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Novell Friday told the SEC it wasn’t thinking of shopping itself after JP Morgan analyst John DiFucci said that Novell’s CFO Dana Russell “entertained the possibility of breaking out some parts or of selling the entire company to maximize shareholder value given the current depressed valuation levels.”
DiFucci and Russell had met Thursday and DiFucci concluded [...]

RNA networks, which virtualizes memory, has moved into cache, claiming it can remove the data center bottlenecks caused by contention for application memory, the data center’s scarcest resource.
When processor speed outstrips memory capacity bottlenecks are created that slow application performance and utilization rates. The performance and scalability of virtualized systems are particularly hard hit, according [...]

Start-up a First Mover in Memory Virtualization
Hey, Mister, Want Remade Windows Cheap?
Novell Denies It’s For Sale
BT To Offer International Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
Oracle Posts Last Quarter Before Sun
Oracle Reportedly Kills Virtual Iron Product Line
Zoho Piggybacks on SharePoint
MokaFive Claims to Crack the Code on Desktop Virtualization
VMLogix Mounts a Virtual Lab on EC2
SpringSource Teams with RightScale
Jobs Reportedly Spotted
Consumers Don’t [...]

Like a phoenix SCO has survived IBM and Novell’s attempts to force it into liquidation and then grind it into dust ahead of any decision on its summary judgment appeal.
In what the judge described as a “Perry Mason” moment, SCO waltzed into bankruptcy court Monday with a surprise asset purchase agreement hammered out that morning [...]

Figuring that the cloud may be the “most significant shift in technology since the outset of the Internet,” IBM is moving to ensure it gets its piece of what could be a $66 billion business in three years.
It’s taking a workload-by-workload approach.
To start, it’s targeting the enterprise – meaning big, largely Blue accounts – with [...]

IBM Adds to its Cloud Repertoire
Sun Kills Off Rock: NYT
Adobe Tries Commercializing its Online Widgetry
Microsoft Calls Google’s Apps Sync ‘FUBAR’
CIA Buys into Lucene Start-up
EnterpriseDB Looks To Accelerate ‘Oracle Creep’
Intel To Strip Centrino of its Chip Epaulets
Opera Turns its Browser into a Server
Can Bing Hold That Note?
No, No, A Thousand Times No!
An Itty-Bitty Chip Could Slash [...]

Maybe it’s just wishful thinking on our part, but it sounds like Microsoft – in the very nicest way, of course, to avoid any further fines – just told the European Commission to go fuck itself.
See, at press time Thursday, CNet was saying that it saw a confidential memo that Microsoft sent to OEMs and [...]

HP Wednesday took the wraps off the first new server family it’s created since the BladeSystem C-class was invented and ran away with the market.
The line is call ExSO, short for Extreme Scale-Out, and it’s purpose-built for global low-margin/maximum transaction volume cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC sites looking for a minimum of 1,000 nodes. It [...]

HP Designs New Cloud-Size Server Family
Google Launches Guerilla Attack on Exchange
Excuse Me. Did Microsoft Just Give the EC the Finger?
Yahoo Sends its Version of Hadoop Out into the Wild
Petabyte-Scale Data Analytics Moving to the Cloud
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Fudging Numbers
Novell Reportedly Planning Free Apps Store
Why Novell Kisses Microsoft’s Ring Every So Often
Dell To Bundle Boxes [...]

Intel is buying Wind River for roughly $884 million in cash, $11.50 a share, a 44% premium.
The move into software will give Intel VxWorks, Wind River’s proprietary and multi-core-ready RTOS, and its commercial-grade Linux operating system as well as its middleware and software design and device testing tools.
Wind River claims to be the global leader [...]