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Jan 17, 2004 IBM to Add 15,000 New Jobs to Work Force The Associated Press ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) - On the heels of strong earnings reports, IBM Corp. announced Saturday that it will add 15,000 jobs worldwide. About 4,500 new hires will be made in the United States, primarily tied to high-growth areas such as software and services, company officials said. The remainder of the jobs will be in emerging markets such as China and India and in Europe. The job additions were 50 percent over company projections and will increase Big Blue's work force to nearly 330,000, officials said....

Munich Linux setback By Jan Libbenga Posted: 15/01/2004 at 09:50 GMT Last year, the city of Munich, Germany opted to go with Linux instead of Microsoft software on more than 14,000 desktop computers. This was seen as a significant setback for Microsoft and a clear sign of Linux' increasing viability. But now the project is in trouble, according to Computerwoche. This Spring, Munich needs to finish a migration plan as well as present a budget for the project. But according to Computerwoche there is not enough money and technical difficulties may result in stalling of the LiMux Project. In particular,...

<p>Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday will announce that it earned a record-breaking $2.5 billion Linux-based revenue in fiscal 2003, with its Linux services and solutions business posting a 40 percent rise over fiscal 2002.</p> <p>While the revenue was derived from the sale of Linux-related products and services, the Palo Alto, Calif., company did not specify exactly what was included and counted as Linux-based revenue.</p>

'Like showing up on the day of the final exam and saying you didn't have time to read the book yet' In SCO's response to a court order that it provide evidence to IBM on which it can build its defence, it asked for a further 90 days to fully comply - a request that may meet with a cool reception when the two parties meet in court later this month. The order to compel discovery granted to IBM 12 December last year meant SCO had to provide the documentation IBM requested within 30 days and to the court's satisfaction....

It looks like SCO did not fully comply with the court's order by the deadline after all. SCO has posted a Notice of Compliance as a PDF on its web site, which states that they have filed "Supplemental Responses". The notice claims they have fully complied with the court's order with respect to answering Interrogatories 1-9, 12 and 13, but they reserve the right to supplement after they get more code from IBM. However, they say they have *not* produced all the documents requested by IBM, specifically files of certain directors and officers. Because of the holiday, they didn't have...

The program to connect all North Carolina schools with a sophisticated computer network began in 1999 with a contract for $54 million. The state's commitment is now $113 million and counting, and the final tab will probably exceed $150 million. Plans called for all of the state's teachers to have instant access to the system from their desktop computers by this year. Instead, only six of 117 school districts are on line as part of a trial of the system, which is called NC WISE. And many of the teachers using it don't like it. They say it is difficult...

Just before Christmas last year, Novell announced publicly that SCO had known for some time that it did not receive all rights and ownership to UNIX technologies, despite public statements to the contrary. Novell has made public correspondence between lawyers representing both Novell and SCO. Read these in their entirety - they are quite enlightening. These letters finally start getting to the heart of the mysterious "Amendment No. 2" which SCO referred to publicly in a press release dated June 6, claiming it transferred "everything" to them and which Novell claimed never existed - Novell's legal team is adamant that...

Even as it considers filing a legal claim against a Linux customer, The SCO Group must produce by week's end some proof to support its lawsuit against IBM. Following a court order issued early last month, the Lindon, Utah-based Unix company has until the end of the week to specify and hand over to IBM attorneys the hundreds of thousands of lines of Unix System V code it says IBM improperly donated to the Linux kernel. SCO filed its multibillion-dollar lawsuit against IBM last March, claiming the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant had violated its contract with the Unix company by...

Israel has joined what has increasingly become a worldwide crusade to break free of the Microsoft Corporation and their perceived monopolistic constraints. The Ministry of Finance announced Sunday it will begin distributing Open Office, which is a package of basic software programs similar to Microsoft Office, for free starting this coming week. The ministry plans to distribute thousands of Open Office programs on CD-ROM at public computer centers and eventually community centers across the country throughout the coming year. Open Office suite includes all the functions supplied by Microsoft Office – a word processing program, a spreadsheet program, and a...

Though the two companies appear to be cooperating more, especially in the area of Web services, the desires of IBM and Microsoft to vanquish one another should not be underestimated. IBM and Microsoft routinely argue that their cooperation, which is producing de facto standards at a record-breaking pace, is happening for the benefit of their customers. But standards, especially Web services standards, also facilitate the substitution of one platform for another. In this case, Java for .Net and vice versa. Nothing would please either company more than to win one of the other's customers by booting out the incumbent run-time...

Bracing for the Blow By BOB HERBERT .B.M. has sent a holiday chill through its American employees with its plans to ship thousands of high-paying white-collar jobs overseas to lower-paid foreign workers. "People are upset and angry," said Arnie Marchetti, a 37-year-old computer technician at I.B.M.'s Southbury, Conn., office whose wife gave birth to their first child in August. The company has not made any announcements, and the employees do not know who will be affected, or when. The uncertainty about whose jobs may be sent to India or China, the two main countries in the current plans, has...

I.B.M. has sent a holiday chill through its American employees with its plans to ship thousands of high-paying white-collar jobs overseas to lower-paid foreign workers. "People are upset and angry," said Arnie Marchetti, a 37-year-old computer technician at I.B.M.'s Southbury, Conn., office whose wife gave birth to their first child in August. The company has not made any announcements, and the employees do not know who will be affected, or when. The uncertainty about whose jobs may be sent to India or China, the two main countries in the current plans, has raised workers' anxiety in some cases to an...

NEW YORK, DEC 24: US corporations are picking up the pace in shifting well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost centres, but they are keeping quiet for fear of a backlash, industry professionals said. Morgan Stanley estimates the number of US Jobs outsourced to India will double to about 1,50,000 in the next three years. Analysts predict as many as two million US white-collar jobs such as programmers, software engineers and applications designers will shift to low cost centres by 2014. But the biggest companies looking to “offshoring” to cut costs, such as Microsoft Corp, International Business Machines...

IBM to offshore over 4000 jobs to India, China 10.31 IST 16th Dec 2003 By IndiaExpress Bureau Computer giant International Business Machines Corp. is planning to move some 4,730 jobs of software programmers to India and China among others, in one of the biggest moves to "offshore" highly paid US software jobs. IBM has told its managers to plan on moving the work of as many as 4,730 programmers to India, China and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday quoting company documents. A former IBM executive in India, Pawan Kumar, now chairman of Moksha Technologies PLC, an outsourcing...

Revenge Of The Nerds Daniel Lyons, 12.16.03, 12:30 PM ET NEW YORK - In the real world, Brenda Banks is a 54-year-old grandmother in Greer, S.C., a former warehouse supervisor who teaches rubber-stamping arts and crafts classes. But online she transforms into "br3n," a passionate user of Linux software who cruises Web sites posting smash-mouth messages about SCO Group. So far Banks has posted more than 1,500 messages on SCO's Yahoo! message board alone--including five on Thanksgiving. "I feel very strongly about it," says Banks, who runs Linux on a six-year-old Acer home computer. "They want to come and stab...

The code at the heart of SCO's legal action against IBM will be revealed only in a closed court When the SCO Group finally lays its cards on the table in its upcoming lawsuit against IBM, the open-source community won't be given the opportunity to see them. IBM last week successfully persuaded the judge presiding over the case to give SCO 30 days to reveal the code that forms the basis for its $3bn (£1.72bn) lawsuit against Big Blue for alleged copyright infringements. The judge originally placed no restrictions on public disclosure of the disputed code, and it's understood IBM's...

Mon Dec 15,12:14 AM ET In one of the largest moves to "offshore" highly paid U.S. software jobs, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) has told its managers to plan on moving the work of as many as 4,730 programmers to India, China and elsewhere, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. delayed 20 mins - disclaimer Quote Data provided by Reuters The unannounced plan, outlined in company documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal, would replace thousands of workers at IBM facilities in Southbury, Conn., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Raleigh, N.C., Dallas, Boulder, Colo., and elsewhere in the U.S.Already, the managers have...

I'm sure that back in late winter, Darl McBride felt confident that SCO would be quickly bought out or some sort of settlement would be reached with IBM. Back then, their catch phrase was 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.' Now, after a very large torpedo was fired by a Utah Court, we're seeing rats abandoning a ship that is surely destined to sink. What a difference two winters make. This one is shaping up to be the winter of SCO's discontent. Monday, The Royal Bank of Canada, to avoid getting royally chiseled, (for lack of a more descriptive word)...

SCO Hit By Another DDoS Attack By Jim Wagner The SCO Group (Quote, Chart), which is embroiled in a legal battle over copyright claims over some code in the Linux open source operating system, confirmed Wednesday a massive distributed denial of service attack (DdoS) on its corporate Web site. Officials at the SCO Group (Quote, Chart) said a Denial of Service (define) attack took down its Web site at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, and will remain inaccessible for at least the next 12 hours. The breach also took out its customer support and e-mail service. Blake Stowell, SCO spokesperson, said this...

GPL is no hippie dream IDG News Service 12/8/03 Linus Torvalds, IDG News Service Last Thursday, The SCO Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Darl McBride posted an open letter on SCO's Web site arguing that Linux backers were threatening to undermine the copyright protections provided in U.S. and European law. McBride's posting was the latest in a series of public statements by SCO portraying the open-source operating system as a threat to the commercial software industry and an enemy of intellectual property. "There is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world,...