The CRN.com News Quiz -- July 2011

OpenStack, the open-source cloud initiative, turned one year old this month, and won new commitments from HP and Dell. Who leads the OpenStack project?

EMC
GoDaddy
Rackspace
VMware

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It's hard to get good help. Which vendor brought back their old CEO after firing their current one?

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Logitech
Netgear
Samsung
Viewsonic

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Nobody wants a bad Mango. Who released the "Mango" version of their smartphone operating system to manufacturers this month?

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Apple
Google
Microsoft
Nokia

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It's hard to get good help, part two. This company has been without a CEO for over six months, but still managed to report a profit in the second quarter.

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AMD
Avaya
Juniper
McAfee

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Not as anonymous as they thought. What country arrested 14 alleged Anonymous hackers this month, in connection with a DDoS attack on PayPal?

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Canada
Germany
United Kingdom
United States

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Things are tough all over. Which was the only company to not announce significant layoffs this month?

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Cisco
Extreme Networks
Fortinet
RIM

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And it's not a tablet! Who is reportedly planning to release the first ever "Ultrabook" form factor client device in the third quarter?

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Acer
HP
Lenovo
Toshiba

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Patents, we got patents! Who, along with their partners, paid $4.5 billion for 6,000 Nortel networking patents?

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Alcatel/Lucent
Apple
Google
Intel

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Knock knock. Who's there? A lot of tablets. A lot of tablets, who? Which of these tablets didn't go on sale in July?

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HP Touchpad
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Sony S1
Toshiba Thrive

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Nature abhors a vacuum. Since Oracle stopped supporting HP's Itanium servers, who has jumped in with their own Itanium database product?

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Microsoft
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Sybase

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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:

OpenStack Turns One; What's Next For The Open Source Cloud?

Dell Goes Open With OpenStack-Based Cloud Infrastructure

HP Pledges Allegiance To OpenStack Cloud

Logitech CEO Quindlen Out, Former Leader Back In

Microsoft Releases 'Mango' Windows Phone Update To Handset Makers

Interim AMD CEO Seifert: 'I'm Not Just Warming A Chair'

FBI Arrests 14 Alleged 'Anonymous' Members For PayPal DDoS Attack

RIM To Cut 2,000 Jobs, Shake Up Executive Roles

Cisco To Cut 6,500 Jobs, Execs Hit Hardest