21st March 1999 Archive

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Secret Alpha system pix fall to earth

And JP Morgan enters Alpha-Merced fray

It often snows at CeBIT in Hannover but only two Alpha flakes fell on our head while we were out there last week. But what prize flakes they were. Two slides were passed to us, confidentially, which show the shape of Alpha system boxes you can expect to see from Compaq later this year. Because of their size (about 260K each), we …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 07:26
Aureal validated by Creative litigation

And it doesn't mind A3D cloners either

Sound board company Aureal has said that legal pressure from Creative over alleged patent infringement had benefited the company. Brendan O'Flaherty, VP and general manager at Aureal, said that such actions helped to give his company a higher profile in the marketplace. "In fact, we feel it [the legal action] validates Aureal as …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 08:45
Interview with Scott McNealy I

Exclusive Microsoft innovates 'goose egg'

The Register interviewed Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, at Cebit in Hannover. We asked him first about the Microsoft trial. THE REGISTER: What do you think of the Department of Justice? McNEALY: In the past hundred years they have created, I think, one of the model economies on the planet – the US economy. They've kept it …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 10:20
Interview with Scott McNealy II

Exclusive Life and the Universe

The Register asked Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, at Cebit about Sun and his own job. THE REGISTER: How do you read the industry tea leaves at the moment, from a Sun perspective? McNEALY: There are so many mitigating factors. Asia is getting stronger, people are buying up nothing in front of the Y2K problem. Everybody on the planet …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 10:29
Interview with Scott McNealy III

Exclusive ActiveX is a virus by definition

It was no surprise that Sun CEO Scott McNealy did not have anything very friendly to say about ActiveX at Cebit in Hannover, but he did have a deft way of characterising the difference between an ActiveX control and a Java applet. "ActiveX is a virus by definition. Sometimes there are good viruses, sometimes there are bad …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 10:33
Interview with Scott McNealy IV

Exclusive The enemy of my enemy is a friend so I love Linux

When all around cannot move fast enough to associate their company name with Linux, even if they have not worked out how to make some money from it, it was almost refreshing to hear how at Cebit, Sun CEO Scott McNealy dealt with the head-on collision that looms between Solaris and Linux. "Linux is like Windows: it's too fat for …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 10:34
Mad cow found on Cyrix stand

Next to madder looking Linux Penguin

Pictured here is a Cyrix 'party animal' standing next to the garish brochure from Red Zac and its 999DM Linux box. There is an even more bizarre Cyrix animal -- a pig wearing a bikini (not pictured).

Business 21 Mar 1999, 11:58
Intel pays cash for youthful overclocking skills

Birds and bees do it, even educated VPs do it...

Our friends over at The Overclockers Page have posted an Intel certificate awarded to a youth who undertook a project in overclocking. And Intel awarded $200 in a cash prize to the young man for the project, the pages report. A certificate, signed by CEO Craig Barrett and headed Intel Excellence in Computer Science, awards Jason …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 13:03
Intel calls it Puppy Love…

Donny Osmond and Lord Mayor of Dublin team up

Isn't technology wonderful when you can link Donny and Marie Osmond direct to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Senator Joe Doyle. Go to Lord Mayor's page to see what we mean. Donny is wearing a Leprechaun's hat and sporting an enormous shamrock, while the Lord Mayor is sporting a Merced chip round his neck. Oh, and while you're there, …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 13:13
Compaq breaks for border with Alpha chip

Updated Latest roadmap seems Merced-less and Alpha the flagship

Another flurry of snow flakes from our mole at Compaq who must be very deep within the company, judging from the information. Towards the end of the month, we are due to meet one Bill Herrick, a senior Compaq executive on the Alpha platform. He is the author of this SlideWare so we are now fully armed and ready for the meeting. …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 17:40
Compaq's Wildfire shows scale of ambitions

Eckhard Pfeiffer's company goes Alpha mad

It seems repetitive to go on about the argument Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer had with senior Intel VP Hans Geyer all those years ago, as exclusively reported here. So instead here comes a "Four Vultures" production, again in PDF mode, which shows the extent of Pfeiffer's ambitions. This is small enough for us to have PDF'd and …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 17:59
Compaq's Wildfire shows scale of ambitions

Eckhard Pfeiffer's company goes Alpha mad

It seems repetitive to go on about the argument Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer had with senior Intel VP Hans Geyer all those years ago, as exclusively reported here. But Compaq is definitely going for it big time. Our mole deep inside Texas pointed us to a secret URL with the following slides, which we've cut down to two colours to …

Business 21 Mar 1999, 19:48