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13th December 1998 Archive

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  • UK Y2K supremo says plan for Armageddon

    Nothing to worry about - just lay in food for two weeks and prepare for the collapse of civilisation

    Could the UK government's Y2K policy get any worse? Until yesterday one would have thought not (Registers passim), but one would have been reckoning without the redoubtable mispeak powers of Action 2000 head Gwynneth Flower, who has issued a statement stressing the need to plan for something close to Armageddon. Flower's earlier …

    Business 13 Dec 1998, 14:57

  • Acer to team with Caldera for Linux XCs?

    If the boxes start at $199, they're unlikely to run anything out of Redmond

    Acer is poised to make the break from Microsoft with its XC machines, and Linux is a strong candidate for the operating system that at least some of the devices will use, say industry sources. The XC concept (Acer announces XCs) is to produce several different ranges of low-cost, specialist and single-purpose appliance-type …

    Business 13 Dec 1998, 15:36

  • New wireless outfit may signpost MS counter-strike

    How many wireless standards bodies does it take to change a lightbulb, anyway?

    Yet another wireless alliance is due to debut on Tuesday, according to US reports. But with this one Microsoft may be finally giving us an indication of which way (or ways) it intends to jump. Spinmeisters last week were suggesting that Bluetooth was in big trouble because Microsoft wasn't going to join (Click for counterspin). …

    Business 13 Dec 1998, 16:41

  • Oracle favours Open Source for Raw Iron

    And Oracle and Intel server strategies seem to be on convergent paths

    Oracle's kernel strategy for its Raw Iron database project is starting to take shape, and it seems it has acquired a distinct Open Source look to it. Although the company is due to announce official support for Raw Iron from Sun tomorrow, in addition to the Solaris kernel it has shortlisted FreeBSD, NetBSD and the Linux kernel …

    Business 13 Dec 1998, 17:28

  • Big South Korean semiconductor deal in tatters

    Big Hyundai and LG merger now highly unlikely, despite Little

    A proposed merger between LG Semicon and Hyundai to create a single powerful semiconductor firm looks set to fall apart this week, despite the appointment of a US company to broker an agreement. Lee Hun-jai, chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) is quoted today in two local newspapers as saying that both LG …

    Business 13 Dec 1998, 18:28

  • Analysis: Selling the Web to Bill

    In 1995 Microsoft exec Ben Slivka seems to have set out to change company strategy - smart cookie

    Ben Slivka is one of the finds of the Microsoft antritrust action - he turns a mean quote ("grow the polluted Java"), but he has a mind as well. Back in May 1995, Slivka produced a long, carefully thought out memo that showed he'd grasped where the Internet was headed, and proposing strategies Microsoft could use to benefit from …

    Business 13 Dec 1998, 21:51