Peter Galli

The judge overseeing the private antitrust cases against Microsoft Corp. has told the parties he will rule next Thursday on whether or not to accept the proposed preliminary settlement unless there is significant progress in the mediation efforts currently under way. Steve Benz, a partner at law firm Kellog, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, in […]

Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Wednesday ordered Microsoft Corp. and the nine dissenting states in the antitrust case against the company to appear for a hearing next Monday. This order follows a flurry of filings over the past two weeks, with the Redmond, Wash., software maker asking Kollar-Kotelly to delay the matter by […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and VMware Inc. are each developing virtual server solutions designed to help enterprise customers add efficiencies for back-office operations and Web services. Sun plans to add new “service container” technology to the virtualization features of Solaris 9, Beta 2, which is expected in the first quarter. Final code is expected in the […]

Microsoft Corp. watchers are dubbing 2002 “the year of .Net” as the software company prepares to release products that will build on its software-as-a-service vision. Releases slated for the new year include the Visual Studio .Net 2002 development suite, the Windows .Net Server family and the Tablet PC. The companys teams are also working on […]

Microsoft Corp. and lawyers for the plaintiffs met before a mediator in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to try and iron out a settlement for the more than 100 private antitrust cases against the Redmond, Wash. software firm, but the talks ended without any resolution. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said that todays meeting ended after a […]

Despite negotiating two settlement agreements, it appears increasingly unlikely that Microsoft Corp. will get a quick resolution of the antitrust actions dogging it. In a week in which the Redmond, Wash., software company was dealt several harsh blows in its ongoing court battles, it became clear that once-separate legal issues are becoming entangled— and not […]

As an increasing number of enterprise customers look for software that allow them to run applications across different platforms, IBM this week will announce that VMware Inc.s enterprise server software, ESX Server, has achieved IBM ServerProven validation. ESX Server is fully optimized to run on some IBM eServer xSeries systems, including the x350 and the […]

Microsoft Corp. has released the first service pack for Office XP–essentially a collection of all the bug fixes it has released and been working on since the product hit the shelves on May 31. The Redmond, Wash., company said the updates focus primarily on providing improvements in three key areas: security, performance and stability. “SP-1 […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday rejected out of hand the remedy proposals suggested by the nine dissenting states and the District of Columbia in the landmark antitrust case against the Redmond, Wash. software firm. In its 36-page Proposed Final Judgment filed today in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, Microsoft said that proposed […]

Sun Microsystems is evaluating the pricing plan for its StarOffice desktop productivity suite, and one option under consideration is charging users for the software. StarOffice 5.2 is available as a free download or on a CD for a nominal fee. The Cupertino, Calif., company is not sure that this is the way to go when […]

Maryland Federal District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz on Tuesday expressed concern about including California in the proposed settlement of more than 100 private antitrust suits against Microsoft Corp. The private antitrust cases were brought against Microsoft last year following the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that the Redmond, Wash., company […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday presented the Federal District Court of Maryland with two changes to the proposed $1 billion settlement of more than 100 private antitrust cases the company faces. The software maker offered two revisions to the settlement it had offered last month saying it would change the method for appointing members to an […]