A critical bug in VMware’s virtualization software allows attackers to move beyond a guest operating system and modify or add files to compromise the underlying host OS, the company acknowledged. At the company’s VMworld show, meanwhile, management tools take center stage. Startup Metaram today is unwrapping technology that overcomes traditional server memory limitations to enable users to quadruple memory – and that without new hardware. SAP ships more than 50 enterprise service bundles, which are essentially sets of existing interfaces packaged in a variety of ways to address specific business processes, while the apps vendor, in conjunction with Microsoft, said they will target the healthcare industry with Duet, their joint software that integrates Microsoft’s Office with SAP’s ERP. And, Microsoft’s promises to be more open and to make interoperability easier for competitors just might be genuine this time around, if only because, in the words of one industry analyst, it is now costing the company more to be proprietary than it would to be open. Is Microsoft turning over a new leaf? Software Development