Robert McMillan

Ten months after launching its lawsuit against IBM Corp., The SCO Group Inc. has finally provided Big Blue with a list of files and individual code samples that, it claims, violate its intellectual property rights.

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) on Monday will begin shipping a new, smaller member of its Altix family of technical computing servers, called the Altix 350.

IBM Corp. on Monday will announce plans to add a third member to its BladeCenter family of high-density blade servers. The Xeon-based BladeCenter HS40 will be the first four-way blade system released by the company.

Microsoft Corp. will pay US$60 million for violating a patent held by a division of SPX Corp., a Charlotte, N.C.-based manufacturing and technology company, SPX said in a statement released last week.

Unix developer The SCO Group Inc. last week stepped up its efforts to collect license fees from Linux users and reported a quarterly net loss as a result of legal costs associated with its intellectual property rights campaign.

RealNetworks Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., alleging that the Redmond, Wash., software giant has illegally used its power as a monopoly to control the digital media market.

In a bid to extend the reach of grid computing outside of the academic and research fields that created it, IBM Corp. on Friday will announce that it has formalized five new grid services offerings within its IBM Global Services and IBM Consulting Services groups.

The SCO Group Inc.'s Web site has been knocked out of service by a denial of service (DoS) attack, the company confirmed on Wednesday.