Robert McMillan

EMC Corp.'s US$1.3 billion acquisition of Legato Systems Inc. has hit a snag.

The new version of Linux is finally here, in beta form at least. A test version of the much-anticipated version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released by Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds on Monday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is readying a new customer migration program aimed at enticing users of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s 64-bit Tru64 Unix operating system on the Alpha microprocessor to Sun's UltraSPARC processor and Solaris operating system.

This fall, IBM Corp will ship its first cluster server based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s 64-bit Opteron microprocessor, according to IBM officials at the ClusterWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is readying a new line of turn-key high performance Linux cluster products for release at the Linuxworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco this August, a company executive said this week.

Escalating its US$1 billion March lawsuit against IBM Corp., The SCO Group Inc. said it had terminated IBM's right to distribute its AIX Unix operating system and claimed that it was now entitled to a portion of IBM's total Unix revenue.

Dell Computer Corp. on Tuesday will announce that EMC Corp. will remain its exclusive supplier of storage area network (SAN) hardware until at least 2008.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday will begin shipping a new Network Attached Storage (NAS) server that will cost US$5,000 less than the least expensive Windows Powered NAS array in its current product line.