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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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NetSuite Hires Ex-Salesforce VP
NetSuite, Larry Ellison's other company, the SaaS one, and rival of CRM SaaS pioneer salesforce.com, which of course was started by former Ellison lieutenant Marc Benioff - ah, incest - has named Per Brondum Jakobsen, the former head of product strategy at salesfo...
South Africa Throws a Monkey Wrench into Microsoft's OOXML Plans
South Africa has formally objected to the fast track used to get OOXML to the brink of ISO standardization. South Africa, which has given the world Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu, is one of the so-called 'P' members of JTC 1 - meaning it's got enough clout to delay ...
MySpace & Opera Adopt Gears
In the largest third-party win yet for the year-old Google Gears, as well as a win for the browser-as-a-platform, they say, News Corp's MySpace social networking site has used the Google widgetry to upgrade its mail so users can search and sort their mail in rea...
Adobe Betas Three Pieces of CS4
Adobe has put out three free public betas: Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth, all of which will be part of the next-generation Creative Suite when it arrives. Its delivery date is still a big secret. The betas are only good for 48 hours once they're downloaded...
AJAX World - Google Prices App Engine
Google is opening up App Engine to one and all. The cloud-sharing gambit meant to entice developers to build their web applications on the same infrastructure that powers Google's own applications - and in the process lock them into Google instead of Microsoft - h...
Dell Found Guilty of Deceptive Business Practices
Some of Dell's service chickens have come home to roost. A New York State Supreme Court judge Tuesday found Dell and Dell Financial Services (DFS) guilty of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices. It will take ...
AJAX World - Google Web Toolkit RC1.5 Ready To Pop
Google's Web Toolkit Release Candidate 1.5 will be available later this week. That's the stuff programmers can use to develop and debug web applications in Java and then deploy them as highly optimized JavaScript. That way they're supposed to be able to sidestep c...
Virtualization - Intel Confirms Centrino 2 Delay
Intel says it will start unwrapping its Centrino 2 widgetry on July 14 with the introduction of its Core and Extreme mobile processors and initial shipments of some of its chipsets instead of on June 24 like it was supposed to. It says it will ship its complete li...
VMware Buys B-hive
VMware is buying B-hive Networks, a three-year-old privately held application performance management software company, on undisclosed terms. It says it will use the Israeli start-up and its flagship product, B-hive Conductor, to offer proactive performance manag...
VMware Popping More Virtualization Software
This week you'll be able to order that disaster recovery pack that VMware has been promising since last September, Site Recovery Manager, but it'll take them another month to deliver it. It's supposed to let you set up, test and automate disaster recovery in a way...
SugarCRM Betas New Product Line
SugarCRM has pushed out a closed beta of Sugar Data Center Edition (DCE), a new product line, due this summer, described as a complete set of system management provisioning and monitoring tools so service providers and large organizations can deploy and handle mul...
Microsoft To Support ODF
Office will support the Microsoft-hostile OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.1 when Office 2007 Service Pack 2 arrives in the first half of 2009. Microsoft said users will be able to open, edit and save documents in ODF directly from inside Office applications without ha...
Linux - Concurrent Pushes into Automotive
Before we're all reduced to shank's mare, Concurrent is wading into the automotive industry, observing that with the amount of electronics in cars constantly on the uptick, it's a good place for an embedded Linux-based networking system. So it's announced FlexRay ...
Virtualization - HP Signs Up for DaaS
Desktone, the start-up with the desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) vision, has signed up Hewlett-Packard to deliver virtual desktops as a service. Desktone is already supposed to have Verizon, IBM, Softbank and Deutsche Telekon interested - and Merrill Lynch is a pilot s...
Yahoo Director Quits; Company Postpones Annual Meeting
The Yahoo board is one short. Edward Kozel, a former Cisco CTO and now a VC and a Yahoo board member since October of 2000, tendered his resignation Thursday saying he meant to leave in February but stayed on because of Microsoft's unsolicited acquisition proposal...
Desktone to Support Hyper-V Virtualization
The Virtual-D Platform enables service providers to offer hosted, subscription-based virtual desktops. A solution that integrates all desktop virtualization layers through a single, automated self-service platform, it helps enterprises realize the full benefits ...
VMware Starts Certifying Thin Clients
VMware has started certifying thin clients used with its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure aimed at replacing conventional PCs with virtual machines centralized in the data center and available to users from any device, reducing TCO, increasing IT's control and imp...
Can Windows Save OLPC?
Despite hisses and boos from the open source side of the house One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is now officially soldered at the hip to Microsoft. Its novel XO laptop is supposed to go to trials in a half-dozen developing countries next month fitted with XP and a stud...
Microsoft to Support ODF in Office 2007 Service Pack 2
Office will support the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 format when Office 2007 Service Pack 2 arrives in the first half of 2009. Microsoft said users will be able to open, edit and save documents in ODF from directly inside Office application without having to ins...
Linux, Wind and the Atom
Wind River and Intel are putting their heads together to create an extensible open source Linux platform for the automotive industry - an infotainment (gad, that horrid word) platform for Intel's newfangled Atom chip. It's part of a major new product strategy for ...
The World's Biggest Computer Company Bigger Still
HP, the largest computer company in the world, is pretty pleased with itself. Sales were up 11% in its second quarter, its margin expanded and it delivered its best cash flow performance in the company's history, $4.8 billion. Yes, there are spots where it can do ...
Openbravo Picks Up $12m Second Round
Two-year-old open source ERP house Openbravo has just picked up a second-round check for $12 million signed by Amadeus Capital, the publicly traded GIMV and Adara Venture Partners. The money is supposed to take the Pamplona-based concern international, increase it...
Virtualization - Dell Changes CFOs
Dell is replacing its CFO Donald Carty effective June 13. It's importing Brian Gladden, an industry outsider who was CEO of SABIC Innovative Plastics, the old $7 billion GE Plastics spun off last August to the Saudis. Fortune takes Gladden for a potential successor to Michael Dell.
Salesforce Posts Strong Quarter
SaaS poster child Salesforce.com did $247.6 million in revenues, up 52%, returning $9.6 million, or eight cents a share, up sevenfold, in the quarter ended April 30. It said it generated more than a quarter billion dollars of operating cash in the last 12 months a...
SOA World - Azul's Java Appliance Enters Third Generation
Azul Systems, the six-year-old start-up with its own multi-core chips fitted into Java-accelerating enterprise-grade appliances, is entering its third generation of machine, expecting to expand into new markets and consolidate more and more x86 and RISC widgetry...
Hyper-V Moves to RC1
Microsoft has taken the next step in getting its VMware-upsetting Hyper-V widgetry out the door; Release Candidate 1 is there to be downloaded now. If you've been paying attention you know that this is actually Microsoft's second release candidate, the first, call...
HP Grows Horns
'I believe that this move has really polarized the ecosystem. They've essentially declared war - or at least hostility - toward all of their ecosystem - the outsourcers and the integrators that historically were a key part of HP's software strategy. I in the last ...
Red Hat Enhances Virtualization
Red Hat has made Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 available, saying it enhances virtualization, desktop, security, clustering, networking and hardware support. Virtualization of very large systems, with up to 64 CPUs and 512GB of memory, is now possible and there's ...
VMware Borrows Sun Protocol
VMware is combining its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Sun's Sun Ray software and thin clients, promising superior performance especially on WANs. It borrows Sun's Appliance Link Protocol (ALP), which is supposed to outperform other display protocols when use...
VMware Starts Certifying Thin Clients
VMware has started certifying thin clients used with its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure aimed at replacing conventional PCs with virtual machines centralized in the data center and available to users from any device, reducing TCO, increasing IT's control and imp...
Yoo-Hoo, Steve, We're Still Here
Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page in Washington to speak at the think tank where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is chairman of the board - and apparently meet with government officials too - claimed that a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would 'monopolize online commun...
Parallels Virtualization, Google, Vista and Murder
Parallels said Wednesday that its Desktop virtualization widgetry for the Mac, which lets Intel-based Apples run Windows or Linux along with Mac OS X, has sold more than a million copies, a nice chunk of the Macs out there. It is the largest-selling Mac utility an...
Microsoft-Yahoo: Heavy Hitters Come to the Aid of Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn, the guy with the shotgun in Yahoo's back, has picked up a couple of friends to hand him bullets. Third Point LLC, a hedge fund, has picked up five million shares in Yahoo on its way perhaps to 10 million shares and is supporting Icahn's proxy battle to ...
AJAX World - Adobe Makes Flash & AIR Free for Mobile Widgets
A bunch of the boys have joined Adobe in forming the Open Screen Project to drive a consistent rich Internet experience across TVs, PCs, mobile devices and consumer electronics regardless of operating system. They've been persuaded that the way to squeeze the World ...
AppSense Makes XenDesktop Virtualization More Sensible
Citrix is supposed to trot out XenDesktop - its virtual Windows desktop trick - any minute now and when it does the UK firm AppSense is supposed to be there to make the Xen widgetry useful. See, the way it works every time you restart XenDesktop you start with a c...
Ubuntu's Hardy Heron Takes Virtualization Flight
Ubuntu's first 'Long Term Support (LTS' rev in almost 23 months was pushed out the door this week along with the promise that another LTS rev would follow every two years from now on out and in between there would be point releases first at the three-month mark an...
Virtualization - Sun Finally Gets its Barcelona Boxes Out
Sun, which lost some traction selling x86 servers when AMD flubbed the Barcelona - and had to run hurry up and pull some Intel quad-based machines together last year - finally got to announce its first AMD quad machines this week in the shadow of HP and Dell. Eigh...
PTO Files Notice of Appeal in Rules Case
Just making the window as it was closing - which is supposed to suggest that it was only taking the step after much soul-searching - the US Patent and Trademark Office filed a Notice of Appeal with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. If it goes ahead it ...
Virtualization, Going Green, Google and SaaS
Dell is going to try to cut the energy consumption of its laptops and desktops by up to 25% between now and 2010 to avoid millions of tons of CO2 emissions, comparing its pledge to HP's, which is supposed to cut relative its 2005 levels. It says Dell OptiPlex desk...
Yahoo Watch
Between the time corporate raider Carl Icahn notified Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock Thursday morning to expect a proxy fight for control of the company if Yahoo didn't crawl on its belly to get Microsoft to buy it and Yahoo sent a non-answer back, Yahoo stock closed ...

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