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Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
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Siebel Says It May Buy
Something By Maureen O'Gara Investors are itchy about
that $2.2 billion Siebel
has socked away in the
bank not to mention its
dragging stock price.
Siebel's unexpected new
CEO George Shaheen, three
weeks into the job, is
now saying that the
company will make
acquisitions and targeted
investm... May. 9, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 15,806 Replies: 2 | McNealy and Schwartz
Dismiss Rumor They'll Be
Taking Sun Private By Maureen O'Gara Quoting an unidentified
hedge fund manager
supposedly 'close to
McNealy' - well, maybe he
was before the story hit
- BusinessWeek caused a
bit of a brouhaha last
Friday when it said Sun
was considering using its
$7.5 billion stash to go
private at $5-$5.50 a
share... May. 8, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 26,094 Replies: 10 | IBM To Cut European Jobs,
Revamp Global Structure By Maureen O'Gara IBM is going to cut
10,000-13,000 jobs,
mostly in Europe where
it's been weak and mostly
out of its precious
service organization, to
propitiate the gods who
ruined its first quarter.
IBM has been hinting that
it was going to
restructure since it
rushed out the ne... May. 6, 2005 08:00 PM Reads: 21,161 | Novell Eyes China By Maureen O'Gara Novell has (CS2C), a
Linux firm, to promote
local development and
adoption of Linux. The
pair is supposed to
cooperate in providing
technology, services and
marketing to optimize and
promote Linux to the
Chinese market. May. 1, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 16,807 | Casualty Count from the
Browser War As Firefox
Doubles Its Market Share By Maureen O'Gara Firefox has doubled its
market share, according
to Janco's April Browser
Market Share Study. It
says that Firefox has
grabbed 10.28% of the
browser market in less
than three months and
based on conversations
with a number of industry
sources and Janco's own
projec... May. 1, 2005 02:00 PM Reads: 17,067 | SGI Fields Baby Prism By Maureen O'Gara Saying it's answering
mounting demand for more
visualization capability
in the hands of Linux
users struggling with big
data problems, Silicon
Graphics has extended its
family of rack-mount
Prism boxes with a new
deskside model that
starts at $8,500 and
packs up t... May. 1, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 17,436 | Egenera Takes on Debt To
Grow By Maureen O'Gara Egenera would probably
like to go public to pay
for its continued growth.
Goodness knows it's had
its S-1 registration
filed with the SEC since
last summer. However, the
stars over Wall Street
haven't aligned for high
tech lately so Egenera's
arranged for Horizon
... May. 1, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 16,947 | SCO-IBM Court Moves To
Limit Sealed Documents By Maureen O'Gara The Utah federal court
presiding over the SCO v
IBM case ruled on the
Forbes-CNET-G2 motion to
unseal the court records
this afternoon less than
72 hours after hearing
arguments on the motion.
It denied the press's
motion to intervene but
took steps 'to minimize
t... Apr. 29, 2005 07:00 PM Reads: 24,726 Replies: 2 | Linux in China:
Turbolinux Nails Big
Chinese Bank By Maureen O'Gara Turbolinux says it's got
a deal in its pocket that
will see the Industrial
and Commercial Bank of
China, China's biggest
commercial banks holding
a fifth of the total
assets held in all
banking institutions in
China and a Fortune 500
company, standardize on
Turbol... Apr. 29, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 17,522 Replies: 2 | Microsoft To Support Open
Source Windows Software
Stack for Infiniband By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft is going to
support an open source
network driver and subnet
manager, something it's
never done before, at
least not that anybody
knows of. Having dropped
its internal support for
Infiniband from .NET
three years ago this
summer after it realized
that In... Apr. 28, 2005 07:00 PM Reads: 17,136 Replies: 1 | Samba Leader Leaves HP,
Moves to Novell By Maureen O'Gara Jeremy Allison, the Samba
leader, has left HP to
join Novell, a move he's
been toying with since HP
sent him to Novell's
BrainShare user
conference last year.
Reluctant to go, Allison
went anyway and says he
was delighted to find a
company so dedicated to
Linux ev... Apr. 28, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 15,887 | Court Hears Motion To
Unseal SCO-IBM Records By Maureen O'Gara On Tuesday afternoon an
hour before the Utah
court presiding over the
great SCO v IBM case
heard the G2-Forbes-CNET
motion to unseal all the
court records in the
case, IBM delivered a
letter to SCO's lawyers
offering to unseal some
stuff provided anything
confiden... Apr. 27, 2005 07:15 AM Reads: 21,933 Replies: 2 | Intel, Take Note: IBM
Will Launch a Dual-core
Opteron BladeCenter By Maureen O'Gara IBM, which was the first
big OEM to back Opteron
two years ago, but has
never subsequently seemed
very enthusiastic about
it, was downright
effusive about it at
AMD's launch party in New
York Thursday night. It
waxed eloquent about the
'strong and powerful
relatio... Apr. 24, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 13,466 | HP Goes with Dual-Core
Opteron Blade Server By Maureen O'Gara If you blinked, you
missed this, but somebody
at HP last week jumped
the gun and prematurely
mounted a web page
indicating that HP would
be selling dual-core
Opteron boxes. Actually
HP won't be able to
deliver the things for
another month. Apr. 24, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 16,985 | IBM Share Price: They're
Blue in Armonk By Maureen O'Gara IBM's stock seems to have
found a bottom since its
fall from grace last
Thursday on the news that
its first quarter came a
cropper. At roughly $74,
it's still down 10 bucks
since then, 20 bucks
since the first of the
year. Apr. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 14,334 | The Great Dual-Core Race
Takes Predictable Turns By Maureen O'Gara On Thursday night at its
dual-core Opteron launch
party, AMD moved up the
schedule on its dual-core
desktop chip to challenge
the Intel entry that
started shipping the
weekend before last.
The AMD chip, meant to
create one-processor
desktops and notebooks,
wasn'... Apr. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 17,032 | SCO Shucks Its Scarlet
Letter By Maureen O'Gara SCO has emerged from
under the threat of
Nasdaq delisting and its
stock symbol will no
longer have to wear the
telltale 'e' indicating
it was on the market's
watch list. Apr. 23, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 15,775 | x64 Windows Imminent By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft is going to
launch its so-called x64
operating systems, the
stuff that support the
Intel and AMD x86 64-bit
extensions, on Monday.
Figure on both the client
and the server, to wit,
Windows Server 2003 x64
Edition and XP
Professional x64 Edition.
Repo... Apr. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 13,144 | HP Changes the Name of
its Linux Unit to Include
Open Source By Maureen O'Gara HP has changed the name
of its Linux operation to
the Open Source & Linux
Organization (OSLO) to
advertise its open source
sympathies, it said. It's
supposed to signify HP's
focus on open source
beyond the Linux
operating system. Martin
Fink will continue to run
the unit. Apr. 22, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 16,864 | Greenplum Harbors Great
Ambitions for Postgres By Maureen O'Gara Although the words
'business intelligence,'
'data warehousing' and
'open source' aren't
usually used in the same
sentence, a San Mateo,
California start-up
called Greenplum is
trying to make an open
source database good
enough for
enterprise-class business
intel... Apr. 22, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 16,496 Replies: 2 | Linuxcare Co-Founder
Joins FSG, SpecOpS By Maureen O'Gara Art Tyde, a co-founder of
Linuxcare, the once
highly entertaining
service start-up
rehabilitated as a sober
ISV, has popped up at the
Free Standards Group
(FSG), the keeper of the
Linux Standard Base, as
CTO. He's supposed to
lead all its technical
initiatives, ... Apr. 22, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 14,148 | Red Hat & MySQL Get
Cozier By Maureen O'Gara Red Hat and MySQL say
they are expanding their
partnership in the name
of optimizing scale-out
solutions for the
enterprise. They're
promising 'significant
new joint initiative' and
pretty much let it go at
that. Apr. 22, 2005 09:15 AM Reads: 13,327 | OSI To Create Caste
System for Open Source
Licenses By Maureen O'Gara The Open Source
Initiative (OSI) wants to
sort through the
multitude of open source
licenses and consign them
to one of three new
castes: 'preferred,
approved or deprecated.'
Brahmins will evidently
be rare. Apr. 22, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 13,427 Replies: 1 | SCO vs IBM: Will SCO
Prevail Despite Itself? By Maureen O'Gara Reports out of Utah say
that IBM - despite all
the money SCO is spending
on its fancy New York
lawyers - won all the
style points at a crucial
hearing Thursday over
whether SCO should be
allowed to file its key
third amended complaint -
the one with the secret
evi... Apr. 22, 2005 04:00 AM Reads: 17,341 Replies: 9 | Court Orders IBM To Give
SCO *ALL* Linux Discovery By Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara writes:
'The federal court in
Utah hearing the $5
billion SCO v IBM case
has told IBM that it has
75 days to turn over to
SCO *ALL* non-public
information relating to
its Linux contributions,
a year-old order IBM has
been trying duck. The
decision i... Apr. 21, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 27,945 Replies: 3 | SCO Loses Money, But Has
$20M Cash - Enough to
Continue Its Suit vs IBM By Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara reports,
referring to The SCO
Group: 'The most loathed
company in the industry
said it had 'successfully
implemented efficiency
and cost reduction
measures that have had a
positive impact on
operations and
contributed to the Unix
business operating ... Apr. 17, 2005 10:15 AM Reads: 13,031 | Apple Unleashes Tiger,
Dreams of Having Longhorn
for Lunch By Maureen O'Gara Apple says it's going to
unleash Tiger, its highly
anticipated Unix-based
Mac OS X 10.4 operating
system upgrade, on
Friday, April 29 at 6PM.
The server version is
said to integrate a
hundred-odd open source
projects and
standards-based software
applications with ... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 21,054 | AMD Loses More Money,
Reports Q1 Loss of $17M By Maureen O'Gara AMD came in Wednesday
with a Q1 loss of $17
million, or four cents a
share, on sales of $1.2
billion, down 1%
year-over-year, and to
balance the unhappy
tidings said that its
loss-making Flash joint
venture with Fujitsu,
Spansion, was going to be
spun off in a $60... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,566 | Thin Client Gamble:
Venture Buyout Firm Buys
into Wyse, Promises Huge
Growth By Maureen O'Gara Garnett & Helfrich
Capital, the venture
buyout firm dedicated to
finding 'broken and
orphaned' businesses
neglected by their
parents, has bought a
controlling stake in Wyse
Technology, the flagging
$175 million-a-year
company, from the Koos
Group in Taiwan for $35... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 13,082 | Cisco Buys Topspin
Communications By Maureen O'Gara 'Five-year-old Infiniband
switch start-up Topspin
Communications Inc has
found the exit ramp,'
reports Maureen O'Gara.
'It's gonna get bought by
Cisco...A sensible enough
solution considering
Topspin CEO Krish
Ramakrishnan used to run
Cisco's Content
Networking Bu... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,400 | Brand New Linux Distro
Expected To Be a "Solaris
Killer" By Maureen O'Gara A stealth start-up in
Athens, Ohio whose name
is Spliced Networks LLC
is on the threshold of
announcing a new Linux
distribution that its
young CTO John Buswell
describes as 'unlike
anything currently on the
market.' It will
supposedly eliminate
'bloated package
... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 31,597 Replies: 10 | Red Hat Claims Bragging
Rights By Maureen O'Gara In what Red Hat Italy
says is 'one of the most
important migrations to
Linux in the Italian
financial sector,' BPU
Banca, the parent bank of
Banca Populari Unite,
Italy's seventh largest
bank and the first
cooperative credit
banking group, is pulling
out Solaris t... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,635 | Computer Associates
Recruits Chief Marketer By Maureen O'Gara Computer Associates,
which has been hiring in
some new senior folks
lately, has named 30-year
IBM veteran Donald
Friedman as its chief
marketing officer. Joan
Blackwood, who's been
interim head of corporate
marketing, will continue
as senior VP of corporate
market... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 17,782 | What's in Store for
Ingres? By Maureen O'Gara Terry Garnett, the
ex-Oracle, ex-Venrock
half of Garnett &
Helfrich Capital, is
rumoured to want to
'liberate' Ingres, the
database that Computer
Associates, its current
owner, recently open
sourced. According to
what CA's new management
has been saying lately,
... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,001 Replies: 1 | Schwartz Attacks GPL; Sun
Microsystems' Mention of
"Stewardship" Has People
Thinking of Java By Maureen O'Gara Sun Microsystems
president and COO
Jonathan Schwartz has
slammed the GPL as
predatory economic
imperialism while
keynoting the Open Source
Business Conference and
said Sun would remain
aloof from it. Meantime
Sun has set up a
Community Advisory Board
(CAB) that'... Apr. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 22,707 Replies: 8 | AMD vs Intel Update: AMD
Can't Keep a Secret By Maureen O'Gara It being the tradition in
the microprocessor
business that the first
one out is supposed to
dominate the market, AMD
is reportedly going to
use Opteron's
second-anniversary party
in New York on April 21
to launch its dual-core
Opteron chip, thereby
beating out Int... Apr. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 18,581 Replies: 1 | Linux & Windows: Both
Good Enough, Report
Claims By Maureen O'Gara Most SMBs and enterprise
customers deploying
Windows Server 2003 find
its quality, performance
and reliability equal to
or better than Linux,
according to the Yankee
Groups's latest study,
its Linux-Windows 2005
TCO Comparison Survey.
Yankee, reports Maureen
O'Gar... Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,050 Replies: 12 | New CEO Reinvents CA as
Systems and Security
Management House By Maureen O'Gara CA has created a new
Security Management unit,
reports Maureen O'Gara,
and considered along with
the Storage Management
unit it looks like the
company's new CEO John
Swainson, an IBM import,
sees CA as a systems and
security management
house, she adds. There
are a... Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,460 Replies: 2 | IBM & HP Look Out,
Intel's Hard-Won Fujitsu
Alliance Produces "Open"
Mainframe By Maureen O'Gara 'Fujitsu plans to eat
into IBM mainframes and
high-end IBM and HP Unix
machines as well as
cannibalize its own Sparc
business,' reports
Maureen O'Gara. Its
alliance with Intel bore
fruit Tuesday when it
unveiled a so-called
'mainframe-class open
system' based on t... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,676 | Is Canopy Imploding and
Liquidating Its
Portfolio? By Maureen O'Gara Quest Software, though it
isn't much of a one for
Linux, is rumored to be
on the verge of buying
Vintela Inc, the Utah
outfit financed by the
Canopy Group and
Microsoft. Vintela's
sale, should it come off,
begs the question whether
Canopy is imploding and
liquidat... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,154 Replies: 2 |
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