NetSuite Hires
Ex-Salesforce VP
NetSuite, Larry Ellison's
other company, the SaaS
one, and rival of CRM
SaaS pioneer
salesforce.com, which of
course was started by
former Ellison lieutenant
Marc Benioff - ah, incest
- has named Per Brondum
Jakobsen, the former head
of product strategy at
salesfo...May. 30, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 851
South Africa has formally
objected to the fast
track used to get OOXML
to the brink of ISO
standardization. South
Africa, which has given
the world Mark
Shuttleworth and Ubuntu,
is one of the so-called
'P' members of JTC 1 -
meaning it's got enough
clout to delay ...
In the largest
third-party win yet for
the year-old Google
Gears, as well as a win
for the
browser-as-a-platform,
they say, News Corp's
MySpace social networking
site has used the Google
widgetry to upgrade its
mail so users can search
and sort their mail in
rea...
Adobe has put out three
free public betas:
Dreamweaver, Fireworks
and Soundbooth, all of
which will be part of the
next-generation Creative
Suite when it arrives.
Its delivery date is
still a big secret. The
betas are only good for
48 hours once they're
downloaded...
Google is opening up App
Engine to one and all.
The cloud-sharing gambit
meant to entice
developers to build their
web applications on the
same infrastructure that
powers Google's own
applications - and in the
process lock them into
Google instead of
Microsoft - h...
Some of Dell's service
chickens have come home
to roost. A New York
State Supreme Court judge
Tuesday found Dell and
Dell Financial Services
(DFS) guilty of fraud,
false advertising,
deceptive business
practices and abusive
debt collection
practices. It will take ...
Intel says it will start
unwrapping its Centrino 2
widgetry on July 14 with
the introduction of its
Core and Extreme mobile
processors and initial
shipments of some of its
chipsets instead of on
June 24 like it was
supposed to. It says it
will ship its complete
li...
VMware is buying B-hive
Networks, a
three-year-old privately
held application
performance management
software company, on
undisclosed terms. It
says it will use the
Israeli start-up and its
flagship product, B-hive
Conductor, to offer
proactive performance
manag...
This week you'll be able
to order that disaster
recovery pack that VMware
has been promising since
last September, Site
Recovery Manager, but
it'll take them another
month to deliver it. It's
supposed to let you set
up, test and automate
disaster recovery in a
way...
SugarCRM has pushed out a
closed beta of Sugar Data
Center Edition (DCE), a
new product line, due
this summer, described as
a complete set of system
management provisioning
and monitoring tools so
service providers and
large organizations can
deploy and handle
mul...
Office will support the
Microsoft-hostile
OpenDocument Format (ODF)
1.1 when Office 2007
Service Pack 2 arrives in
the first half of 2009.
Microsoft said users will
be able to open, edit and
save documents in ODF
directly from inside
Office applications
without ha...
Before we're all reduced
to shank's mare,
Concurrent is wading into
the automotive industry,
observing that with the
amount of electronics in
cars constantly on the
uptick, it's a good place
for an embedded
Linux-based networking
system. So it's announced
FlexRay ...
Desktone, the start-up
with the
desktop-as-a-service
(DaaS) vision, has signed
up Hewlett-Packard to
deliver virtual desktops
as a service. Desktone is
already supposed to have
Verizon, IBM, Softbank
and Deutsche Telekon
interested - and Merrill
Lynch is a pilot s...
The Yahoo board is one
short. Edward Kozel, a
former Cisco CTO and now
a VC and a Yahoo board
member since October of
2000, tendered his
resignation Thursday
saying he meant to leave
in February but stayed on
because of Microsoft's
unsolicited acquisition
proposal...
The Virtual-D Platform
enables service providers
to offer hosted,
subscription-based
virtual desktops. A
solution that integrates
all desktop
virtualization layers
through a single,
automated self-service
platform, it helps
enterprises realize the
full benefits ...
VMware has started
certifying thin clients
used with its Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure
aimed at replacing
conventional PCs with
virtual machines
centralized in the data
center and available to
users from any device,
reducing TCO, increasing
IT's control and
imp...
Despite hisses and boos
from the open source side
of the house One Laptop
Per Child (OLPC) is now
officially soldered at
the hip to Microsoft. Its
novel XO laptop is
supposed to go to trials
in a half-dozen
developing countries next
month fitted with XP and
a stud...
Office will support the
Open Document Format
(ODF) 1.1 format when
Office 2007 Service Pack
2 arrives in the first
half of 2009. Microsoft
said users will be able
to open, edit and save
documents in ODF from
directly inside Office
application without
having to ins...
Wind River and Intel are
putting their heads
together to create an
extensible open source
Linux platform for the
automotive industry - an
infotainment (gad, that
horrid word) platform for
Intel's newfangled Atom
chip. It's part of a
major new product
strategy for ...
HP, the largest computer
company in the world, is
pretty pleased with
itself. Sales were up 11%
in its second quarter,
its margin expanded and
it delivered its best
cash flow performance in
the company's history,
$4.8 billion. Yes, there
are spots where it can do
...
Two-year-old open source
ERP house Openbravo has
just picked up a
second-round check for
$12 million signed by
Amadeus Capital, the
publicly traded GIMV and
Adara Venture Partners.
The money is supposed to
take the Pamplona-based
concern international,
increase it...
Dell is replacing its CFO
Donald Carty effective
June 13. It's importing
Brian Gladden, an
industry outsider who was
CEO of SABIC Innovative
Plastics, the old $7
billion GE Plastics spun
off last August to the
Saudis. Fortune takes
Gladden for a potential
successor to Michael
Dell. 
SaaS poster child
Salesforce.com did $247.6
million in revenues, up
52%, returning $9.6
million, or eight cents a
share, up sevenfold, in
the quarter ended April
30. It said it generated
more than a quarter
billion dollars of
operating cash in the
last 12 months a...
Azul Systems, the
six-year-old start-up
with its own multi-core
chips fitted into
Java-accelerating
enterprise-grade
appliances, is entering
its third generation of
machine, expecting to
expand into new markets
and consolidate more and
more x86 and RISC
widgetry...
Microsoft has taken the
next step in getting its
VMware-upsetting Hyper-V
widgetry out the door;
Release Candidate 1 is
there to be downloaded
now. If you've been
paying attention you know
that this is actually
Microsoft's second
release candidate, the
first, call...
'I believe that this move
has really polarized the
ecosystem. They've
essentially declared war
- or at least hostility -
toward all of their
ecosystem - the
outsourcers and the
integrators that
historically were a key
part of HP's software
strategy. I in the last ...
Red Hat has made Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.2
available, saying it
enhances virtualization,
desktop, security,
clustering, networking
and hardware support.
Virtualization of very
large systems, with up to
64 CPUs and 512GB of
memory, is now possible
and there's
...
VMware is combining its
Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure with Sun's
Sun Ray software and thin
clients, promising
superior performance
especially on WANs. It
borrows Sun's Appliance
Link Protocol (ALP),
which is supposed to
outperform other display
protocols when use...
VMware has started
certifying thin clients
used with its Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure
aimed at replacing
conventional PCs with
virtual machines
centralized in the data
center and available to
users from any device,
reducing TCO, increasing
IT's control and
imp...
Google co-founder and
billionaire Larry Page in
Washington to speak at
the think tank where
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
is chairman of the board
- and apparently meet
with government officials
too - claimed that a
Microsoft-Yahoo merger
would 'monopolize online
commun...
Parallels said Wednesday
that its Desktop
virtualization widgetry
for the Mac, which lets
Intel-based Apples run
Windows or Linux along
with Mac OS X, has sold
more than a million
copies, a nice chunk of
the Macs out there. It is
the largest-selling Mac
utility an...
Carl Icahn, the guy with
the shotgun in Yahoo's
back, has picked up a
couple of friends to hand
him bullets. Third Point
LLC, a hedge fund, has
picked up five million
shares in Yahoo on its
way perhaps to 10 million
shares and is supporting
Icahn's proxy battle to
...
A bunch of the boys have
joined Adobe in forming
the Open Screen Project
to drive a consistent
rich Internet experience
across TVs, PCs, mobile
devices and consumer
electronics regardless of
operating system. They've
been persuaded that the
way to squeeze the World ...
Citrix is supposed to
trot out XenDesktop - its
virtual Windows desktop
trick - any minute now
and when it does the UK
firm AppSense is supposed
to be there to make the
Xen widgetry useful. See,
the way it works every
time you restart
XenDesktop you start with
a c...
Ubuntu's first 'Long Term
Support (LTS' rev in
almost 23 months was
pushed out the door this
week along with the
promise that another LTS
rev would follow every
two years from now on out
and in between there
would be point releases
first at the three-month
mark an...
Sun, which lost some
traction selling x86
servers when AMD flubbed
the Barcelona - and had
to run hurry up and pull
some Intel quad-based
machines together last
year - finally got to
announce its first AMD
quad machines this week
in the shadow of HP and
Dell. Eigh...
Just making the window as
it was closing - which is
supposed to suggest that
it was only taking the
step after much
soul-searching - the US
Patent and Trademark
Office filed a Notice of
Appeal with the Court of
Appeals for the Federal
Circuit. If it goes ahead
it ...
Dell is going to try to
cut the energy
consumption of its
laptops and desktops by
up to 25% between now and
2010 to avoid millions of
tons of CO2 emissions,
comparing its pledge to
HP's, which is supposed
to cut relative its 2005
levels. It says Dell
OptiPlex desk...
Between the time
corporate raider Carl
Icahn notified Yahoo
chairman Roy Bostock
Thursday morning to
expect a proxy fight for
control of the company if
Yahoo didn't crawl on its
belly to get Microsoft to
buy it and Yahoo sent a
non-answer back, Yahoo
stock closed ...
