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News Analysis: Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors
Ray Wang at Consellation Research shares his analysis on the Oracle vs UsedSoft. The surprise July 3rd, 2012 judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union for UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp rules that “An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licenses allowing the use of his programs ...
What is Higgs Boson? A Breakthrough in Physics and Science – The Physics Nerd Holy Grail Found
In the science and physics world “The Holy Grail” was found today July 4th. The Higgs Boson The science world is a buzz over the discovery from CERN, Europe’s main particle-physics lab, of what is called the “missing piece” or element of the Standard Model of partical physics called the Higgs Boson. It’s July 4th and the ...
Apple iPad Mini Coming Soon – Apple #Winning Against the Awesome Android Nexus 7 Tablet
According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is planning on putting out a smaller iPad called the iPad Mini that will compete with the new Nexus Tablet 7 inch tablet. Which has been getting great reviews (see review here). The new iPad Mini as reported by Bloomberg is directly attacking the new Android 7-inch tablet made ...
The Father of SpringSource Rod Johnson Quits VMware
Rod Johnson is leaving VMware. Rod is known as the father of Spring and is also a SiliconANGLE.tv theCUBE alum. Rod wrote his goodbye in a blog post on springsource.org (full post embedded below). I had the pleasure to rattle sabers with Rod at VMworld 2010. We had a great Cube Conversation that passes the ...
Video: Steve Jobs on Failure – Most People Never Ask For Help
As an entrepreneur I’ve been most successful when I ask for help and not being afraid to fail. Best startup advice – create action!! Watch this footage of Steve Jobs: Key takeaway: don’t be afraid to get help and to be prepared to fail. Another cool video where Steve gets his juices flowing on his ...
Amazon Explains Their Public Cloud Failure – Outage Causes Outrage
According to the Wall Street Journal late today, Amazon has come clean with a response to their severe outage of the AWS public cloud infrastructure fail that crippled and took out Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and other top Internet sites that relied on Amazon for critical infrastructure. Amazon.com had a fail over the weekend that I wrote ...
VMware Acquiring DynamicOps To Up the Cloud Game – Price > $100m
VMware buys multi-cloud manager DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass developer of software that handles the provisioning and managing of resources for cloud services. Amount was for an undisclosed sum. Rumblings on Twitter say it’s well over $100 million. DynamicOps, Inc. originated as a spinoff of Credit Suisse’s IT unit and has raised around $20m in financing. ...
Play by Play & Commentary: Amazon AWS Outage Shows Public Cloud Warts – Boost for Private Cloud
Last week an Amazon data center went down due to a storm on the east coast. As Forbes reports “Amazon’s Cloud service is having a bad a couple weeks. For the second time in as many weeks Amazon’s East Coast cloud crashed during a severe storm that left 1.3 million in the Washington D.C. area without power. ...
Confirmation: Dell Buys Quest Software for $2.4 Billion To Boost Services
Dell Computer confirmed that they are buying Quest Software, IT management software provider, for $2.4 billion. According to Dell release Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software expertise. The Dell Software Group will add to Dell’s enterprise solutions capability, accelerate strategic growth and further differentiate the company from ...
Apple’s $95 million Android Wet Blanket
Apple just put up $95 million as a bond on their condition of a pre-trial injuction against Samsung (Google). Apple will do anything to stop the massive momentum of Google Android. The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 12-00630. As a ...