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Who’s Your Daddy? IBM, Microsoft, HP
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008As one of those wacky year-in-review kind of things, I decided to waste a morning finding out who was the MacDaddy last year in patents issued. Go figure, IBM wins…
Company
Number of Patents in 2007
IBM
3192
Microsoft
1974
HP
1564
Sun
747
EMC
179
Oracle
177
SAP
155
Google
38
Yahoo
29
BMC
8
Services Baby Services #002
Monday, September 10th, 2007Is Dell (DELL) breathing down IBM’s (IBM) neck?
Dell, IBM, and EMC get it. Why don’t the VC’s?
ESM Executive Watchlist #2
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007I am not finding a lot of ESM executives to make fun of these days, and, even though my old friend Mark Lewis EVP/CDO at EMC seems to be the only one popping up on my radar, he is laughing all the way to the bank.
In his recent blog post, he complain about not […]
VMware shares surge after IPO debut
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007VMware shares surge following IPO debut - MarketWatch
VMware shares surge after IPO debut EMC spin-off raises almost $1 billion in initial trading
And its only lunch time…
Is Mark Shuttleworth the new Steve Jobs?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007My second and last day at LinxWorld and I didn’t get any of the things I planned to do done.  However, I did work with whurley, and Mark Hinkle to get the BarCampESM Austin thing going.  Whurley, Mark, and I also did a podcast for Cote’ about what’s happening at Linuxworld.  Should be on Cote’s […]
Capacity Utilisation
Saturday, August 4th, 2007MeasureIT - Issue 5.06 - Capacity Utilisation - Asking the Questions by Adrian Johnson
Analyst reports quote average capacity utilisation statistics of the server farms across the industry as being between 15-20% during working hours. No other corporate asset, such as real estate or manufacturing plant, would be allowed to continue at that
More on the VMware IPO!
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Cisco to put $150 million into the VMware IPO
My wife still won’t let me put up the house for this IPO. Darn!
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
A Realistic Assessment of the Performance of Windows Guest Virtual Machines by Mark Friedman and Stephen Marksamer
This guy will make your head hurt.  I know, I used to work for him. However, he really knows his stuff. In summary, he’s pointing out that Widows performance metrics on ESX guests are impacted by system timer […]
VMWare IPO - Q2 Tops Estimates, Sales grew …
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Need I say anymore about this IPO.Â
The bad news is my wife won’t let me sell the house to invest in the IPO. Oh, well!
More… VMware IPO
Thursday, July 19th, 2007IBM’s Strong Quarter Underscores Value of EMC’s VMWare Â
I have been saying this in a couple of financial blogs.  Investors (of which I am not one), keep saying that EMC is just trying to cash out due to increased competition from Zen and Microsoft. Balderdash!!!! Unless EMC and VMware are idiots this is a move to get […]
Is there real competition to VMware…. Not …
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007EMC: Is EMC Cashing in On VMWare Just in Time?
Is there real competition to Vmware…. Not …
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Friday, July 13th, 2007EMC Hints At VMWare IPO Date/Terms/Expectations & Sets Employee Exchange Ratios (EMC, VMW, INTC)
The final two full trading days of the Offer (unless the Offer is extended) will be August 2, 2007 and August 3, 2007. We prdicted a ’second week in August’ date as the likely IPO time back on June 27, which […]
Is VMware the next Google?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Ok, I was swapping channels on my hotel TV and when I just about to skip past that annoying guy who is always screaming something about stock prices and I heard the word VMware. So I decided to stick around a little bit. He was asking the question “Is VMware the next Google?â€. Now I […]
Virtualization
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Virtualization Newsletter Article
Early this year I wrote a newsletter article about virtualization for my Tivoli customers and I decided with all the hupala around the VMware IPO it might be worth dusting off.
Now I get it (EMC to IPO VMware)
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Intel invests $200 Million and EMC still owns and Vmware wants to start building thier own hypervisors. Talk about three companies that could make this happen!
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Intel Investing $200 Million in VMware
Forrester: VMware Will Continue to Dominate the x86 Market
