Peter Galli

As Microsoft prepares for the April launch of Windows Server 2003, it is already hard at work on what it sees as the next big challenge: the virtual datacenter. Addressing a small group of attendees at Microsofts Mountain View campus on Wednesday afternoon, Bill Veghte, Microsofts corporate vice president of the Windows Server group, committed […]

Microsoft Corp.s admission that open-source software could cut into its revenues and force the company to lower prices has fanned speculation that the Windows developer may be forced to become more open. In an assessment of the growing open-source threat to its business model in a 10-Q quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday renamed its XDocs application to InfoPath, but declined to say whether this information-gathering tool would ship as part of Office 11, the code name for the next version of Office, or if it would be sold as a stand-alone product. InfoPath is essentially a smart client that Microsoft says will bring […]

Microsoft Corp. this week is hosting 670 of its Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) at its Redmond campus, where it plans to put into practice its commitment to listen more closely to the needs of its customers. The MVPs will be given unprecedented access to Microsoft product developers as well as key executives, including chairman and […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday delivered its long-awaited Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition, previously reported by eWeek, more than a year after the company first said it would delay the product. Sun first announced that it would postpone the productization of Unix-based Solaris 9 for x86 in January 2002, but customers put enormous pressure on […]

Microsoft Corp. will not have to include Sun Microsystems Inc.s latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Windows and Internet Explorer until the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reviewed the case. The U.S. Appeals Court on Monday granted Microsoft a stay of the Jan. 21preliminary injunction by Judge J. Frederick Motz of the U.S. […]

The battle for corporate customers is heating up among Linux distributors, with SuSE Linux AG announcing this week that its Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 product is now available for Intel Corp.s Itanium 2 processors. Company officials are touting Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 as the only Linux operating system that can be deployed on six hardware […]

Microsoft Corp. may in the future be forced to lower its software prices as a result of the growth of open source, the company cautioned in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In its latest 10-Q quarterly filing, Microsoft said that the popularization of the open-source movement continues to pose a significant […]

Microsoft Corp. has started to comply with last months preliminary injunction ordering it to include Sun Microsystems latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in certain current and future versions of Windows XP and Internet Explorer. On January 21, Judge J. Frederick Motz of the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, issued the injunction requiring Microsoft to include […]

The United Kingdom announced late Friday that it has signed up to participate in Microsoft Corp.s recently announced Government Security Program, which gives it access to Windows source code and prescriptive guidance on security assurance. Earlier this month Microsoft said it had formed a new global initiative to provide governments around the world with access […]

In another European Linux win for IBM and SuSE Linux AG, the Kommunales Rechenzentrum Niederrhein (KRZN), a public sector data center serving more than 60 counties in the northwestern section of Germany, has chosen to run Linux on IBM zSeries mainframes. KRZN chose SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on the mainframe to help keep its systems […]

NEW YORK—One of the primary reasons financial service companies have adopted the Linux operating system is the savings it has brought, IT executives from Wall Street firms said at a panel at LinuxWorld here this week. Discussing the topic “Linux on Wall Street: Practical experience implementing Linux in financial services,” speakers pointed out that Linux […]