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HP announced that its entire line of thin clients is now certified for VMware View. The certification, which covers the Microsoft Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded and Linux operating systems, includes rigorous testing and quality assurance with VMware View for enhanced reliability and ease of deployment. HP is now offering Linux thin clients certified for VMware View Manager, an enterprise desktop management server that enables IT administrators to provision and control user access. Additionally, HP has claimed it is the only vendor to receive View Manager certification for Windows CE. HP offers a lineup of Windows and Linux-based thin clients that are ideally suited for VMware View deployments and deliver a range of performance and features to support a wide variety of user needs - from basic data entry to 3-D imaging and remote collaboration. The HP t5135 and t5145 ... (more)

HP Only Gets a Piece of Donatelli

A Massachusetts court has decided that the former president of EMC’s storage business, David Donatelli, until a few weeks ago the company’s number two guy in charge of the bulk of its ~$15 billion in revenues, can go to work for HP after all. He just can’t do the job he was hired for. HP hired him to run servers and storage – and because of the noise coming from Cisco’s direction, it threw in networking too. Few people this side of Cisco know more about Cisco’s plans than Donatelli because EMC and Cisco are as thick as thieves. But the judge, which entered an order proposed by EM... (more)

Customers Select HP and Oracle to Modernize Legacy Environments

 HP and Oracle, in collaboration with Intel Corp., announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures. Introduced last year, the Application Modernization Initiative is a comprehensive solution that helps businesses modernize their legacy environments to increase business agility and performance, reduce operational costs and lower risks. The initiative is a multi-vendor collaboration that delivers specialized hardware... (more)

HP Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Several Strategic Software Markets

HP announced it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant reports.(1,2,3) Gartner positioned HP in the leaders quadrant in the IT Event Correlation and Analysis, the PC Life Cycle Configuration Management and the Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets Magic Quadrant reports. According to Gartner, “Leaders” are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. IT Event Co... (more)

HP May Accidentally Kill Black Duck & Palamida

See, HP is open sourcing widgetry very much like theirs, widgetry that it developed for itself over the last seven years at the cost of "millions of dollars," it says, and 60 man-years work that sorts out the various licenses that govern open source software - imagine, there are 1,700 licenses in OpenOffice alone - and lets you know if said licenses have been tinkered with in any way. It calls it FOSSology and has made it available at FOSSology.org under the GPLv2. It's designed, it says, to address the acquisition, tracking and licensing of FOSS. It can detect code reuse and p... (more)