Virtualization Viewpoint:
Cloud Computing Casts
Shadow on Walled Gardens
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When last seen Yahoo! was
experimenting with
letting Google deliver
ads alongside Yahoo!'s
search results and trying
to cut a deal to fold AOL
into Yahoo!, a
possibility its own
people reportedly abhor,
while Microsoft, which
delivered Yahoo! a
ultimatum that expi...
Yahoo! says it's going to
try offloading some ad
placement to Google,
experimenting with using
Google's AdSense for
Search service to deliver
relevant Google ads
alongside Yahoo's search
results. Yahoo made the
announcement after the
stock market closed. It
didn't...
Microsoft and News Corp
are seriously considering
pairing up for a joint
run at Yahoo, according
to both the Wall Street
Journal and the New York
Times. News Corp could
kick in the Fox
Interactive Media unit
along with MySpace and
some cash and Microsoft
would thr...
Yahoo! has managed to
antagonize Microsoft into
considering its options -
like lowering its bid and
girding for a hostile
takeover - by sidling up
to Google in a
relationship that
everyone knows can't go
anywhere because of the
antitrust issues. Now
someone's whis...
Told ya Adobe was gonna
reorganize and put its
mobile/devices operation
in with its platform
operation in the name of
moving to a single
technology platform and
runtime for PCs, handsets
and consumer devices.
Adobe's new CTO Kevin
Lynch, the creator of
AIR, is bas...
At IDF Intel began
pushing its
second-generation
Classmate PCs into the US
and Europe. That's the
son of the cheap widgets
it's been using to crush
the altruistic prospects
of the AMD-based One
Laptop Per Child in
developing countries.
Intel calls the things
net...
VMware made its Lifecycle
Manager generally
available. It's supposed
to control the virtual
environment, showing who
owns a virtual machine,
when it was requested,
who approved it, where
it's deployed, how long
it's been in operation
and when it's scheduled
to be ...
Intalio reckons it's got
the first open source
Business Process
Management System
delivered as a service.
It's running dedicated
servers on top of Amazon
Web Services (AWS). A
subscription for Intalio
On Demand starts at
$1,500 per dedicated
server and includes
...
Patent lawyers are
partying. The US Patent
and Trademark Office was
stopped dead in its
tracks Tuesday from
changing the rules by a
federal judge. In the
name of reducing its
swelling patent filing
backlog, the PTO wanted
to limit the number of
claims a patent cou...
Google is inching toward
making Google Docs, its
free, webby,
Office-aspiring programs,
work offline as well as
on. It said Monday that
it's started phasing the
Google Gears browser
plug-in-derived facility
in, beginning with a
small percentage of Docs
word proces...
If high-performance
server virtualization
means taking a physical
server and basically
chopping it up into lots
of little servers, what
do you call it when
multiple physical servers
are made into one virtual
machine? Well, you might
call it ScaleMP, an SMP
virtual...
Intel introduced five
versions of its new Atom
chip and the Atom
Centrino platform, once
code named Menlow, at its
Developer Forum in
Shanghai Wednesday, the
stuff of its so-called
life-altering Mobile
Internet Devices (MIDs)
and newfangled embedded
solutions. Fou...
Microsoft has gotten
enough votes to make its
Open Office XML file
format (OOXML), the
default file format in
Office 2007, an ISO
standard, theoretically
saving Office from being
run out of town by a lot
of ODF-smitten government
agencies. There have
been, as ever...
The last quarter was the
single best quarter in
history for open source
companies raising venture
capital according to the
451 Group. The amount hit
$203.75 million, up from
$100.4 million
year-over-year and after
a really nasty downturn
in the fourth quarter of
'...
It looks like Kim
Polese's SpikeSource
operation has gotten a
new lease on life. At
least it's gotten another
$10 million, this
infusion coming from
Intel, which is evidently
trying to protect its
initial investment back
in 2005. Anyway the open
source software
...
Microsoft has given
Yahoo! three weeks to
come to terms or suffer a
proxy fight for control
of its board and a
hostile takeover
according to a Wall
Street Journal report.
Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer reportedly sent
Yahoo's board a letter
today, a few days after
...
Adobe has put an alpha
pre-release of AIR for
Linux up in hopes, it
says, of getting feedback
from the community, not
to mention winning
adherents. It's
English-only. The company
also joined the Linux
Foundation to encourage
the growth of RIA
technologies on Linux...
Citrix has put out
XenServer 4.1, the first
rev of the open source
virtualization software
since it bought XenSource
late last year. Along
with the dot release
Citrix has simplified its
pricing model to let
customers deploy an
unlimited number of
virtual machines ...
Outbid by Verizon
Wireless in the great
American airwaves auction
last week, Google plunked
a six-page letter on the
Federal Communication
Commission's desk asking
the government to make
the 'white spaces' - the
airspace between TV
channels - available for
unlicen...
Adobe, which is not
exactly unfamiliar with
the concept of the free
giveaway, has put out a
public beta of a simple
version of its popular
Photoshop photo-editing
software for free over
the web. Think of it as
an answer to Google's
Picasa. It's called
PhotoShop Ex...
AMD Thursday announced
its anticipated never-bef
ore-seen-on-an-x86-chip
triple-core processor
hoping it removes some of
the tarnish of its
Barcelona debacle. The
chip and its friends are
out a bit earlier than
thought, given the
erratum mess. It's
labeled the thin...
Oracle, the center of
much Wall Street
anticipation this week,
came in $100 million and
change shy of
expectations on the
revenue front but gave
the punters the 30%
increase in profits they
expected. It took a nasty
7% hit and passed the
tailspin on to the rest
...
Sun has lost David Yen,
the head of its chips
unit, Sun
Microelectronics, who's
going to Juniper Networks
as EVP, emerging
technologies where he?s
supposed to gather a team
to develop widgetry for
'the intersection of HPC
and networking.'
According to an SEC
fil...
As luck would have it The
Inquirer stumbled upon
Raymond James financial
analyst Hans Mosesmann's
recent note on AMD, which
isn't pretty. Not pretty
at all. He thinks that
AMD is going to spin off
manufacturing, finally
explaining what its
secret 'we-won't-tell-you
...
Ya know, maybe it's not
the economic slowdown.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
said January 31 that the
company was feeling no
pain from any
macroeconomic softening.
Maybe the novelty of
Google search is wearing
thin because it doesn't
return what people are
looking for. ...
Oracle is throwing its
Clusterware software at
its paying Unbreakable
Linux support customers
for free. Unbreakable
Linux being Oracle's
controversial year-old
version of Red Hat, which
it now claims has won
2,000 customers.
Previously only part of
Oracle's Real
...
Likewise Software, which
some people may remember
as Centeris, has revved
its namesake
cross-platform
authentication software
calling the latest thing
Likewise Open Spring '08
- at least to the outside
world. Inside they call
it 4.1. Anyway the new
cut, which inte...
Remember that suit that
the Software Freedom Law
Center (SFLC) filed
against Verizon
Communications back in
December for not
providing source code as
the GPL 2 requires? Well,
it's been settled.
Verizon, the biggest name
among the four companies
SFLC has sued so f...
Yahoo has tied up with
Tata subsidiary
Computational Research
Laboratories (CRL) to do
cloud computing research.
Financial terms were not
disclosed. What CRL
brings to the party is
the fourth-fastest
supercomputer in the
world, a beast that Yahoo
figures has
'su...
In its fourth fiscal
quarter closed February
29 Red Hat earned $22
million, a dime a share,
up 7% or a million and a
half more than a year
ago, on revenues up 27%
year-over-year to $141.5
million. Cost of sales
and marketing, it said,
up 31% to $52 million
while R...
HP's nose is out of joint
because Dell has stolen a
march on it by OEMing
Egenera's PAN data center
virtualization and
management software. HP's
first reaction to the
news, which it apparently
knew was coming, was to
say, 'Oh, we can do that.
We can virtualize the
data center.'
The US Postal Service has
started piloting a
program that will let
people recycle small
electronics and inkjet
cartridges for free by
mail. The postage will be
paid by Clover
Technologies Group, a
company that recycles,
remanufactures and
remarkets inkjet
cartri...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may
think Flash is junk, but
Adobe says it's creating
a media player for the
iPhone anyway using the
software tools Apple just
released for third-party
use. Once built, Adobe
intends to distribute the
thing through Apple's
iTunes store, accordin...
HP is going to bundle
VMware, Citrix XenServer
and in due course
Microsoft's Hyper-V
virtualization under an
umbrella operation called
ProLiant iVirtualization
that's supposed to appeal
to SMBs as well as the
enterprise. When an
iVirtualizated server is
powered on...
VMware says it's going to
put $100 million into
India in the next two
years and double its
local engineering staff
to more than a thousand
people, cultivating India
as a market as well as a
cheap source of talent.
Along with waiting for
Microsoft to mount what
wil...
Putting a burr under HP's
Opsware saddle, BMC
Software is buying
BladeLogic, the server
automation company, for a
pricey $800 million less
BladeLogic's cash on
hand. It plans to tender
for BladeLogic's stock
starting next week
probably and pay $28 a
share, roughly...
Hewlett-Packard dropped
out of the eight-socket
x86 business a couple of
years ago because it
couldn't do a Xeon box
without doing its own
chipset and it had
stopped making its own
chipsets. It threw itself
into two- and four-socket
multi-cores instead,
which didn...
Dell, whose revenue base
has always been the US,
is now thinking it may
become Asia, at least its
growth engine will be
Asia. Its Chinese
consumer sales last year
were up 54%, three times
the industry average. To
cultivate this new
audience and feed the
retail sto...