After getting bounced out of Exadata when Oracle bought Sun, HP has teamed up with Microsoft to bring out a co-engineered pre-configured Exadata-like appliance fitted with SQL Server. HP paired up with Microsoft earlier this year on the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, which runs Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. This new [...]
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Microsoft filed a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday charging Google with unfair practices in search, online advertising and smartphone software, a broader raft of charges against the search giant than the EC is believed to be currently investigating. It is the first time Microsoft has ever complained to the EC about anybody. Historically [...]
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That scare-the-open-source-community-to-death Microsoft-Apple-Oracle-EMC consortium that’s supposed to buy 882 unknown Novell patents for $450 million cash as an “it-can’t-happen-without-it” part of Novell’s pending $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate, withdrew its unstamped joint venture permission slip with the German antitrust authorities on December 30 according to an amended citation on the Bundeskartellamt’s web site. The terse, [...]
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Microsoft confirmed Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show that it is moving Windows full tilt to the memory-restricted, Linux-doting ARM chip, provoking somebody to crack that the Wintel marriage has become an open relationship. Bloomberg and then the Wall Street Journal reported as much right before Christmas. They indicated that they had heard from unnamed [...]
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Microsoft has tucked some undisclosed – and from its point of view immaterial – amount of money in Paris-based TurboHercules SAS, the year-old open source mainframe project-turned-commercial emulator outfit whose antitrust complaint against IBM spurred the European Commission to open not one but two ongoing Justice Department-mimicking antitrust investigations of Big Blue. Microsoft has spent [...]
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Novell, which has been on the block for months, said Monday morning that it’s selling out to Attachmate Corporation for $6.10 a share, or roughly $2.2 billion in cash. At the same time Novell said it’s also selling certain unidentified intellectual property to a thing called CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of equally unidentified technology [...]
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Microsoft Tuesday dumped the clumsy, not-very-memorable Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) brand it inflicted on poor SharePoint Online and Exchange Online in favor of a new cloudy repackaged concoction called Office 365, simpler, more memorable branding than Microsoft has seemed capable of lately accompanied by a lot of confused and confusing messaging. Contrary to reports [...]
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Adobe had an interesting afternoon Thursday. That’s when the New York Times came out and blogged that it knew from employees and consultants who were involved or simply knew that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Flash-wielding, Apple-banned Adobe, met recently at Adobe’s offices in San Francisco for “secret” talks, and [...]
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Now you too can have a standardized, turnkey Azure cloud of your very own. Microsoft announced Monday that it’s boxing the thing up as a server appliance so that companies and government agencies touchy about where their data is can have private Azure clouds, and service providers can set up public Azure clouds. It will [...]
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Microsoft said late Tuesday night that it had signed a broad patent agreement with HTC covering HTC’s Android phones and that HTC will be paying Microsoft unspecified royalties as a result. HTC of course makes Google’s own special Nexus One phone as well as other Android-based phones. It also makes Windows phones. In fact it [...]
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