Peter Galli

The application compatibility monster is again rearing its head as Microsoft Corp. prepares to release the Windows Server 2003 family in April. And although the Redmond, Wash., software developer is working with ISVs, partners, system integrators and component vendors to address as many potential problems as possible before April, some customers, leery about compatibility issues, […]

The battle to try and dent Microsoft Corps dominance of the desktop operating system market is heating up, with Linux desktop distributions springing up from new companies and existing vendors alike—all hoping to cater to those disenchanted Microsoft Windows users. Ark Linux has one of the newest offerings, and its stated goal is to provide […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday moved to further clarify the naming and branding strategy around its .Net, or software-as-a-service, strategy. The Redmond, Wash., software firm told staff and partners this week that its goal with the move is to help customers easily identify those products that interoperate and connect via Web service standards, while making it […]

Microsoft Corp. must learn to cooperate with Linux and open-source developers to ensure better interoperability, rather than porting its products to Linux, enterprise users say. Their comments follow the release of a Client Advisory from Meta Group Inc., of Stamford, Conn., last month, which said Meta expects Microsoft to start porting products to Linux by […]

Microsoft Corp. plans an all-out product blitz this year, providing little respite to enterprises and consumers weary of relatively rapid software upgrade cycles and buggy code. Officials from the Redmond, Wash., company said recently that this will be the biggest year ever for enterprise .Net technology releases, with the April delivery of the delayed Windows […]

Merrill Lynch & Co., a leading Wall Street brokerage and financial management company in New York, is deploying “virtual machine” software from VMware Inc. throughout its production environments and on more than 27,000 desktops. Merrill and VMware have inked a deal that allows Merrill to standardize on VMware virtual machine software, which enables multiple copies […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., seeking ways to add value to Solaris and give enterprise users more choice, has embarked on an ambitious plan to build all its Sun ONE software components into its flagship operating system. The strategy, code-named Project Orion, according to sources close to the company, will take all the components of the Sun […]

Red Hat, Inc., the open-source and Linux provider, moved into the black in its third fiscal quarter of this year. The company on Tuesday reported net income of $305,000 for the quarter ended November 30, up from a loss of $15.1 million in the same year-ago quarter. This translated into break-even per share, compared to […]

Whether or not Microsoft Corp. ends up porting its software to Linux, as a research company suggested last week, the battle between Windows and Linux on Intel Corp.- compatible hardware could have at least one positive effect: lower prices for Windows software, users said. Research company Meta Group Inc. last week threw the cat among […]

Microsoft Corp. is ratcheting up its efforts to ensure that independent software vendors, partners, system integrators and component vendors address potential application compatibility issues with the upcoming Windows .Net Server 2003 family before it is released next April. Application compatibility is often a thorny area when new products are released, and Microsoft is trying to […]

Research and consulting firm Meta Group Inc. is predicting that Microsoft Corp. will begin moving some of its current proprietary application enablers, such as the components of its software-as-a-service .Net strategy, to the Linux environment in late 2004. In this weeks Client Advisory, which gives Metas current analysis and five-year forecast for Linux and its […]

Microsoft Corp., which has been trying to repair its relationship with customers who are facing higher software costs for refusing to upgrade to its Licensing 6 plan, has hit them with another licensing change. The Redmond, Wash., software maker last week announced licensing changes to the upcoming Windows .Net Server 2003 family, due for release […]