Linux Gram articles from May 2009

Linux Gram archives from May 2009

Penguinistas Asked To Invalidate Microsoft Patents.
May 4, 2009... Open Invention Network (OIN), the Linux-protecting patent-collecting consortium put in train by IBM and supported by NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony in the name of mutual deterrence, is whistling up the Penguinista brigade asking them to...

Eucalyptus Goes Commercial.
May 4, 2009... 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...

Opscode Raises First Round.
May 4, 2009... Opscode, the Seattle-based cloud infrastructure automation wannabe started last year, has raised a $2.5 million A round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which got a board seat. The company said the money is earmarked for hiring ahead of the...

Android Netbook Spotted.(Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies' Alpha 680)(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Computerworld thinks it's spotted what may be the first Android netbook. It's called the Alpha 680 and was designed by Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies around a 533MHz ARM11 chip like the widget that powers Android phones. ...

New HP Biz Laptops Include Linux.
May 4, 2009... HP has launched a new line of mainstream business laptops aimed at SMBs called ProBooks. It can be had with SUSE Desktop 11 installed, the first time Linux has been available pre-installed on a standard HP business laptop. HP told Reuters...

Likewise Closes C Round.
May 4, 2009... Likewise, the open source outfit whose authentication skills improve the interoperability of Windows and Linux as well as Unix and Mac using Active Directory, has closed a $10 million C round. The check is coming from existing investors...

SCO Appeal Hearing Imminent.
May 4, 2009... SCO is headed for Denver on Wednesday May 6 for its appeals court oral hearing. It's asked the 10th Circuit to overturn the Utah district court's damning summary judgment that Novell owns Unix, rotting out the basis of its case that IBM...

Jigsaw Pioneers Data-as-a-Service.
May 4, 2009... If software can be a service then the next step is obviously data-as-a-service - now isn't it. It's only Mr. Spock logical. And the first data-as-a-service company looks to be a little number called Jigsaw, a 100-man San Mateo-based global...

EMC Sues To Stop its Ex-Storage Boss from Going to HP.
May 4, 2009... In a surprise raid, HP Tuesday carried off the president of EMC's Storage Division David Donatelli - the guy responsible for the bulk of its rival's revenues - and made him head of its $19.4 billion-a-year Enterprise Servers and Storage (ESS)...

Another $75m Poured into SaaS Start-Up.
May 4, 2009... Workday, PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield's latest company, has just gotten another $75 million in funding, a sum that would bring its total to more than $150 million and must make it the most royally financed SaaS venture on the face of the...

To Spite Cisco, IBM Cuddles with Brocade.
May 4, 2009... In case there was any doubt that Cisco going into the server business would tick IBM off. There isn't and it is. To show its displeasure IBM has extended its OEM relationship with Cisco's much smaller competitor Brocade, as widely speculated it...

Windows 7 To Virtualize XP.
May 4, 2009... Windows 7 is going to virtualize XP. Microsoft says there's a secret XP Mode (XPM) for the new rep-redeeming operating system that hasn't been part of any beta code or even disclosed before that's "specifically designed to help small...

IBM Fields Enterprise Cloud Appliance.
May 4, 2009... IBM has a new WebSphere hardware appliance with integrated virtualization software that's supposed to extend Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) into a private cloud. The stuff should be available sometime this quarter. Needless to say,...

Microsoft Cuts $3b Cloud Deal with EDS.
May 4, 2009... Microsoft has cut a cloud deal with EDS - the consultancy now in HP's hands - that it figures could be worth more than a fluffy $3 billion in cloud and professional services to the two of them. It didn't say over what period of time but by...

DMTF To Develop Cloud Computing Standards.
May 4, 2009... The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is going to run up some open standards for managing clouds. Specifications are supposed to be developed by an Open Cloud Standards Incubator that's meant to hatch private cloud-public cloud...

HP Integrates with Microsoft System Center.
May 4, 2009... HP has blended its Insight Control suite with Microsoft's System Center, a k a ICE-SC, to create what it calls the industry's first integrated management environment, a perch it will occupy until its rivals copy the move. It's supposed to...

Fujitsu Building Giant Cloud.
May 4, 2009... Fujitsu Limited is going into the cloud business expecting to generate $3.1 billion over the next three years. For a monthly fee it expects to rent out virtual resources to clients on an as-needed basis from a giant server farm consisting...

Sun Sales Down 20%.
May 4, 2009... Sun has proven again that it has a distinct flair for losing money, a talent that Oracle is now going to have to wrestle with. The company reported its March quarter - the third quarter in its fiscal cycle and perhaps the last time it posts...

Citrix Income Down 80%.
May 4, 2009... Citrix, now a virtualization wannabe, saw its revenues decline a modest 2% in Q1 to $369 million compared to $377 million last year although product license revenue was down 24%. XenApp revenues, for instance, were off 30%. The company...

Amazon Offers Schools Free Use of Cloud.
May 4, 2009... Amazon is offering universities free use of its cloud for research, advanced courses and possible new projects under a new AWS in Education program. Its eye on eventually replacing conventional academic investments in infrastructure, it's...

SAP Complains It's Like WWII.
May 4, 2009... It's unclear whether it will matter much to Oracle, but Teradata and SAP, two of Oracle's competitors, have cut a deal so SAP's NetWeaver Business Warehouse and Business Objects software can run on Teradata's Active Enterprise Data Warehouse at...

Door to Google's Forbidden Zone Opens Briefly.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Google didn't care very much for that McKinsey study a couple of weeks ago warning companies off outsourcing their data centers to the cloud. So in rebuttal one of its Google Apps folks blogged the 101 reasons why the cloud - particularly a...

Google Gets Floating Data Center Patent.
May 4, 2009... Google has gotten a patent on a seaborne floating data center to be housed on a cargo ship three to seven miles offshore that would be cooled by ocean waters and powered by a Pelamis wave-based electrical generator (little fishies and SpongeBob...

Windows 7 Reportedly Due October 23.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Acer UK marketing director Bobby Watkins told the Pocket-lint.com blog the other day that Windows 7 would be available on October 23. "There is a 30-day upgrade time so that customers don't wait to buy a new computer, so if you buy during that...

Oracle Sued for Infringement.
May 4, 2009... Dallas-based i2 Technologies is suing Oracle for infringing 11 of supply chain management and other related patents in the Eastern District of Texas. Oppenheimer noticed that five of the patents are the same that it charged SAP infringed,...

IBM Ups Dividend; Makes Acquisition Noises.
May 4, 2009... IBM upped its dividend 10% to 55 cents a share saving the bravura announcement for the day Sun posted another round of nasty losses. Jesse Greene, VP of financial management, told the Wall Street Journal IBM still "has the financial flexibility...

Schmidt & Mundie Named to White House Council.
May 4, 2009... The White House has named Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Microsoft strategy chief Craig Mundie to the president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Both were Obama supports during the campaign and both are enemies in the marketplace....

Microsoft Answers EC's Latest Antitrust Charges.
May 4, 2009... After two deadline extensions, Microsoft has filed its defense against the European Commission's latest Opera-incited antitrust charges against the company alleging that bundling the Internet Explorer browser with the Windows operating system...

Just Make Out Those Stimulus Checks to I-B-M.
May 4, 2009... To make sure it sticks its bread in all that stimulus gravy that may not start flowing until 2010, IBM Global Financing has earmarked $2 billion for bridge financing of high-tech infrastructure jobs likely to get a piece of the $30 billion...

Papermaster Back in the Game.
May 4, 2009... Remember Mark Papermaster, the IBM chip guy that Apple hired to run its iPhone/iPod development until IBM's lawyers sued, waving around Papermaster's non-compete? Well, one settlement and six months on the bench later he's officially working at...

Kumo Countdown.
May 4, 2009... Microsoft is supposedly in countdown to release Kumo, its next-generation search engine, which looks like it may be at the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle in early June.

Akamai Who?
May 4, 2009... Akamai, the content delivery company, is trying to reposition itself as a cloud service provider, and pretty much always has been.

HP Building $100m Data Center.
May 4, 2009... HP is supposed to put a $100 million data center on its campus in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Active Endpoints Gets $5m in Funding.(Brief article)
May 4, 2009... Active Endpoints, the inventor of visual orchestration systems, has raised $5 million in an extension of its Series B funding. North Bridge Venture Partners, one of the company's original investors, participated in the round was. The money is...

Atom Hits the Server Circuit.
May 4, 2009... HP must have lost Intel's instructions saying that Atom was for netbooks because HP has stuck the little chip in a server, the $400 MediaSmart Server LX195 positioned as a storage hub with 1GB of memory and a 640GB hard disk. Guess home storage...

Spring Blossoms Perhaps.
May 4, 2009... After a none-too-pretty March quarter all around, the Wall Street Journal says that Europe's chip makers, Infineon and STMicroelectronics, and Taiwans's three main PC makers, Acer, Quanta and Compal, see signs of a bottom