Peter Galli

A Microsoft Corp.-sponsored white paper from market researcher International Data Corp. released last week found that Windows 2000 offered a lower five-year total cost of ownership in certain Linux server environments. The report compared the TCO of Microsofts Windows 2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing workload situations at 104 companies and found […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced that it has delivered the second release candidate for Windows .Net Server 2003. Customers can register to obtain a trial version of RC2 through the Customer Preview Program at www.microsoft.com/windows.netserver/default.mspx. Microsoft on Thursday also made available the second beta for its new Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), which is also […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has snared another vendor to distribute its StarOffice 6.0 desktop office productivity suite. The latest deal with Sony Information Technology Europe involves bundling StarOffice on Sony desktop computer systems in seven European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The move replaces Microsoft Corp.s Works package on most […]

Now that the antitrust legal action against Microsoft Corp. has been settled, users are hoping the Redmond, Wash., software company can focus on the road ahead. More than anything, customers want to see Microsoft live up to its promise of continued interoperability and help make its next generation of software and hardware work together. “We […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week released an unsupported early-access, or test, version of its Solaris 9 operating system for non-Sun x86 hardware that early testers said is missing key features, including Sun ONE Application Server. “Featurewise, theyve added most of [them], but there are still a couple of pieces of the Sun ONE [Open Net […]

A Microsoft-sponsored White Paper from research group International Data Corp., which compares the total cost of ownership of Microsofts Windows 2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing workload situations at 104 companies, found that Windows 2000 offered a lower five-year total cost in four of the five selected workloads. The paper, which Microsoft […]

Red Hat Inc. turned up the heat on the UnitedLinux consortium this month just as it rolled out its initial distribution. Red Hat announced here at the OracleWorld conference that it will make Oracle Cluster File System available to its enterprise customers, leaving UnitedLinuxs distribution to play catch-up. Wim Coekaerts, principal member of Oracles technical […]

The next major release of the Linux kernel is on track for the first half of next year, with improvements in its ability to handle large amounts of memory and throughput. Scalability enhancements, as well, will add to the appeal of the latest kernel, Version 2.6, for enterprise customers, according to Linus Torvalds, the creator […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, has established a working group to create a standard data format for office applications that will improve data interoperability across those applications. OASIS, a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development and adoption of e-business standards, will announce on Wednesday the formation of the working […]

SuSE Linux and the SCO Group will announce on Tuesday afternoon at the Comdex Fall show in Las Vegas the release of the latest versions of their enterprise Linux distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core. SuSEs Linux Enterprise Server 8 will be widely available on Nov. 25, while the SCO Linux 4.0 Server is available […]