Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. may have a new challenge before it regarding the companys new Solaris 9 operating system: convincing contented Solaris 8 users its worth the upgrade. John De Stefano, a software engineer with 3ParData Inc., in Fremont, Calif., said his company is in no rush to move to Solaris 9 but not because of […]

The move last week by four Linux developers to create a unified distribution promises a new era of standardization for the open-source operating system and could help drive it further into the enterprise. Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc. announced the development of a new code base for enterprise servers […]

Microsoft Corp., moving to downplay the impact of the recent Linux-based agreement between IBM and the German Ministry of the Interior, on Monday stressed that its relationship with the German government remained strong and was unaffected by the IBM arrangement. Big Blue and the German agency on Monday announced an agreement that would help the […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday agreed to stop using an accounting practice that the Securities and Exchange Commission said resulted in the software company misstating its income by material amounts between July 1994 and June 1998. In a statement issued on Monday, the SEC said it brought a settled administrative enforcement action against Microsoft ordering the […]

The German government on Monday said it is moving to standardize on Linux and an open-source IT model at the federal, state and communal levels. As part of this move it has signed a contract of support with IBM that will facilitate moving its agencies to Linux and help develop innovative IT solutions based on […]

Linux vendors Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc. today announced that they will standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise, to be known as UnitedLinux, in a move they say will streamline Linux development and certification. As was first reported by eWEEK on Tuesday, executives from the four […]

IBM on Wednesday will announce a five-year, $194 million deal to provide TSYS, the largest processor of retail accounts in the United States, with its next-generation technology infrastructure. The terms of the deal call for the Armonk, N.Y., company to provide TSYS with hardware, software, maintenance and services. This includes eServer ZSeries mainframe processors, the […]

A number of Linux vendors will announce on Thursday that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try to take on Red Hat Inc.s dominance in the industry. A media advisory issued on Tuesday said executives from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux on Thursday will make “a major announcement that will […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s outgoing chief operating officer and president, Ed Zander, said he decided to leave Sun partly because his chances of becoming CEO were slim. In a candid interview at Suns offices here last week, Zander, a 15-year Sun veteran, said that after three or four years of doing a job, “you hope to […]

Microsoft Corp. will release the first beta for the Windows XP Service Pack 1 in the next two weeks, and it will include changes that allow both computer manufacturers and users to hide Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger and Outlook Express. In late February the Redmond, Wash., software company said that it was […]

In a major coup for both Turbolinux and IBM, paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams Co. announced Thursday that it is installing an in-store network that will consist of 9,700 IBM NetVista personal computers running Turbolinux. The multi-million dollar deal, which Ralph Martino, the vice president of strategy for IBM Global Services in Armonk, N.Y, called the largest […]

In a major coup for both Turbolinux and IBM, Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores will announce on Thursday that it is installing an in-store network that will consist of 9,700 IBM NetVista PCs running Turbolinux. The multimillion-dollar deal, which Ralph Martino, vice president of strategy for IBM Global Services in Armonk, N.Y, said is the largest deployment […]