RHEV 3.0 Sets Stage for VMware Challenge - and my other links of the day

So, it's time for another links roundup. We'll be talking about VMware, Google and Facebook.

So, who has been discussing VMware? It was www.eweek.com who wrote an article called RHEV 3.0 Sets Stage for VMware Challenge.

What did they point out about VMware? Well...:

RHEV 3.0 and the MicrosoftWindows Server 8 release candidate both offer a challenge to the currently unrivaleddata center virtualization lead position held by VMware vSphere 5

and went on to say

The release of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 signals that 2012 will be the year that ITmanagers at organizations of all sizes have real choices to make when it comesto virtualizing workloads in the data center.

Facebook: http://facebook.com

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Next it's a site that's been writing about Facebook - The Man Who Predicted the Yahoo/Facebook IP War on Why Patents Still Matter [TCTV].

They said:

When news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took quite a few people by surprise - but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away

... sounds interesting ...

Erin-Michael Gill first publicly predicted a Yahoo/Facebook patent battle in an article published by Forbes.com back in November. Gill is currently managing director and chief intellectual property officer at MDB Capital, an investment bank that specializes in IP issues; his earlier rsum includes an appointment by the Obama administration to be Special Adviser to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. In short, the guy knows his stuff

Google: also known as The Big G

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Finally we have Android Welcomes Windows Phone 7 Competition from mashable.com, focussing on Google. Great things from them, particularly

It has now has, according to Google's Mobile and Digital Content division lead Andy Rubin, 300 million activations, with 850,000 new Android devices coming on line each day

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BARCELONA: Android is on a tear. . There are now at least 1,000 different Android devices in market and 450,000 apps in the Android Marketplace. All impressive numbers, which put the open source mobile OS in a leadership position. Still Google is not afraid to look in its rearview mirror where, interestingly, Google likes what it sees