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If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
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| Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a
| comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value
| propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost
| (read “free”). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE,
| Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.) these tools may offer outstanding
| performance. Depending upon the expertise level found in the organization’s
| IT department, they may not be the most cost-effective tools.
|
| [...]
|
| Better funded (from a marketing perspective) competitors, such as VMware and
| Microsoft, seem to get the headlines. This can be directly associated with
| mindshare.
|
| [...]
|
| Why do you think that Xen and KVM aren’t “top of mind” for more business
| decision makers?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=489
Someone should tell him that Microsoft literally owns a lot of press. It gets
coverage upon request. Proof below.
Related:
Is Microsoft Trampling on First Amendment Rights?
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| In three separate legal actions, Microsoft has been using the courts in an
| attempt to smoke out sources, challenge the first-amendment rights of writers
| and reporters, and chill press coverage and public disclosure of important
| information that it prefers remain secret.
|
| Two of these cases have been conducted publicly, and one in secret. In early
| October, Microsoft subpoenaed the source materials of Dan Goodin, a reporter
| for the online news organization C/NET, and a hearing on the matter will take
| place next week. Appealing a lower court decision that denied its demand for
| source materials, Microsoft is still pursuing access to these materials from
| the authors of Competing on Internet Time, Harvard professor David Yoffie and
| MIT professor Michael Cusomano.
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http://www.vcnet.com/bms/features/rohm.shtml
The Bill Gates portfolio - beyond Microsoft
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| Other bets by Gates’s investment vehicle included the Mexican media company
| Grupo Televisa, the Mexican brewer Fomento Economico Mexicano and the
| waste-management company Republic Services.
|
| Gates has invested in several energy ventures, including ethanol producer
| Pacific Ethanol and PNM Resources, a utility based in Albuquerque, NM.
| Another investment, Minnesota-based Otter Tail Corporation (NASD: OTTR),
| provides electric power, as well manufacturing and health services.
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http://news.muckety.com/2008/04/27/the-bill-gates-portfolio-beyond-microsoft/2431
Gates Foundation’s Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agency’s policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
Bill Gates fund reports 12.8 pct PlanetOut stake
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| Bill Gates' investment fund Cascade Investment LLC reported in a regulatory
| filing on Friday that its holds a 12.8 percent stake in the common stock of
| online media company PlanetOut Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1331033020070713?rpc=44
More on Troy Wolverton, the Street, and Apple Scandal
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| MediaNews did buy the Mercury News with a loan from Bill Gates' foundation,
| and is in the process of paying back that loan by publishing information
| without much journalistic or technical integrity.
|
| Specifically, I wrote “One might think that the San Jose Mercury News, being
| located in Apple's backyard, would tend to trumpet the company's success. One
| would be wrong... Apple's corporate proximity to San Jose is trumped by the
| Mercury News’ need to publish low cost, highly sensational news to make
| enough money to pay back Bill Gates for the favor of his humanitarian loan.”
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/082663E0-6FD8-4F1D-909F-1BC72833AD02.html
Openwave's unit Musiwave to be acquired by Microsoft for $46 mln
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| Microsoft will also assume the net debt of Musiwave as part of the deal. As
| of Sept. 30, 2007, Musiwave had a net debt of about $4 million.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idESWNAS262220071115?rpc=44
http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
Gates sold 100,000 Univision shares-SEC filing
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| The foundation said it sold its remaining stake in Univision,
| which is in the process of being acquired by private investors,
| for an average of $35.34 per share in open market transactions.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsmlreuters.com:20070105:MTFH49951_2007-01-05_22-11-13_N05298823&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yll88p
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
Spying the Gates Foundation: Diversified Holdings Stay Ahead of Market Weakness
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| The foundation made moves in other sectors during Q3, as well, adding shares
| in Caterpillar and Canadian National Railway, while maintaining
| stakes in energy giants Exxon Mobil and BP.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/indie/071126/1004_id.html?.v=1
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
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