Links for August 23rd

• Developers unhappy over Oracle Android suit
  "Clearly, Oracle is a strong believer in software patents. And if they can use patents as a lever for revenue generation, they will," says RedMonk analyst Michael Cote
• Clearwire isn’t Even Halfway to its 4G Coverage Goals
  Clear is interesting to watch from a marketing perspective: they have high goals for customers and coverage and use all sorts of resellers, partners, and channel voodoo to (try and) get there. Wonder why you see Clear being sold everywhere?
• Let's Take a Closer Look at IBM's Systems and Technology Biz
  TPM says that IBM's hardware business is a dog, and they'll strap software on it to build a single-stack item which will, thanks to software, show profit: "My guess is that sometime in the not-too-distant future, IBM will talk about system revenues for System z, Power Systems, and System x products, adding the software and hardware together and showing a combined profit margin for the systems. This would be a way to keep people from seeing how unprofitable its basic hardware business is and to shift the focus to how profitable the systems are."
• The Data Center of the Future by Wall Street & Technology
  Quotes like this should be blood in the water to enterprise sales sharks: "Any time you build a new data center, you have a great excuse to do a technology refresh," notes Rubinow. "The mindless thing to do would be to move equipment from an old data center and rearrange it. We've been going to all the vendors of hardware, software, networking — we said, 'We're building a new data center and have the opportunity to change something.' We took the best of what they have. We'll have faster, smaller, more efficient equipment."
• The Cost of Computing: The Internal Combustion Mainframe
  If you're interested in discussions about computing power broken down by revenue, this is the story for you, e.g.: "An analysis of data from 21 sectors (inclusive of governments) and 133 companies across those sectors reveals that the average company has a computing capacity of about .37 million instructions per second (MIPS) and about .17 servers per $1 million of revenue, meaning the average $10 billion company would have a core platform of 3,700 MIPS and 1,700 physical servers."
• Oracle names self virtualization king
  "But sells the hodge-podge collection of server virtualization being peddled by its systems competitors way short. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, Dell, and every other server maker have an equally incompatible mess of server virtualization products. And in that regard, they are most certainly not only close to what Oracle provides, but they exceed Oracle."
• HP sharp-elbows Dell to bid for 3PAR • The Register
  HP raining on Dell's attempts to get more enterprisey.

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