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Maureen O'Gara
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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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Virtualization - Intel
Lifts Tukwila's Skirt,
Shows Some Ankle By Maureen O'Gara Even though the words
bragging and Itanium have
never seemed to belong in
the same sentence, Intel
has been bragging about
its next-generation 65nm
Itanium chip, Tukwila,
due to bow towards the
end of the year. It seems
it's managed to stuff
more transistors on to
... Feb. 11, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,267 | Canonical Uses Windows To
Get on More PCs By Maureen O'Gara Taking a page from its
friend Linspire's hymnal,
Canonical, the brains
behind Ubuntu, has
started offering its
flock proprietary
Parallels widgetry so it
can run Linux and Windows
on the same desktop
without rebooting. It is
Canonical's first
dalliance with a
pr... Feb. 11, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 1,929 | Ingres and Pentaho Team,
While MySQL Signs First
Authorized US Hosting
Partner and SAP is
Certified on Red Hat on
Mainframes By Maureen O'Gara Ingres, the open source
database, and Pentaho,
the open source business
intelligence alternative,
have partnered up. They
say they're going to
integrate key product
lines and together chase
the BI market, saying
it's hot. LogicWorks has
become MySQL's first
author... Feb. 11, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 2,242 | Misys Leads Healthcare
into Open Source By Maureen O'Gara Misys says it's going to
make good on its promise
to open source components
of its proprietary
Connect Healthcare
solution at the Southern
California Linux Expo in
Los Angeles today. It
expects new products and
cheaper prices out of the
exercise and maybe even
imp... Feb. 11, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 2,330 | Vista SP1 Apparently
Swaps Kernel By Maureen O'Gara Both Windows Server 2008
and the Vista Service
Pack 1 were released to
manufacturing Monday with
a perspective
availability date of
sometime in March. Called
a bug-fixer almost
universally, APCMag says
that, based on version
and build number, the
Service Pack swap... Feb. 11, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 2,585 | Cisco Sounds Sour
Bellwether Note But
Believes 'We Are Talking
Ourselves into This
Slowdown' By Maureen O'Gara Coming off what turned
out to be a strong fiscal
second quarter, when it
met its forecasts on the
nose, Cisco is only
projecting a growth rate
of 10% (plus or minus 1%)
for the 'next few
months,' disappointing
Wall Street, which was
hoping for a more buoyant
projection of 13%-17%. Feb. 11, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 959 | University of Wisconsin
Sues Intel & Core 2 Duo
Over Patent By Maureen O'Gara Now it's being sued by
the University of
Wisconsin at Madison for
patent infringement. The
school's patent
management organization,
the Wisconsin Alumni
Research Foundation
(WARF), the world's first
university-based
technology transfer
office, established in
192... Feb. 11, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 1,694 | Google Slashes Postini
Prices By Maureen O'Gara Google, which looks like
it will be teaching
rivals like Symantec to
mutter words like
'predatory pricing,' has
slashed prices on the
widgetry it got from its
$625 million Postini
acquisition last July and
is using the new price
points like a billy club
to force u... Feb. 11, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 1,515 | Virtualization - Screw
the Economy: Intel By Maureen O'Gara With the economy gripped
by fears of recession,
nobody knowing how deep
this mortgage crisis
thing is going to run and
the American consumer
snapping his pocketbook
shut, it seems a heck of
a time to be trying to
invent a new category of
consumer widgets. But
Inte... Feb. 11, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 1,213 | AOL To Be Cut in Two By Maureen O'Gara Time Warner's new CEO
Jeff Bewkes said
Wednesday that AOL is
being split in two. Its
web portal and
advertising business will
be separated from its
nose-diving Internet
access business, the
operation that made AOL
into a household word and
led Time Warner into one... Feb. 11, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 1,644 | Red Hat Hires Ex-BEA Guy
To Run Japan By Maureen O'Gara Red Hat has hired the
senior managing director
of BEA Japan Yuji
Hirokawa as president of
Red Hat Japan, a move it
must expect will heighten
its JBoss presence in the
market. Hirokawa is also
conveniently a Sun
veteran and did a 22-year
stint with Hitachi and
Hita... Feb. 11, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 1,854 Replies: 1 | Wall Street Journal Says
Yahoo! Will Reject
Microsoft's Offer,
Seeking $57BN By Maureen O'Gara Quoting an unidentified
source, the Wall Street
Journal is now saying
that Yahoo intends
sending Microsoft a
letter Monday rejecting
its $44.6 billion offer
as 'massively
undervaluing' the company
and ignoring the risk to
Yahoo if the regulators
ultimately turn th... Feb. 9, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 6,639 Replies: 1 | Yahoo! Remains Undecided
Over the Weekend By Maureen O'Gara Officially Yahoo! won't
even confirm the phone
call but according to
what has leaked to the
press, the board is
supposed to meet again
face-to-face all day
Wednesday, ironically -
and perhaps prophetically
- the day before
Valentine's Day.
Meanwhile, indulging
p... Feb. 8, 2008 10:45 PM Reads: 5,428 Replies: 1 | Google Itching To Play
Spoiler on Microsoft's
Yahoo! Dinner By Maureen O'Gara  It's unlikely, however,
that Google, the target
of the proposed merger,
can do much of anything
other than raise dust -
like its move over the
weekend to raise the
specter of Microsoft's
possible monopolization
of the Internet and its
illegal leverage into
'new, a... Feb. 8, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 7,446 | How Utterly Eric! By Maureen O'Gara  Having sat on the board
since it was started 10
years ago, Google CEO
Eric Schmidt is now going
to chair the New America
Foundation, a
well-funded, supposedly
non-partisan Washington
think tank (really is
anything in Washington
non-partisan?). One might
imagine he... Feb. 8, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 3,403 Replies: 1 | Adobe Names CTO By Maureen O'Gara Adobe has named Kevin
Lynch, a guy from the
Macromedia side of the
house, CTO, a chair last
warmed by John Warnock.
Lynch was previously
chief software architect
and senior VP of the
company's platform
business. His attention
is now supposed to focus
on AIR, Flex ... Feb. 8, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 7,491 | No Salvation for Yahoo!
from News Corp. By Maureen O'Gara News Corp. CEO Rupert
Murdoch, who knows a
thing or two about
hostile takeovers and
last year proposed
merging his MySpace
property with Yahoo, told
Wall Street Monday that
he's not interested in
Yahoo! and even less
interested in AOL. Ditto
NBC Universal and
Comcast. Feb. 8, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 5,269 Replies: 1 | Microsoft-Yahoo! -
Yahoo! Board Reportedly
Set To Convene Today By Maureen O'Gara  The Yahoo! Board is
supposed to convene today
to thrash out whether or
not to accept Microsoft's
$44.6 billion acquisition
offer, try to get
Microsoft to sweeten the
pot, or resist and hammer
out an outsourcing deal
with Google, according to
TechCrunch. Based on wha... Feb. 8, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 5,745 Replies: 1 | Sun Will Get To Hum
'Maria' By Maureen O'Gara Remember two odd years
ago when Oracle went and
bought InnoDB, the source
of MySQL's crucial
storage engine, and there
for a heart-stopping
minute or two it looked
like MySQL was toast?
Well, MySQL founder Monty
Widenius says the company
is moving along toward
rep... Feb. 4, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 4,001 | Does That Mean Nokia
Won't Be Doing a Google
Phone? By Maureen O'Gara Nokia is buying
Trolltech, the publicly
traded Norwegian open
source ISV, for roughly
$153 million cash. Gee,
and Trolltech just joined
the LiMo Foundation, the
anti-Nokia/anti-Microsoft
mobile consortium that's
building a
middleware-focused Linux
handset platform... Feb. 4, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 10,421 Replies: 1 | Microsoft's Babysitters
To Work Overtime By Maureen O'Gara The court charged with
policing Microsoft's 2002
antitrust settlement with
the US government has
extended its oversight of
the company until
November of 2009, an
additional two years.
Most of the watchdogs
were supposed to be
called off this past
November. However... Feb. 4, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 2,360 | Black Duck's Code Center
Close to Hatching By Maureen O'Gara Under a bit a pressure
now that HP has open
sourced its own IP
identification system as
FOSSology, Black Duck
says it will roll out a
thing called Code Center
by the end of the
quarter. It's described
as a software component
selection, approval, and
tracking syste... Feb. 4, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 2,531 | Google Blinks By Maureen O'Gara Google doesn't like the
idea of Microsoft buying
Yahoo any more than
Microsoft likes the idea
of Google buying
DoubleClick. Today in a
blog Google general
counsel David Drummond
said Microsoft?'s $44.6
billion hostile bid for
Yahoo 'raises troubling
questions.' 'T... Feb. 4, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 6,512 Replies: 1 | Java and SOA
Consolidation Comes to
Covalent By Maureen O'Gara Besides commercial Apache
support, Covalent, whose
founders helped develop
the hysterically
successful Apache HTTP
Web Server, also sell
enterprise subscription
to its own Enterprise
Ready Server, Hyperic HQ
monitoring, Terracotta
Java clustering and the
WSO2 Web ... Feb. 2, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 6,229 Replies: 2 | VMware Updates its
Desktop Virtualization
Strategy Amid the Carnage
on Wall Street By Maureen O'Gara In the midst of its Wall
Street meltdown VMware
went gold with its new
Virtual Desktop Manager
2, the connection broker
widgetry based on its
acquisition of UK-based
Propero. The thing's been
in beta for the last few
months. Desktops didn't
feature in the confusing... Feb. 1, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 4,595 Replies: 1 | Motorola May Exit Cell
Phones; Contemplates
Sell-Off By Maureen O'Gara Motorola Thursday night
confirmed rumors that it
might pull out of cell
phones, the
now-ubiquitous device
that it invented. It put
out a statement saying it
was 'exploring the
structural and strategic
realignment of its
business' and that its
alternatives include ... Feb. 1, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 5,970 | IBM Which Invented
Virtualization Takes a
Swipe at VMware By Maureen O'Gara IBM, which invented
virtualization back in
'ye ole mainframe days,'
has waded into the
current discussion with
entry-level
virtualization for its
Power6-based, usually
Unix-run, System p
servers and BladeCenter
blades called PowerVM
Express. Now, PowerVM,
you sh... Feb. 1, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 6,482 Replies: 1 | Mighty Google Misses By Maureen O'Gara Google, which does not
give guidance, missed
both Wall Street's top
and bottom expectations
for its December quarter
by a hair and the punters
turned vicious pounding
it down around 50 bucks
after-hours. Consensus
demanded non-GAAP
earnings of $4.44 on
revenues of... Feb. 1, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 18,033 Replies: 2 | Although Yahoo! Looks
Pretty Boxed In by
Microsoft, It Could Try
For More Money By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft this morning
made a $44.6 billion
hostile bid for the
floundering Yahoo,
striking at a point when
it has become evident to
all and sundry that Yahoo
doesn't have a pray of
turning things around on
its own let alone getting
competitive. Yahoo's
first offi... Feb. 1, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 8,758 Replies: 1 | Moto May Exit Phones By Maureen O'Gara Motorola Thursday night
confirmed rumors that it
might pull out of cell
phones, the
now-ubiquitous device
that it invented. It put
out a statement saying it
was 'exploring the
structural and strategic
realignment of its
business' and that its
alternatives include ... Feb. 1, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 3,718 | Microsoft Will Beat
VMware and Own
Cross-Chassis
Virtualization Market By Maureen O'Gara Long about 2009, when -
make note - Microsoft is
really supposed to have
Windows 7, the Vista rev,
penciled in, its vaunted,
if still unreleased,
Hyper-V hypervisor is
supposed to cease being
an add-on and get sucked
up into Windows Server.
At that point Microsoft
... Jan. 31, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 7,475 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Puts Floor
Under Tech - At Least for
the Moment By Maureen O'Gara Forget the fact that
Microsoft came in
Thursday with
record-breaking fiscal Q2
earnings, up 92%, to $4.7
billion, or 50 cents a
share, on revenues, up
30%, to $16.37 billion
and an operating income
of $6.48 billion, the
giant leaps are skewed
because of an easy
... Jan. 29, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 2,983 | VMware Crashes and Burns
on Wall Street, Down 26%
After Hours By Maureen O'Gara VMware failed to hit Wall
Street's consensus
estimates when it
reported its Q4 numbers
Monday evening and the
stock, already hammered
down from its highs, lost
$22 - more than 26% of
its stock price - in
after-hours trading. The
virtualization leader,
now a $1.3BN... Jan. 28, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 4,509 | Sun Backs Postgres House
Right After MySQL Buy By Maureen O'Gara  The ink was still drying
on Sun's billion-dollar
deal to buy the webby,
low-end open source
database house MySQL when
Sun turned around and put
money in the high-end
open source Postgres
company Greenplum,
evidently what Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz meant
last week w... Jan. 25, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 5,969 Replies: 1 | eBay's Meg Whitman
Reported on Her Way Out By Maureen O'Gara eBay CEO Meg Whitman,
after 10 years running
the company, is planning
to retire, according to
the Wall Street Journal,
which pegs John Donahoe,
president of eBay's
auction business, for her
likely replacement. Jan. 22, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 2,446 | Eclipse Kicks Off Key SOA
Project By Maureen O'Gara Eclipse is trying to
develop an open source
Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
framework based on
technology contributed by
Deutsche Post World Net.
Nicknamed Swordfish, the
Eclipse project is meant
to result in widgetry
used in developing and
deploying a wide sw... Jan. 22, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 5,693 | Intel Tanks; Blames
Television in Part By Maureen O'Gara Intel's Q4 results, as
good as they were, failed
to impress a panicky 'the
sky is falling' stock
market and Intel's light
Q1 forecast, which the
company called 'a little
bit cautious' on the US
economy, sent the stock
and the market down
Wednesday, erasing
billion... Jan. 22, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 7,552 Replies: 1 | Oracle-BEA Combination Is
a Stronger SOA
Alternative to Microsoft
and .NET By Maureen O'Gara  It said this morning that
it had reached a
compromise price with BEA
and that the acquisition
would go through after
all, having been resisted
by BEA, demanded by BEA's
biggest stockholder, the
dangerous Carl Icahn, and
walked away from by
Oracle. Oracle is going
... Jan. 21, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 13,216 Replies: 6 | Sun Buys MySQL, Gets
Oracle for an Enemy By Maureen O'Gara  Sun, Oracle's sometimes
best friend, turned into
an Oracle competitor this
morning when it said it
was buying MySQL, the
open source database
that's part of the famous
LAMP stack. It's paying a
billion dollars. MySQL
was supposed to go public
this year but picked th... Jan. 20, 2008 06:00 PM Reads: 17,795 Replies: 1 | Oracle BEA - TIBCO Next? By Maureen O'Gara With BEA gone to Oracle,
the speculators have
turned to TIBCO Software,
figuring the smaller
middleware company is
likely to be swallowed by
some bigger fish. Its
stock shot up better than
11% on the news that
Oracle was buying BEA.
Its market cap is $1.4
billion. Jan. 19, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 9,623 Replies: 1 |
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