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PlateSpin has trotted out
its first major product
release since Novell
bought the virtualization
management operation back
in March with the launch
of PowerConvert 7.0, its
data center disaster
recovery mojo. The
software has new backup
and recovery features and
e...
Microsoft managed to get
its VMware-spooking
Hyper-V, its
hypervisor-based
virtualization
technology, out the door
Thursday, which is
something of an
accomplishment
considering that by
Microsoft's clock the
thing is weeks early,
having not been expected
until August sometime.
On Tuesday TechCrunch and
CNet, based on the usual
'sources,' reported that
talks between Yahoo and
Microsoft were back on,
stories that prevented
Yahoo's desperate,
bewildered, shuttlecock
stock from dropping below
the 20-dollar barrier and
landing in the high teen...
To no one's particular
surprise, Oracle has
claimed that it suffered
hundreds of millions, if
not 'at least' a billion
dollars worth of damages
because of SAP and the IP
hacking theft of its
TomorrowNow PeopleSoft/JD
Edwards customer support
subsidiary. 
NetSuite, the Larry
Ellison SaaS company, is
buying OpenAir, the
56-man shop that is
supposed to be the leader
in on-demand professional
services automation, for
$26 million cash, net of
the cash on the
acquisition's balance
sheet. NetSuite says it
probably won't ...
The fireworks over Armonk
this 4th of July are
going to be a bit
brighter and more awesome
because - by the flick of
a checkbook - IBM has
gotten out from under a
threat to its precious
multibillion-dollar
mainframe monopoly.
Novell says it's going to
'simplify' pricing and
discounts on SLES for
mainframes for the rest
of the year. That means
it's going to cut prices
by 33%-47% by offering a
three-year subscription
for the price of a
two-year subscription or
a five-year subscription
fo...
A little Chicago ISV
called LimitNone is suing
Google for nigh on to a
billion dollar charging
it with misappropriating
its trade secrets to beat
back Microsoft Office.
Seems a year ago March
LimitNone shared its mojo
for migrating Outlook
users and their calendars ...
With the stock market
crashing, or giving a
good approximation of a
crash Thursday, Yahoo,
poor thing - well, it has
behaved like a sick lost
puppy, now hasn't it -
announced a supposedly
pressure-relieving
reorganization just like
its familiars in the
press said ...
Red Hat saw earnings rise
6.6% to $17.3 million, or
eight cents a share in
its first fiscal quarter
ended May 31 on revenue
up 32% year-over-year and
11% sequentially to
$156.6 million. EPS was
dead flat year-over-year.
Subscription revenue was
$130.7 million, up 27...
On Monday, nine days
ahead of his sentencing
on July 9 for the murder
of his wife, William
DuBois, the lawyer for
ace Linux programmer Hans
Reiser, filed a brief
with the court saying -
for the very first time
since this case began -
that under penalty of
perjury ...
Nokia wants to buy the
52% of the Symbian
operating system that it
doesn't already own to
open source it and set it
free. It's a defense
against advances into the
fragmented mobile space
that Nokia and Symbian
dominate - particularly -
from the looks of case -
aga...
HP may lose the head of
its Personal Systems
Group (PSG), Todd
Bradley, to Motorola.
He's on Moto's list of
two candidates to run its
cell phone operation,
according to the Wall
Street Journal.
Everybody's still in
denial because
negotiations are at the
sensitiv...
HP has open sourced the
Tru64 Unix Advanced File
System (AdvFS) that it
got from DEC by way of
Compaq. It's sent the
16-year-old Alpha-based
source code, representing
what it calls 400 R&D
years, over to
Sourceforge under the
GPLv2 license as a
reference implement...
Moving in like a weather
front, IBM is opening its
first - or for that
matter anybody's first -
cloud computing center in
Africa, and a second one
China. The African site
is in Johannesburg, the
Chinese one in Beijing.
IBM said the new centers
are part of its overal...
Sun has released a new
real-time,
shared-nothing,
carrier-grade version of
MySQL called MySQL
Cluster Carrier Grade
Edition 6.3 certified for
use in telecom
environments, such as
subscriber data
management systems (hlr,
hss) and service delivery
platforms. 
The two Detroit pension
funds suing Yahoo in
Delaware to invalidate
its severance plan
'poison pill' have been
denied the expedited
trial that they asked for
ahead of the August 1
stockholders meeting. The
plan is supposed to
incentivize Google staff
to leave if a...
Novell was foiled in its
attempt this week to
persuade the bankruptcy
judge in Delaware, who's
holding SCO life in his
hands, to deny SCO
another extension in
filing a formal plan of
reorganization. If the
judge had agreed with
Novell - which he didn't
- that woul...
Salesforce.com, which has
already linked its CRM
software to Google Apps
and integrated AdWords
tracking into its
platform, is deploying a
free new Force.com
Toolkit for Google Data
APIs so third-party
developers can interact
with data in Google
services. The tool...
Telstra, the old
Australian phone company
before government-owned
monopolies became
unfashionable and now the
country's leading telecom
and media house, is going
into the Software as a
Service (SaaS) business.
It's got a platform
called T-Suite and
intends to use ...
So the Shanghai
Securities News - sort of
the Wall Street Journal
of China but basically a
government house organ
often used for conveying
official announcements -
reports this week that
Microsoft is being
investigated for
antitrust violations and
might get sued w...
Hewlett-Packard has torn
a page out of Sun's book
- at least the Sun
edition that reads give
gear away for free to buy
market share - except
HP's target is IBM and
IBM's precious,
profitable mainframe
preserve. The notion,
called the 'NonStop
Freedom' incentive pl...
Red Hat is open sourcing
Project Spacewalk, the
Red Hat Network (RHN)
Satellite code base under
the GPLv2 license. RHN
Satellite is the stuff
behind the Red Hat
Network and lets
customers manage RHEL
updates inside their
firewall. It does systems
provisioning, upd...
Microsoft says it's going
to open a Search
Technology Center in
Europe in the fiscal year
that starts in July. The
center is supposed to
'accelerate Microsoft's
investments in Live
Search and disrupt the
search and advertising
marketplace to the
benefit of both th...
Microsoft has bought
Navic Networks, a move
that puts it in the
business of placing TV
commercials in near
real-time, one of the
things that Steve Ballmer
may have had in mind when
he said there were a lot
of things you could do
with $50 billion besides
buying Yahoo.
Having peered into
various crystal balls,
Cisco figures global
Internet traffic will
grow 46% a year between
now and 2012, nearly
doubling every two years.
The projection translates
into an annual bandwidth
demand of more than a
half a zettabyte, the
equivalent of...
The New York Times tried
putting a horse's head in
Jerry Yang's bed
Saturday, prophesying
that his 'days as Yahoo's
CEO are numbered.' In a
piece entitled 'Oh Jerry,
It's No Longer Your
Baby,' it excoriated him
for 'shafting' Yahoo
shareholders by running
off Micr...
It only took 15 years but
Wine, the open source
Windows rewrite, so to
speak, that lets Linux
run Windows applications
natively, has reached its
first stable release,
Wine 1.0. Compatibility
isn't perfect, the Wine
folk say, and not
everything will run
(particular...
After a bit of a breech
birth - caused by
visitors overloading its
web servers - Mozilla
released Firefox 3
Tuesday seeking to set a
Guinness World Record for
the most downloads in 24
hours as a way to stir up
interest and at the same
time stick it to
Microsoft. 
eXpresso, a year-old
venture-backed California
start-up, has taken Excel
to the clouds with
Microsoft's blessings.
PowerPoint, Word and PDF
files are set to follow
by the end of the summer.
eXpresso webifies legal
Excel users and lets them
share, edit, download and ...
GPLv3, the great General
Public License rewrite,
is now a year-old and
used by 2,345 open source
projects including
Ubuntu, SugarCRM and
Samba. Adoption has
reportedly been growing
at about 20% a month over
the past six months.
According to some figures
sent aroun...
HP, which is trying to be
stylish, is going up
against Apple's MacBook
Air with a Voodoo Envy
notebook that's all of
0.70-inches deep and
weighs 3.37 pounds
wrapped in a carbon fiber
skin. It's supposed to
boot in seconds to access
a browser or Skype, but
has shor...
Intel, Alcatel-Lucent,
Cisco, Clearwire, Samsung
and Sprint have formed
the Open Patent Alliance
(OPA) in hopes of
ensuring the future of
WiMAX with a patent pool
that helps participating
companies get access to
WiMAX patent licenses at
a predictable cost,
charged...
Apple has a history of
carriage trade pricing,
and, although such
practices cost it the PC
market - while imbuing it
with a certain cachet -
the policy was enshrined
in the original iPhone.
For the first time Monday
Apple sorta kinda changed
its tune, so to speak,
...