of change, we believe more users will likely connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years." There are five converging trends: 3G, social networking, video, …

Enterprise 18 Dec 10:56
Fujitsu staff begin walkouts over pay, job cuts

Disgruntled workers picket IT services firm's HQ

Fujitsu Services' staff are picketing at the company's London headquarters today, in protest against pension cuts and compulsory redundancies set for the New Year. Earlier this week, Unite union members at the firm voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action, after many Fujitsu workers expressed disgust at the services …

Enterprise 18 Dec 10:59
LaCie pumps more data down USB 3 link

Dual drive uses USB 3 better

LaCie is prepping dual drive RAIDed storage box delivering up to 275MB/sec across its USB 3.0 link. The product is the 2Big USB 3.0, with two hard drives, a maximum capacity of 4TB - ergo 2 X 2TB 3.5-inch hard SATA drives - and either RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations. It uses a dual USB 3.0 SATA and RAID bridge controller from …

Enterprise 18 Dec 11:18
Red Hat pulls plug on Itanium with RHEL 6

Exclusive More biz for Novell?

If you run Itanium-based servers in your data center, 2010 has a surprise for you. The dominant supplier of commercial Linux, Red Hat, is not going to be supporting its future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on any Itanium platforms, old or new. An intrepid reader of El Reg sent us an email saying that some of the Bugzilla reports …

Enterprise 18 Dec 15:37
Fujitsu workers picket London HQ

'Paid a pittance' staff come out in force against services firm

Disgruntled Fujitsu Services' employees protested at the firm's London headquarters today to mark the start of strike action by Unite union members - many of whom are disgusted at the management's stance on pay, pension and jobs. The walkout signals the beginning of what could be a series of stoppages stretching into the New …

Enterprise 18 Dec 15:53
Adaptec - the eternal wannabe

Comment Serial acquisition FAIL

Adaptec always wanted to grow beyond its core adapter business - to be greater than the sum of its parts - but it only managed to serially underachieve, never fully breaking out of the adapter market in which it felt confined. The company was founded by Larry Boucher in 1981 to speed I/O between computers and external devices …

Enterprise 18 Dec 17:19