Mood:  suave

There's nothing quite so humorous as watching a non-swimmer splash around in the shallow end of the pool. Except when it's an adult who doesn't care how silly people think he is as long as he can keep them out of the pool to begin with.

That's the aim. 

By: tepe
14 May 2007, 06:54 PM EDT
Msg. 185210 of 185216

This should shed some light on the patent infringement suit. It's not all "in the bag" like some think.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070425-microsoft-accused-of-patent-infringement-with-net.html

Vertical Computing describes itself as a company that "provides administrative software, Internet core technologies, and derivative software application products through its distribution network." Essentially it is a web services company. Its primary product, SiteFlash, is a commercial content management system that uses XML to publish and maintain web sites. On the SiteFlash information page, Vertical Computing takes special care to mention that it is covered under US patent #6,826,744.

The patent itself, like many software patents, uses vague language to describe "a system and method for generating computer applications in an arbitrary object framework." The patent involves creating "objects" in a web-based application. These objects are managed throughout their life cycle in an object library and put together to create complex, interactive web applications. The whole mechanism separates design, function, and content so that each can be developed separately.

To anyone who has some knowledge of web-based software development, it sounds a lot like what Sun's Java or Apple's WebObjects were doing before .NET was even released. In fact, the patent even admits as such: "Prior art solutions have succeeded in partially separating some of these functions. Notably, content management databases and digital repositories provide a means of separating content from form and function." It then defends the need for this separate patent with the incredibly vague assertion that "content management tools typically fail to address form/function issues."

I've used a few content management tools in my time, and none of them have failed to separate content from function—that's basically the entire point of content management systems. The patent goes on to claim that "changes in design or content do not require the intervention of a programmer." Again, it's difficult to see how this is different from any other existing solutions, many of which predate Vertical Computing's efforts.

Even if the patent did describe functionality that was unique to products like SiteFlash, it will be difficult to argue that Microsoft's .NET frameworks are infringing on these ideas.

A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars Technica that the company "has not yet been served with a copy of the lawsuit and that it would be premature for us to comment."

Like I've said for a long time, software patents are pretty hard to enforce. I hope Vertical wins this, but I'm not holding my breath.


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  A Hollow Head Makes A Lovely Vase 

Imagine. According to the patent expert here (who knows nothing of the software or technology) Microsoft has nothing to fear. And yet Microsoft still won't introduce their products. And our little expert is still all by himself... alone...

And let him answer this  I wrote specifically to counter the numbnut developers with bias and self-interests:

Port's Reply to SiteFlash Patent Challenge

...and when you're done there move on to here. He won't follow. 

Is XML Enabler Agent Patent Infringement next?

Now. Compare THAT to the 'expert' in the first post... and consider agendae and motive. 

And THEN he has the desperate gall to try to comment on the Charles Northrup patents LOL I've covered Northrup's work already here

... so after the fire engine companies left we ate Mrs.O'Leary's pet bovine.

but you should see what our expert has to say since apparently he refuses to read anything I write...

By: tepe
14 May 2007, 07:10 PM EDT
Msg. 185218 of 185223

Northrup's Latest Patent: Legitimate or Just "A Silly Claim"?

(April 23, 2003) - In an odd twist, even though the WWW was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and the first public release of a WWW client and server was in 1991, such 'prior art' (as it is known in patent circles) seems not to have discouraged New Jersey-based Charlie Northrup from claiming patent number 6,546,413 ['Access Method Independent Exchange Using a Communication Primitive']. The result - for the US Office of Patents and Trademarks granted it after many years of deliberation - according to many commentators including Maureen O'Gara of LinuxGram, is that Northrup now holds the patent on nothing less universal than what we now call 'Web services.'

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/40611_f.htm

Read the commentary on this website. My fear is that VCSY's patent is similar to this. There are a lot of "bogus" patents out there, whether you pumpers want to believe it or not.

If the patent is good, VCSY will prevail regardless of what's posted here.

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Read Pilgrim. You will learn. Of course, not if you listen to "experts: such as our little friend. Ask him how much he knows about the subjects he's commenting on. Go ahead... _ask.

RapidRobert offers information on Microsoft moves with open-source from the past. http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=185232

Just a small example of what is in the post:

Microsoft denies Ballmer Linux 'warning'
Tags: Windows, Linux, Microsoft
Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK

Published: 23 Nov 2004 17:05 GMT

Microsoft has denied reports that it warned Asian governments that they will face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software.

At the Microsoft's Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Linux violates more than 228 patents and that companies will be at risk of legal action if they use Linux, according to Reuters. 

"Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO [World Trade Organisation], somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property," said Ballmer, according to the Reuters report.

A Microsoft spokesperson said that in the presentation Ballmer had merely passed on the information from a study carried out by a pro-Linux third party.

"The reporter got it wrong. This was not a Microsoft report nor is this a Microsoft 'warning'," said the spokesperson. "Steve [Ballmer] was referring to a study done by the Linux community group Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), a pro-free and open-source software organisation."

But Dan Ravicher, the author of the OSRM study and the executive director of the Public Patent Foundation, criticised Microsoft for using soundbites from the report.

"Balmer makes a very bold statement by saying 'Linux infringes X patents', which is much different than saying 'Linux potentially infringes X patents', as the requirement to prove infringement is much stiffer and more difficult than the requirement to simply file a case claiming infringement," said Ravicher. "As the SCO saga shows, filing a case based on an allegation is one thing, proving the merits of the allegation in court is something completely different."

Ravicher added that he feels Microsoft's customers are more at risk of being sued for patent infringement than those who use open-source.
"Not a single open-source software program has ever been sued for patent infringement, much less be found to infringe, while proprietary software, like Windows, is sued and found guilty of patent infringement quite frequently," said Ravicher. 

Useful background stuff that puts the bear's dance into a stage with music. November 2004... where have I heard that date before?

Oh, my, this is going to be deliciously wicked.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 7:40 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007 11:20 PM EDT

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VCSY Filing Delayed Five (5) Days

Those poor people they can't never seem to be able to scrape up a few quarters to put something in the mail. I guess we'll wait a few more days.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1099509/000114420407025077/0001144204-07-025077-index.htm
The Registrant has experienced delays in resolving legal matters and accounting issues associated with the Company's material subsidiary, Now Solutions, Inc., which are material to the Registrant's financial statements. As a result, Registrant’s accounting department requires additional time to accumulate and review its subsidiaries’ financial information in order to complete the consolidation process, and cannot, without unreasonable effort and expense, file its Form 10-QSB on or before the prescribed filing date. Registrant expects to obtain all required data within the next several days and, as a result, expects to file the Form 10-QSB within five days after the prescribed filing date. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:19 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007 5:27 PM EDT

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Mood:  not sure

Totally unrelated as far as we can see to the discussion at hand but I thought it useful to note this: Just farting around, mind you, but I got me some twine and I took this electronic paper and I tied it to this information website and presto bingo you got a newpaper that never gets dull. 

While there is no obvious line to VCSY we do have to consider that the Inform product seems to reverese engineer into a description of a Siteflash system essentially built around something like McAuley's original NewFlash.I've also seen something similar called SalesHound that would marshal the "local information hub" value of community news organizations and apply that to a community advertising base and facilitiation for local businesses oriented within the online version of the local newpaper entity.

So, understanding we're only shopping right now, take this: 

LG.Philips unveils world's first colour e-paper display

And slap that with this:

And you got the answer to carbon footprint in the newspaper industry. Save trees and feel yourself a super hero.

August 2006 is an interesting turnaround for Inform.com seeing as they tried a demo in late 2005 that was disastrous. Amazing turnaround in less than a year. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:03 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007 5:16 PM EDT

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Mood:  a-ok

Much thanks to Bob Jr commenting to http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/05/blasts-from-future.html over at the Laughing Place #3 site

 If you like Microsoft, you're not going to like this. Not my fault. Not my words. Not even my damn server. It's all virtual. That's why patience is a virtue. It plugs a body in to the arbitrariness of time and enables the mind within to not become paralyzed with indecision or fear (same same).

May 14th, 2007

Why Microsoft hasn’t sued (yet)

Microsoft continues to make its claim that Linux violates its patents.

Chief counsel Brad Smith told Fortune last week open source violates 235 Microsoft patents.

It reminds me of some of the lists Joe McCarthy used to wave back in the day.

Software patents are not described in patent law. They entered our law through court cases, and the Supreme Court itself has yet to rule on a claim of this type. The most important case law on this is less than 10 years old.  

The Supreme Court's most recent ruling on patents indicates a general toughening of standards, based on the idea that they should accelerate invention, not hinder it. Vonage is now trying to get the Supreme Court to rehear its lost case with Verizon based on the ruling.  

Since courts are the source of this right Microsoft claims to have, it is very tenuous. It can be taken away by a court, or it can be overriden by a Congressional rewrite of patent law.

So in the end this is a political struggle. Microsoft knows this and is fighting it in a political way.

The Novell agreement, and all the cross-licensing agreements which have followed, are political efforts. Many big companies, starting with those in the Open Invention Network, oppose the ideas Microsoft is putting forth, so by getting big firms to sign papers — any papers — Microsoft hopes to remove them as political foes.

But time is not on Microsoft's side, and the cost of its intransigence keeps rising. Its ballyhooed Silverlight technology is going to bomb like Bob because many developers will simply refuse to deal with a Microsoft product, due to its stance on patents and Linux.

Microsoft is fast becoming the new SCO. The SCO vs. IBM case, by the way, is now at trial.

My opinion is that Microsoft is engaged in a software patent cold war with IBM, which previously made billions of dollars by licensing its patents before Microsoft got into the game. IBM's quiet response in 2004 was to release 500 of its patents, royalty free.

The idea that all this in the end may be a Microsoft vs. IBM battle and that this time IBM will win is just one of the many delicious ironies here. It's just a pity we're all caught in the crossfire.

"...The idea that all this in the end may be a Microsoft vs. IBM battle and that this time IBM will win is just one of the many delicious ironies here...." By George, I think he's got it!

The fact that IBM is such an open-source proponent will not be lost on the small vendors and inventors and developers who will see an example as to how a large corporation should play with partners and friends.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 3:27 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007 3:41 PM EDT

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FIGHT

Mugsy Moron v Bouncing Baby Joe 

Fifteen Rounds of Punishing Pugilistics by the Pundits of Puckery

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

For those of you dreading the fight? It's already over given the arguably furtive activity in .Net development available in news items alone. Somebody like Our Very Own Troll is in a fine place with many more resources the treeforters can only dream of. If we can put a circumstantial argument together in only a few posts given trivial random examples in internet news items, what in the world can a Nex/Lex sift come up with? And affidavits, Mein Gott dem affidavitsgeshoven... Vas das shitz?

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 11:13 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 13 May 2007 11:23 PM EDT

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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

"We live in a world where we honor, and support the honoring of, intellectual property,..." Steve Ballmer

"But!"
 

Well, some of us do, but Microsoft has demonstrated by their actions they do not. 

Essentially the comment in the blog post before this one tells us Emily was working with Java several years ago while Microsoft was actively working to duplicate the same kind of effort with Sun and Java during that time. I would not doubt Microsoft shadowed Emily development every step of the way... but, there's a problem here. Microsoft hid that development away after VCSY won the patent. The verbiage of Microsoft market-speak studiously avoided particular discussions and demonstrations of how they were accomplishing some of the hottest developments they were to be including in Longhorn, Yukon and a host of other projects that have been since gutted.

Since gutted. 

That's the first example of mens rea ( www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Mens_rea ) in that it may be shown Microsoft knew they were violating an intellectual property rule of some kind by shadowing the development of the dynamic very high level language Emily from at least 2001 through 2007.

They now come to a 'cease and desist' after believing all along VCSY would not survive as a business and they would have the advantage of head start on anything VCSY gave up during the expected bankruptcy.

Just one problem: VCSY didn't go bankrupt as planned.

Now Microsoft faces a patent judgment out of the blue ... unexpected, as it were ... one that will force them to pay according to their mental state as demonstrated in the past six years of .Net development and deployment.

They, in turn, must defend themselves by having the patent system declared non-valid.

Ordinarily, I would think VCSY would be quaking in their boots, even though the thought of Microsoft making good on their "promise" to sue seems ludicrous, the specter at being within the eye of such a storm can be daunting to anyone. VCSY is small. They have no protection beyond the courts. They have a history that far outshines Microsoft in the ability to deliver on a particular technological architecture they happen to have pioneered all through the dotcom era up to a point of maturation where they are ready to apply what they know to the world at large.

and an arrogant bumbling giant dances in with a tutu and a wand thinking they can make everyone think they've been doing the same thing for years.

If they have really been DOING it for years and they thought it really belonged to THEM THEY would be doing all that IBM and THEIR partners are.

Were that you Microsoft folks really did stand by the words you utter. Your representative, Mister Ballmer, says you all stand by the ethics of property and fair play. We shall see and we shall hear in the courts just what you've been doing all along. THEN I think the whole issue of intellectual property among deceitful hands will be demonstrated quite succinctly and glaringly.

The word is clear... if you are an inventor, Microsoft considers your software developments to belong to them because they are the biggest and they can hurt you and your friends and customers the most. 

Microsoft's ability via money shield to say one thing and do another is what the courts a hundred years ago had to deal with in terms of non-competitive monopolies and "control by size" tactics of the oil industry. If Howard Hughes' dad had not been protected by patents for drill bits (HELL It's just tiny shovels on a stick! How can you patent something like that?) there would be no aviation pioneer who's companies furthered the cause of technological freedom. That is what a patent can do in the right hands. And there are so few "right hands".

VCSY technology is on the forefront of actuation virtualization: the ability to hook all these proprietary industrial automation systems to a virtualized supervisor. The industry may go ahead and steal it from VCSY but the number of educated longs will make it one stinky fight, that's for sure.

 Microsoft may have all companies worried, but I would say to them, Fear not. Let not your hearts be troubled. You know they wouldn't be blowing a header valve like this if they weren't under enormous pressure. Let the beans boil on the pot and stop up the relief valve. Just stnad back when it blows/ Hot beans. Bad for the complexion.

Ballmer can always be counted on to act like an emotional twelve year old. This time he's going to defend himself from VCSY patent infringement by threatening to blow up the world.  My advice is to throw a cold glass of water in his face, take the broomstick away from him and send him to bed without supper. That's how you deal with a tantrum and one can just see the popped veins in Mister Ballmer's neck as he strains to shake the foundations of the earth... in the face of a tiny tiny little threat.

Such a shame. Such a juvenile lunge at first base. And the umpire of history is shaking his head.

Let's all watch just how much power Microsoft has against the open source world now. By admitting he has a puckered puker at the prospect of the VCSY patent threats, now Mister Ballmer has invited the circling sharks to begin tearing chunks out of Microsoft's reputation and image. They couldn't imagine it could be true so the quiet path would have worked a bit longer, I think. But, maybe there is no “longer” for him and he realizes he's cut Microsoft out of the Virtualization derby.

We still have a hardware patent that secures VCSY's place in history in the single fiber optical image transmission patent by Cruz.

Look, there... just over the horizon. Charles Northrup's patents can easily be seen as a corollary to the fiber optical system for some fantastically advanced autonomous intelligence systems... even without the VCSY software patents. The VCSY software patents embody a work done by the original thinkers in this area.

If VCSY's work does not count for unique and expert and novel, there are no new developments in software worthy of protection. 

If so, then, the no-patents world is right and nobody should make any money off the software they write. There's only one problem... the open-source world has been struggling and fitfully advancing through one dead end ringer after another... always doing what any designer and developer without a plan will do. That's acceptable when an individual inventor does so and comes up with something  that works eventually. But, when 'the inventor' is a mass of wannabees and noblets trying to feel up an elephant for a cameo view, the delay is intolerable. The cost to business is in productivity via enhancements to virtualization and arbitration. Something that has been with-held (and I say with-held by design) from the world at large due to Microsoft's inability to swallow the pill and introduce the supremo maximo XML software "work" they had been doing. Up to now no dice. No show. No cigar. No merchandise. Yes we have no bananas. Sorry Merv. It's just a pattern of alphabetic characters that anybody could assemble so give it up. All them quarters in the jukebox. Give 'em up and you can keep the casinos.

Silly duplicitous bastards. 

Why are we only now coming to the 'open-source' understanding and development in what SiteFlash and MLE have demonstrated? Have they been working in the dark? Did they not look at the patents? So they are only now "inventing it" in their shops? And what do we say to Mister McAuley and Mister Davison who were doing what you little titty-twisted-tadpoles are doing now back when you were peeing on your tricycle seat?

"Hey! I was doing that back in ought three!". Yeah? Did you bother to write it down and expend the energy to pursue a patent? Well, they did. And now you thieving little hyenas want to be able to do what the geniuses do with a 40 watt light bulb in an "Edison" socket.

You whining little mass of fleas looking for another dog to suck. Try being the first recorded with the US government administration tasked with recording intellectual property and then we will deign your words worthy of being considered by the true intellectuals in the world. The people who actually DO what all of the rest of your chicken lips peck at.

If an honest review of both VCSY patents are conducted, I would ask all participants to point out the machinery, computers, systems... whatever hardware that first demonstrated these "algorithms" at work and please award the prize for having achieved a novel invention to them.

And, while you're at it, would you please tell all the folks who write those other algorithms called "music" the thought police and the large corporations will be coming for them next. Why should THEY have to pay somebody who thought this stuff up? People have been whistling tunes like these for years!

Fools and blind. 

Numbchucks and nuglets all piled in a coconut shell and powered by greed and fear and envy to lusting. 

I think Microsoft's reaction in the above Ballmer Blowout demonstrates Microsoft's utter desperation at understanding what mens rea "is". That means they understand the law, their role in upholding the law, their perceived role in public as regards the things the VCSY intellectual property can produce (they were great guns for it up to 2004 then after that they feared saying), and when finally caught in a triangulation of their own makings (they DID make the first deal wit a Linux company by PAYING the Linux company Novell, did they not? Why? To save a failed interoperability project for Walmart by obfuscating and shifting the interoperations to a non-offending paradigm, namely Novell... The same Novell that knew much more about the pioneer work by Davison and McAuley because THEY WERE IN THE SAME FRICKING DISCIPLINES YOU NUMBSKULLS... as opposed to the Microsoft partners that knew about as much about network connectivity and distributed architectures as the Lone Ranger knew how to pack a wigwam. Just because you live close by and some of your friends do it, doesn't mean you know anything at all about the matter. Pack one in public and we'll talk..

That's the ace up the sleeve that would always prevent VCSY from being run into the ground by larger entities. That's why I believe Wade has it in his hot chubby habds.

It's a talisman to ward off the evil gnomes... so the gnome in chief, out of bitter frustration and as a "cry for help" to the world at large, turns to rend the townspeople for letting him get into this predicament. All our fault! All our fault!

One problem... VCSY have it and they have the patents and we will ALL have to trash the entire patent system to avoid poor Microsoft and their accomplices having to admit they wanted to steal the property of a very small company and their embattled shareholders.

My, my, my. Yes, yes, yes... the American legal system is a fine place to decide whether patents should be granted and stolen... or just gained by repression and duress.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 10:05 PM EDT

Updated: Monday, 14 May 2007 7:27 PM EDT

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Mood:  accident prone

After poking around in the old symmetry I think I found uncle earnest's tombstone. We're going to have to get a crane to move the house somebody built over it, but the encryptions are plain enough to see.

R.I.P
VCSY Intellectual Property
2000-2002

In Memorium 

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/Apr02/04-10UmbrellaPR.mspx 

Oh what a sad day...

Color me Occupied 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:53 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 13 May 2007 2:59 PM EDT

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First, I didn't want you to miss out since you're new.

Second - This may be NO LIE:

Here's is a nifty little piece describing what's going to happen to XMLhttpRequest aka AJAX core and all that work that went on ... behind Microsoft's back. How could they know? How could they have all known?

May 8, 2007
Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX?

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:43 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 13 May 2007 2:43 PM EDT

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Microsoft is fronting web-based data storage. Remember the patent Microsoft had that was supposed to mean they 'owned XML'? It was a patent for automating folders... Is this what they're able to field without stepping on IP toes?

REMEMBER?

February 12, 2004
Microsoft Locks Up XML Patent
By Alexander Wolfe
The speculation as to whether Microsoft (Quote) intends to patent XML (define) technology is over.

Microsoft has been granted United States patent  6,687,897 for "XML script automation."

The patent, awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on February 3, appears to deal with basic XML functionality. Specifically, it describes a method for unpacking multiple scripts contained within a single XML file.

According to the application filed by Microsoft, the patent involves "systems, methods and data structures for encompassing scripts written in one or more scripting languages in a single file."

"The scripts of a computer system are organized into a single file using Extensible Language Markup (XML)," Microsoft's patent document continues.

The document explained that each script is delimited by a file element and the script's instructions are delimited by a code element within each file element. When a script is executed, the file is analyzed to create a list of script names or functional descriptions of the scripts.

more at URL

Is THIS the party? Where's the snacks? Is this punch?

http://liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/05/12/windows-live-folders-beta-review.aspx

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Windows Live Folders beta - more info

As the last post on Windows Live Folders got a bit too long, here's further information on the Windows Live Folders service. Click to enlarge the screenshots.

After the intial signin to the service, the user is presented with the Folders homepage, showing the 3 folder types that can be created, as well as some default folders and a storage capactiy meter. After creating your own folders, these will appear on your homepage too. My storage meter says 250MB for the time being the beta should have more.

Windows Live Folders it not a difficult to use service, folder creation is straightforward, as it the uploading of files. Microsoft is aiming Windows Live Folders towards a large as market as possible, so the basic procedures need to be simple to promote adoption amongst the less tech-savy. The use of ajax to create new folders is nice, though the rest of the site could do with a little too. As we've seen with Windows Live Hotmail though, too much of a good thing can be bad.

more at URL

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 7:29 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 12 May 2007 7:33 PM EDT

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Mood:  hug me

Bubbles come in various forms and not all are made of soap.

A bubble is a minimal-energy surface ...

And if you read this temporal layer cake you get to see the frosting is something that thawed out.

This is why Apple Leopard was rumored to be delayed the first time circa Mar 23, 2007. The 'rumor' proved to be true.

The date here is shortly after Microsoft shut down UDDI (formally along with IBM and SAP back in December 12, 2005 I know the article says December 16 but an original announcement had the December 12 date. Then, consider when UDDI was actually shut down being less than 30days from a projected January 16. Odd, isn' tit. There's a ton of those.) circa January 12, 2006.  UDDI defined.

Microsoft working with Apple on future of Virtual PC

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

In an article of AppleInsider the General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft, Roz Ho said; “Virtual PC 7 remains the top emulation software for Mac PowerPC users. However, applications like Virtual PC that are highly dependent on the OS will not run under Rosetta”,
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IBM has since demonstrated aggressive moes in virtualization, having the first and, as of yet, only Native XML.unstructured/strudctured hybrid database DB2 9 (codename Viper first google on db2 viper blog) .

IBM DB2 now also available is a Virtual Machine

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

The list of Virtual Appliances is growing and growing Not only small apps are being made available as Virtual Appliances, IBM is now also offering the best database server on this planet available in a Virtual Machine A prepacked SuSe with IBM DB2 installed. Jippie

IBM DB2 Virtual Appliance

Here is the historical milemarker where Leopard took on the virtualization spots.

Next MacOS to include Virtualization Software :-)

Friday, March 24th, 2006

According to reliable sources is the next MacOS “Leopard” ready for virtualization. This should allow users to run osX and Windows at the same time

MacosXrumors is telling this news and often they have been right. Read more about it here
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Here is the historical milemarker where Microsoft changed their virtualization spots.

Daylight follows a dark night.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Suddenly from the dark, the big Microsoft has awakend to the virtualization needs of their customers. From today Virtual Server 2005 R2 is available for free, it will support Linux operating systems, has Virtual Machine Additions available for Red Hat and SuSe and becomes an ‘open standard’ company by providing the masses with a (licensed) […]

And they seemed to go with virtualization in a big way

Microsoft diving deeper into Virtualization by buying Softricity

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Microsoft is really starting to take virtualization serious. Besides working on their own hypervisor, they are now also looking at application virtualization. They are in talks with Softricity to buy them, giving them an application virtualization technology that directly competes against Citrix’s Tarpon technology. According to some sources the deal is almost completed.

CRN and […]

A real big way.

Virtual Machine Orderline System made by Microsoft :-)

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Microsoft is developing their new System Center Virtual Machine Manager, one of the key new feathers of this product is a self-service provisioning system

According to the microsoft product page: Virtual infrastructure is commonly used in test and development environments where there is consistent provisioning and teardown of virtual machines for testing purposes. This […]

Microsoft offering unlimited Virtual Machine Licensing for Windows Datacenter

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Microsoft already earlier announced that they would only charge a license per 4 windows 2003R2 running virtual machines. Now they are making it even more simpler. For customers that buy a Windows Server Datacenter Edition, they can run an unlimited number of Windows Server Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter virtual machines on a single physical […]

And they looked like they were doing good.

Microsoft releases their first ‘Virtual Appliance’!

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Yep, you are reading it right! Of course we can not freely distibute the Microsoft Windows operating system in a virtual machine, but if you are Microsoft yourself you can do what ever you want So Microsoft has decided to release their Visual Studio Orcas as technology preview in a Virtual Machine. Of course […]

And even the poor people will be heppy.

OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) now available as Virtual Appliance

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Well the machines just started rolling out of the factories, but if you are interested to know what the childeren in the poor african countries will have to their disposal, you can check out the OLPC as a virtual appliance. Tom Hoffman has made the OLPC images available on his blog.

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But, then, something happened. VCSY longs believe the following comes after Microsoft received a 'cease and desist' on grounds of infringement by .Net (and thus all the products produced by .Net) against a VCSY patent US 6,826,744 . The consensus is that another VCSY patent and one pending even more severely impact Microsoft .Net and other Microsoft operations. Of course all of this is conjecture until somebody walks up to the microsophone and says 'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Knowing the history of  January 15th, 2006 illuminates the following.

Apple reportedly to postpone Leopard to support Windows Vista

Ruby Huang, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Friday 23 March 2007]

Apple is expected to launch its next generation Leopard operating system (OS) in April, but according to industry sources, the release of the new OS will be postponed to October to allow Apple to make Leopard support Windows Vista through an integrated version of its Boot Camp software.

THAT was a rumor vociferously denied by all Apple contacts until this and that:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/13/top_secret_features_suspect_in_apples_leopard_delay.html

Top secret features suspect in Apple's Leopard delay

By Katie Marsal

Published: 12:00 PM EST

Apple Inc. has placed the blame for missing its self-imposed Leopard release date on its itty-bitty iPhone device, but analysts on Wall Street suspect other culprits -- such as a widely touted but so far elusive set of "top secret" features destined for the next-generation Mac OS.

Sure enough there was a gnat in the pudding. It festered a bit then came to a head.

Apple prepares surprise Leopard release for WWDC
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Triston McIntyre

Apple has informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that both the iPhone and Leopard have achieved “technological feasibility,” meaning they are near ready for a public release; is Apple planning a surprise full release of its groundbreaking operating system?

And where is Microsoft all this time?

May 10, 2007
Microsoft Viridian: Another Day, Another Delay
By: Clint Boulton

Less than a month after pushing back the delivery date for its Windows Server virtualization technology, Microsoft (Quote) today said that key features of the software will not be delivered in the second half of the year.

Viridian, a virtualization hypervisor (define), was supposed to arrive in the first half of the 2007 but was pushed to the second half of 2007.

Citing quality concerns, Viridian will not include Live migration, or hot-add resources for storage, networking, memory and processors, which allow developers to move, add or remove resources without taking the machine down, and it will limit support to 16 cores, or four quad-core processors.

Somebody's going to have to explain all this come Monday morning at the skeet range.

QUACK QUACK QUACK Color me Endangered

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition

I'm just an online pundit who's barely old enough to legally buy alcohol

Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy is Doomed To Fail

Published Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:24 PM by Robert McLaws
Filed under: Virtual Server, Windows Virtualization, Virtual PC

I don't think Microsoft is "in it to win it" with Virtualization anymore. Mike Neil, GM of "Virtualization Strategy" announced today that Microsoft isn't putting out a beta of Windows Server Virtualization until Longhorn Server RTMs (which is in November, the last I heard). On top of that, they're going to be cutting some of the features they touted the most in previous public demonstrations; features such as live migration, hot-adding resources, and support for extreme multicore.

Now, normally this wouldn't be a huge deal...

See body of article at URL 

...Actions are clearly speaking louder than words here, and Microsoft is headed for a really embarrassing loss.

There was a point when I was really excited about what Microsoft was doing with Virtualization. I'm not anymore. I can't afford to wait another year for a virtualization platform that's been delayed and castrated. I was just getting ready to deploy a new web server network on Virtual Server, in anticipation of WSV. Looks like I'm going to have to look into VMWare instead. XenSource is shipping now, maybe I should take a look at their platform too.

I had such high hopes.

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and why young Mister Robert is correct:

Virtualization as chunked by Microsoft: if-you-desire-illumination-on-this-and.html 

The Nuts and Bolts of Virtualization

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:51 PM EDT

Updated: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:12 AM EDT

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