Peter Galli

SuSE Linux ag, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International Inc.), Conectiva S.A. and Turbolinux Inc. are expected to launch this week the latest versions of their Linux enterprise distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core, according to industry sources. This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core and […]

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.s chairman and chief software architect, will use his keynote address at the Comdex Fall show in Las Vegas on Sunday night to introduce OneNote, the latest technology in the Office desktop productivity suite. OneNote is a note-taking software application that allows users to capture, store and retrieve typewritten notes, pictures and […]

SuSE Linux, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International), Conectiva and Turbolinux are all expected to launch on Tuesday the latest versions of their Linux enterprise distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core, according to industry sources late Thursday. This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core, and follows […]

Microsoft Corp. has learned a great deal from its antitrust lawsuit and realized that it needs to take a different perspective on its position as an industry leader, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told customers on Wednesday in the latest of an ongoing series of e-mails to customers from Microsoft executives. Ballmer was addressing the Redmond, […]

REDMOND, Wash.—In yet another management shift, Microsoft Corp. has appointed Mohsen Al-Ghosein to head its Exchange Server group. Al-Ghosein, who joined Microsoft in 1990, has been involved in a number of corporate strategy and architectural roles at the company and was appointed a distinguished engineer in 2000. He replaces Malcolm Pearson, who is currently on […]

When Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates takes the stage in New York on Thursday morning to officially launch the Tablet PC, he will announce the availability of Microsoft Reader for Tablet PC. This is a special version of Microsofts existing electronic reading application designed for the Tablet. Gates will use his […]

Storage company Sistina Software and solutions provider Mainline Information Systems Inc. have formed an alliance to deliver a Linux-based data-sharing solution for the IBM S/390 and zSeries platforms. The companies have ported the Sistina Global File System (GFS) to the IBM eServer zSeries platform for the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Sistinas GFS is an enterprise-class […]

Microsoft Corp. has cut another tie to its past and, in the process, angered yet another group of legacy customers. The Redmond, Wash., software company last week confirmed its decision to make its forthcoming Office 11 suite compatible with only Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later operating systems, including Windows XP. The move will […]

Saying a federal judges ruling improved the controversial antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the Attorneys General for the nine dissenting states claimed a mixed victory late Friday – but the case may not be closed yet. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who has led the coalition of dissenting states, […]

SuSE Linux will release, in January 2003, a desktop product specifically designed to help small to medium-sized businesses migrate to Linux on their workstations. The new product, SuSE Linux Office Desktop, will be available from SuSE Linux resellers at a recommended retail price of $129 per workstation, which includes user manuals and 90 days of […]

Opera Software ASA on Thursday released its Web browser product, Opera 6.1 for Linux, for Intel and PowerPC users, as well as a new port to the FreeBSD Unix operating system. The Opera Web browser is now available on eight different operating systems. The PowerPC version is the first released on this platform since the […]

As Microsoft Corp. continues to try and reassure customers about the ongoing security of its products, the Redmond, Wash., software firm on Tuesday said its Windows 2000 platform has been awarded the Common Criteria certification. The Common Criteria certification is an internationally recognized ISO standard established for evaluating the security of infrastructure technology products. “This […]