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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 07:36 AM EDT |
"Step 1: Wake up. Step 2: Check email. Step 3: See we're being sued for patent
infringement. Step 4: Smile," Notch wrote at Twitter. "Unfortunately for them,
they're suing us over a software patent. If needed, I will throw piles of money
at making sure they don't get a cent."
Popcorn on
order
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/21/patent-troll-targets-minecraft.h
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 23 2012 @ 04:38 PM EDT |
Source: Samsung Says Apple Refuses to Take 3G License
If this is true, I think it totally blows Apple FRAND defense out of
the water... you're supposed to at least ask for a license. One would think that
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 12:08 AM EDT |
Analyst firm Gartner has chosen just one word to describe Windows 8
for desktop users: “Bad”.
...
“We recently did a large field research
study and specifically asked all of our interviewees if they were looking at
Windows 8, most laughed. The fact is most enterprises are still trying to get
to Windows 7 and few enterprises are
ready for Windows 8.”
The
Register . Several other blogs repeat this meme, but that one word summary
seems to have already been
edited out of
Gartner's original . It evidently got up
Mr Bott's nose, which provoked a further retort from Dan
Eran's
roughlydrafted .
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 12:37 AM EDT |
Martin Casado started Nicira less than a year ago - the
world’s first
network virtualization company. Now VMware
has agreed to pay $1.26 billion in
cash and equity to acquire Nicira,
less than six months
after the startup officially announced its
existence.
Virtual networking: Using dumb switches, software
can
configure them how you want it. Combine that with VMs,
and you have a
software-defined data center. Think Ethernet
data inside Internet Protocol
packets - a $1.26 billion
idea. Why didn't I think of
that?
In starting the company, the trio sought to
create a
new breed of network that could be readily
programmed in much the same way we
program individual
computers. Traditionally, when you bought a piece of
networking hardware, such as a router or a switch, you
couldn’t really change
the software that shipped with it,
and this made it extremely difficult to set
up a company
network — or make changes once it was up and
running.
Working alongside various outside
researchers, Nicira built
something called OpenFlow, a
standard way of remotely managing network switches
and
routers. "Think of it as a general language or an
instruction set that
lets me write a control program for the
network rather than having to rewrite
all of code on each
individual router."
In short, it let companies
build extremely complex networks
that exist only as software.
This
made it easier to set up and configure a network, but
it also meant that
companies weren’t dependent on
traditional networking giants such as Cisco and
Juniper.
They could build these virtual networks atop commodity
network
hardware from any seller they chose. The hardware
was reduced to merely
forwarding packets to and fro. All the
complex logic was moved to
software.
Goodbye Cisco, and I hope that investment helps
VMWare
stay ahead of Microsoft, who last I read became a vexatious
competitor.
It is a long time since I read about the state
of competition between the two
companies, and I would
appreciate it if somebody in the know could bring me up
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