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Red Hat Out To Set Cloud Interop Standard
The next best thing to having a monopoly is owning the standard, and if not the de facto standard, well then, by gum, a de iure standard, and there’s not a red-bloodied cloud player out there who wouldn’t thrown his grandmother under an oncoming train to be that standard. Amazon’s grandmother looks safe for the [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 610 (July 5-9, 2010)
IBM Reinvents the Mainframe EC Wants To Legislate Interoperability Supremes Defang Bilski; Software Patents Safe The Planet Undercuts Amazon IBM Defaults to Firefox Google Twists in the Wind over Beijing Cisco To Field a Tablet Dell Knowingly Sold Tainted Goods Suit Says Texas ISV Complains to EC that SAP’s a Big Antitrust Bully Chrome Architect [...]
Neon Sues IBM for Antitrust
by Maureen O’Gara No sense pussyfooting around anymore trying to sidestep the legal equivalent of nuclear war. Texas ISV Neon Enterprise Software, accepting that it’s in a fight to the death with IBM over mainframes, ripped the kid gloves off late Wednesday, amended its pre-Christmas suit against its giant nemesis for tortious interference, business disparagement [...]
Microsoft & Intuit Strike Cloud Pact
Microsoft and Intuit are going to join their clouds, Azure and the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP), so developers can deliver and market web applications to the 27 million QuickBooks-using small businesses through the Intuit App Center. The integration also means that small businesses can use Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity applications via the Intuit App Center, presumably [...]
VMware Goes Head-to-Head with EC2
VMware Goes Head-to-Head with EC2 The easiest way to build a bridge between private and public clouds is to own both ends of the bridge, which is exactly what VMware is proposing to do with a scheme it calls vCloud Express. VMware figures it’s got the internal private cloud covered with its vSphere widgetry. Now [...]
Eucalyptus Goes Commercial
Eucalyptus, the open source private cloud makings – and the widgetry underneath Ubuntu’s newfangled cloud – is getting a VC-backed commercial company to run alongside it. Eucalyptus Systems Inc has kicked off with a $5.5 million A round from Benchmark Capital. The start-up is supposed to build and service – think SLAs – enterprise-grade products [...]
Spansion Claims Breakthrough in Main Memory
Despite crippling losses, filing for Chapter 11, massive job cuts, the abrupt departure of its CEO and CFO, a search for somebody to buy it or merge with it, incapacitating debt, delisting threats and a patent suit, Spansion, the spun-off former AMD-Toshiba joint venture, has finally reached the jumping-off point it’s been aiming to get [...]
IBM Doesn’t Want Sun: CNBC
Well, if rebuffing IBM’s $7 billion offer as too low the weekend before last was a negotiating tactic then the gambit has blown up in Sun’s face according CNBC. Following a Bloomberg story saying Sun wanted IBM to come back to the table – a story that made no mention of price – CNBC rustled [...]
SCO Gets Its Hall Pass To Appeal
SCO filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver Tuesday. Yes, miracle of miracles it finally got a final judgment out of Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball. That’s the hall pass it needs to challenge his devastating summary judgment of August 10, 2007 in [...]