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AMD has open sourced an
Eclipse plug-in called
CodeSleuth, apparently
the equivalent of its
CodeAnalyst Performance
Analyzer, meant to give
Java developers an idea
of how their software is
performing on AMD chips,
including the quad-core
Barcelona. 
The olive branch - well,
okay, twig - olive twig -
that Microsoft extended
to the open source
Eclipse Foundation
Wednesday was the
undertaking to help make
the Eclipse Standard
Widget Toolkit (SWT) work
with Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF) so it's
easier for...
With all programming
about to become parallel
programming, the
industry's famous Wintel
twins, Microsoft and
Intel, said this
afternoon that they will
be putting $20 million
into university research
over the next five years.
Their objective is to
make parallel pro...
Yahoo's not the only
company scrambling to
avoid getting sucked up
by Microsoft. Yahoo owns
39% of Alibaba Group,
which in turn owns
China's biggest B2B
portal, and that interest
would pass to Microsoft
if Microsoft buys Yahoo.
So now Alibaba,
reportedly spooked b...
A reported tête-à-tête
between Microsoft and
Yahoo on March 10 at
which Microsoft is
supposed to have painted
its picture of what a
combined company would
look like apparently
hasn't advanced
Microsoft's suit any - at
least not at the price
it's offering to pay.
...
Google said Tuesday that
it's going mobile with
its Google Gears
technology, the stuff
that's supposed to let
web-based apps run
unconnected to the web,
beginning with Windows
Mobile 5 and 6 devices
ahead of its own nascent
Android platform. Same
day, Microsoft ca...
CEO Paul Otellini,
economists and lawyers in
tow, defended Intel
against the European
Commission's antitrust
accusations at a two-day
closed-door hearing this
week. Intel contends that
its business practices,
complained of as
anticompetitive by AMD,
which has lodg...
Shades of IBM Global
Services! Red Hat has
bought itself a
Virginia-based consulting
firm that it will run as
an independent Red Hat
company - its first - to
help it exploit its JBoss
middleware acquisition.
Red Hat hasn't disclosed
what it's spent buying
Amentra ...
It looks like the
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts is going to
be asking IBM's Cognos
acquisition for its $13
million back because the
only reason Cognos got
the performance
management software
contract last year was
because it had
Massachusetts House
Speaker Salva...
Ah, sweet irony.
Transmeta founder and
ex-CEO Dave Ditzel, the
guy who meant to tear a
really mean piece out of
Intel's haunch only to
find his own ass in a
sling when Intel kicked
back, has turned up at
Intel as vice-president
of the company's Digital
Enterprise ...
Microsoft is buying
enterprise desktop
virtualization start-up
Kidaro Inc, intending to
combine its technology
with its own suite of
desktop management tools,
the Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack for
Software Assurance, so
its biggest customers can
deploy and m...
Microsoft is buying
enterprise desktop
virtualization start-up
Kidaro Inc, intending to
combine its technology
with its own suite of
desktop management tools,
the Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack for
Software Assurance, so
its biggest customers can
deploy and manage virtual
PCs. 
Oracle zeroed in on
Salesforce.com the other
day when it rolled out
the latest version of
Siebel's rechristened
on-demand software, now
called Oracle CRM On
Demand 15 and targeted up
to run on Blackberries
with fashionable social
networking and
collaboration
cap...
The open source advocates
at the Software Freedom
Law Center (SFLC) are
telling the open source
community at large that
Microsoft's 'irrevocable'
Open Specification
Promise (OSP) protecting
open source projects from
patent risk as far as its
up-for-standardization
...
HP Labs is reorganizing
to focus on research that
brings in money. Its
priorities are now the
Information explosion
(getting the right
information to the right
people), dynamic cloud
services (dynamically
personalized based on a
person's location,
preferences, cal...
IBM says it's found a way
to make mashups secure
enough for business.
Because of inherent
browser insecurity,
mashups aren't really
viable for widespread
business adoption. But
what's a little thing
like viability compared
to the pressure of
keeping up with the
...
SAP is going into the
Linux appliance business.
It expects its OEM
friends and IHVs to sell
a quad Xeon-based server
that Intel's put together
for it that's got SUSE
and SAP's own MaxDB
database and Business
All-in-One software
pre-installed. 
Under its collaboration
deal with Microsoft, Zend
Technologies has
certified Zend Core 2.5,
its commercially
supported version of PHP,
on Windows Server 2008,
and that's supposed to
mean that
high-performance web
applications written in
PHP should run as good on
...
Red Hat is shoring up its
IP expertise. Why we can
only speculate about.
It's hired two IP
experts. Robert Tiller is
now assistant general
counsel. Richard Fontana,
last with the Software
Freedom Law Center and
involved with Eben Moglen
in drafting and getting
the...
IBM is lending at least
its ODF-based Lotus
Symphony software to
another mission to rid
the world of Windows PCs.
According to a Reuters
story Tuesday, IBM is
part of an eastern front
designed to supply
Microsoft-free
Linux-based PCs to Russia
and perhaps other Ea...
Appistry, the start-up
whose motto is 'we scale
ugly apps' and claims to
offer 'Googlization for
the masses,' is stepping
off into what it calls
'open distribution' of a
Community Edition of its
grid-based application
platform, its alternative
to Java EE application
servers and .NET.
Acquia has yet to price
its maintenance and
support subscriptions -
there should be a variety
of SLAs - but they're
supposed to include an
electronic update
notification system code
named Spokes for updates
that have been reviewed
for security and
compatibility an...
Parallels has released
the beta of its baremetal
hypervisor-based
Parallels Server hardware
virtualization scheme to
public download. It works
on Windows, Linux and
Intelbased Macs and
includes a Parallels
Management Console,
Transporter
physicalto-virtual
migra...
Microsoft, if nothing
else, has become a
problem for Yahoo's $350
million Zimbra
acquisition and Google's
rudimentary Sites
contribution to the
advance of
software-as-a-service
announced last week by
throwing open the more
sophisticated Exchange
Online and Share...
In the bowels of the
great Microsoft machine a
team has been working on
something that may or may
not be called 'Mesh,'
something that Microsoft
chief architect Ray Ozzie
hintingly described the
other day during his
keynote at Mix '08 as a
'kind of universal file
...
Apple said yesterday that
the iPhone, which faced
serious hurdles vaulting
into the enterprise, is
going to support Exchange
2003 and 2007,
Microsoft's corporate
e-mail, contact and
calendaring product, a
move expected to give the
eight-month-old iPhone
better pur...
In its desperate
backstroke away from
Microsoft's clutches -
and in case Microsoft
starts its threatened
proxy fight for control
of the company - Yahoo!
has extended its deadline
for board nominations to
10 days after it
announces a date for its
annual shareholder...
Platform Solutions Inc
(PSI), the company suing
IBM for monopolizing the
mainframe market while
IBM tries to put it out
of business, has given
IBM a bigger target to
shoot at. This week it
expanded its line,
pushing out a Microsoft
SQL machine - Microsoft
is after...
A couple weeks ago Citrix
bragged that its Xen open
source virtualization
widgetry would be
pre-installed by big
unnamed servers vendors
by the end of the year.
Well, rival VMware stole
a march on both Citrix
and the tangle-footed
Microsoft and its
promised Hyper-...
Gartner is almost as
suspicious of Microsoft's
week-old interoperability
promises as European
Commission antitrust
chief Neelie Kroes. It's
warning open source
developers to beware the
patent trap. 'Do not use
Microsoft's
documentation,' it says,
'unless you have ...
Dell's Q4 profits - which
tellingly include January
- dropped 6%
year-over-year and down
11% sequentially to $679
million, 31
cents-a-share, on
revenues up 10%
year-over-year to $15.99
billion. Subtracting the
costs for job cuts, R&D
write-offs from
acquisitions...
Looks like that
Vista-capable class
action against Microsoft
is going ahead. A federal
judge in Seattle Friday
certified it but narrowed
its complaint to whether
the Vista-capable label
PCs sported artificially
created PC demand during
the 2006 holiday season
befo...
Sun, which is supposed to
have serious ambitions
for its own upcoming xVM
virtualization
technology, said
Wednesday that it would
sell and provide
front-line support for
VMware's Infrastructure
product suite on Sun
hardware under a deal
with VMware.
IBM is aiming its brand
new z10 mainframe, the
one that bowed this week,
straight at the
garden-variety x86
server. Well, the 1,500
garden-variety x86
servers the new mainframe
can replace - using maybe
85% less power and
definitely 85% less
space. And that includ...
If you heard a thump
Monday, that was the cost
of memory crashing. What
cost maybe five grand
last week can now be had
for, oh, $1,500. See,
Monday was when ex-AMD
CTO Fred Weber's stealth
start-up, MetaRAM, came
out of hiding sporting an
attention-grabbing way to
...
Novell is buying
five-year-old
Toronto-based PlateSpin
Ltd for $205 million
cash, calling it a 'huge
step' and a 'strategic
acquisition' whose
management software will
help define Novell as an
infrastructure company
and assure it a place
selling into the
next-generation data
center. 
Intel, whose managers
have been saying that its
financials won't be
impacted by the economic
downturn, pared two
points off its Q1 gross
margin forecast late
Monday due, it said, to
lower-than-expected NAND
Flash memory prices.
Microsoft, if nothing
else, became a problem
today for Yahoo's $350
million Zimbra
acquisition and Google's
rudimentary Sites
contribution to the
advance of
software-as-a-service
announced last week by
throwing open the more
sophisticated Exchange
Online and Sha...