26th August 1998 Archive
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Psion cooler on ICA and flirting with Tarantella
Citrix deal on the rocks or in a hard place?
It's eighteen months since Psion signed a deal with Citrix to produce a native EPOC version of the ICA client. The word from Symbian, as all Psion's software development now is, is not to expect anything too soon. Or ever. "We've talked to our biggest customers, and they're not interested," said a Psion-person on Monday. "There' …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 06:30
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Compaq climbs Himalaya – nonstop
But MIPS will still get its chips
Compaq has formally announced its NonStop Himalaya Solution Server for Decision Support Systems (DSS Server). The product, formerly sold under the Tandem name, includes software needed for DSS environments, for mid and large scale systems from 250Gb to a terabyte. According to David Russell, the NonStop product marketing manager …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 10:16
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IBM Micro to get Cyrix order of boot
NatSemi will soon go its own .25 micron sweet way
Clone x.86 chip manufacturer Cyrix has started to shift the production of its products from IBM to National Semiconductor fabrication plants. The news is no surprise. After National Semiconductor bought Cyrix last year, the company made no secret of the fact that it would switch production to its own fabs. Cyrix, before the …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 10:18
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Newbridge does worse but says it does better
Cost cutting primes company for spin-off
Newbridge Networks made a net profit of C$35.5 million on turnover of C$426 million as it reported its financial results for its first quarter 1998. That compares to net profits of C$64.3 million on turnover of C$434.7 million in the equivalent quarter last year. Shares of Newbridge stock slipped on the news but company …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 10:23
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Seagate ramps up China presence
Labour in China comes cheaper than Ireland or Singapore
A Chinese news agency reported that Seagate intends to boost its investment in the country by $192 million. The company has currently invested $20 million at a plant in Shenzen, and that figure will be boosted by $122 million. Seagate's other plant, in Wuxi, will be boosted from a current figure of $30 million to $120 million. …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 10:26
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Midwich Thame gets Canon franchise
Sixth distie in UK
Canon has appointed Midwich Thame as its sixth distributor in a bid to boost its poor laser printer sales. Midwich Thame gets distribution rights to all Canon's laser printers, personal copiers, scanners and fax machines - but it will no be distributing Canon's successful BubbleJet range. "For the next few months Canon want us …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 10:28
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MS TechNet gets UK launch
Tacit admission it's not doing enough
Microsoft is gearing up for the UK launch of TechNet, its attempt to skill up the estimated 60,000 freelance IT consultants in the UK. The TechNet programme, which launched this week in the US and on September 8th in the UK, is a website offering training and new product information to consultants. The launch of TechNet is a …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 10:31
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SIS introduces AGP Pentium II chipset
Claims it's first off the non Intel bloc
Taiwanese chip company Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) claimed it is the first company to produce a Pentium II chipset with integrated 3D graphics. Two weeks ago, SIS announced the SIS530 for socket seven. The SIS 620 chipset is PC99 and PCI 2.2 compliant, supports 66/75/83/100MHz synchronous and asynchronous host/SDRAM bus …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 11:17
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Aptiva gets AMD 350MHz revamp
Ah the luxury of it all
IBM will update its Aptiva consumer PC range tomorrow (Thursday) with the launch of both high and low-end models. At the high-end is the Corba, a Pentium II Aptiva system which is the second attempt by IBM to enter the "luxury" home PC market. In 1997 IBM flopped with the launch of its industrial design and high performance " …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 11:18
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Dealers back Microsoft in coalition
Must be the first time ever for Great Satan of Software
A coalition, led by US resellers, has thrown its weight behind Microsoft in its battle with the Department of Justice. Calling itself the Technology Access Action Coalition (TAAC), the group, led by Vanstar president Jay Amato, said that actions against Microsoft and Intel were symptomatic of "a growing trend toward government …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 11:21
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Hard drives a tender subject for Western Digital
Will it follow the European lead?
Western Digital is investigating the possibility of outsourcing its US maintenance and repair services, following the example of its European arm. The manufacturer confirmed that it has invited some storage specialists, including UK companies, to submit tenders for the project. The company is keen to stress that the final go …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 11:22
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Microsoft threatened Intel
Great Stan attempted to bully Great Stan in software standoff
A report in the US press said that Microsoft had attempted to bully chip giant Intel. The New York Times has reported that Bill Gates' company put pressure on chip giant Intel in 1995 to prevent it from developing software at its architecture laboratory. According to the report, the Justice Department is now investigating …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 11:43
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Canon takes sixth distributor
Midwich Thames gets franchise
Canon has appointed Midwich Thame as its sixth UK distributor in a bid to boost its poor laser printer sales. Midwich Thame gets distribution rights to all Canon's laser printers, personal copiers, scanners and fax machines - but it will no be distributing Canon's successful BubbleJet range. "For the next few months Canon want …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 11:54
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Microsoft acquisition extends NT clustering
Valence will aid its attempts
Microsoft has beefed up it NT clustering capabilities with the acquisition of fault tolerance software Developer Valence research for an undisclosed sum. The software giant is to offer Valence’s Convoy Cluster- renamed Microsoft Windows NT Load Balancing Service - as a standard component of WindowsNT Server Enterprise Edition. …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 13:29
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Adobe spurns Quark love-tryst
It mustbe luv, lurv, lurve - wholelottalurve
This could get nasty. Adobe, the down-at-heel developer of publishing software, is in play, following an unwelcome bid from its smaller rival Quark. In an opportunistic move, Quark has gone public after its “friendly” deal to acquire a “significant” slug of Adobe stock at a substantial premium was rejected by its bigger rival. …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 13:35
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Survey: Flat panel LCDs will boom
At least, everyone hopes so...
The flat panel display market will grow by at least 20 per cent per year for the next five years, from 184.6 million units in 1998 to 600.5 million units in 2003. These findings are based on a study of sales of major end use applications of the displays, carried out by Semico Research. Most of the growth will be spurred by the …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 13:45
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Berkeley bought by Fore in swap of stock
It's NT behind it all, dontcha know...
Fore Systems bought Berkeley Networks, a maker of NT based routing switches, in a stock swap valued at as much as estimated $250 million. The acquisition will bring large scale gigabit Ethernet backbone switches to Fore’s ATM based product line. It also broadens the scope of the company, known for its specialisation, giving …
Business 26 Aug 1998, 13:47
