Maureen O'Gara

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer IBM has acquired Guardium, a seven-year-old subsidiary of Israel's Log-On Software transplanted to Massachusetts, for its real-time enterprise database security. It's supposed to protect data against hacking and fraud by continuously monitoring... (more)

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer Oracle has offered to cordon off MySQL inside a combined Oracle-Sun to get the European Commission to approve its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ahead of a hearing set for next Thursday, according to the New York Post The paper, quoting two unide... (more)

Government News on Ulitzer The second set of charges filed last week against Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services founder Ramaslinga Raju and his cronies doubles the size of the already massive $1.5 billion fraud Raju confessed to in a letter back in January when he found ... (more)

Consumer Electronics on Ulitzer Gartner told Reuters that it overestimated how many PCs Acer shipped in the last seven quarters by around 11%. Not a little matter since Acer ousted Dell from the number two spot worldwide during that time. By Reuters' calculations Gartner miscount... (more)

Economics for Investors on Ulitzer Gartner thinks the server business has stopped sliding into the abyss. Third-quarter sales weren't as bad as second-quarter sales - well, for most everybody except Sun that is. The numbers give Oracle, Sun's prospective buyer, another data point... (more)

AMD Virtualization Journal Gartner is buying ~$40 million-a-year AMR Research Inc for close to $64 million in cash. AMD specializes in CRM, ERP and SCM software and should add to gartner's events' schedule. The deal should close by the end of the month. ... (more)

SAP Business One Singed by user reaction to its plans to up the price of its support contracts, SAP Tuesday postponed any move until early next year. Meanwhile, it’s set up a task force charged with talking to enterprise customers to reinforce the perceived value of their suppor... (more)

Microsoft Developer Office Web Apps, Microsoft's answer to Google Apps, are supposed to be out sometime in June along with Office 2010. Microsoft, which confirmed the rumored timing, has yet to price the half-dozen versions of Office 2010. The browser-based Office Web Apps, incl... (more)

Google News on Ulitzer Apparently Google Gears ain't gonna stick around that long. Google Apps will eventually get their offline access from HTML5, the standard-revision-in-progress, and hence the functionality will be built in rather than added on, according to a piece in the L... (more)

MySQL Journal on Ulitzer Oracle seems to have divided the open source ranks over the MySQL delay it's having closing its acquisition of Sun. Eben Moglin, the GPL's most ardent defender and delineator, the lawyer who has worked hand in glove for years with the Free Software Founda... (more)

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer We hear - well, you know how people talk - that Oracle has been quietly meeting with the European Commission and is now expecting it to take - what with the Christmas break and all - until April or May to get clearance for its acquisition of Sun... (more)

Government Cloud Computing The Korean government is going to sink around $172 million into cloud computing next year under a still fuzzy plan that the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the Ministry of Public Administration and the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) are backing t... (more)

Microsoft Developer on Ulitzer In response to Opera's complaints Microsoft has reportedly modified the proposed ballot screen that's supposed to get it out from under the European Commission's latest antitrust charges. Rather than be inside Internet Explorer, the ballot screen of... (more)

Microsoft Developer   Microsoft has sold the Folio and NXT businesses it got when it bought Fast Search and Transfer, the Norwegian enterprise search firm, last year to Rocket Software on undisclosed terms. Folio is a clutch of publishing tools and NXT publishes intranet docume... (more)

Consumer Electronics Acer's got its heart set on being first out with an official Chrome netbook sometime in the second half of next year, according to what DigiTimes is saying, which is when the OS is supposed to go gold. It's reportedly been working with Google on the thing fo... (more)

Macintosh Magazine IDC's New Year predictions include a general-purpose iPad tablet from Apple with an eight- or 10-inch screen that kicks Kindle's butt, IBM's acquisition of Juniper, upscale $700 netbooks, 300,000 iPhone applications, 50,000-75,000 Android apps and public cloud... (more)

Microsoft Developer In Q3 Windows server sales by revenue surpassed Unix/Linux boxes for the first time in history according to Seeking Alpha blogger Dennis Byron. Using IDC numbers he says Linux was 14.4% of the total, a personal best and Unix dragged in at 27%. He concludes th... (more)

Microsoft Developer Microsoft is disclaiming responsibility for the so-called “black screens” that some Windows 7 users have been experiencing when they boot up. Apparently the problem has also cropped up on some XP and Vista machines. Microsoft thinks it’s a virus. ... (more)

Rackspace Journal Despite the times, Wells Fargo affiliate Norwest Venture Partners has pulled together a $1.2 billion investment fund, its largest ever. Its last fund, which closed in ’06, was only $650 million. Norwest backed Rackspace Hosting, one of the rare IPOs last year. ... (more)

PC Support Journal Goldman Sachs claims the corporate PC and PC server refresh will be one of the most important trends in technology over the next two years, positively impacting software and semiconductors as well as hardware. It’s projecting PC growth of 12% next year and 13%... (more)