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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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Washington Shoots Down
3Com Acquisition Deal By Maureen O'Gara  Washington gagged at the
thought of Huawei
Technologies Co., China's
largest
telecommunications
equipment maker and
reportedly closely tied
to China's military,
owning a minority stake
in 3Com and so 3Com's
deal to get bought for
$2.2 billion cash and
taken priv... Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM Reads: 4,370 Replies: 1 | EC Threats Pry Microsoft
Clam Open By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft today attempted
to exorcize the
interoperability bogeymen
that have haunted it
since it was first
discovered to be using
secret APIs 20 years ago,
bogeymen that now quote
European antitrust law at
it and carry writs from
the Court of First
Instance in Lu... Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM Reads: 9,797 Replies: 2 | German CIA Paid Millions
for Data Stolen from a
Bank in a Neighboring
Country By Maureen O'Gara  Deutsche Post CEO Klaus
Zumwinkel, the head of
Europe's largest postal
service and a powerful
member of the
establishment, resigned
last Friday - reportedly
not willingly but under
pressure from the
government - after the
German authorities
started investigating h... Feb. 20, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 3,390 | Microsoft Reportedly
Suiting Up for Proxy
Battle for Yahoo! By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft and Yahoo are
not negotiating a deal
behind the scenes,
according to what Bill
Gates told the AP
yesterday morning, 18
days after Microsoft made
its rejected $31-a-share
offer for the company.
And it appears that
Microsoft, whose stock
has been down 12.8... Feb. 20, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 4,658 Replies: 1 | Red Hat To Strike Back at
Oracle By Maureen O'Gara  Remember how Oracle got
ticked off that Red Hat
wound up buying JBoss?
And remember how Oracle
poached Red Hat's
operating system to sell
as Oracle's own? Well,
what goes around comes
around. Red Hat is now
setting out to attack
Oracle through its
pending takeover... Feb. 20, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 5,159 | Watch Out For WSO2! By Maureen O'Gara  WSO2 is the ambitious
two-year-old Sri Lanka
start-up that's writing a
complete open source
middleware platform for
Web Services on Intel
Capital's nickel
expecting it to become
the standard. It says
it's the same as a
comprehensive SOA
platform. It is looking
a... Feb. 20, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 27,659 Replies: 3 | Saleforce.com for Sale to
Oracle at $75 a Share! By Maureen O'Gara  The Silicon Valley
Watcher blog claims to
have it on good authority
that that shrine to
software-as-a-service
Salesforce.com has
approached Oracle looking
to get bought for $75 a
share, something like $9
billion, roughly a 50%
premium. And if such a
deal were done... Feb. 20, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 4,406 Replies: 2 | Hurd Joins Murdoch's
Board with a Nice View of
Yahoo! from Both Sides By Maureen O'Gara  HP CEO Mark Hurd has
joined the board of
directors at Rupert
Murdoch's News Corp.
media conglomerate, which
should give him a nice
view of any possible
Microsoft-avoiding tie-up
between News Corp. and
Yahoo considering HP's
printer chief Vyomesh
Joshi sits on Yaho... Feb. 18, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 3,566 Replies: 1 | SCO's Baaaaack With $100m
To Pursue Its Case
Against Linux By Maureen O'Gara  SCO's back from the grave
with a doozy of a
reorganization plan and
$100 million to spend
pursuing its legal case
against Linux. This is
top-drawer
coin-of-the-realm kind of
money put together from
the deep-pockets of the
Middle East by Stephen
Norris, the co-foun... Feb. 16, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 10,127 Replies: 7 | Novell Buys Open Source
Web 2.0 Company SiteScape By Maureen O'Gara  Novell has acquired
SiteScape, an open
source, Web 2.0-style
team collaboration
operation that started
the ICEcore open source
collaboration project and
whose 12-year-old taproot
goes back to that Google-
that-might-have-been,
AltaVista. Terms were not
disclosed. S... Feb. 16, 2008 05:45 PM Reads: 3,304 | Red Hat Gooses JBoss By Maureen O'Gara  So it's kicking off an
'Enterprise Acceleration'
initiative. It means to
add products to its
middleware portfolio,
sponsor new open source
projects, grow its
partner ecosystem, and
offer new
enterprise-class
performance and
interoperability
resources. It also me... Feb. 16, 2008 05:45 PM Reads: 3,425 | Is Rupert Murdoch
Yahoo!'s White Knight? By Maureen O'Gara The media is all atwitter
at the news that Yahoo!
is now seeking a rabbit
hole in Rupert Murdoch's
patch rather than get
bought by Microsoft - at
least not for the ungodly
sum of $44.6 billion
currently on the table.
What started on the
Silicon Alley Insider and
T... Feb. 16, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 2,846 | Oracle BEA and Carl
Icahn's Magic Touch By Maureen O'Gara Then suddenly at the
beginning of December -
after canceling a meeting
at Icahn's offices in New
York - BEA and Oracle are
each marking up a draft
merger agreement without
any sweetened price being
agreed - or even extended
- and then without so
much as a by your le... Feb. 16, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,965 | 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: 1,169 | Virtualization - IBM
Pushes Cloud to China, EU By Maureen O'Gara IBM intends to set up a
Cloud Computing Center in
Wuxi, China so dozens of
emerging Chinese software
companies can tap into a
virtual computing
environment to support
their development. It
appears to be a three-way
deal between IBM, Wuxi
Tai Lake Industry
Investme... Feb. 11, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,276 | 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: 1,798 | 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: 2,049 | 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: 2,111 | 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: 2,410 | 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: 853 | 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: 1,567 | 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: 1,339 | 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: 1,108 | 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: 1,518 | 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: 1,633 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: 4,830 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: 4,499 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: 5,933 | 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: 3,019 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: 5,460 | 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: 4,322 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: 4,405 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: 3,382 | 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: 8,284 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: 2,169 | 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: 2,232 | 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: 5,630 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: 5,231 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: 3,920 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: 5,431 |
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