Intel Linux-Ready Firmware Developer Kit
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| The Intel Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit (LFDK) can be downloaded from
| their project website as a bootable ISO or just the source-code, which is
| 80MB and 199Kb, respectively. The latest version of the Linux-ready Firmware
| Developer Kit is Release 3, which arrived in October of 2007. This release
| had added new test kernels, updated microcode files, new tests, integrating
| PowerTOP, and many other changes.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_firmware_kit&num=1
SAP, Intel, and Novell team up for ERP appliance: What's the end game?
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| (As just one data point, Germany is the only country where Alfresco's
| open-source content collaboration server runs primarily on SUSE instead of
| Red Hat.)
|
| [...]
|
| If I'm Microsoft, the only prominent Linux distribution I want any of my
| friends touching is SUSE, given that Ubuntu or Red Hat are a clear and
| present danger to Microsoft's Windows monopoly. Novell can't afford to hurt
| Microsoft (even if it had the ability to do so): its recent quarterly boosts
| absolutely depend on being fast friends with Microsoft.
|
| If SAP truly wants to help the SME market, it will take more than a cute
| ERP-in-a-box. It will require helping to break Microsoft's monopolies in that
| market. Cozying up with Microsoft's Linux distribution won't help to do so.
| Pushing Microsoft to open up, as Red Hat, Ubuntu, the European Commission,
| and others have is the way to free up the market for itself and others.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9886814-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-10
With the suggestion that Microsoft should buy SAP (see below), this is strange.
Related:
Maybe Microsoft Should Stalk Different Prey
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| Having exhausted its best ideas on how to deal with Google, Microsoft is now
| working its way down the list to dubious ones — like pursuing a hostile bid
| for Yahoo. Michael A. Cusumano, who has written several books about the
| software industry and about Microsoft, is not impressed with Microsoft’s
| rationale for its Yahoo offer. He said the bid seemed to be a pursuit of “an
| old-style Internet asset, in decline, and at a premium.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/business/24digi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
SAP announces new partners for SME offerings
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| The hardware for the prototype SAP is showing at CeBIT is provided by
| open-source software specialist Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL0386293220080304?rpc=44
SAP Backs SUSE
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| SAP is recommending SUSE as its preferred Linux platform, the stuff of which
| stacks are made, and Novell is going start being the first line of defense
| for people running SAP applications on SUSE.
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http://www.sys-con.com/read/378047.htm
SAP certifies Netweaver for Red Hat Linux
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| SAP's certification helps ensure full interoperability of Red Hat systems
| with all modules of SAP Netweaver, said Red Hat.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/07/30/225867/sap-certifies-netweaver-for-red-hat-linux.htm
Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/
Microsoft 'Caves' To Intel
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html?partner=yahootix
Intel overwhelmed by EU complaints
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| So many charges, so little time.
|
| Intel Chairman Craig Barrett appears overwhelmed by a European Union
| investigation into the company's actions. Earlier this month, European
| Competition Commission officials busted open Intel offices in Munich, hunting
| for documents related to alleged price fixing with retailers. That raid added
| to an existing EC investigation into Intel's business practices.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/intel_barrett_eu_gripe/
Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ
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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
|
| [...]
|
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
U.S. DOJ joins lawsuit against HP, Sun, Accenture
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| Suit alleges that the three companies formed an alliance with vendors
| and have been giving each other kickbacks on government contracts
| since the late 1990s.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/19/HNdojjoinshpsunlawsuit_1.html
Lenovo got financial help from Intel, claim
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| Journalists on the title said Lenovo is being paid a "pretty
| penny" from Intel to use its chips.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670
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