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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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Is Motorola the Next Sun?
Thanks to Ed Zander By Maureen O'Gara  Since Ed Zander led Sun
into the valley of the
shadow of death back,
what? over five years ago
now, it has never
recovered. And there's a
good chance the same
thing may happen to
Motorola. With a year
left to run on his
contract, Zander quit
yesterday and clearly ... Dec. 3, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 15,807 Replies: 1 | T3 Sues IBM To Break its
Mainframe Monopoly By Maureen O'Gara Its 47-page suit filed in
district court in New
York the other day says
that since IBM's consent
decree with the United
States government was
phased out in 2001 IBM
has been systemically
squeezing out any
competition to its
mainframe monopoly and
that it has reneg... Dec. 1, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 10,207 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Invests in PSI,
That Thorn in IBM's Side By Maureen O'Gara See, IBM refuses to allow
z/OS to run on PSI's Open
Mainframes and so PSI is
suing IBM for antitrust,
hitting it with both
barrels of the Sherman
and Clinton Antitrust
Acts in a plethora of
monopoly charges that
include tying the z/OS
software to mainframe
hardwar... Dec. 1, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 6,562 Replies: 1 | Python Creator Guido van
Rossum to Present the
Next-Generation Python
3000 By Maureen O'Gara  Python, the open source
programming language that
sees itself as an
alternative to Java and
brags about being used at
Google, Industrial Light
& Magic and NASA, will be
having its PyCon user
conference March 14-16 at
the Crowne Plaza Chicago
O'Hare Hotel. Python
c... Nov. 29, 2007 11:30 AM Reads: 7,334 Replies: 2 | Abu Dhabi Buys 8.1% of
AMD By Maureen O'Gara You may perhaps have
heard that AMD has been
cultivating some, umm,
rather spooky, if not
inappropriate, friends
and that the government
of Abu Dhabi, part of the
United Arab Emirates
(UAE), the old Pirate
Coast, has taken an 8.1%
piece of the company. AMD
gets $6... Nov. 26, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 4,603 | IBM & HP Squabble over
Blade Virtualization By Maureen O'Gara IBM - already ticked that
it's lost the blade
server lead to HP - has
been taking potshots at
its rival with some I/O
virtualization widgetry
called BladeCenter Open
Fabric Manager that it
claims can manage 100
chassis from a single
management log-in at no
extra c... Nov. 23, 2007 04:30 AM Reads: 5,376 | IBM's Got its Head in the
Clouds By Maureen O'Gara Reminding people of how
its backing was the
making of Linux, IBM, to
no one's surprise, has
thrown its support behind
cloud computing, that
delicious nexus of every
chi-chi buzzword
technology currently in
vogue: Web 2.0, rich
Internet applications,
software-as-a-... Nov. 21, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 17,110 | IBM Buys Cognos, Its
Largest Acquisition Ever By Maureen O'Gara Cognos has been begging
to be harvested for ever
so long and Monday
morning IBM Software
plucked it from the tree
and put it in its basket.
IBM is paying $58
dollars-a-share cash, a
total of $5 billion
American greenbacks for
the Canadian BI company,
expecting it ... Nov. 21, 2007 08:15 AM Reads: 7,011 | VMware Returns Oracle's
Virtualization Fire By Maureen O'Gara Swearing that it wasn't
just reacting to Oracle
breathing fire in its
direction and claiming
that it had a notion that
Oracle would roll into
the virtualization market
Monday, however tepidly,
and so scheduled this
announcement for Tuesday,
VMware pushed out a
pub... Nov. 20, 2007 03:00 AM Reads: 5,657 Replies: 1 | Virtualization Graduated
to Being an Everybody's
Gotta-Have-One Checkbox
Item By Maureen O'Gara This being the week that
virtualization graduated
to being an everybody's-g
otta-have-one checkbox
item, Sun rolled up to
Oracle OpenWorld
festivities, where Oracle
had just unveiled the
Xen-based Oracle VM, with
its own free young open
source Xen-based xVM
program... Nov. 20, 2007 12:00 AM Reads: 10,172 Replies: 2 | Google's Android
Threatens To Fork Java By Maureen O'Gara Looks like Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz should
have waited for his boys
to give Google's Android
spec the once over before
endorsing the thing last
week expecting Java to
get a 'massive
endorsement' out of it.
Oh, Java gets a 'massive
endorsement' all right;
it's ju... Nov. 19, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 16,425 Replies: 2 | Google Puts $10m Bounty
on Android Development By Maureen O'Gara Google, as promised, put
the Android SDK out in
early access - along with
a $10 million pot for the
best apps written for its
open Android mobile
platform by third-party
developers. It said the
platform would be open
and it's going about
proving it. It also needs
... Nov. 19, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 13,987 Replies: 2 | BEA Didn't Exactly
Convince Wall Street That
It's Worth the $21 a
Share By Maureen O'Gara The WebLogic
Communication Platform
also reportedly delivered
its strongest quarter
ever. BEA has seeded
WebLogic Server
Virtualization Edition in
key accounts and says it
got referenceable
results. These products,
along with Project
Genesis for the next
generat... Nov. 19, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 6,540 Replies: 1 | SAP's TomorrowNow Looking
Like Yesterday's Toast By Maureen O'Gara The CEO and other
unidentified, unnumbered
senior managers of
TomorrowNow - the
third-party SAP support
subsidiary that Oracle
has accused of hacking
into its systems and
lifting its proprietary
software and IP wholesale
in a rip snorting federal
suit currently pe... Nov. 17, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 5,765 Replies: 1 | Sun's Voice of Reason
Silenced By Maureen O'Gara  Former Sun VP of global
information systems strat
egy-turned-consultant
Larry Singer told at CIO
conference in California
the other day that he
left Sun in March because
it's overemphasizing open
source when it should be
concentrating of
generating revenues.
Accord... Nov. 11, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 8,083 Replies: 2 | Dojo Hits 1.0 By Maureen O'Gara The three-year-old Dojo
Foundation has put out
version 1.0 of Dojo, an
open source JavaScript
toolkit for AJAX
development meant for
building rich Web 2.0
applications without
proprietary plug-ins or
single-vendor solutions.
The widgetry makes use of
Google Gears,... Nov. 9, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 23,640 Replies: 1 | Egenera Signs First
Virtualization 2.0
Partner By Maureen O'Gara Egenera, which claims
it's the archetype
Virtualization 2.0
company to VMware's
Virtualization 1.0 - and
is going put its PAN
Manager software on other
people's hardware to
prove it - has convinced
Fujitsu Siemens, which
OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame
servers, to put P... Nov. 9, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 12,117 Replies: 1 | Red Hat Pits Itself
Against VMware By Maureen O'Gara Watching VMware stock and
its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with
envyWatching VMware stock
and its market cap spike
since it IPO'd must have
had Red Hat positively
pea green with envy - so
green in fact that it's
gonna ... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 14,255 Replies: 1 | ORACLE BEA - BEA Gives
Icahn a Hall Pass to the
Holy of Holies By Maureen O'Gara In an unusual move, BEA
says it's giving activist
stockholder Carl Icahn
confidential information
that it can't give other
people 'cause it's, well,
confidential and is
supposed to prove to him
that the company is worth
more than the $17 a share
($6.7 billion) that ... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,768 Replies: 1 | Sun's Revenues Stagnate By Maureen O'Gara Sun earned $89 million,
three cents a share, on
revenues of $3.22 billion
in the September quarter,
a better showing than
this time last year when
it lost $56 million, or
two cents a share. It
attributed the results to
high-end servers and its
identity management
... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 5,790 Replies: 1 | His Lawyer Prays Reiser
Won't Testify at His
Murder Trial By Maureen O'Gara Hans Reiser, the Linux
file system creator on
trial in California for
the alleged murder of his
missing wife, is proving
to be a handful for his
own lawyer William
DuBois. Having reportedly
memorized the 9,000 pages
of discovery, Reiser has
been second-guessing
ev... Nov. 9, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 17,565 | Microsoft & Novell Extend
Hated Pact By Maureen O'Gara The infamous
Microsoft-Novell
interoperability/patent
protection deal that
FOSSers love to hate just
passed its first birthday
and, bragging that it's
exceeded their original
business targets, the
pair has extended the
arrangement. They're
going to create a
cros... Nov. 9, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 9,852 Replies: 1 | If VMware Is
"Virtualization 1.0" Then
Who Is the Avatar Of
"Virtualization 2.0"? By Maureen O'Gara Well, Egenera - which has
no market cap at all
because it hasn't gone
public yet - claims it
is. IDC, which coined the
term, defines
'Virtualization 2.0' as
the next step beyond
server virtualization
replete with faster
provisioning, high
availability, disaster
... Nov. 8, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 10,789 Replies: 2 | Virtual Iron Hires Sales
Hot-Shots To Run the
Company By Maureen O'Gara Virtual Iron Software,
VMware's often forgotten
rival, has hired a couple
of ex-EMC guys of all
people to run the
company. Ed Walsh, who
ran EMC's Information
Management Software Group
after EMC acquired him
along with Avamar
Technology Inc late last
year, is now ... Nov. 7, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 6,421 Replies: 1 | Novell Drops $100m Claim
Against SCO By Maureen O'Gara At a court hearing
Tuesday Novell surprised
a lot of people and
withdrew its claim that
SCO damaged it to the
tune of $100 million by
reneging on a deal
supposedly assigning its
Unix IP to UnitedLinux,
the failed Linux
consortium, in 2002.
Novell - or rather its
... Nov. 7, 2007 07:15 AM Reads: 9,196 Replies: 19 | Google Gang Unveils
"gPhone" Platform,
Android By Maureen O'Gara Google made its first
public move today to put
its brand on the mobile
sector, announcing an
Open Handset Alliance of
33 partner companies
committed to advancing an
open source platform
called Android. Google's
partners, gathered
apparently over the last
year, inc... Nov. 6, 2007 03:15 AM Reads: 13,873 Replies: 2 | Dell No Longer Delinquent By Maureen O'Gara Dell finally filed its
long-overdue financial
statements with the SEC
on Tuesday, restating
fiscal 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006 and the first
quarter of 2007 and
reducing its cumulative
earnings by $92 million
or three cents a share -
less than 1% of its total
earnings ... Nov. 4, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 4,462 | gPhone Close, Journal
Says, Spurs Run-Up in
Stock By Maureen O'Gara Google is supposed to be
inching closer to
unveiling its fabled
'Gphone,' according to
the Wall Street Journal
Tuesday. The paper says
that in the next couple
of weeks Google should
trot out 'advanced
software and services
that would allow handset
markers to bring... Nov. 2, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 11,132 Replies: 1 | Sun Sues NetApp - Twice -
in What Promises To Be a
Bitter Open Source Brawl By Maureen O'Gara Sun countersued NetApp
last Thursday in an
action that NetApp
founder Dave Hitz
describes on his blog as
seeking a permanent
injunction 'to remove
almost all of our
products from the
marketplace' and 'make
NetApp employees wonder
'Do I still have a job?'
and cus... Nov. 2, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 9,347 Replies: 1 | Mandriva Bitches to
Ballmer about Microsoft
Playing Hardball By Maureen O'Gara  It seems that Microsoft
has persuaded the
Nigerian government to
switch out the 17,000
copies of Mandriva Linux
it ordered under a pilot
project of Intel
Classmate PCs for its
schools and substitute
Windows instead.
Mandriva's still going to
get paid but the CEO ... Nov. 2, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 6,618 Replies: 1 | ORACLE BEA - At its Peril
BEA Snubs Oracle's
Ultimatum By Maureen O'Gara BEA said it wanted $21 a
share and ignored the
Sunday night deadline
that Oracle put on its
$17-a-share offer. Oracle
took the offer off the
table. BEA's biggest
stockholder, activist
Carl Icahn, has
threatened a proxy fight
and claims the BEA board
of directors p... Nov. 2, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,120 Replies: 1 | GPL Escapes Legal
Scrutiny By Maureen O'Gara Busybox is a lightweight
set of standard Unix
utilities used in
embedded systems and
Multimedia was only
making the executable
version of the firmware
that it created using
Busybox available, not
the source code. Monsoon
joined in the SFLC
announcement and had its... Nov. 1, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 5,131 | SCO Files for Bankruptcy
Protection By Maureen O'Gara It was an idea that the
company, which has maybe
$14.8 million in the bank
and debts of $7.5
million, had been kicking
around for at least a
week after it was
advanced by its fancy New
York lawyers Boies
Schiller as a way to
escape the disaster they
were sure woul... Sep. 10, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 7,272 Replies: 6 | SCO Heads to Court By Maureen O'Gara  There'll be no running
off to Denver to save the
day for SCO. It had asked
the Utah district court
hearing its case against
Novell to let it appeal
the court's summary
judgment finding that
Novell owns the Unix
copyrights to the Court
of Appeals in Colorado
before... Sep. 3, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 9,940 Replies: 22 | Ellison to Red Hat: 'Hide
Your Wives and Daughters.
We're Coming' By Maureen O'Gara During the company's
earning call Tuesday
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
uttered the first words
out of the company about
its hijacking Red Hat
Linux since it opened its
front against Red Hat at
the end of October.
Despite recent press
speculation that it's all
been a g... Apr. 24, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 26,606 Replies: 3 | Ulitzer vs Knol - Google
Wants Its Own Wikipedia By Maureen O'Gara In a not very innovative
move Google is going to
try to copy Wikipedia's
shtick with a
soup-to-nuts, online,
user-generated
encyclopedia of all human
knowledge dubbed Knol
that's currently being
beta tested by a
reportedly small group of
invitees. Contributors,
... Jan. 6, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 13,100 | Google Offers Alternative
to Open Source
SourceForge By Maureen O'Gara A few days into the
experiment 'complete with
the usual start-up
hiccups like trouble
moving projects off
Sourceforge and doubts
about the efficacy of the
site's production use'
Google's new project has
attracted upwards of
2,000 projects already. Aug. 2, 2006 08:30 PM Reads: 16,796 Replies: 2 | Linux.SYS-CON.com Numbers By Maureen O'Gara IDG is claiming that
LinuxWorld show in New
York last week pulled in
19,000 people. There were
supposed to be something
like 150 exhibitors. May. 11, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 11,701 | BitDefender Open Sources
Samba Module By Maureen O'Gara BitDefender, the Romanian
security house, has
upgraded its Samba Linux
File Servers to version
1.6.2 and open sourced
parts of it. The
antivirus for Samba is
capable of scanning and
disinfecting shared files
and folders on access and
on-demand, and can be
installe... May. 9, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 18,102 Replies: 2 | Dell and Altiris Cozier
Now By Maureen O'Gara In the name of
simplicity, Dell is going
to start offering patch
management software
that's integrated with
Altiris' for updating
server environments. The
stuff will be part of
Dell's OpenManage 4
systems management
software, which has been
integrated with the
c... May. 9, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 19,945 Replies: 7 |
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