VMware sets IPO price, and Intel will invest
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| VMware, the EMC subsidiary that brought virtualization software to the
| mainstream, said Monday that it expects to raise $741.4 million in its
| initial public stock offering--and that Intel will supply another $218.5
| million.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6195596.html
Google to buy e-mail security company for $625 million
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| Google said on Monday it has agreed to acquire e-mail security company
| Postini for $625 million expanding its package of online applications
| to compete with Microsoft's Office software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6195408.html
Related:
MySQL CEO says IPO one step in long-term plan
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| The chief executive of database software developer MySQL AB said on
| Tuesday he intends to take his company public, though perhaps not this
| year.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070424:MTFH48583_2007-04-24_22-15-20_N24452475&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/3byzlm
The Year of Virtualization
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| I think that Windows will continue to succumb to Linux in the data
| center, MySQL and Postgres will continue to win projects that once
| fell to Oracle and DB/2.
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http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/162110_p.htm
Virtualization: Linux's killer app
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| Think about it. Even Microsoft supports running Linux on its Virtual
| Server product. Why would it do that? Wouldn't an OS partitioning
| technology, such as that used by OpenVz or Sun Solaris, be more in
| keeping with the kind of homogeneous environments that Microsoft
| would like to see? Why would Microsoft invest its resources to
| support a virtual machine technology that can only open the
| door to Linux in the datacenter?
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/19/08OPopenent_1.html
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