In VMware's world, nothing is real. Well, some things are -- VMware's hypervisor,
its VMware server and certainly revenues, competition, customers and partners
are all pretty real. But VMware's business is all about making real things virtual,
and now the company is bringing its virtual revolution to a new territory.
This week, the EMC subsidiary introduced a hypervisor for mobile devices that
is the result of its recent acquisition of French developer Trango Virtual Processors.
Trango's app is now VMware's Mobile
Virtualization Platform, and the company is targeting mobile phone makers
with its new offering.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 12, 20080 comments
Sometimes there's just a lot of news that doesn't require a separate entry
for each announcement but nevertheless merits mention in RCPU. That's why you're
now smelling the warm, inviting aroma of...a product-news potpourri!
Dell, Seagate and McAfee have a new effort for full-disk
encryption.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 12, 20080 comments
The House that Ruth Built is just about gone, to be replaced by the house that...Steinbrenner?
Jeter? surely not Torre...built. Anyway, Cisco is going to be
doing
some cool stuff
in the new Yankee Stadium. Of course, RCPU's official position
on this is the same as its official position on all things New York Yankees:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (By the way, if you're a non-Yankees baseball fan, we'll warn
you that the lead paragraph of the story linked might cause you to vomit all
over your keyboard.)
Posted by Lee Pender on November 12, 20080 comments
Well, failures of
driver
installations
, to be specific...and printers in particular did not fare
well.
By the way, many thanks to those of you who have written to share your opinions
of Vista SP1 for
Redmond
magazine's reader review. We're a little late
following up with you (sorry about that), but someone from the magazine will
be in contact this week.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 11, 20080 comments
First things first before we travel halfway around the globe: We'd like to
wish a very happy Veterans Day to all and offer our sincere gratitude to all
those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Thank you for your service.
Now, let's travel to perhaps the most cliché-ridden place on earth:
Australia!
Does anybody else remember the "Simpsons" episode in which Bart goes
to Australia? (We can't find it on YouTube...sorry.) There's a funny montage
in it about Americans' brief
fascination with Australia in
the 1980s and all the hackneyed clichés and stereotypical
characters it gave birth to.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 11, 20080 comments
From the Somebody Must Care About This file comes a story about the
uncertain
status
of Windows Mobile 7.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 11, 20080 comments
Well,
one
says
, anyway...a blogger who takes a pretty long look at the successor to
the forlorn Windows Vista.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 06, 20080 comments
It's a tough time to be...well, anything in business right now, it seems. But
it's a really tough time to be a startup business, what with credit markets
still tight and so forth. But there's some hope for those companies trying to
get a technology infrastructure up and running, and it's coming from Microsoft.
BizSpark
is a program through which Microsoft is providing lots of technology and services
with no up-front costs to companies that are fewer than three years old and
earn less than $1 million per year in revenue. It's a shot over the bow of open
source for Redmond, which has at times in the past had trouble convincing small
companies that the total cost of ownership for Microsoft technology is less
than that of open source.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 06, 20080 comments
Don't press any panic buttons or anything, but some of the projections coming
out of mega-vendor Cisco
don't
sound too positive
-- even if they also shouldn't be too surprising.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 06, 20080 comments
So if Vista's got much better security than XP, what's posing a threat to the
pariah operating system? Uh,
Microsoft's
own ActiveX
, actually. And who's making that claim? Er...Microsoft. Yeah.
That's a little awkward.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 05, 20080 comments
It's called
Services
Connector
, which sounds like part of a highway off-ramp or something.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 05, 20080 comments