6 posts and columns on Viridian

OK. Short Straw Tells McNealy We're Now a 'Microsoft Certified Gold Partner'

in News on September 13, 2007 at 7:27 am PT

Sun Microsystems, whose co-founder and Chairman Scott McNealy once described Microsoft’s Internet Information Server as “the Corvair of Web servers–unsafe at any speed” has become a Windows Server OEM. Extending a partnership first struck in 2004, Sun will now resell and install Windows on its x86-based servers. For Sun, the deal is a way to [...]

OK. Short Straw Tells McNealy We’re Now a ‘Microsoft Certified Gold Partner’

in News on September 13, 2007 at 7:27 am PT

Sun Microsystems, whose co-founder and Chairman Scott McNealy once described Microsoft’s Internet Information Server as “the Corvair of Web servers–unsafe at any speed” has become a Windows Server OEM. Extending a partnership first struck in 2004, Sun will now resell and install Windows on its x86-based servers. For Sun, the deal is a way to [...]

HP Announces Pretexting Scandal 2.0

in News on August 16, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

VMware Suffering From Xen-ophobia

in News on August 15, 2007 at 1:01 pm PT

Well, VMware’s definitely going to get a run for its money now. Not 24 hours after the virtualization leader’s spectacular public offering, Citrix Systems said it would purchase open-source server virtualization outfit XenSource for $500 million in cash and stock. Five hundred million dollars. Quite a sum–especially when XenSource is burning through $15 million a [...]

Polish Up Those S-1 Filings, Folks. The Tech IPO Window's Wide Open …

in News on August 15, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

Looking over the trajectory of VMware’s IPO yesterday, you’d think we were still living in the go-go days of the late ’90s. Shares of the virtualization software-maker spiked nearly 76% in their first day of trading, defying the overall market slide and eclipsing Google’s historic 18% first-day gain in 2004. VMware’s shares ended the day [...]

Polish Up Those S-1 Filings, Folks. The Tech IPO Window’s Wide Open …

in News on August 15, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

Looking over the trajectory of VMware’s IPO yesterday, you’d think we were still living in the go-go days of the late ’90s. Shares of the virtualization software-maker spiked nearly 76% in their first day of trading, defying the overall market slide and eclipsing Google’s historic 18% first-day gain in 2004. VMware’s shares ended the day [...]