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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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Virtualization - Intel Pulls It Out; North America Rebounds
Despite the 'sky-is-falling' weather forecasts and slowdown-induced panic that the bottom is falling out of PC demand, Intel managed to pull out a solid first quarter with record revenues of $9.7 billion, up 9% year-over-year, and income of $1.4 billion, or 25 c...
Zoho Claims Google Was Salesforce's Second Choice
Zoho's resident blogger and CEO of its parent company AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, was dumping on Salesforce - an understandable exercise since Zoho's stash of SaaS Office-wannabe productivity programs includes a Salesforce rival CRM module - when he happened to me...
Virtualization - AMD Dumps Its CTO
Last Friday AMD said its CTO Phil Hester was resigning to 'pursue other opportunities,' claiming it had nothing to do with the 10% reduction in force it intends making to cut costs in the face of its sales shortfall. It also said it won't replace him. So observers...
Virtualization - Dell Has Best PC Quarter in Two Years
Worldwide PC shipments were up 14.6% in the first quarter to 69.5 million unit, better than the 13.2% IDC thought it would be, but the US was up only 3.5% year-over-year as the states struggles through whatever economic bug it's caught. IDC expects the belt-tighte...
Yahoo! Reportedly Getting Closer to Google Deal
Yahoo! is reportedly getting closer to that controversial deal that would outsource its search advertising to Google. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the limited test of Google that Yahoo! set up went well. The Google strategy, which could potentially be...
Google Shares Gallop Thru $500
It looks like Google is back on track to be that $1,000 stock. Having been in the $400 doldrums since February 22, it crashed through $500 and clear into the $520s, up over 75 bucks in after-hours trading Thursday on the strength of its over-the-top Q1 results and...
Open Source Census Starts
OpenLogic and friends are going to try to plum the depths of open source adoption in the enterprise by asking the enterprise to take part in a voluntary self-administered Open Source Census. The global multi-year exercise kicked off on Wednesday when the www.oss...
Virtualization - Novell Cuts Down SUSE for Appliances
Novell wants ISVs to create appliances that marry their applications to the SUSE and to underpin the idea has trotted out a beta of SLES JeOS, a 'Just enough Operating System,' so it'll all make sense. Red Hat also has an Appliance Operating System in the works an...
Start-up Tickles MySQL into Making a Quantum Leap
A two-year-old start-up came out of the woodwork this week claiming to have turned MySQL - which, let's face it, has its limits - into the best darn data warehouse in the world bar none and to have the price/performance benchmarks to prove it. It has in hand TPC-H...
Virtualization - Dell Has B3 Boxes
Dell's off-again on-again relationship with AMD has resulted in five PowerEdge servers that can be had with the now fixed and shipping B3 Barcelona quad, giving AMD 13 global OEM platforms using the part. Dell's contribution includes the two-socket SC1435, 2970 an...
MySQL 5.1 Delayed for Bug Spray
At the first MySQL user conference since it spent a billion dollars acquiring the open source database, Sun said this week that a near-final release candidate of MySQL 5.1 could be downloaded at http://dev. mysql.com/downloads. It's supposed to be generally availab...
Sun Certifying Ubuntu
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth has been telling Reuters that Sun is in the process of certifying Ubuntu on some of its low-end and mid-size hardware. The code it's certifying is Hardy Heron, the Ubuntu 8.04 rev that's due out later this month. Sun told the wire s...
Window on H-1B Visas Slammed Shut
The US Citizenship and Immigration Service closed the windows on this year's crop of temporary H-1B visa Tuesday, a week after it opened. It's refused to say for the moment how many applications it got but you can safely assume it's a lot. The cap is 65,000 visas ...
Jury Tells Microsoft To Pay Alcatel $367m
Remember that swat of 15 infringement complaints that Lucent made in 2003 against Dell and Gateway? A couple of which, concerning MP3 audio technology in the Windows Media Player, resulted in a record $1.5 billion decision against Microsoft that subsequently got ...
Samba Suffers Embarrassment of Riches
Samba leader Jeremy Allison says be careful what you wish for. Now that Samba has everything that it wants from Microsoft, it doesn't have enough hands to do the coding. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation says that in the last three years the number of developers con...
Microsoft Posts More Protocol Documentation
Microsoft posted 14,000 pages of what it called 'preliminary versions' of technical documentation covering the protocols in Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. The move is Microsoft's latest step since some bright Microsoftee realized the ...
ISO Becomes OOXML's Steward
Against the backdrop of a noisy protest march through downtown Oslo Wednesday by 60 Norwegian software experts - including Opera CTO Haakon Wium Lie - objecting to Norway's Yes vote for Open XML standardization by the International Standards Organization, ISO took...
Google Cultivates an Ecosystem
Google has ripped a page out of Salesforce.com's handbook and has started up an AppExchange-like Solutions Marketplace site to cultivate third-party programs that complement its own widgetry, initially stuff like Google Apps and enterprise search. But Google says ...
Capital World Smell Money in Those Yahoo!s
Well, at least somebody in the Yahoo spectacle is keeping their head. Capital World Investors, Yahoo!'s biggest institutional investor, has doubled its position to 10.1% figuring there must be some money to be made out of the fact that Rupert has abandoned Jerry t...
Virtualization - Sun Fields Sexy Niagara Boxes with x86 Warning Labels
Sun and Fujitsu have unwrapped their first Solaris-based dual-socket UltraSparc T2 Plus servers described as packing the power of 5,000 systems into a single rack and delivering up to three time IBM's Power6 performance in half the space. Oh, and let's not forge...
Google Plays the Platform Game
Monday evening, at a gathering called Campfire One, Google unveiled App Engine, a hosted web application platform that offers web developers free use of Google's mighty infrastructure and all the building blocks that Google uses for its own applications. Amusingly...
Virtualization - AMD To Cut 10%
AMD says it's going to lay off 10% of its workforce by the end of September and take the charge this quarter. It is still trying to figure out how much that'll be. The company, which reports on April 17, also pre-announced its Q1 results and said the revenue numbe...
Desktop Virtualization - HP's "Netbook" Breaks Ranks with Intel
HP has ignored Intel's netbook design - as evinced by the Classmate 2s Intel's rushing to get on the American and European markets - in favor of its own concoction, a Via C7-M-based mini-notebook that, like the Classmate, is theoretically for kids and education bu...
Virtualization - Rich Creek: Intel's Equalizer
There is now something called the Rich Creek 2 platform at Intel that will offer systems builders like New York-based Seneca Data, reportedly its first taker, an Intel mobile motherboard and more flexibility in notebook components, sort of like the top tier has. S...
Virtualization - Intel Sells Off More Assets
Intel is still thinning the herd after its AMD-induced near-death experience and has sold its enterprise and storage optical assets and Connects Cable business for stock to New Mexico-based Emcore Corporation. Emcore previously took over the telecom-related assets...
Jury To Get Reiser Murder Case Soon
The circumstantial evidence case against Linux programmer Hans Reiser, accused of murdering his estranged wife although her body has never been found, looks like it could go to the jury in the next few days after a trial that started November 6 and has suffered th...
Cookies May Crumble
The European Commission may crack down on Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft et al and tell them they can't keep personal search data longer than six months - and even that may be pushing it. The EC's international advisory body, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party,...
Patent Reform Bill Stuck in Committee
The patent reform legislation that companies like Microsoft, Intel, Oracle and Cisco were hoping would reduce litigation and improve patent quality hit a wall in the US Senate just days before it was to go to the floor for debate and a vote this week. Its sponsor ...
Will comScore Prove Prophetic for Google?
Google's paid-clicks in the US, the source of its fortune, showed weak, almost imperceptible growth for the third month in a row, according to comScore, just a couple of days before Google was scheduled to post its Q1 financial results. The tabulator says they wer...
Google & Salesforce Clouds Collide Over Redmond
The widely rumored mating of Salesforce.com and Google Apps has taken place. There is now something called Salesforce for Google Apps; Google's productivity programs have been integrated into Salesforce's CRM suite - so data in one can be moved into the other and ...
Latest Reports from the Microsoft-Yahoo! Front
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! Plays Google Card
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...
Now Yahoo's Doing a Deal with AOL as Microsoft-News Corp Plot Joint
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...
Now Yahoo!'s Doing a Deal with AOL & Microsoft-News Corp Plot Joint Yahoo! Bid: WSJ
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...
Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla
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...
Virtualization - Classmate 2 Unveiled
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 Virtualization Lifecycle Manager Available
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 ...
Court Strikes Down PTO's New Rules
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 Moving Offline
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...
Start-up Turns Virtualization on its Head
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...

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