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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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Samba Leader Leaves HP,
Moves to Novell By Maureen O'Gara Jeremy Allison, the Samba
leader, has left HP to
join Novell, a move he's
been toying with since HP
sent him to Novell's
BrainShare user
conference last year.
Reluctant to go, Allison
went anyway and says he
was delighted to find a
company so dedicated to
Linux ev... Apr. 28, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 16,175 | Court Hears Motion To
Unseal SCO-IBM Records By Maureen O'Gara On Tuesday afternoon an
hour before the Utah
court presiding over the
great SCO v IBM case
heard the G2-Forbes-CNET
motion to unseal all the
court records in the
case, IBM delivered a
letter to SCO's lawyers
offering to unseal some
stuff provided anything
confiden... Apr. 27, 2005 07:15 AM Reads: 22,356 Replies: 2 | Intel, Take Note: IBM
Will Launch a Dual-core
Opteron BladeCenter By Maureen O'Gara IBM, which was the first
big OEM to back Opteron
two years ago, but has
never subsequently seemed
very enthusiastic about
it, was downright
effusive about it at
AMD's launch party in New
York Thursday night. It
waxed eloquent about the
'strong and powerful
relatio... Apr. 24, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 13,704 | HP Goes with Dual-Core
Opteron Blade Server By Maureen O'Gara If you blinked, you
missed this, but somebody
at HP last week jumped
the gun and prematurely
mounted a web page
indicating that HP would
be selling dual-core
Opteron boxes. Actually
HP won't be able to
deliver the things for
another month. Apr. 24, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 17,350 | IBM Share Price: They're
Blue in Armonk By Maureen O'Gara IBM's stock seems to have
found a bottom since its
fall from grace last
Thursday on the news that
its first quarter came a
cropper. At roughly $74,
it's still down 10 bucks
since then, 20 bucks
since the first of the
year. Apr. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 14,611 | The Great Dual-Core Race
Takes Predictable Turns By Maureen O'Gara On Thursday night at its
dual-core Opteron launch
party, AMD moved up the
schedule on its dual-core
desktop chip to challenge
the Intel entry that
started shipping the
weekend before last.
The AMD chip, meant to
create one-processor
desktops and notebooks,
wasn'... Apr. 24, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 17,401 | SCO Shucks Its Scarlet
Letter By Maureen O'Gara SCO has emerged from
under the threat of
Nasdaq delisting and its
stock symbol will no
longer have to wear the
telltale 'e' indicating
it was on the market's
watch list. Apr. 23, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 16,110 | x64 Windows Imminent By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft is going to
launch its so-called x64
operating systems, the
stuff that support the
Intel and AMD x86 64-bit
extensions, on Monday.
Figure on both the client
and the server, to wit,
Windows Server 2003 x64
Edition and XP
Professional x64 Edition.
Repo... Apr. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 13,432 | HP Changes the Name of
its Linux Unit to Include
Open Source By Maureen O'Gara HP has changed the name
of its Linux operation to
the Open Source & Linux
Organization (OSLO) to
advertise its open source
sympathies, it said. It's
supposed to signify HP's
focus on open source
beyond the Linux
operating system. Martin
Fink will continue to run
the unit. Apr. 22, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 17,719 | Greenplum Harbors Great
Ambitions for Postgres By Maureen O'Gara Although the words
'business intelligence,'
'data warehousing' and
'open source' aren't
usually used in the same
sentence, a San Mateo,
California start-up
called Greenplum is
trying to make an open
source database good
enough for
enterprise-class business
intel... Apr. 22, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 16,863 Replies: 2 | Linuxcare Co-Founder
Joins FSG, SpecOpS By Maureen O'Gara Art Tyde, a co-founder of
Linuxcare, the once
highly entertaining
service start-up
rehabilitated as a sober
ISV, has popped up at the
Free Standards Group
(FSG), the keeper of the
Linux Standard Base, as
CTO. He's supposed to
lead all its technical
initiatives, ... Apr. 22, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 14,496 | Red Hat & MySQL Get
Cozier By Maureen O'Gara Red Hat and MySQL say
they are expanding their
partnership in the name
of optimizing scale-out
solutions for the
enterprise. They're
promising 'significant
new joint initiative' and
pretty much let it go at
that. Apr. 22, 2005 09:15 AM Reads: 13,788 | OSI To Create Caste
System for Open Source
Licenses By Maureen O'Gara The Open Source
Initiative (OSI) wants to
sort through the
multitude of open source
licenses and consign them
to one of three new
castes: 'preferred,
approved or deprecated.'
Brahmins will evidently
be rare. Apr. 22, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 13,811 Replies: 1 | SCO vs IBM: Will SCO
Prevail Despite Itself? By Maureen O'Gara Reports out of Utah say
that IBM - despite all
the money SCO is spending
on its fancy New York
lawyers - won all the
style points at a crucial
hearing Thursday over
whether SCO should be
allowed to file its key
third amended complaint -
the one with the secret
evi... Apr. 22, 2005 04:00 AM Reads: 17,665 Replies: 9 | Court Orders IBM To Give
SCO *ALL* Linux Discovery By Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara writes:
'The federal court in
Utah hearing the $5
billion SCO v IBM case
has told IBM that it has
75 days to turn over to
SCO *ALL* non-public
information relating to
its Linux contributions,
a year-old order IBM has
been trying duck. The
decision i... Apr. 21, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 28,556 Replies: 3 | SCO Loses Money, But Has
$20M Cash - Enough to
Continue Its Suit vs IBM By Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara reports,
referring to The SCO
Group: 'The most loathed
company in the industry
said it had 'successfully
implemented efficiency
and cost reduction
measures that have had a
positive impact on
operations and
contributed to the Unix
business operating ... Apr. 17, 2005 10:15 AM Reads: 13,337 | Apple Unleashes Tiger,
Dreams of Having Longhorn
for Lunch By Maureen O'Gara Apple says it's going to
unleash Tiger, its highly
anticipated Unix-based
Mac OS X 10.4 operating
system upgrade, on
Friday, April 29 at 6PM.
The server version is
said to integrate a
hundred-odd open source
projects and
standards-based software
applications with ... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 21,458 | AMD Loses More Money,
Reports Q1 Loss of $17M By Maureen O'Gara AMD came in Wednesday
with a Q1 loss of $17
million, or four cents a
share, on sales of $1.2
billion, down 1%
year-over-year, and to
balance the unhappy
tidings said that its
loss-making Flash joint
venture with Fujitsu,
Spansion, was going to be
spun off in a $60... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,847 | Thin Client Gamble:
Venture Buyout Firm Buys
into Wyse, Promises Huge
Growth By Maureen O'Gara Garnett & Helfrich
Capital, the venture
buyout firm dedicated to
finding 'broken and
orphaned' businesses
neglected by their
parents, has bought a
controlling stake in Wyse
Technology, the flagging
$175 million-a-year
company, from the Koos
Group in Taiwan for $35... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 13,520 | Cisco Buys Topspin
Communications By Maureen O'Gara 'Five-year-old Infiniband
switch start-up Topspin
Communications Inc has
found the exit ramp,'
reports Maureen O'Gara.
'It's gonna get bought by
Cisco...A sensible enough
solution considering
Topspin CEO Krish
Ramakrishnan used to run
Cisco's Content
Networking Bu... Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,768 | Brand New Linux Distro
Expected To Be a "Solaris
Killer" By Maureen O'Gara A stealth start-up in
Athens, Ohio whose name
is Spliced Networks LLC
is on the threshold of
announcing a new Linux
distribution that its
young CTO John Buswell
describes as 'unlike
anything currently on the
market.' It will
supposedly eliminate
'bloated package
... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 32,137 Replies: 10 | Red Hat Claims Bragging
Rights By Maureen O'Gara In what Red Hat Italy
says is 'one of the most
important migrations to
Linux in the Italian
financial sector,' BPU
Banca, the parent bank of
Banca Populari Unite,
Italy's seventh largest
bank and the first
cooperative credit
banking group, is pulling
out Solaris t... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,046 | Computer Associates
Recruits Chief Marketer By Maureen O'Gara Computer Associates,
which has been hiring in
some new senior folks
lately, has named 30-year
IBM veteran Donald
Friedman as its chief
marketing officer. Joan
Blackwood, who's been
interim head of corporate
marketing, will continue
as senior VP of corporate
market... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 18,165 | What's in Store for
Ingres? By Maureen O'Gara Terry Garnett, the
ex-Oracle, ex-Venrock
half of Garnett &
Helfrich Capital, is
rumoured to want to
'liberate' Ingres, the
database that Computer
Associates, its current
owner, recently open
sourced. According to
what CA's new management
has been saying lately,
... Apr. 11, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,229 Replies: 1 | Schwartz Attacks GPL; Sun
Microsystems' Mention of
"Stewardship" Has People
Thinking of Java By Maureen O'Gara Sun Microsystems
president and COO
Jonathan Schwartz has
slammed the GPL as
predatory economic
imperialism while
keynoting the Open Source
Business Conference and
said Sun would remain
aloof from it. Meantime
Sun has set up a
Community Advisory Board
(CAB) that'... Apr. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 23,092 Replies: 8 | AMD vs Intel Update: AMD
Can't Keep a Secret By Maureen O'Gara It being the tradition in
the microprocessor
business that the first
one out is supposed to
dominate the market, AMD
is reportedly going to
use Opteron's
second-anniversary party
in New York on April 21
to launch its dual-core
Opteron chip, thereby
beating out Int... Apr. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 19,225 Replies: 1 | Linux & Windows: Both
Good Enough, Report
Claims By Maureen O'Gara Most SMBs and enterprise
customers deploying
Windows Server 2003 find
its quality, performance
and reliability equal to
or better than Linux,
according to the Yankee
Groups's latest study,
its Linux-Windows 2005
TCO Comparison Survey.
Yankee, reports Maureen
O'Gar... Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,394 Replies: 12 | New CEO Reinvents CA as
Systems and Security
Management House By Maureen O'Gara CA has created a new
Security Management unit,
reports Maureen O'Gara,
and considered along with
the Storage Management
unit it looks like the
company's new CEO John
Swainson, an IBM import,
sees CA as a systems and
security management
house, she adds. There
are a... Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,839 Replies: 2 | IBM & HP Look Out,
Intel's Hard-Won Fujitsu
Alliance Produces "Open"
Mainframe By Maureen O'Gara 'Fujitsu plans to eat
into IBM mainframes and
high-end IBM and HP Unix
machines as well as
cannibalize its own Sparc
business,' reports
Maureen O'Gara. Its
alliance with Intel bore
fruit Tuesday when it
unveiled a so-called
'mainframe-class open
system' based on t... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,025 | Is Canopy Imploding and
Liquidating Its
Portfolio? By Maureen O'Gara Quest Software, though it
isn't much of a one for
Linux, is rumored to be
on the verge of buying
Vintela Inc, the Utah
outfit financed by the
Canopy Group and
Microsoft. Vintela's
sale, should it come off,
begs the question whether
Canopy is imploding and
liquidat... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,487 Replies: 2 | Software Licenses: Both
CA & OSI Propose a
"Template License" By Maureen O'Gara Eben Moglen's Software
Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
still not having finished
GPL 3, CA has taken its
own Trusted Open Source
License and turned it
into what it calls a
'Template License' with
the aim of coming up with
open source license that
the industry can get
be... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,902 | CA To Buy Concord
Communications For $330M
Cash By Maureen O'Gara Computer Associates is
buying network service
management software
vendor Concord
Communications in a cash
deal valued at $330
million. CA, which has
about $3.3 billion in the
bank, is funding the deal
out of its cash hoard. Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 11,431 | Greenplum Hopes for
Greenfields By Maureen O'Gara A start-up by the name of
Greenplum that's been
flying under the radar
since 2003 is pioneering
the use of open source
databases for
enterprise-class business
intelligence and data
warehousing with a line
of products called
DeepGreen that reportedly
spans a small ... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 8,492 | News in Brief: SCO
Finally Files Delayed
10-K, 10-Q To Follow
April 13 By Maureen O'Gara Last Friday SCO finally
managed to file its 10-K
covering the year ended
last October 31, a step
on its path to
rehabilitating itself
with the Nasdaq, which
has the company on its
delisting watch list. Now
it's got to post its
first-quarter results,
which it's exp... Apr. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 7,258 Replies: 2 | Chris Stone Forced Off
Virtual Iron's Glittery
Advisory Board By Maureen O'Gara Virtual Iron Software
Inc, the virtual
computing platform
start-up in Acton,
Massachusetts, finds
itself shy one of its
anticipated board of
advisors. Ex-Novell
vice-chairman, the guy
credited with Novell's
purchase of SuSE and
Ximian, was reportedly
forced off ... Apr. 6, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 10,918 Replies: 1 | AMD vs Intel: "My
Dual-Core's Better Than
Your Dual Core" By Maureen O'Gara AMD figures its
dual-cores will perform
at least 20% better than
Intel's dual-cores
because they're better
integrated. See, like
most married people,
Intel's Smithfield-style
dual-cores, which are
more like two processors
inhabiting the same
package, don't really ... Apr. 5, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 8,482 | Pioneer of Linux Use at
Credit Suisse First
Boston Named to OSDL
Board By Maureen O'Gara The Open Source
Development Labs (OSDL)
has named Frank Fanzilli,
the former global CIO of
Credit Suisse First
Boston (CSFB) and an
ex-IBMer, to its board.
He retired in 2002 after
pioneering the use of
Linux at CSFB, which
deployed one of first
Linux systems on W... Apr. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 8,476 Replies: 1 | FFII Takes Over
NoSoftwarePatents.com By Maureen O'Gara The Foundation for a Free
Information
Infrastructure (FFII) is
going to take over the
NoSoftwarePatents.com
campaign to prevent the
spread of American-style
patents to Europe from
its founder Florian
Mueller so he can get
back to work developing a
games project af... Apr. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 7,176 | PHP Goes Into Space: NASA
To Use Zend By Maureen O'Gara Zend Technologies, the
PHP company, says that
Lockheed Martin is going
to use Zend Studio 4 to
develop an
object-oriented
code-generation framework
for NASA space
exploration. Apr. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,001 Replies: 2 | Lenovo Takes On US
Partners By Maureen O'Gara IBM's new Chinese
partner, the Lenovo
Group, has sold off
pieces of itself worth
$350 million to three US
equity firm the Texas
Pacific Group (TPG),
General Atlantic LLC (GA)
and Newbridge Capital
LLC. Apr. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 9,719 |
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