Maureen O'Gara

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 IBM has cut its ties with Robert Moffat, the senior VP who ran its server, storage and chips businesses and was arrested two weeks ago for allegedly whispering insider information on IBM and Sun financial r... (more)

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer A New York appeals court said the other day that David Johnson, the ex-IBM M&A chief poached by Dell in May and sued by IBM to make him honor his non-compete - which he intentionally signed in the wrong place to get out from under - can work for... (more)

Eclipse Platform on Ulitzer Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed o... (more)

Open Web Magazine on Ulitzer An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google's Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts. It says Chrome's Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July... (more)

IT Strategy on Ulitzer With IBM and Dell watching its back, Juniper strode into town Thursday like a gunslinger twirling its pearl-handled six-guns around ready to take on Cisco, the fastest gun in the West, and all the other network hombres. The mid-sized company opened its barr... (more)

Innovations Software Technology on Ulitzer DocVerse, a start-up set up by a couple of old Microsoft hands two years ago, has begun commercializing its downloadable plug-in said to turn Microsoft's Word, PowerPoint and Excel into full-fledged web-based collaboration tools. The wid... (more)

MySQL Journal on Ulitzer Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL ha... (more)

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer Citrix got push-back on its newfangled two-week-old VDI+XenApp kit, XenDesktop 4 - which it meant to license only by named users not concurrent users - so Tuesday it materialized a new device-based licensing option, a new VDI Edition for both u... (more)

PHP Developer's Journal on Ulitzer Zend Technologies, the PHP company, has hung Zend Server 5.0, which support IBM i as well as Linux and Windows, out for public beta. A production release should be out by the end of the year. The widgetry is a major new version of the company's e... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Intellectual Property on Ulitzer SCO may yet get to drag Novell kicking, screaming and clutching at the doorpost in front of a jury to decide who really owns Unix. In the first and only head-snapping legal d... (more)

Hector Ruiz (pictured), then CEO of AMD, was the unidentified source of material information that the busted Galleon ring traded on, according to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. He’s even higher up the totem pole than Robert Moffat, the head of IBM servers and storage who... (more)

Cisco’s appetite needed feeding again so it’s buying ScanSafe Inc, the 10-year-old software-as-a-service (SaaS) web security house, for $183 million in cash and retention-based incentives. It’s already got on-premise content security provider IronPort and is supposed to bring to... (more)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 With Windows Azure just around the corner, Amazon figured it was time to blink and cut prices on its core EC2 cloud services. Starting November 1 all Linux-based on-demand EC2 compute instances will cost 15... (more)

Adobe in a strategic deal with Salesforce.com has put out a jointly developed, Eclipse-based Flash Builder for Force.com IDE - well, at least a developer preview - integrating their two platforms in the name of greater developer productivity in creating what they claim will be a ... (more)

Turns out one of the government's key witnesses in its insider trading case against the Galleon Group hedge fund - the one that's brought down a senior IBM executive a heartbeat or two away from IBM's CEO - used to be employed by Intel and was charged in 2001 in a sealed criminal... (more)

Tilera, the start-up building high-performance multi-core processors that aren't x86, laid out a roadmap Monday that will see it sampling a single processor with a hundred RISC-based cores in the first quarter of 2011 and producing the widgets a few months later. Imagine that, 1... (more)

CEOs in Technology There's another burr under IBM's mainframe saddle besides the Justice Department's investigation into its practices with the European Commission passing the DOJ notes - a Neon burr. Neon Enterprise Software is a Sugar Land, Texas mainframe tools company 100% ... (more)

Google on Ulitzer The city of Los Angeles can't make up its mind whether to trash its clunky Novell system and go with Google Apps for e-mail and office applications, citing costs and necessity. It was supposed to be a showcase account for Google. The decision will now move from... (more)

Twitter on Ulitzer Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million user... (more)

Open Source Journal on Ulitzer It's been six years, tens of millions of dollars and untold legal delays since SCO first sued IBM for poaching Unix code and putting it in Linux, and without the starch in its collar that its ousted CEO Darl McBride evidently supplied it sounds lik... (more)