Maureen O'Gara

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer ScaleMP, which builds SMP machines for HPC by aggregating multiple x86 blades into a single virtual x86 system, has become one of the cloud people. It's adding some widgetry called vSMP Foundation for Cloud, currently in beta, to its vSMP Foundation lin... (more)

IBM Journal Back when the SCO litigation was under Utah district court judge Dale Kimball, whose decision that Novell owns Unix was overturned by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Novell thought it was simply ducky that SCO's case against Novell should go ahead of SCO's case ag... (more)

Cisco Virtualization Journal Cisco's having trouble herding Tandberg's shareholder into its pen. Despite the deal it cut with management, it's only gotten 9.37% of the shareholders to accept its $3 billion cash offer for the videoconferencing equipment maker. They figure it's wo... (more)

Oracle on Ulitzer Oracle, the company that the European Commission thinks can't be trusted with an open source database, trotted out Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 the other day. The new release of the database family that's as open source as MySQL offers high availability, enhan... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Tucked away right now in a private beta is a versatile Cloud Service Broker that sounds like it could be a very handy thing to have around once it's delivered sometime in the first quarter. Gartner predicted such things would turn up to negotiate relati... (more)

Chip Design Journal Waleed Al Muhairi, the COO of Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi government-owned investor in AMD as well as the chairman of Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), AMD's Abu Dhabi government-owned partner in Globalfoundaries, its fab spin-out, said at a conferen... (more)

HP Virtualization Journal HP pre-announced its preliminary fiscal fourth quarter results Wednesday when it disclosed it was buying 3Com to stick it to Cisco. In the process it raised its fiscal 2010 outlook. It figures it'll show revenues of $30.8 billion, down 8% for the October ... (more)

SaaS Journal Cisco's behaving a little like the Lord High Executioner in the Mikado. It's got a little list and apparently figures nobody on it will be missed if it sent them to an early grave starting with Microsoft Exchange. See, as of Monday Cisco is in the hosted e-mail busin... (more)

Cloud Computing Bright Computing, a specialist in Linux-based cluster management software and services for high-performance computing (HPC), has started offering its Bright Cluster Manager software bundled with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Bright and Novell are going to ... (more)

XML Magazine Despite agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion in hush money, which sounds like an admission of guilt, Intel claims it's done nothing wrong and never did - and such a position is memorialized in the 20-page deal it signed with AMD Wednesday. Intel CEO Paul Otellini clai... (more)

Wireless Technology Magazine This may feel like Christmas when all you get is ties but Samsung is launching its own smartphone operating system called bada, which it expects to compete with Android and LiMo. It’s not yet clear exactly what it is. Could be still another Linux var... (more)

SOA and WOA Magazine Intel is paying AMD $1.25 billion to settle the massive private antitrust suit AMD has lodged in Delaware. AMD will also drop two cases against Intel it has pending in Japan and withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide. Intel has also agreed to a... (more)

Amazon Web Services LLC, the company’s cloud arm, figures to push into Asia-Pacific in the first half of next year, so businesses can deploy its EC2 compute and S3 storage resources closer to their end users there to minimize latency and increase performance. It said software de... (more)

Mergers and Acquisitions on Ulitzer HP is going to buy 3Com, which has been for sale forever, for $2.7 billion in cash, making it HP’s fourth-largest acquisition ever and giving Cisco a comeuppance for treading on HP’s server toes. HP says that the acquisition will make it number ... (more)

Microsoft's Developer Gist, a beta-phase e-mail start-up kicked off by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, has raised a $6.75 million first round led by the Foundry Group. Its widgetry combines e-mails with the latest news about contacts taken from blog posts, soci... (more)

Open Source Journal on Ulitzer Ken Thompson (pictured) and Rob Pike, a couple of the revered old soldiers who wrote Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs – and programming languages like B, without which C probably wouldn’t exist, and Limbo – have come up with an experimental ne... (more)

RIA Developer's Journal on Ulitzer Adobe is cutting another 680 full-time jobs worldwide, around 9% of its pre-Omniture workforce, to align its costs with its fiscal 2010 operating plan and “the realities of the business environment,” according to an SEC filing. It previously s... (more)

Intel Virtualization Journal This may not be the best time to mention this – given New York’s antitrust suit – but Intel’s share of PC processors was up marginally year-over-year in Q3 from 81.2% to 81.5% according to Mercury Research and AMD gained a tenth of point year-over-ye... (more)

SOA & WOA Magazine In these times of VC austerity and penury, Greylock Partners in the space of four weeks raised a new, over-subscribed $575 million early-stage software, services and infrastructure investment fund – its first new fund in four years – and enticed Linkedin co-fo... (more)

Microsoft Developer's Journal Morgan Stanley was keeping its eye on NPD data the week Windows 7 came out and, although it’s nothing to hang your hat on, said it showed a 40% spike in PC sales year-over-year after only three days of Win7 availability. It also said PC inventories ... (more)