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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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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: 5,137 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: 13,496 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: 6,922 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: 3,477 | 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: 6,535 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: 2,395 | 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: 3,428 | 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: 4,810 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: 2,248 | 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: 4,789 | 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: 6,503 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: 10,955 Replies: 6 | VMware Buys Thinstall &
Foedus By Maureen O'Gara VMware is buying a little
San Francisco-based
application
virtualization house
called Thinstall on
undisclosed terms to
expand its ability to
provision, deploy and
update the desktop.
VMware observes that
delivering applications
is the single largest
cost of des... Jan. 20, 2008 06:15 PM Reads: 4,850 | 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: 15,172 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: 7,926 Replies: 1 | HP Still Playing Catch Me
If You Can By Maureen O'Gara If you listen to IDC, PCs
were up a solid but still
less-than-expected 15.5%
worldwide in Q4. If you
listen to Gartner the
number was 13.1%. If you
listen to Credit Suisse,
which is a lot more
buoyant, you hear that
the IDC-Gartner results
'were largely at odds
wi... Jan. 18, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 2,733 Replies: 1 | Virtualization Company
Former CEO Gets 21 Months
for Backdating By Maureen O'Gara  Ex-Brocade CEO Greg
Reyes, the first CEO to
be tried and convicted on
backdating charges, was
sentenced to 21 months in
prison and $15 million
fine. It could have been
worse. It could have been
20 years. As it was, the
prosecution asked for
30-33 months in jail, $89... Jan. 18, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 2,824 Replies: 1 | SWsoft Gussies Up To Take
on VMware Virtualization By Maureen O'Gara SWsoft, soon to be
renamed Parallels after
the high-profile widgetry
that lets Macs run
Windows, has traded the
containers it uses in its
Virtuozzo product for a
lightweight hypervisor
made conventional by
VMware, Xen and
Microsoft's Hyper-V in
the first private b... Jan. 15, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 4,943 Replies: 1 | Old Oracle Mafia to Run
Salesforce Unit By Maureen O'Gara  Salesforce.com has hired
Polly Sumner, one of the
old Oracle mafia, as
president, platform,
alliances and services,
responsible for the
technology and marketing
of the company's
Force.com platform.
Sumner was recently
president of global
services for Telcordia,
... Jan. 13, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 4,341 Replies: 1 | Microsoft's Office Chief
To Retire; Replaced by
Macromedia CEO During
Adobe's Acquisition By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft disclosed late
Thursday that Jeff
Raikes, the head of its
Office operation, second
only to Windows in
bringing in revenue, was
retiring and will be
replaced by Stephen Elop,
44, Jupiter Networks'
short-term COO. Before
Jupiter, Elop was
president of wor... Jan. 12, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 9,420 Replies: 2 | Intel & OLPC Split-City By Maureen O'Gara  You have perhaps heard -
given the amount of ink
spilled on the story -
that Intel quit the One
Laptop Per Child board
last week rather than get
thrown off for
badmouthing and competing
against the altruistic
non-profit and its cute
little kid-friendly,
customer-s... Jan. 12, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 6,952 Replies: 1 | Microsoft's Acquisitions
Guy To Leave By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft's acquisitions
guy, corporate VP of
corporate development
Bruce Jaffe, also
responsible for strategic
investments and joint
ventures - stuff like
Microsoft's $6 billion
aQuantitive acquisition
and its $240 million
Facebook investment -
will be leaving th... Jan. 11, 2008 05:00 PM Reads: 6,858 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Spends a Cool
$1.2b on Troubled
Norwegian Search Firm By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft's latest Google
corrective has it buying
Norway's troubled
publicly traded
enterprise data search
firm, Fast Search &
Transfer ASA, for a
lavish $1.2 billion in
cash. The buyout price
represents a 42% premium
over Fast's stock price
last Friday and 48 ti... Jan. 11, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 6,539 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Out to Bloody
VMware & Leave Scars By Maureen O'Gara  It will take months for
this week's fusillade,
the results of
Microsoft's
Virtualization Deployment
Summit in Redmond, to
clear enough to see if
any of the mortars scored
a direct hit because
Microsoft's repeatedly
delayed retort to VMware,
the free, catch-up,
f... Jan. 1, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 11,883 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Plays Grinch,
Tries Stealing VMware's
Xmas By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft stuck a shiny
piece of coal in VMware's
Christmas stocking
Thursday morning when it
sent its competitive -
hithertofore repeatedly
delayed -
hypervisor-based server
virtualization technology
Hyper-V out for a
surprise public beta. The
Hyper-V beta wasn't... Dec. 25, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 8,645 | SWsoft Gathers its Force
for New Virtualization
Sally By Maureen O'Gara  Come 2008 SWsoft, the
sometimes forgotten
900-man Russian
virtualization company,
is going to change its
name to Parallels after
its flagship product,
which lets Mac users run
Windows. It's also
getting itself a new
logo. See, it's going to
be making a play for a... Dec. 25, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 5,812 | SAP Gets Behind VMware
Virtualization By Maureen O'Gara  SAP is going to support
VMware ESX Server in
64-bit Windows and Linux
production environments.
The German software
maker, many of whose
customers have been using
VMware for a while now
anyway, said Wednesday
that it had certified
hardware from Dell,
Fujitsu, HP an... Dec. 25, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 4,855 | Samba Gets Microsoft's
Protocol Docs By Maureen O'Gara  With the European
Commission basically
holding a gun to its
head, Microsoft has
signed a five-year accord
with the Samba Team that
will give the open source
project access to the
documentation for the
Microsoft protocols that
should make Samba fully
interoperable ... Dec. 25, 2007 02:15 PM Reads: 4,772 Replies: 1 | Red Hat CEO Steps Down By Maureen O'Gara  In a surprise move
Thursday Red Hat named
the former COO of Delta
Airlines Jim Whitehurst
president and CEO,
replacing Matthew Szulik
who remains chairman.
Szulik said he was
stepping down after
almost 10 years with the
company because of
serious health issues
w... Dec. 22, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 5,597 Replies: 1 | The Newfangled Holy Grail
of SaaS Has Come to
OpenOffice By Maureen O'Gara  The newfangled Holy Grail
of software-as-a-service
has come to OpenOffice,
the freebie challenger of
Microsoft Office sent
into the wild years ago
by Sun Microsystems to
wreak what havoc it
could. Ulteo, the outfit
started by Mandrakesoft,
now Mandriva, founder
Ga... Dec. 22, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 5,293 Replies: 3 | FTC OKs
Google-DoubleClick Merger By Maureen O'Gara The Federal Trade
Commission this morning
gave Google a Christmas
present and approved its
controversial $3.1
billion acquisition of
DoubleClick over the
objections of competitors
like Microsoft, Yahoo and
AT&T - and the massed
privacy front. The 4-to-1
vote came ... Dec. 21, 2007 02:15 PM Reads: 5,540 Replies: 1 | Novell is Back Losing
Money When This Time Last
Year It Made Money By Maureen O'Gara After suddenly canceling
its earnings release last
week because - come to
find out - the SEC has
been poring over last
year's 10-K and this
year's Q2 10-Q since this
summer, whatever
mysterious 'accounting
matters' provoked the
agency's review just as
suddenly got... Dec. 18, 2007 06:30 AM Reads: 6,467 Replies: 2 | Opera Reopens Browser
War; Charges Microsoft
with Antitrust By Maureen O'Gara Norwegian browser maker
Opera Software ASA has
complained to the
European Commission that
Microsoft is abusing its
dominant position by
tying its Internet
Explorer browser to the
Windows operating system
and hindering
interoperability by not
following accepted Web... Dec. 17, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 6,936 Replies: 1 | Motorola to Be Taken Over
by RIM, HP or Dell: CNBC By Maureen O'Gara  CNBC reported on Monday
at 'Closing Bell' that
Motorola maybe a logical
take over target by Dell,
HP, or Rim, at $21-22 per
share target price.
Motorola CEO Ed Zander's
chair wasn't even cold
yet when the company's
CTO Padmasree Warrior,
with the company for 23
ye... Dec. 11, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 16,896 Replies: 2 | Is a De Facto Standard
Already Forming for
Embedded Virtualization? By Maureen O'Gara The brave new world of
gadgets with limitless
and irritation-limiting
potential depends on
virtualization. It's
going to be impossible to
exploit 3G and WiMAX and
VoIP and Android, for
starters, without
virtualization, not to
mention the other
promised front-end
... Dec. 11, 2007 12:30 AM Reads: 5,069 Replies: 1 | Hell, If They Won't Come
Willingly Then Buy 'em:
Sun By Maureen O'Gara Sun, which has not
exactly rallied the open
source community around
it - for all its belated
overtures - is now
proposing to pay
developers prize money to
work on OpenSolaris,
GlassFish, OpenJDK,
OpenSparc, NetBeans and
OpenOffice. According to
Simon Phipps' blog ... Dec. 9, 2007 11:00 PM Reads: 10,765 Replies: 3 | Alfresco Gets Terribly,
Terribly Social By Maureen O'Gara Alfresco Software, the
open source ECM play, is
now Alfresco, the trendy
open source Social
Computing Platform for
the enterprise. The
content-searching
REST-enabled apotheosis
has been made possible by
Alfresco integrating its
ECM software with the
'happening' We... Dec. 9, 2007 10:00 PM Reads: 10,304 Replies: 2 | Novell Postpones its
Earnings Release By Maureen O'Gara Novell Wednesday morning
suddenly pulled filing
its financial results for
its fourth quarter and
full year hours before a
scheduled conference call
with Wall Street,
needless to say an
uncommon move. Well, it
seems that the SEC has
questions about certain
mysterio... Dec. 9, 2007 08:45 PM Reads: 5,858 | Microsoft Tries Squeezing
into Cinderella's Glass
Slipper By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft, which is often
cast as the evil
stepsister, has advanced
its rival-limiting
designs on One Laptop Per
Child's novel XO machine
to the point that its
so-called 'Unlimited
Potential' people are
openly talking about
running 'limited field
trials' on a XP/O... Dec. 9, 2007 08:45 PM Reads: 5,380 | Sun Close with First
Virtualization Code By Maureen O'Gara Sun says it's got the
first piece of its
proposed xVM
virtualization platform,
the thing it says it's
going to put $2 billion
in R&D into and open
source. It's the xVM Ops
Center, described as a
highly scalable data
center automation tool
for managing
heterogene... Dec. 9, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 5,589 Replies: 1 |
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