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Maureen O'Gara
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Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
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Yahoo Pays the Piper By Maureen O'Gara  Yahoo's stock dropped
roughly 19%-20% this
morning at the open,
shaving $8.7 billion off
its value, its first
installment on the price
of its independence from
Microsoft. Yahoo, whose
position improved a
couple of percentage
points in the first
half-hour of tradin... May. 8, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 4,707 | Virtualization and The
Dell Diet By Maureen O'Gara  Dell was supposed to cut
10% of its workforce,
about 8,800 jobs. That
was last year's plan. Now
it's saying it will go
deeper in an effort to
save $3 billion a year by
2011. Michael Dell made
the announcement Thursday
at the company's first
meeting with financial
... May. 8, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 1,899 | Virtualization - AMD
Unveils Business Class
PCs By Maureen O'Gara  AMD, which hasn't
penetrated the commercial
space, is gonna try to
pick up some share with a
Business Class line of
energy-efficient
commercial desktops and
notebooks targeted at
SMBs, government and
education. The desktops
are based on seven AMD
'image stable' ne... May. 6, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 2,038 | Sun Buys Montalvo Assets By Maureen O'Gara  Apple picked up PA Semi,
the low-power PowerPC
start-up, last week to do
who knows what with, and
Sun picked up the assets
of Montalvo Systems, the
laconic,
heading-for-the-crapper
start-up that was
supposed to be doing an
Intel-competitive
low-power/mobile
four... May. 6, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,867 | Virtualization - AMD
Loses its Lock on Cray By Maureen O'Gara  Intel and Cray, which
when last seen was
exclusively an AMD house
and a feather in AMD's
cap, are now going to
work together on HPC and
Cray's going to use the
multi-core Xeon and fancy
interconnect developments
in future Cray servers,
apparently starting in
the s... May. 6, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,428 | Gluecode Creator Thinks
He Can Take Google's App
Engine By Maureen O'Gara  A Philippines-based Web
2.0 start-up called Morph
Labs thinks its cloud can
rain on Google's
newfangled App Engine.
Morph Labs was founded by
Winston Damarillo, the
guy who did Gluecode, the
only open source company
IBM ever bought, a move
made to protect its
prec... May. 6, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 6,707 | Sun's Quarter Sucked;
Layoffs Planned By Maureen O'Gara  Sun's back in the red
again after five
profitable quarters and
five years in the red
following the dot.com
bust. The March quarter
turned sour on it,
starting, it said, with
the first week in March
when the channel stared
reporting a drop in
sales, a miasma that
... May. 5, 2008 06:15 PM Reads: 4,119 | Yahoo & Google Think They
Can Pull Off Ad Deal: WSJ By Maureen O'Gara  At press time the Wall
Street Journal was
reporting that Yahoo! and
Google think they've come
up with a way around the
Justice Department's
anticipated objections to
them climbing into bed
together - one of
Yahoo!'s alternatives to
being acquired by
Microsoft - an... May. 5, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 3,164 | SCO & Novell in Court By Maureen O'Gara  SCO and Novell have been
in court this week trying
to figure out how much
SCO is supposed to owe
Novell in royalties for
its attempt to tax Linux.
This is the money that
SCO claims it doesn't owe
Novell at all because
Novell signed away its
source code rights and
... May. 4, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 3,602 Replies: 1 | Virtualization - HP Labs
Finds Way To Make
Computers Like Elephants By Maureen O'Gara  HP Labs says it's found
the missing link that
would create computers
that don't forget, don't
need to boot up, consume
less power and associate
information like the
human brain does. It says
it's proven the existence
of a previously only
theorized fourth
fundament... May. 3, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 1,282 | Virtualization - VIA
Tries Open Source By Maureen O'Gara  VIA is setting up a Linux
Portal, still in beta, to
get open source driver
developed. It will
initially focus on
graphics drivers for its
CN896 digital media IGP
chipset for the latest
Ubuntu distribution.
Canonical, the company
behind Ubuntu, says it
will work to... May. 3, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 2,134 | Virtualization - Likewise
Adds Oracle Linux &
Mainframes By Maureen O'Gara  Likewise, pretty much the
de facto standard in
cross-platform
authentication these
days, has added Oracle
Enterprise Linux 4 and 5,
Oracle's version of Red
Hat, to the list of some
110 Linux, Unix and Mac
platforms that it
supports on a Microsoft
network using Act... May. 3, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 1,375 | Red Hat Reupholsters the
Chairs By Maureen O'Gara  Red Hat has been
tinkering with senior
management. Paul Cormier,
executive VP of
engineering, is now
executive VP and
president, product and
technologies, responsible
for product market, QA
and support as well as
engineering. CFO Charlie
Peters is now also
respo... May. 3, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 964 | Virtualization - Intel
Sets Up SMB Web Store By Maureen O'Gara  Intel has set up a
community-enabled web
store portal for SMBs
called the Intel Business
Exchange or Intel BX to
push bundled software and
hardware, standalone
business applications and
services. It includes
product descriptions,
interactive
demonstrations, white ... May. 3, 2008 04:00 AM Reads: 2,862 | EFF Faults Microsoft By Maureen O'Gara  The Electric Frontier
Foundation (EFF) has put
an open letter to
Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer on its site
complaining that
Microsoft has 'betrayed
MSN music customers' and
urging him to fix the
problems Microsoft will
cause when it turns off
its Music validation
... May. 3, 2008 02:00 AM Reads: 2,207 | Next Stage of the
Computer Revolution Waits
on Atom By Maureen O'Gara  Atom, the new chip that
Intel built for so-called
netbooks and phones in
hopes of touching off the
Internet-in-you-pocket
phase of the computer
revolution and widening
its earnings, is in short
supply. Asustek, which is
supposed to launch an
Atom-based Eee next
mo... May. 2, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 3,299 | Vendors Keep On Selling
XP By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft claims to have
sold 140 million copies
of Vista. Ah, but, in an
effort to scratch the
widespread 'Save XP'
itch, Dell, HP, Sony and
Lenovo all say they are
going to supply XP past
June 30 when large OEMs
are supposed to stop
supplying it. May. 2, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 2,196 | PTO Decisions May Be,
Well, Unconstitutional By Maureen O'Gara  If patents expert John
Duffy, a professor at the
George Washington
University Law School, is
right then the Patent and
Trademarks Office
unconstitutionally
appointed nearly
two-thirds of the patent
appeals judges currently
sitting, and close to
half of the tradema... May. 2, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 1,432 | XP, Asustek, Lenovo,
VMware and Virtualization By Maureen O'Gara  Pleading a newly found
incompatibility with its
Dynamics Retail
Management System (RMS),
Microsoft Tuesday
postponed the web release
of both XP Service Pack 3
and Vista Service Pack 1
- even if nobody knows
anybody who uses RMS.
It's unclear how long the
delay wil... May. 2, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,557 | SAP Flubs SaaS By Maureen O'Gara  SAP has run into a nasty
little rollout problem
with its new on-demand
Business ByDesign
widgetry, the stuff
that's critical to its
future growth and
competes with, oh, say,
Salesforce.com, NetSuite
and Microsoft. Seems
ByDesign isn't properly
automated and so SAP... May. 2, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,145 | No Decision Yet: Ballmer By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer is on the horns
of dilemma about what to
do about Yahoo! since
Yahoo! ignored his
Saturday deadline to deal
or be acquired by force
at a lower price. And a
meeting of Microsoft's
board to debate the issue
Wednesday apparently
didn't fin... May. 2, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 3,495 Replies: 1 | Microsoft-Yahoo!
Microsoft Maybe Willing
To Sweeten the Deal By Maureen O'Gara  The Wall Street Journal,
which has become
Microsoft's official leak
site, says that the
Microsoft board is
meeting now, as we speak,
to consider what to do
about Yahoo! Word of
their deliberations is
expected after the
meeting. The Journal says
Microsoft is now wi... May. 1, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 1,910 | Linux Programmer Reiser
Found Guilty of
First-Degree Murder By Maureen O'Gara  Linux programmer Hans
Reiser has been found
guilty of the
first-degree murder of
his estranged
Russian-born wife Nina,
who went missing after
dropping their two small
children with their
father on Labor Day
weekend 2006. Reiser,
who's been in jail since
Octob... Apr. 30, 2008 05:00 PM Reads: 4,481 | Those Heady Days of Sex,
Drugs & Linux Are Over By Maureen O'Gara  Well, it looks like
Richard Stallman, the
father of FOSS, is going
to have to cut his hair
and get a suit because
the warmed-over hippie
movement he's been
leading is no longer the
radical anti-software
establishment
counter-culture his
rag-tag army fancies it
i... Apr. 30, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 13,507 Replies: 4 | Microsoft May Shatter the
Silence Today, Wall St.
Journal Predicts By Maureen O'Gara  The Wall Street Journal
thinks that Microsoft is
about to break the break
the deafening silence
that has hung in the air
since Yahoo! ignored
Microsoft's Saturday
deadline to deal or be
acquired by force at a
lower price. The Journal
thinks that Microsoft
could no... Apr. 30, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 3,855 Replies: 1 | Virtualization - EC Asks
Questions About IBM's
Mainframe Business By Maureen O'Gara  IBM may be starring down
the barrel of an EC
investigation of its
precious mainframe
business, significant to
its bottom line.
According to both
Bloomberg and Dow Jones,
the commission has sent
Big Blue a questionnaire
asking for details about
its mainframe busine... Apr. 28, 2008 05:15 PM Reads: 1,894 | Apple Buys PowerPC Chip
House, Confusing
Everybody By Maureen O'Gara  Apple has finally bought
PA Semi, the fab-less
low-power PowerPC
start-up that supposedly
swooned when Apple
switched from the PowerPC
Intel. What Apple's going
to do with it now become
fodder for the
speculators. The iPhone
uses an 32-bit
ARM-derived chip that
... Apr. 28, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 6,231 | Corel CEO To Bolt on
Chance Company May Go
Private Again By Maureen O'Gara  Corel, the owner of
Office rival WordPerfect,
is looking for a new CEO
now that the incumbent
David Dobson, there since
2005, is leaving before
the end of June for a
senior position at some
unidentified Fortune 500.
Dobson's move follows
Corel's largest investor
C... Apr. 28, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 932 | XP SP3 Nigh and
Virtualization By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft has finally
released the
Vista-delayed XP SP3 to
manufacturing and will be
sending the code to PC
makers. It supports the
Network Access protection
and Peer Name Resolution
Protocol (PNRP) used in
Vista so XP apps can
communicate with Vista
apps that use... Apr. 28, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 942 | Why the EPA Pulled the
Trigger on IBM By Maureen O'Gara  The Legal Times has been
poking around IBM's
misadventure with the
Environment Protection
Agency (EPA) and how it
was briefly barred from
doing any new business
with the United States
government a few weeks
ago, and it says,
paraphrasing Robert
Meunier, the EPA of... Apr. 28, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 1,126 | SCO To Appear on a
BlackBerry Near You By Maureen O'Gara  While SCO is only days
away from a court
appearance in Utah that's
supposed to determine how
much money it owes to
Novell, a necessary step
before it tries to get
all legal decisions
related to Novell
overturned, it's cut a
revenue-sharing deal with
FranklinCovey ... Apr. 28, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 2,858 | Carly a Heartbeat from
the White House? By Maureen O'Gara  An on-the-beach IT
executive who's been
watching a lot of
political coverage lately
called to ask what
cabinet post Carly
Fiorina was likely to get
if John McCain is elected
because Carly, now the
so-called 'victory
chairman' of the
Republican National
Committee... Apr. 28, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 3,147 | Virtualization-
Microsoft's "Big Sync"
Goes "Live" By Maureen O'Gara  Remember that Mesh stuff
that Microsoft chief
architect Ray Ozzie was
hinting around about a
few weeks ago? Well,
Microsoft's new
contribution to the
cloud, what we called
'the Big Sync,' is now
Live Mesh, a preview Web
Service that, as
previously reported, is
s... Apr. 28, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 781 | Microsoft Experiments
with Subscription-Based
Office By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft is going to
experiment with
subscription-based
software that as near as
we can figure out won't
be on-demand or web-based
- or even available as a
download - so it's hardly
a retort to Google Apps
and its ilk like people
thought. This is the
stuff that's... Apr. 28, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 1,989 | Virtualization - AMD
Likely To Jettison
Consumer Electronics Unit By Maureen O'Gara  In its efforts to keep
the boat afloat, it's
generally assumed that
AMD will throw its
consumer electronics
business overboard. Its
revenues last quarter
were a measly $81
million, down 26%
sequentially, and its
operating margin was
-10%, down from 11%
quarter-over-quarter. Apr. 28, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 857 | Microsoft & Novell Go to
China in Search of
Converts By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft and Novell have
taken it into their
collective head to push
their peculiar axis into
China - and elsewhere -
to convert unsupported
Linux users to SUSE. They
say they've had demand
'to build a bridge
between open source and
proprietary software and
provi... Apr. 28, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 4,440 | Microsoft Disappoints;
Windows Sales Off By Maureen O'Gara  After three strong
quarters and against a
backdrop of heady
expectations, Microsoft
came in with
lighter-than-expected
fiscal Q3 revenues of
$14.45 billion Thursday,
earnings of $4.38
billion, or 47 cents a
share, and operating
income of $4.41 billion.
Earnings ... Apr. 28, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 2,150 | SOA World - SnapLogic
Data Integration Project
Goes Commercial By Maureen O'Gara  SnapLogic, the open
source start-up that been
fostering the eponymous
data integration project
for the past year, is
going commercial with the
widgetry, claiming that
the stuff can do what
proprietary software from
TIBCO and Infomatica
can't and make it easy to
ta... Apr. 28, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 2,238 | Microsoft Goes After
Salesforce.com By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft pushed its
Dynamics CRM Online out
into general availability
in North America Tuesday
and into competition with
Salesforce.com. Microsoft
is doing the hosting with
accessibility through a
browser or Office and
Outlook and claims to
deliver more capabilitie... Apr. 28, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 669 | Word Documents Generated
By the Current Version of
Office 2007 Don't Conform
to ISO/IEC 29500 By Maureen O'Gara  Word documents generated
by the current version of
Office 2007 don't conform
to ISO/IEC 29500, the
OOXML file format draft
standard Microsoft moved
heaven and earth to get
ISO to accept. At least
that's what Alex Brown,
the guy in change of the
ISO group that's supp... Apr. 26, 2008 08:15 PM Reads: 2,947 |
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