Google Puts $10m Bounty
on Android Development By Maureen O'Gara Google, as promised, put
the Android SDK out in
early access - along with
a $10 million pot for the
best apps written for its
open Android mobile
platform by third-party
developers. It said the
platform would be open
and it's going about
proving it. It also needs
... Nov. 19, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 15,909 Replies: 2 |
BEA Didn't Exactly
Convince Wall Street That
It's Worth the $21 a
Share By Maureen O'Gara The WebLogic
Communication Platform
also reportedly delivered
its strongest quarter
ever. BEA has seeded
WebLogic Server
Virtualization Edition in
key accounts and says it
got referenceable
results. These products,
along with Project
Genesis for the next
generat... Nov. 19, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 7,262 Replies: 1 |
SAP's TomorrowNow Looking
Like Yesterday's Toast By Maureen O'Gara The CEO and other
unidentified, unnumbered
senior managers of
TomorrowNow - the
third-party SAP support
subsidiary that Oracle
has accused of hacking
into its systems and
lifting its proprietary
software and IP wholesale
in a rip snorting federal
suit currently pe... Nov. 17, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 6,095 Replies: 1 |
Sun's Voice of Reason
Silenced By Maureen O'Gara  Former Sun VP of global
information systems strat
egy-turned-consultant
Larry Singer told at CIO
conference in California
the other day that he
left Sun in March because
it's overemphasizing open
source when it should be
concentrating of
generating revenues.
Accord... Nov. 11, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 8,431 Replies: 2 |
Dojo Hits 1.0 By Maureen O'Gara The three-year-old Dojo
Foundation has put out
version 1.0 of Dojo, an
open source JavaScript
toolkit for AJAX
development meant for
building rich Web 2.0
applications without
proprietary plug-ins or
single-vendor solutions.
The widgetry makes use of
Google Gears,... Nov. 9, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 25,749 Replies: 1 |
Egenera Signs First
Virtualization 2.0
Partner By Maureen O'Gara Egenera, which claims
it's the archetype
Virtualization 2.0
company to VMware's
Virtualization 1.0 - and
is going put its PAN
Manager software on other
people's hardware to
prove it - has convinced
Fujitsu Siemens, which
OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame
servers, to put P... Nov. 9, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 13,483 Replies: 1 |
Red Hat Pits Itself
Against VMware By Maureen O'Gara Watching VMware stock and
its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with
envyWatching VMware stock
and its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with envy - so
green in fact that it's
gonna ... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 16,153 Replies: 1 |
ORACLE BEA - BEA Gives
Icahn a Hall Pass to the
Holy of Holies By Maureen O'Gara In an unusual move, BEA
says it's giving activist
stockholder Carl Icahn
confidential information
that it can't give other
people 'cause it's, well,
confidential and is
supposed to prove to him
that the company is worth
more than the $17 a share
($6.7 billion) that ... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,501 Replies: 1 |
Sun's Revenues Stagnate By Maureen O'Gara Sun earned $89 million,
three cents a share, on
revenues of $3.22 billion
in the September quarter,
a better showing than
this time last year when
it lost $56 million, or
two cents a share. It
attributed the results to
high-end servers and its
identity management
... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 6,028 Replies: 1 |
His Lawyer Prays Reiser
Won't Testify at His
Murder Trial By Maureen O'Gara Hans Reiser, the Linux
file system creator on
trial in California for
the alleged murder of his
missing wife, is proving
to be a handful for his
own lawyer William
DuBois. Having reportedly
memorized the 9,000 pages
of discovery, Reiser has
been second-guessing
ev... Nov. 9, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 17,988 |
Microsoft & Novell Extend
Hated Pact By Maureen O'Gara The infamous
Microsoft-Novell
interoperability/patent
protection deal that
FOSSers love to hate just
passed its first birthday
and, bragging that it's
exceeded their original
business targets, the
pair has extended the
arrangement. They're
going to create a
cros... Nov. 9, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 10,352 Replies: 1 |
If VMware Is
"Virtualization 1.0" Then
Who Is the Avatar Of
"Virtualization 2.0"? By Maureen O'Gara Well, Egenera - which has
no market cap at all
because it hasn't gone
public yet - claims it
is. IDC, which coined the
term, defines
'Virtualization 2.0' as
the next step beyond
server virtualization
replete with faster
provisioning, high
availability, disaster
... Nov. 8, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 11,433 Replies: 2 |
Virtual Iron Hires Sales
Hot-Shots To Run the
Company By Maureen O'Gara Virtual Iron Software,
VMware's often forgotten
rival, has hired a couple
of ex-EMC guys of all
people to run the
company. Ed Walsh, who
ran EMC's Information
Management Software Group
after EMC acquired him
along with Avamar
Technology Inc late last
year, is now ... Nov. 7, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 6,704 Replies: 1 |
Novell Drops $100m Claim
Against SCO By Maureen O'Gara At a court hearing
Tuesday Novell surprised
a lot of people and
withdrew its claim that
SCO damaged it to the
tune of $100 million by
reneging on a deal
supposedly assigning its
Unix IP to UnitedLinux,
the failed Linux
consortium, in 2002.
Novell - or rather its
... Nov. 7, 2007 07:15 AM Reads: 9,537 Replies: 19 |
Google Gang Unveils
"gPhone" Platform,
Android By Maureen O'Gara Google made its first
public move today to put
its brand on the mobile
sector, announcing an
Open Handset Alliance of
33 partner companies
committed to advancing an
open source platform
called Android. Google's
partners, gathered
apparently over the last
year, inc... Nov. 6, 2007 03:15 AM Reads: 14,922 Replies: 2 |
Dell No Longer Delinquent By Maureen O'Gara Dell finally filed its
long-overdue financial
statements with the SEC
on Tuesday, restating
fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006 and the first
quarter of 2007 and
reducing its cumulative
earnings by $92 million
or three cents a share -
less than 1% of its total
earnings ... Nov. 4, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 4,660 |
gPhone Close, Journal
Says, Spurs Run-Up in
Stock By Maureen O'Gara Google is supposed to be
inching closer to
unveiling its fabled
'Gphone,' according to
the Wall Street Journal
Tuesday. The paper says
that in the next couple
of weeks Google should
trot out 'advanced
software and services
that would allow handset
markers to bring... Nov. 2, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 11,948 Replies: 1 |
Sun Sues NetApp - Twice -
in What Promises To Be a
Bitter Open Source Brawl By Maureen O'Gara Sun countersued NetApp
last Thursday in an
action that NetApp
founder Dave Hitz
describes on his blog as
seeking a permanent
injunction 'to remove
almost all of our
products from the
marketplace' and 'make
NetApp employees wonder
'Do I still have a job?'
and cus... Nov. 2, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 9,805 Replies: 1 |
Mandriva Bitches to
Ballmer about Microsoft
Playing Hardball By Maureen O'Gara  It seems that Microsoft
has persuaded the
Nigerian government to
switch out the 17,000
copies of Mandriva Linux
it ordered under a pilot
project of Intel
Classmate PCs for its
schools and substitute
Windows instead.
Mandriva's still going to
get paid but the CEO ... Nov. 2, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 6,979 Replies: 1 |
ORACLE BEA - At its Peril
BEA Snubs Oracle's
Ultimatum By Maureen O'Gara BEA said it wanted $21 a
share and ignored the
Sunday night deadline
that Oracle put on its
$17-a-share offer. Oracle
took the offer off the
table. BEA's biggest
stockholder, activist
Carl Icahn, has
threatened a proxy fight
and claims the BEA board
of directors p... Nov. 2, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,690 Replies: 1 |
GPL Escapes Legal
Scrutiny By Maureen O'Gara Busybox is a lightweight
set of standard Unix
utilities used in
embedded systems and
Multimedia was only
making the executable
version of the firmware
that it created using
Busybox available, not
the source code. Monsoon
joined in the SFLC
announcement and had its... Nov. 1, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 5,369 |
SCO Files for Bankruptcy
Protection By Maureen O'Gara It was an idea that the
company, which has maybe
$14.8 million in the bank
and debts of $7.5
million, had been kicking
around for at least a
week after it was
advanced by its fancy New
York lawyers Boies
Schiller as a way to
escape the disaster they
were sure woul... Sep. 10, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 7,587 Replies: 6 |
SCO Heads to Court By Maureen O'Gara  There'll be no running
off to Denver to save the
day for SCO. It had asked
the Utah district court
hearing its case against
Novell to let it appeal
the court's summary
judgment finding that
Novell owns the Unix
copyrights to the Court
of Appeals in Colorado
before... Sep. 3, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 10,240 Replies: 22 |
Ellison to Red Hat: 'Hide
Your Wives and Daughters.
We're Coming' By Maureen O'Gara During the company's
earning call Tuesday
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
uttered the first words
out of the company about
its hijacking Red Hat
Linux since it opened its
front against Red Hat at
the end of October.
Despite recent press
speculation that it's all
been a g... Apr. 24, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 27,731 Replies: 3 |
Ulitzer vs Knol - Google
Wants Its Own Wikipedia By Maureen O'Gara In a not very innovative
move Google is going to
try to copy Wikipedia's
shtick with a
soup-to-nuts, online,
user-generated
encyclopedia of all human
knowledge dubbed Knol
that's currently being
beta tested by a
reportedly small group of
invitees. Contributors,
... Jan. 6, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 15,988 |
Google Offers Alternative
to Open Source
SourceForge By Maureen O'Gara A few days into the
experiment 'complete with
the usual start-up
hiccups like trouble
moving projects off
Sourceforge and doubts
about the efficacy of the
site's production use'
Google's new project has
attracted upwards of
2,000 projects already. Aug. 2, 2006 08:30 PM Reads: 17,312 Replies: 2 |
Linux.SYS-CON.com Numbers By Maureen O'Gara IDG is claiming that
LinuxWorld show in New
York last week pulled in
19,000 people. There were
supposed to be something
like 150 exhibitors. May. 11, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 12,015 |
BitDefender Open Sources
Samba Module By Maureen O'Gara BitDefender, the Romanian
security house, has
upgraded its Samba Linux
File Servers to version
1.6.2 and open sourced
parts of it. The
antivirus for Samba is
capable of scanning and
disinfecting shared files
and folders on access and
on-demand, and can be
installe... May. 9, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 18,455 Replies: 2 |
Dell and Altiris Cozier
Now By Maureen O'Gara In the name of
simplicity, Dell is going
to start offering patch
management software
that's integrated with
Altiris' for updating
server environments. The
stuff will be part of
Dell's OpenManage 4
systems management
software, which has been
integrated with the
c... May. 9, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 20,266 Replies: 7 |
Novell Taps Sales Chief By Maureen O'Gara Novell has tapped Ron
Hovsepian to be
president, worldwide
field operations
responsible for field
marketing and sales,
channel sales and
marketing, consulting,
services and Novell's
alliance program. He'll
have all the regions
reporting to him,
relieving Novell ... May. 9, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 19,314 Replies: 4 |
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: 16,084 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: 26,719 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: 21,488 |
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: 17,161 |
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: 17,442 |
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: 17,860 |
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: 17,280 |
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: 25,277 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: 17,922 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: 17,484 Replies: 1 |
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