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by Maureen O'Gara

This is a year of firsts for Microsoft: its first wide-scale layoffs, its first drop in quarterly sales and earnings, and now its first debt offering. It sold five-, 10- and 30-year bonds Monday and raised $3.75 billion on the strength of its Triple-A credit rating from both Moody's and Standard & Poor's at negligible interest rates, barely more than government bonds fetch. It could have ... (more)

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SGI Defies Death – Again

by Maureen O'Gara

Having just bought poor old SGI out of bankruptcy, Rackable Systems said Monday that it’s changing its name and will call itself Silicon Graphics International, SGI for short, from now on. The Rackable name will become the brand used on x86 clusters. Rackable evidently figures that as tarnished as the once-iconic SGI brand has become over the years, it’s still better known and more valuab... (more)

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VKernel, whose virtual appliances manage VMware-based virtual server environments, has gotten a $7 million B round led by Longworth Venture Partners and joined by existing investors Hummer Winblad and Polaris Venture Partners. It got a first round worth $4.6 million a year ago. Its widgetry identifies bottlenecks on hosts, clusters and resource pools. It's planning to support Hyper-V and... (more)

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