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Apple and IBM Introduce the PowerPC G5 Processor World's First 64-Bit Desktop Processor the Heart of the World's Fastest Personal Computer WWDC 2003, SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple and IBM together today introduced the world's first 64-bit desktop processor -- the PowerPC G5. Based on IBM's industry leading POWER architecture, the new PowerPC G5 processor has been optimized for personal computers and is at the heart of Apple's newly announced Power Mac G5, the world's fastest desktop computer. "The PowerPC G5 changes all the rules. This 64-bit race car is the heart of our new Power Mac...

My Visit To SCO Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2003 by Ian Lance Taylor The full story of what one person who signed SCO's NDA encountered on his trip to Lindon, Utah. This essay describes my visit to SCO on June 17, 2003, to discuss SCO's claim that Linux infringes on its intellectual property rights. I visited the SCO office in Lindon, Utah, for about one hour. I spoke with Chris Sontag, Senior Vice President, Operating Systems Division, and with Blake Stowell, Director of Public Relations. In order to speak with them, I signed a non-disclosure agreement. The short version...

According to a report tonight at MacRumors.com, the Apple website listed the specs (apparently by accident) of the new Macs expected to be introduced on Monday at the Worldwide Developer's Conference. The information was found via the Akamai internet service that Apple uses to accelerate web page downloading. The purported specs are - The world's fastest personal computer. 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz, or Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 Processors Up to 1 GHz processor bus Up to 8GB of DDR SDRAM Fast Serial ATA hard drives AGP 8x Pro3 PCI or PCI-X expansion slots One FW800, two FW400 ports Bluetooth & Airport Extreme...

 Why SCO decided to take IBM to court By David BeckerStaff Writer, CNET News.comJune 16, 2003, 4:00 AM PT newsmakers A few years ago, Caldera Systems was bobbing along as one of the last software companies to claim a piece of the Linux land rush, scoring a successful IPO that raised $70 million. Since then, Linux companies have gone through several rounds of grueling consolidation, and Caldera--now known as the SCO Group--has sworn off Linux. What's more, the company now finds itself a pariah in the same open-source software community it helped elevate to prominence. SCO's non grata status...

NEW YORK - Linux vendors are under attack. In March, IBM was sued for $1 billion by The SCO Group, of Lindon, Utah, which claims IBM has put SCO's Unix code into Linux, the open-source software program. SCO also has sent letters to 1,500 large companies warning them that if they are using Linux, they may face legal problems. Though IBM is the only company named in SCO's lawsuit, other Linux vendors, like Red Hat and SuSE Linux, could suffer collateral damage. Why You Won't Be Getting A Linux PC The Limitations Of LinuxBoies' Take On LinuxPeopleSoft Jumps On The...

<p>The SCO Group, which is suing IBM for $1 billion, on Monday terminated Big Blue's right to use or distribute its Unix-based AIX operating system.</p> <p>SCO on Monday said it was going to file an amendment to the complaint against IBM with the United States District Court of Utah, where the case is currently pending, for a permanent injunction requiring IBM to cease and desist all use and distribution of AIX and to destroy or return all copies of Unix System V source code.</p>

Another major hardware maker is likely to be added to SCO's legal battle against IBM and others over what it claims is illegally appropriated source code in Linux. In the meantime, Novell backs off copyright claims against SCO. The SCO Group Inc. has found what it says is proof that it owns all copyrights related to the Unix operating system, a claim rival Novell Inc. had contested last month and for which SCO may seek to recoup damages. Also, IBM said that it had no intention of reaching a quick settlement with the SCO Group, a small company based in...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - SCO Group Inc. SCOX.O , which claims International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N illegally used parts of its Unix software in other programs, said on Wednesday that it could revoke its license to the world's largest computer company unless they settled this week. Lindon, Utah-based SCO is suing IBM for more than $1 billion and warned 1,500 other companies last month that they may be violating SCO's intellectual property rights because parts of its Unix software code are being used in Linux. Unix is a widely-used operating system for networked computers that was first developed by AT&T Corp....

KYOTO, Japan — IBM researchers have integrated a 10-Gbps silicon photodetector using a 130-nm 1.5V CMOS process, opening the way to chip-to-chip and board-to-board optical interconnects. Eventually, optical photodetectors may be used for chip-level interconnects as well. By 2010, when processors exceed clock frequencies of 11.5 GHz, optical interconnects may be needed to avoid chip-to-chip and on-chip bottlenecks. In a presentation here Wednesday (June 11th) at the 2003 Symposium on VLSI Technology, Min Yang, a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, N.Y., described a monolithically integrated photodetector that achieves a much higher data detection...

Story Url: http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=34460532 Send story to the . IBM, Infineon Develop Most Advanced MRAM Technology to Date 10 Jun 2003, 12:00am ET - - - - - KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003--IBM and Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE:IFX) today announced they have developed the most advanced Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) technology to date by integrating magnetic memory components into a high-performance logic base. Today's announcement could accelerate the commercialization of MRAM, a breakthrough memory technology with the potential to begin replacing some of today's memory technologies as early as 2005. MRAM could lead to 'instant on' computers, allowing users...

An insight into the success of Apple's online music service has been provided by leaked details from a meeting with representatives from the independent record industry. According to notes published on the web, Apple has sold 3.5 million songs since it launched its iTunes music store at the end of April The computer manufacturer is selling about 500,000 songs a week and about half of those are sold as albums, allaying fears that people would choose individual tracks instead of a whole record. The notes from the 5 June presentation behind closed doors by Apple boss Steve Jobs were...

One of the first observers to see the evidence in the SCO Group Inc.'s intellectual-property claim against IBM and the Linux community says there are direct similarities between the Unix code that SCO claims control over and the Linux operating system. "My impression is that [SCO's claim] is credible," says Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group analyst who was shown the evidence by SCO Group earlier this week. "It appears to be the same" code. But DiDio says the developing battle could hinge on legal fine points that are hard to sort out in the current atmosphere of claims, denials, and...

June 6, 2003 New I.B.M. Supercomputer to Begin Its Weather WorkBy JOHN MARKOFF he nation's most powerful supercomputer for weather forecasting is scheduled to go online today, I.B.M. said yesterday, a machine that may eventually rival the Japanese Earth Simulator as the world's fastest supercomputer.The new computer, with a theoretical peak computing power of 7.3 trillion operations a second, is expected to be enhanced over the next few years, and it may reach speeds up to 100 trillion operations a second by 2009, I.B.M. said.It ranks third in the United States in speed, behind two Hewlett-Packard machines at Los...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32872 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 BIZNETDAILY COMMENTARYBig blue Mormon penguinsUpdates on the Linux wars Posted: June 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Russ McGuire is the online director of Business Reform Magazine. Each issue of Business Reform features practical advice on operating successfully in business while glorifying God. By Russ McGuire © 2003 Business Reform Two months ago I told you about The SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM ( "If you can't beat 'em, sue"). Well, since then, it's gotten a lot messier....

SCO Group, embroiled in a bitter legal dispute over Linux, indicated Friday it could take legal action against software maker Novell, and said it plans to release this week proprietary code that has been copied in the open source operating system. SCO chief executive Darl McBride told analysts and reporters in a teleconference that the company would release "hundreds of lines of code" that prove its claims. "The month of June is show-and-tell time," he said. "Everybody's been clamoring for the code -- show us two lines of code. We're not going to show two lines of code, we're going...

LOS ANGELES, May 30 (Reuters) - SCO Group Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOX), in a dispute with IBM and others over claims its intellectual property rights to the Unix operating system have been violated by competing software, on Friday said it will begin to open its code in a bid to show it has been improperly used. On a conference call with reporters and analysts, Darl McBride, the president and chief executive of Lindon, Utah-based SCO, said the company was willing to give proof to the technology industry and others that code from Unix appears in the Linux operating system as well. SCO...

Computer Hardware & SoftwareBoies' TakeVictoria Murphy, 05.28.03, 6:03 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO - Hired gun David Boies can't understand why no one likes his client. All SCO Group did was file a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM claiming the computer giant was sharing code secrets with open source developers. Somehow, everyone thinks SCO is in it for the money and out to thwart Linux. In Boies' eyes, it's hard to see how anyone could jump to that conclusion. The $1 billion in damages and future royalties SCO (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) is seeking won't put a mere dent...

Waltham, Mass. -- Linus Torvalds won't render his own verdict on SCO Group's legal case against IBM until the Unix code in question is revealed in court. In an e-mail response to CRN, Torvalds, widely considered the father of Linux, said he is awaiting judgment until SCO identifies the Unix code IBM allegedly misappropriated and handed over to the open-source community. But at this point, he said he's skeptical the case has merit. "SCO isn't even telling what they have, and I'm not a lawyer anyway," Torvalds wrote. "The people I've spoken to seem to think the merit of the...

update IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction. The machine will come with 32 processors initially, with a 48-processor version by the end of 2003 and a 64-processor version in 2004, said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. By comparison, IBM's current top-end z900 mainframe, introduced in 2000, has 16 processors. In addition, the company is expected to announce that the mainframe can be subdivided into several independent partitions. Initially, the system will support as many as 15 partitions...

update IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction. The machine will come with 32 processors initially, with a 48-processor version by the end of 2003 and a 64-processor version in 2004, said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. By comparison, IBM's current top-end z900 mainframe, introduced in 2000, has 16 processors. In addition, the company is expected to announce that the mainframe can be subdivided into several independent partitions. Initially, the system will support as many as 15 partitions...