Peanut butter manifesto scribe seeking to raise $150M venture fund?
Update: Brad Garlinghouse has gotten in touch and given us his new email address, which has SilverLake Partners in the domain name, implying he has some sort of job at that private equity firm. He wouldn’t comment on his exact position. He did say the article below is inaccurate, but wouldn’t elaborate much. This may suggest any such plans to raise a fund may have been put off. He wouldn’t comment on whether he’d worked… Continue Reading
Azul’s boat rocks, but raises $40M to take on Sun
Azul Systems, a hard-charging Silicon Valley company that wants to knock Sun off its perch by providing a more efficient server processor to run popular Java applications, has raised $40 million in financing.
This company rivals football player Terrell Owens in generating controversy, though. It got sued by Sun last year (see coverage; scroll down) for not properly licensing some technology, after already tense relations caused by Azul’s hiring of about a dozen former Sun employees…. Continue Reading