Peter Galli

NEW YORK – Hewlett-Packard Co. and DreamWorks SKG today announced a three-year, multimillion-dollar technology strategic alliance aimed at revolutionizing animation production using Linux. In her keynote address this morning to hundreds of Linux enthusiasts here at LinuxWorld, HP CEO and Chairman Carly Fiorina said the company will provide computing infrastructure for DreamWorks next-generation digital studio […]

NEW YORK — A group of hardware and software vendors will announce late Wednesday morning here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that they are working together to develop a new version of the Linux operating system that is optimized for the telecommunications industry. A working group for the carrier-grade version of the open-source operating […]

Linux continues its steady march to becoming a mission-critical, enterprise-ready operating system with the requisite applications Wednesday with the announcement that Hewlett-Packard Co. will resell and co-brand Turbolinux Inc.s PowerCockpit server provisioning software with HPs Netservers and Blade server lines. PowerCockpit was released in early September 2001 and is designed to make it easier for […]

NEW YORK — IBM will on Wednesday will announce a significant customer win for Linux: that E-Trade, the online personal financial services company, will be moving its entire architecture to IBM Intel servers running Linux. As part of his keynote address at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here on Wednesday afternoon, William Zeitler, senior vice […]

The MIT X11 license chosen by Ximian Inc. for the class libraries produced by the Mono Project is an open-source license that Microsoft Corp. feels is far more appropriate for commercial use than the GNU General Public License, according to Microsoft officials. The X11 license allows developers to modify, publish, distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies […]

NEW YORK–Officials from Microsoft Corp. are once again attending the annual LinuxWorld conference and expo here, which started today, to keep abreast of what the competition is up to. In an interview with eWEEK, Doug Miller, the director of competitive strategy in Microsofts Windows division, said Linux is just one of the competitors that Microsoft […]

One distributor of the Linux operating system is switching to a less traditional licensing program for part of an upcoming development platform, indicating a major shift in the mainstream open-source philosophy. Linux desktop developer Ximian Inc. this week will announce that the first pieces of the Mono Project—an initiative to deliver a Unix- and Linux-compatible […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday released the second early access version of its upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers. The second beta of the Solaris upgrade features LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) support through the integration of the iPlanet Directory Server. The Solaris operating environment is the backbone of the Sun Open Net […]

Alan Cox, an employee at Linux developer and distributor Red Hat Inc. and a right-hand man to Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux open-source operating system, implied on Monday that he would resign if AOL Time Warner Inc. acquired Red Hat, as has been much speculated over the past few days. In a […]

Microsoft Corp.s road to software as a service has been so pocked by security and availability problems that customers are beginning to question whether such lapses, if not fixed, could keep .Net from becoming a reality. The crisis of confidence follows a week in which server problems prevented Windows customers from being able to download […]

Netscape Communications Corp., a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, on Tuesday filed a seven-count lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., seeking redress for Microsofts anticompetitive conduct against Netscape. In a prepared statement released on Tuesday, AOL said its case is based on the same anticompetitive conduct that formed the basis of the governments antitrust case against the […]

As the Linux community congregates in New York for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the center of attention, as always, will be Linux creator Linus Torvalds. A little more than a year ago Torvalds released the 2.4 kernel and has spent much of the year working on numerous 2.4.x versions to further stabilize and strengthen […]