PANASAS INCREASES EUROPEAN REVENUES BY OVER 55% AND EXPANDS TO MEET GROWING
INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL STORAGE MARKET
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| “A fundamental change is occurring in the large-scale computing landscape.
| The emergence of Linux clusters and the new generation of data-intensive
| parallel applications built to run on them is driving requirements for a new
| approach to scalable storage,” said Derek Burke, commercial director of
| Panasas Europe.
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http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=37268&hilite=
Security Blanket from Trusted Computer Solutions Exceeds Revenue Expectations
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| Security Blanket Experiencing Rapid Adoption by Providing Industry’s First
| Automated Tool to Lockdown Linux Servers
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080303005399&newsLang=en
Autodesk Lustre Extension 2 Improves Performance
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| Lustre 2007 Extension 2 (Linux) is based on a non-linear, data-centric
| software architecture and combines high-performance clustered CPU processing
| with GPU-acceleration.
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http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=72466
Days ago:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Related:
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Will Microsoft Survive the Next 10 Years?
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| I am not really an expert in this but when I read all the negative
| headlines and articles I ask myself if Microsoft really will survive
| the next 10 years.
|
| [...]
|
| I am pretty sure that the Open Source Community, the new Ubuntu,
| Google and of course Apple are those companies that are ready for
| our century and they will get more and more people that know what
| they really want.
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http://websquirrel.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-microsoft-survive-next-10-years.html
P. Graham: Microsoft is Dead
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| A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
| to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
| I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
| Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
| company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
| and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much
| girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
|
| Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite
| believe anyone would be frightened of them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
|
| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
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