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In its desperate
backstroke away from
Microsoft's clutches -
and in case Microsoft
starts its threatened
proxy fight for control
of the company - Yahoo!
has extended its deadline
for board nominations to
10 days after it
announces a date for its
annual shareholder...
Platform Solutions Inc
(PSI), the company suing
IBM for monopolizing the
mainframe market while
IBM tries to put it out
of business, has given
IBM a bigger target to
shoot at. This week it
expanded its line,
pushing out a Microsoft
SQL machine - Microsoft
is after...
A couple weeks ago Citrix
bragged that its Xen open
source virtualization
widgetry would be
pre-installed by big
unnamed servers vendors
by the end of the year.
Well, rival VMware stole
a march on both Citrix
and the tangle-footed
Microsoft and its
promised Hyper-...
Gartner is almost as
suspicious of Microsoft's
week-old interoperability
promises as European
Commission antitrust
chief Neelie Kroes. It's
warning open source
developers to beware the
patent trap. 'Do not use
Microsoft's
documentation,' it says,
'unless you have ...
Dell's Q4 profits - which
tellingly include January
- dropped 6%
year-over-year and down
11% sequentially to $679
million, 31
cents-a-share, on
revenues up 10%
year-over-year to $15.99
billion. Subtracting the
costs for job cuts, R&D
write-offs from
acquisitions...
Looks like that
Vista-capable class
action against Microsoft
is going ahead. A federal
judge in Seattle Friday
certified it but narrowed
its complaint to whether
the Vista-capable label
PCs sported artificially
created PC demand during
the 2006 holiday season
befo...
Sun, which is supposed to
have serious ambitions
for its own upcoming xVM
virtualization
technology, said
Wednesday that it would
sell and provide
front-line support for
VMware's Infrastructure
product suite on Sun
hardware under a deal
with VMware.
IBM is aiming its brand
new z10 mainframe, the
one that bowed this week,
straight at the
garden-variety x86
server. Well, the 1,500
garden-variety x86
servers the new mainframe
can replace - using maybe
85% less power and
definitely 85% less
space. And that includ...
If you heard a thump
Monday, that was the cost
of memory crashing. What
cost maybe five grand
last week can now be had
for, oh, $1,500. See,
Monday was when ex-AMD
CTO Fred Weber's stealth
start-up, MetaRAM, came
out of hiding sporting an
attention-grabbing way to
...
Novell is buying
five-year-old
Toronto-based PlateSpin
Ltd for $205 million
cash, calling it a 'huge
step' and a 'strategic
acquisition' whose
management software will
help define Novell as an
infrastructure company
and assure it a place
selling into the
next-generation data
center. 
Intel, whose managers
have been saying that its
financials won't be
impacted by the economic
downturn, pared two
points off its Q1 gross
margin forecast late
Monday due, it said, to
lower-than-expected NAND
Flash memory prices.
Microsoft, if nothing
else, became a problem
today for Yahoo's $350
million Zimbra
acquisition and Google's
rudimentary Sites
contribution to the
advance of
software-as-a-service
announced last week by
throwing open the more
sophisticated Exchange
Online and Sha...
Oh, how cute! Intel is
gonna to brand its
itty-bitty sub-25mm
Silverthorne and
Diamondville chips, the
smallest chips it's ever
built, 'Atom.' For
perspective Intel says it
would take 11 'Atoms' to
cover the surface of an
American penny.
Adobe greased up Monday
for its wrestling match
with Microsoft over who
gets to call the shots in
the all-important rich
Internet apps (RIA)
department, that blurry
future where web
applications and desktop
applications start
looking and acting like
each other. It...
Sun, which is supposed to
have serious ambitions
for its own upcoming xVM
virtualization
technology, said
Wednesday that it would
sell and provide
front-line support for
VMware's Infrastructure
product suite on Sun
hardware under a deal
with VMware.
Sun closed on its
acquisition of MySQL
today, calling the
billion-dollar purchase
the 'most important
acquisition in Sun's
history' - oh, heck, make
that the 'modern software
industry' - with Sun
preening that it
completed the deal in
less than six weeks
convinc...
GI powers apps that look
and feel and perform like
classic desktop programs
but run in the browser
and Fortune-scale
companies currently use
it for rapid web
application development
and deployment on top of
their XML and SOAP data
sources. Hakman is on the
steerin...
The European Commission
this morning slapped
Microsoft with a massive
$1.33 billion fine (899
million euros) for
charging too much for the
communications protocols
it was ordered to share
with competitors in March
of 2004. It is the
largest single fine ever
levied...
Google's stock dropped 7%
this morning - down to
the $450s - after
comScore sprung the lever
on the trapdoor under its
feet and reported that US
paid-click growth in
January was flat
year-over-year and down
7.5% sequentially. Google
derives most of its
revenue fro...
A couple weeks ago Citrix
bragged that its Xen open
source virtualization
widgetry would be
pre-installed by big
unnamed servers vendors
by the end of the year.
Well, rival VMware
Tuesday stole a march on
both Citrix and the
tangle-footed Microsoft
and its promise...
See, PlateSpin manages
workloads on either
physical or virtual hosts
and is supposed to be
good at server
consolidation, data
center relocation,
disaster recovery,
controlling virtual
machine sprawl and
handling billing and
chargebacks. And since
virtualized arc...
Sun has put out its
promised xVM Ops Center,
the 1.0 widgetry that
will be used to manage
its Xen-based xVM Server,
. While it waits for the
bare-metal hypervisor,
Ops Center can amuse
itself managing physical
data centers. At least
ones that are made of
Solaris-,...
Canonical, the Ubuntu
people, is going to start
selling support contracts
for IBM's freebie DB2
Express-C database. It's
the first time Ubuntu
users will be able to buy
an annual subscription
service directly from the
company. It's also going
to offer the thing as a...
The Mozilla Foundation
has set up a new Mozilla
Messaging Inc subsidiary
to develop Thunderbird 3,
the next generation of
the previously
resource-starved free
open source e-mail
application, a sister
application of the
successful Mozilla
Firefox web browser. The
...
Somewhere out there an
ode is being written to
HP - and some lady
investor is explaining to
her husband about her
abiding crush on HP's
CEO, the 'Great
Deliverer' - after HP
dropped
better-than-expected
first-quarter results on
Wall Street Tuesday and
upped its ...
HP has added a second
Itanium blade to its
IBM-whacking BladeSystem
arsenal, its first
quad-socket (eight-core)
Montvale blade, its
earlier year-old Montvale
blade being a
dual-socket. The new
entry is for large
memory-intensive data
center workloads,
promising ...
And, on the theory that
IT transformation is
being driven by storage
virtualization, XenServer
4.1 is supposed to
tightly integrate with
native storage hardware
starting with the NetApp
Data OnTap operating
system, a unified storage
platform for virtualized
enviro...
Red Hat listened to
Microsoft's
interoperability
statement Thursday and
then issued a statement
of its own saying it
wasn't enough. It thinks
Microsoft should throw in
the towel on getting its
Office Open XML file
format standardized by
ISO and 'embrace the
exis...
Varonis Systems thinks
it's solved a 40-year-old
Unix problem: the chronic
lack of visibility into
file share data use and
poor access control. The
three-year-old New York
start-up says it solved
it - at least for Solaris
servers and NetApp filers
- by taking its
...
Washington gagged at the
thought of Huawei
Technologies Co., China's
largest
telecommunications
equipment maker and
reportedly closely tied
to China's military,
owning a minority stake
in 3Com and so 3Com's
deal to get bought for
$2.2 billion cash and
taken priv...