2nd February 2000 Archive

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Management

• 2m PlayStation 2s to ship in first 2 days – Sony exec Company ups sales predictions -- and then some
• Compaq's Capellas thinks W2k key to future growth Alpha barely mentioned in his keynote
• Compaq's Pesatori outlines future network strategy Interview Ex-DEC guy claims the Big Q has the edge
• Dell finally shipping notebooks with Red Hat Linux Which must make it time for IBM to wake up, right?
• DVD industry is “screwing customers” – Torvalds Linux guru lashes out at the entertainment establishment....gently, of course
• E by gum e-Envoy Blair Net project visits the North - of England, that is
• Friends of MS flounder in court brief MS on Trial Confused filing keeps missing the point
• How did Intel get it so wrong? Analysis Alarums ringing in Santa Clara
• Intel buys in fab capacity to help tightness Wafers, sand, shifts, crusoe, cannibals
• Intel execs to sell $80m shares That's a lot of greenbacks
• Intel PIII shortages hit Taiwan's board makers Company denies packaging problems, blames 'forecasting errors'
• Jobs dropped at BT as profits fall Still raking in plenty big moolah, though
• Leaked MS email reveals deal plans with BT, AT&T, Airtouch Who needs subpoenas when the execs have finger trouble?
• Linuxcare opens support services for customer rebranding Move should dissuade Linuxcares customers from competing with it
• Motorola's 500MHz G4 yields very low indeed claim sources Surprise, surprise
• MS aims to straddle WAP, HTML with Mobile Explorer While the folks back home leak like sieves, Mobile Explorer struts its stuff on the Riviera
• MS fights back: DoJ ‘rewriting law to protect competitors’ MS on Trial Desperate, audacious stuff...
• No repeat of Inacom deal in Europe, says Compaq Promises, promises litter presentations
• Red Hat founds ‘Xerox PARC for Linux clustering’ Project backed by Alpha Processor, so focus on Alpha CPU
• SCO unleashes Tarantella for Linux Caldera boss tries to install Linux on his grandmother, apparently...
• Sun gives NFS component to open source world – sort of The cunning Solenoids have devised yet another licence, and it's not open source either
• Tories pull plugs on ill-fated ISP Sleaze, Cash for Questions and even an Al Fayed parody all prove too much
• Trillian team releases IA-64 Linux to open source community What happens when commercial development intersects with Open Source? We're about to find out.