Latest News from Raga Rao

HP Dumps High-End Archiving System

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

Hewlett-Packard quietly dropped the high-end version of its StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS) archiving widgetry seven months after it launched. HP's marketing director for ILM products and solutions Gary Lyng said Thursday that the 4TB version of the Linux-based appliance was discontinued in December.

Microsoft Loses Bid To Stay EC Order; Windows Will Be Unbundled in Europe

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

In a 91-page ruling, the president of the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg this morning rejected Microsoft's request to stay the European Commission's March 2004 antitrust remedies requiring it to offer European OEMs a version of Windows XP without the Windows Media Player in it and to license certain protocols to its competitors that would let non-Microsoft workgroup servers interoperate with Windows PCs. Microsoft said it will make the stripped-out version of Windows available to European OEMs in January and put it through the channel by February.

Opinion: IBM, Archetypical Capitalist, Sells Out; Gives China "An Important Landfall in the West"

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

'If Lenovo succeeds,' writes Raga Rao, 'it could upset the entire computer landscape, giving China an important landfall in the West.' By selling its loss-ridden PC unit to Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker partly owned by the communist Chinese government, in a complex $1.75 billion deal, Rao views the sale to Lenovo by IBM of its PC Unit as 'a tacit admission of failure by IBM, the archetypal capitalist that pioneered the personal computer two decades ago.' He adds a taboo question: 'None of the commentariat has bothered to ask whether the sale is inherently dangerous to Western interests.'

Money Earned at Microsoft Goes into Linux Start-up

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Paul Maritz earned a gazillion dollars running all of Microsoft's software development, becoming one of the richest men in America, according to Forbes, before retiring in 2000. And now he's turned traitor, putting his skills and his fortune at the disposal of - gad!!!! - Linux.

Covalent Breaks Apart; CEO, Top Execs Leave

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Apache commercializer Covalent - Apache being open source's pride and joy -has broken up into two separate entities and several top executives including CEO John Jack have left.