The Justice Department has asked for more information about the long-in-coming deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo that would effectively take Yahoo out of the search business, replaced by Microsoft and its Bing widgetry, and theoretically create more of a speed bump as far as Goog...Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 905
Oracle, whose takeover of Sun has been delayed because the European Commission suspects it of harboring foul intentions toward MySQL, the popular open source database Sun bought, has enhanced the performance of its Berkeley DB embeddable databases (née SugarCat). There are new releases...
RightScale and WaveMaker Software have integrated so customers can deploy WaveMaker-beholden web apps on clouds such as EC2 in a click and then manage them through RightScale’s automated cloud management platform. WaveMaker claims to have the only open source PaaS solution for developi...
NetSuite, the Larry Ellison-owned cloud ERP house, has dreamt up something called the Crossroads Initiative to move SAP R/3 users facing end-of-life scenarios to its cloud. It says the poaching operation is supported by integration partners CastIron, Pervasive and Boomi and includes Ne...
Jigsaw, the data-as-a-service (DaaS) pioneer with the user-generated global business directory that means to have D&B watching its back, has released a suite of APIs and a toolkit so developers can deliver company profiles and detailed, up-to-date contact data from inside their web, de...
For its next trick, the unquenchable, super-ambitious Google is gonna try taking over the US government.
On Tuesday, after the first federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled Apps.gov, a thinly populated, GSA-managed, almost completely salesforce.com- and Google-dominated web store where fe...
Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...
For the last two years Google, which hasn’t exactly been in a position to lecture anybody about the evils of lock-in, has been harboring a small team of counterculture engineers in Chicago that style themselves the Data Liberation Front quietly working to cut the shackles that condemn ...
Microsoft has started a 501.c6 non-profit open source foundation, a bipolar strategy greeted by suspicion, hoots, catcalls, defamation and virtual mooning by the open source set. It’s called the CodePlex Foundation, which is not to be confused with Codeplex com, Microsoft’s version of ...
Doyenz has started calling its patent-pending managed service platform, now on rev 3, ShadowCloud, a name that makes a lot of sense when you think about it since its first mover skills are active disaster recovery, failover and migrations in the cloud.
It replicates a virtual copy ...
Microsoft Thursday began a belated and limited beta of its newfangled browser-based Office Web Apps, the widgetry that’s supposed to joust in the cloud with Google Apps and the other free or low-cost online Office wannabes.
It’s their first public outing.
The invitation-only te...
The Internet’s terrible twosome, Skype and Kazaa inventors Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have thrown a monkey wrench into eBay’s plans to sell off 65% of Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake and involving Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen for around $2 billion.
Zenstr...
Citrix has added two new mid-range appliances to its Intel-based NetScaler MPX line of application networking systems, the 10500 and the 12500 that begin at $42,000.
Citrix claims “unparalleled” price/performance. It brags that they are fully functional, lower cost and run on half ...
Adobe said Tuesday during its earnings call that it’s buying publicly held Utah-based Omniture for ~$1.8 billion cash.
It’s not your most instantly intuitive acquisition ever and it’s costing a pretty penny at that. Adobe didn’t explain to its own people where the web researcher fi...
Oracle terday afternoon wheeled out "the world's first" OLTP Database Machine based on so-called FlashFire solid-state disk SSD technology from Sun. It's supposed to be the fastest computer on the planet for both data warehouses and OLTP. It's supposed to break the I/O bottleneck by pr...
Sewell is giving up AMD v Intel, which has set records for the amount of discovery it has produced, Intel's appeal of the European Commission's heady $1.45 billion fine and the company's difference with regulators in Korea and elsewhere to report directly to Steve Jobs, who had no comp...
CA said first thing Monday morning that it’s going to buy privately held NetQoS Inc for $200 million cash, its biggest acquisition since it took over Wily Technology more than three years ago. CA figures the purchase, which should close by the end of December, will dilute its fiscal 20...
Oracle is supposed today to announce “the world’s first” OLTP Database Machine based on what it calls FlashFire technology from Sun.
Reportedly FlashFire is solid-state disk (SSD) technology.
It’s Oracle’s way of thumbing its nose at the European Commission, whose investigation ...
EMC has poached Pat Gelsinger, the head of Intel’s enterprise chip business, and made him president and COO of its storage products. It’s also promoted Howard Elias to president and COO of storage and cloud services, touching off a two-man race to succeed incumbent CEO Joe Tucci.
G...
Intel not only lost Pat Gelsinger to EMC Monday, its general counsel Bruce Sewell is also off to someplace else six months before AMD’s antitrust case against Intel goes to trial. Sewell’s departure was reportedly a surprise to Intel and under the circumstances observers are curious to...
In July it sold some patents to Allied Security Trust (AST), a cost-sharing non-profit operation that buys up patents to protect its members, companies like HP, Google, Cisco and Verizon, against pricey patent litigation, particularly by so-called patent trolls. AST operates under what...
Like any pleased-with-herself three-and-a-half-year-old showing off her lace panties, start-up switch house Blade Network Technologies was flaunting its heady $230 million valuation Wednesday after closing a $10 million B round.
The largely institutional round – and let’s remember t...
Oracle bought a hard-to-miss piece of the front page of the Wall Street Journal Thursday to run an ad apparently in hopes of arresting the increasing erosion in Sun’s server business.
The bulleted ad is addressed to Sun customers and says Oracle “plans to spend more money developin...
IBM’s chief economist thinks the recession is over. EMC’s CFO thinks the worst of the budget lock is over for high-tech firms. And the Federal Reserve’s got a new survey suggesting the economy is growing again by 3%-4% in most of the US due to business spending. Unemployment hit 9.7% i...
Intel's Lynnfield chips, the widgets meant to drive its newfangled Nehalem architecture into the mainstream, arrived on Tuesday. The new dumbed-down 45nm arrivals include three quad-core desktop devices officially designated the Core i5 750, i7 860 and i7 870 clocking 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz a...
At VMworld on Monday IBM announced what it called the industry’s first public desktop cloud. It will be available in the Americas and Europe starting in October.
IBM describes it as its biggest cloud computing endorsement to date enabling anywhere/anytime access for everything from ...
Founder and former Satyam Computer Services CEO Ramalinga Raju, 54, the admitted bad boy of India who overstated the company's revenues by a billion dollars more or less, suffered a reported heart attack Monday afternoon while in the calaboose awaiting imminent trial. He's in the hospi...
Novell Tuesday asked the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc its decision overturning the Utah summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell and sending SCO’s suit against Novell back to Utah for trial.
En banc would mean all of the God knows how many judges on t...
Citrix is going to try to bar VMware from getting its hooks deep in the cloud by developing the open source Xen hypervisor, already used by public clouds like Amazon, into a full-blown, cheaper, non-proprietary Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).
It intends to surround the Xen hypervisor with...
The United States Postal Service, which will be lucky if it only loses $7.1 billion by the end of its fiscal year in September, and escapes with a cash shortfall of $700 million and a debt load of $10.2 billion, has come to the cloud in the wake of its FedEx and UPS rivals.
The pos...
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom plan to merge their declining UK mobile operations. The move will create Britain’s largest mobile operator with 37% of the saturated market and 28.4 million users, pushing the 50-50 venture ahead of O2 (27%) and Vodafone (25%). The move, which will c...
The Chinese Academy of Science has sold 29% of its 65% position in Lenovo’s parent company, Legend Holdings, to China Oceanwide Holdings Group, a company with holdings in real estate, finance and energy, for $404 million. Legend announced Tuesday that it wants to invest $1.5 billion in...
Novell has released SecureLogin 7, the latest take on its enterprise single sign-on (SSO) solution, said to cut the time required to SSO-enable an organization’s applications from weeks to days. Password proliferation is supposed to cause significant losses in IT and end-user productiv...
Nokia isn’t planning to customize its first-ever Linux Maemo phone, the N900 unveiled last month. It’ll be the same from all of the carriers it signs. The company told Reuters, “Very clearly Apple, Android…are a whole lot less about providing customization to the operators and a whole ...
Gartner database analyst Donald Feinberg and his colleague George Weiss told Cnet that the only reason the European Commission is holding up the Oracle-Sun deal on the pretext of investigating Oracle’s intentions on MySQL is “political” and “protectionist” – as though the rest of us di...
Sun said Wednesday that it’s got an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription called MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 that will let DBAs graphically drill down into database bottlenecks to improve application performance. The widgetry can be had for the moment on a free 30-day trial subscr...
Eucalyptus Systems, the creator of the eponymous open source private cloud platform, has pushed out its first commercial product, the Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EEE), which will let customers implement an on-premise cloud using VMware’s virtualization widgetry, including vSphere, E...
Today it’s Adaptec’s turn to take a whack at cloud computing.
Adaptec is an I/O heavyweight with 11 million controllers installed worldwide and it’s got a “strategic vision” for routing, optimizing and protecting data as it moves through the I/O path called the Adaptec Data Conditi...
Remember back in 2005 when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so ticked with the brain drain Microsoft was losing to Google that when Microsoft search VP Kai-fu Lee, the guy who started Microsoft Research China, walked into Ballmer's office and said he was going to Google too Ballmer thre...
Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), which already owned the lion’s share of Globalfoundaries, its joint venture with AMD, is buying Singapore’s loss-making Chartered Semiconductor for $1.8 billion cash, a move that could eventually challenge Taiwan’s ...
