Maureen O'Gara

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer The founders of Crystal Reports and veterans of Microsoft, Symmetrics and Business Objects have launched a start-up out of Vancouver called Indicee that's developed a cloud-based reporting application meant to give SMBs frustrated with cutting and pasting d... (more)

Dell News on Ulitzer Dell is transferring ownership of its new factory in Poland over to contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group on undisclosed terms. Foxconn will produce desktops, laptops, servers and storage for Dell at the Lodz plant and reportedly retain present staff... (more)

SCO's case against Novell for slander of title is going to trial on March 8. That means a Utah jury will decide who the heck owns Unix. Novell tried like the dickens but failed to get the date pushed back to next summer during a hearing Tuesday with Judge Ted Stewart, who'll be pre... (more)

IBM News on Ulitzer Interarbor Solution principal analyst Dana Gardner had a drink with IBM Software chief Steve Mills last week. He said Mills thinks that the Oracle-Sun deal will go through but that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is buying Sun because he doesn't "understand the hard... (more)

Europe’s antitrust chief Neelie Kroes, who has dunned two of America’s largest and most influential companies, both paeans to capitalism, a small fortune during her term in office, is going to be replaced. She was a candidate for reappointment to what is considered a great portfo... (more)

CEOs in Technology Lawyers for Raj Rajaratnam, the alleged billionaire kingpin behind the insider trading scandal that brought down ex-AMD CEO and Globalfoundries chairman Hector Ruiz and IBM server chief Robert Moffat, filed papers with the US District Court in New York Tuesday... (more)

Government News on Ulitzer India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is sorta like the FBI, has filed a second batch of charges against the 10 people indicted in the Satyam accounting scandal and the charge sheet reportedly runs to 55,000 pages. It also threw the com... (more)

Salesforce.com Journal CA is going to put its Agile Planner software on salesforce.com’s Force.com platfom in the first half to accelerate development time and give users visibility over their development initiatives to reduce time-to-market. Customers are supposed to be able to... (more)

IBM News on Ulitzer IBM has sold its very first mainframes in Namibia to the First National Bank of Namibia, two z10s Business Class machines. The bank was under government instructions to get its systems out of neighboring South Africa. Big Blue says the mainframe's next fronti... (more)

Mergers and Acquisitions on Ulitzer Brocade CEO Michael Klayko said Monday that the company's not being shopped, labeling a widely quoted story some weeks back in the Wall Street Journal claiming it was and that Oracle and HP were interested "just false." Oracle immediately deni... (more)

Government News on Ulitzer After four years of inquiries the European Commission simply dropped its antitrust investigation of Qualcomm's 3G and 4G patent licensing Tuesday after Ericsson and five other mobile network equipment makers withdrew their complaints. The company paid ... (more)

Microsoft Developer The Microsoft-Yahoo deal got approved by regulators in Canada and Australia. The Justice Department and the European Commission are reviewing the plan. ... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine Zoho has added Zoho Recruit to its menagerie of web apps. It's an oddly timed applicant tracking system for recruiting and staffing targeted at both internal HR departments and outside agencies. It's supposed to source candidates from various sites on the web,... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine Mozilla's revenues - that's the Mozilla Foundation and all subsidiaries - did $78.6 million last year, up 5%. As a gauge, its 2007 over 2006 was up 12%. Most of the money comes from Google of course though now it has its own browser, plus Yahoo, Amazon and eBa... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine Corel, the Canadian company that acquired the once great WordPerfect and Quattro Pro from Novell intending to take on Microsoft, is going private again. Vector Capital, the private equity house that owns over 68% of the company is offering $4 a share cash, ne... (more)

Microsoft Developer on Ulitzer Windows 7 has sold at an unprecedented rate in the few weeks it’s been out, double any previous version of the operating system according to what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the company’s annual stockholders meeting the other day. He was repor... (more)

HP, which pre-announced relatively happy results a couple of weeks ago when it said it was buying 3Com, came in exactly on target with earnings of $2.4 billion, or 99 cents a share, up 14%, on revenues of $30.8 billion, down 8.4% year-over-year from $33.6 billion. And the compan... (more)

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer The United States Senate waded into the Oracle-Sun imbroglio Tuesday. Fifty-nine senators from both sides of the aisle led by one-time presidential hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass) and perennial presidential pretender Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a lett... (more)

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Adobe put out this press release - well, kinda, it was released at 6am Saturday morning and the company didn't bother to tell its staff about it, least of all its sales people. Anyway, it's about how Acrobat.com, Adobe's contribution to the flock of Office... (more)

Britain's hidebound state-owned Royal Mail is getting a cloud. Yup, CSC is supposed to provide 30,000 of its employees with access to newfangled web-based services using Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), part of Microsoft Online Services. CSC will also provide... (more)