Peter Galli

Dell Computer Corp. will expand its use of Canadian-based software maker Corel Corporations productivity solutions in its computer product lines. Corel said this week that its word-processing package, WordPerfect 10, and spreadsheet application, Quattro Pro 10, would now be included as part of the WordPerfect Productivity Pack bundled on select models of the Dell Dimension […]

Turbolinux Inc., which provides Linux operating environments and multi-platform server provisioning and management products, has sold its Linux software business to Japanese software group Software Research Associates Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Turbolinuxs global Linux software business will become a division of SRA and be headquartered in Tokyo at Turbolinuxs former Japan division, spokesman Dino […]

Linux vendors are showing a renewed interest in developing a desktop version of the operating system to challenge Microsoft Corp. But many corporate users are simply not ready for—or not interested in—such a product. Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and SuSE Linux AG each maintain there is interest in a corporate desktop offering, and […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released the second service pack for Office XP, combining previously released and new updates into a single, integrated package. SP-2 is now available for download or can be ordered on CD. A full-file administrative version is also available so organizations can easily deploy SP-2 to all their Office XP users. Microsoft […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The Free Standards Group on Wednesday will announce that four leading Linux distributions have become Linux Standard Base certified. The certification of the distributions from Caldera International Inc., MandrakeSoft S.A., Red Hat Inc. and SuSE Linux AG comes on the heels of the initial launch of the LSB Certification program at LinuxWorld in New […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Red Hat Inc. is looking to expand its general retail Linux and enterprise server software offerings and so will release a formal desktop Linux product geared toward the corporate market early next year. Mark De Visser, a vice president at the Raleigh, N.C., open-source technology provider, told eWEEK Tuesday that Red Hat is “working […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. has been very responsible and contributed significantly to the open-source community, said Scott McNealy, Suns chairman, president and CEO, in his keynote presentation here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Tuesday. In his address titled “The Role of Linux in a Capitalist Society,” McNealy appearing before several hundred delegates defended […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell Computer Corp. and Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday announced at LinuxWorld here that Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux will be used in the digital remastering of Universal Pictures and Image Entertainments “Apollo 13” movie scheduled to hit IMAX theaters this fall. Essentially the IMAX Digital Remastering technology uses the Dell servers […]

As the Linux community gathers in San Francisco this week for the LinuxWorld conference, two of the industrys largest companies will use the show to put the squeeze on Sun Microsystems Inc. Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM are each planning to roll out aggressive product and marketing programs designed to lure Solaris customers from Sun to […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has done an about-face with regard to its January decision not to offer Solaris 9 for the Intel x86 architecture going forward. Jack OBrien, manager of Suns Linux Business Office in Menlo Park, Calif., confirmed to eWEEK that Sun will now introduce Solaris 9 for x86 going forward. This latest decision is […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM on Thursday will both announce a slew of new Linux customer wins. HP also will announce updated Linux software releases, services and community developments. The Cupertino, Calif., companys announcements come some 100 days after its merger with Compaq Computer Corp. and ahead of next weeks LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San […]

The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will launch a pilot program that allows companies to more easily communicate their financial information over the Internet and which helps investors more easily analyze this data. The pilot program uses Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a new platform developed for corporate […]