Peter Galli

The SCO Group is expecting to earn at least $10 million in revenue in the current financial quarter from its newly created SCOsource licensing initiative, designed to derive new licensing programs and products from its intellectual property. While the company expects much of this revenue to be raised amicably, it is willing to litigate to […]

Some Microsoft Corp. customers who run Windows server software are expressing disappointment over the companys pricing plan for the upcoming Windows Server 2003. Considering the tough economic environment and cuts in corporate IT spending—as well as cheaper hardware platforms—some customers expected the Redmond, Wash., company to announce lower software prices. Those customers, who may not […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday formally announced the release of the second beta for its Office 2003 family of products, which is known by the code name Office 11 and is the upgrade to Office XP. That beta comes only days before Sun Microsystems Inc. releases the first beta of StarOffice 6.1 and follows last weeks […]

IBM on Friday responded to the $1 billion lawsuit filed against it by the SCO Group on Thursday, saying the suit is “full of bare allegations with no supporting facts.” IBM corporate spokesman Bill Hughes told eWEEK on Friday that company officials received a copy of the complaint “this morning and have not had a […]

The legal action the SCO Group brought against IBM on Thursday has nothing to do with Linux or the open-source community, Darl McBride, CEO and president of the SCO Group, stressed in a media conference on Friday morning. “This case is not about the Linux community or us going after them. This is not about […]

The SCO Group, which holds all the intellectual property rights to the Unix operating system, on Thursday filed suit against IBM for more than $1 billion in the State Court of Utah alleging that IBM made “concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the economic value of Unix, particularly Unix on Intel, to benefit IBMs new Linux […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will release the first beta of StarOffice 6.1 next week, further heating up the competitive war in the office desktop productivity market. News of the upcoming StarOffice 6.1 beta, which is focused on the corporate and enterprise customer, follows that from Corel Corp., which on Wednesday unveiled the first beta of WordPerfect […]

The office desktop productivity suite wars are heating up, with Corel Corp. on Wednesday unveiling the first beta of WordPerfect Office 11, which is expected to be available in North America late next month. For its part, Microsoft Corp. next week is expected to release the second beta for Office 2003, formerly code-named Office 11, […]

Microsoft Corp. is prepping the second beta of Office 2003 with new CRM-type features designed to attract more small and medium-size businesses, as well as other features to sway enterprises to upgrade. Beta 2 of Office 2003, the upgrade to Office XP, due by midyear, will include a new feature called Outlook 2003 with Business […]

Microsoft Corp. has again changed the product name of a shipping product. On Monday, the Redmond, Wash., firm said it was changing the name of its team collaboration technology, SharePoint Team Services, to Windows SharePoint Services. Microsoft said the change reflects its “commitment to providing strategic platform services that are designed specifically to improve information […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released the licensing and pricing options for its upcoming Windows Server 2003 family, which is slated for shipment in late April. The licensing model consists of a server operating system license and incremental Client Access Licenses (CALs) “and is designed to allow for complete scalability of your cost in relation […]

The Chinese government on Thursday signed up for Microsofts recently announced Government Security Program, which gives it access to Windows source code and prescriptive guidance on security assurance. Last month, Microsoft announced a new global initiative to provide governments around the world with access to Windows source code under the GSP security program, which was […]