Robert McMillan

Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to begin shipping in 2004 two new servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) Opteron processors, Sun's Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy said during a Comdex keynote address in Las Vegas on Monday.

Novell Inc.'s US$210 million planned acquisition of SuSE Linux AG will put it in violation of a non-compete agreement the networking vendor has with The SCO Group Inc., and could possibly lead to legal action, SCO CEO Darl McBride said Monday in an interview.

Industry analysts were left scratching their heads this week as they tried to understand the reasoning behind ten subpoenas sent out by IBM Corp. and The SCO Group Inc. recently as part of their ongoing legal dispute. The subpoenas were sent to a variety of individuals and companies including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, SCO investor BayStar Capital, and Novell Inc.

Brazil has become the latest country to show its support for Linux. Following moves byrn the U.K. and Russia, the government of Brazil announced that it has signed a letter ofrn intent with IBM Corp. pledging to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux inrn the Latin American country.

IBM Corp. on Monday will add a second Itanium 2 server to its xSeries product line, a system it is billing as the first Itanium server from a major vendor to scale from four to 16 processors.

An attempt by an unknown attacker to plant a Trojan virus in the Linux kernel has been blocked.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is optimistic enough about its future that the company is planning to break ground on a major new processor manufacturing facility by the end of 2003, company executives revealed Thursday at an analyst conference held at AMD's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday will announce a variety of updates to its data management product lines, including new management software and an updated version of NetBackup with an option for backing up laptops and personal computers automatically.