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Maureen O'Gara
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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Was GPLv3 Worth the Effort?
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...
You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin
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...
Virtualization - WiMAX Supporters Form Patent Pool
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...
iPhone 3G Only Looks Cheaper
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, ...
Virtualization - AMD v Intel Trial Delayed To Fit In All the Depositions
The AMD v Intel private antitrust suit - otherwise known as the 'No Lawyer Left Behind Program' - is so big and unwieldy that the special master in charge of sorting out discovery has pushed the trial date back from April of 2009 to February of 2010 to give the pa...
Neelie Takes to the Soapbox
Europe's antitrust chief Neelie Kroes, who has now taken on the role of open standards evangelist, gave a speech at OpenForum Europe the other day recommending that business and government adopt 'open standards.' 'Open standards' in Neelie's mouth is code for 'ope...
Yahoo Cuts Deal with the Devil
After failing to come to terms with Microsoft, and with antitrust regulators hovering in the background, Yahoo has gone and cut that death-defying deal on search advertising with arch-rival Google saying the agreement could clear $800 million in annual revenues. T...
No Deal!
Talks between Yahoo and Microsoft have failed for the second time. Yahoo said Thursday afternoon that Microsoft has refused to buy Yahoo for $33 a share, the price Microsoft offered May 3 and then pulled off the table when Yahoo's co-founders held out for $37. Mic...
Virtualization, Firefox and Vista
John Gage, Sun employee number 5 and its chief researcher, head of its science office - the guy who coined the Sun tag line 'The Network is the Computer' - a seemingly nonsense slogan Sun used to wish it could shake - has finally left the building after 25 years. ...
Parascale Hires CEO Out of NetApp
Parascale, the four-year-old firm with the Cloud Storage system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system and the Internet Protocol networking protocol stack, has hired Sajai Krishnan out of NetApp to be its CEO. He ran NetApp's mid...
IDC, Gartner Adjust Their Periscopes on Virtualization
IDC and Gartner have boosted their worldwide PC growth projections for the year. IDC thinks shipments will be up 15.2% to 310 million units compared to last year, not 12.8% like it said it March and Gartner puts the number at 12.5% rather than 10.9%.
FTC Starts Formally Investigating Intel for Antitrust
The Federal Trade Commission has decided to formally investigate Intel for antitrust for pushing AMD to the wall with its sales incentives, an answer to a prayer AMD has been saying for years now. AMD supposedly only brought its mammoth private antitrust suit agai...
eBay Opens Its Site to Third-Party Developers
eBay is opening its site so third-party developers can integrate applications directly into eBay Selling Manager, an online tool for managing and tracking listings on eBay. It's excepting a flurry of sales optimization apps.
SUSE Kernel Patched for VMware
SUSE, which is packaged up with Xen, has started supporting VMware's Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), Vmware's brand of paravirtualization. Novell worked on the widgetry with VMware for nine months and modified the SUSE kernel to support VMI, a communication mecha...
Citrix Loses Sales Chief
Citrix is losing its sales boss John Burris to one of the open source contingent's few publicly traded companies, the struggling Sourcefire, creator of Snort, the security software, whose $15 IPO price has pretty been shaved in half since its debut in March of 2007.
Microsoft's Side of the Yahoo Story
In a Microsoft internal e-mail that just 'happened' to get out, Microsoft says it lost interest in acquiring all of Yahoo because of Yahoo's foot-dragging and offered instead $1 billion for just Yahoo's search operation and another $8 billion, the equivalent of $3...
JBoss Hits Amazon's EC2 Cloud
Red Hat is beta testing its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as a solution on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It's a way to tickle enterprise adoption of its Java application server. EC2 offers developers, enterprises and startups a web-scale compute ...
Desktop Virtualization Market To Be Worth at Least $1.8b by 2012 Up From Nothing
Pushing back against VMware, its chief rival, Tuesday, Citrix released its ballyhooed, on-demand XenDesktop, the widgetry that delivers custom, managed virtual Windows desktops from a data center server to a user over the network, and priced the stuff. Theres a fr...
Cloud Formation
Microsoft figures that in five years time half the Exchange mailboxes in the world - perhaps 160 million mailboxes - will be running on its servers in its cloud infrastructure on Exchange Online. At least that's Microsoft senior vice-president Chris Capossela told...
Virtualization - AMD & Intel Play Roadmap Leapfrog
Lehman Brothers analyst Tim Luke thinks maybe, just maybe mind, AMD might try to move up Shanghai, the 45nm version of the 65nm Barcelona from 4Q08/1Q09 to 3Q08, which by the calendar is just around the corner. However, he's not giving the scuttlebutt that much ...
Sourcefire's Brand New CEO From Citrix and Barracuda's Acquisition Offer on the Table
SNORT creator Sourcefire, one of the few publicly owned open source companies, has rejected an unsolicited $7.50-a-share offer, a total of roughly $187.4 million cash, from privately held Barracuda Networks, claiming it undervalues the enterprise security compan...
Citrix Buys German Virtualization Product
Citrix has bought sepago GmbH's sepagoProfile software so user profiles in XenDesktop, XenApp and Provisioning Server are integrated. Terms were not disclosed but as part of the deal the Cologne-based sepago will continue developing the product for virtualizing ap...
Apple Hits the Pause Button on Snow Leopard
Apple is in features-lockout mode as far Snow Leopard, the next edition of its operating system, goes. There aren't going to be many of new ones. Apple calls it 'hitting the pause button.' Instead it's concentrating on supporting increasingly multi-core chips and ...
Cloud Computing Update: ServePath Claims To Have the First Windows Cloud
ServePath, a six-year-old managed hoster out of San Francisco that Deloitte figures is one of the fastest-growing companies in America, has what it thinks is the very first Windows cloud in creation, and is positioning it as 'the first real alternative' to the mig...
Microsoft Will Support UML in Visual Studio 10
For years and years Microsoft would never have any truck with the Object Management Group's Unified Modeling Language (UML) so it came as a bit of a surprise the other day at Microsoft's TechEd Developer conference when Bill Gates - in what he described as probably ...
98% of Enterprises Implementing Virtualization Are Using Multiple Platforms
ComScore has upped Google's US search share. It was 59.8% in March and now for April it's 61.6%. It gave Yahoo 20.4% and Microsoft 9.1%. HP and Foxconn International, a unit of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, the big contract manufacturer, are building a ...
Billionaire Broadcom Co-founder Indicted for Drugs & Backdating
Broadcom's six-foot six-inch co-founder and ex-CEO Henry Nicholas, 48, whose last reported whereabouts was in rehab for alcoholism, was busted Thursday after two grand jury indictments were unsealed. One accuses him of a raft of titillating drug charges; the other...
Cloud Spotting
Since Microsoft's forecast - and its margin implications - is nothing to sneeze at, we asked industry analyst and cloud spotter Amy Wohl what she has been seeing. 'The first thing to keep in mind is that we have some semantic confusion, as is usual at this stage o...
Virtualization - IBM Takes New Anti-Office Tack
IBM is starting to monetize Lotus Symphony, its freebie collection of Office-displacing ODF-based software for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations - but not for the money. It's offering unlimited subscription-based remote technical suppo...
VMware Buys Thinstall & Foedus
VMware is buying a little San Francisco-based application virtualization house called Thinstall on undisclosed terms to expand its ability to provision, deploy and update the desktop. VMware observes that delivering applications is the single largest cost of des...
Virtualization and Cloud Pumping
Rumor has it that Salesforce.com, that CRM paean to cloud computing, is going to start selling Gmail and Google Docs integrated into its system. The pair cut a deal nine months ago for Saleforce to include Adwords in its applications.
Virtualization - Puma Uncaged
AMD has announced its next-generation Centrino-chasing notebook platform Puma, touting it as delivering the 'ultimate HD visual performance' as well as increased energy efficiency. It's depending on the widgetry to fix some of its $4.3 billion in losses accumula...
Supremes Say No to Royalty Double-Dipping
In a unanimous decision Monday the Supreme Court restricted patent holders' from collecting multiple royalties by charging the supply chain for IP that's already been sold upstream. Their Honors found for Quanta and against LG Electronics in a case in which LG lic...
Virtualization - Sun Jumps the Gun on Flash
Sun is rushing in where other server vendor have so far feared to tread and says that starting in the second half it will offer servers and storage based on Flash, the pricey kind of widgetry found in cell phones and MP3 players. It claims it will be ahead of the ...
Reiser May Take Authorities To Murdered Wife's Body: Wired
Right now Reiser faces a sentence to 25 years to life for first-degree murder, a conviction based on circumstantial evidence. If he cooperates it could mean he's looking at second-decree murder, a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life and the possibility of parol...
Microsoft Virtualization Takes Management Cross-Platform
Microsoft is making System Center, its central management scheme, natively manage Linux, Unix and VMware virtual servers. The widgetry has always been a Windows-only affair, but now there are betas available showing off Microsoft's cross-platform prowess, import...
And Next We Have the All-Singing, All-Dancing PDF Plus an Adobe Cloud
Adobe says Acrobat 9.0, a major upgrade, will be available in July and in three different versions: Standard, Pro and Pro Extended. It will be sold standalone and Pro will be integrated into Adobe's Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Standard editions. CS 3.3 is also due in July.
Microsoft Does Search Deal with HP; Pushes Yahoo Out
HP, which has previously given the space to Yahoo, is going to pre-install a Silverlight-based Live Search-enabled toolbar on all consumer PCs it ships in the US and Canada starting in January. That's when the HP-Yahoo deal expires.
Virtualization - Microsoft Keeps XP Around
Microsoft says it's going to ride the nettop wave and push XP, which is supposed to die this month, onto the ultra low-cost devices meant to put e-mail, web browsing and instant messages in your pocket. It says it's working with 20 OEMs. It's unclear what it's cha...
EnterpriseDB Recruits New CEO from Red Hat
EnterpriseDB co-founder and CEO Andy Astor has stepped aside so Ed Boyajian, brought in from Red Hat, can take the four-year-old company to the proverbial next level, they said. Boyajian has been running Red Hat's North American sales under one title or another fo...

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