Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. Thursday will open, on its Redmond campus, the Center for Information Work (CIW), which houses prototypes of potential productivity technologies of the future. Microsoft, working with center partners Sony Electronics Inc., Intel Corp. and Acer Inc., is running numerous prototypes of software and systems that could hit the market within five years. Prototype […]

IBM has signed up two new retail customers to Linux. Big Blue on Wednesday will announce that movie theater chain Regal Entertainment Group and Brazilian retailer Casas Bahia are both rolling out Linux solutions. “The state of the economy means that retail firms are increasingly looking at cost as a vital component of their IT […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding another Linux piece to its overall product line, but dont confuse that with a strong endorsement for the open-source operating system. “We dont offer Linux computers; we offer solutions,” said Scott McNealy, Suns chairman, president and CEO, in an interview following the announcement of Suns desktop initiative, Project Mad Hatter, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Microsoft Corp. plans to spend more than $3 billion over the next three years on its Office productivity suite and hopes to double annual revenue from Office to $20 billion by 2010. “I have a $20 billion dream for Office, but the product will be so much more than what we think of […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems, Inc. on Wednesday announced “Project Mad Hatter,” its plan to essentially bring to market a Linux desktop that is tied to a server. Sun executives also made clear that the goal of the offering, as with their ongoing plan to bundle components of the SunONE stack into the Solaris operating environment, is […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to grow its research and development spending over the next three to five years, CEO, President and Chairman Scott McNealy told a packed house in his keynote address here at the Sun Network conference on Wednesday morning. “We put $5.9 billion in the bank during the bubble, and cash is […]

German-based SuSE Linux is the latest vendor to drop Sun Microsystems Inc.s branded StarOffice 6.0 desktop productivity suite in favor of the free OpenOffice alternative. SuSE on Tuesday confirmed to eWEEK that it had decided not to include StarOffice 6.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1, the latest version of its Linux operating system for personal and […]

Connectix Corp., which provides virtualization software for Intel-based computers, on Tuesday will release its Connectix Virtual Server product for partner and customer testing. This new product is an enterprise-grade virtualization solution for server consolidation. It is a native Windows-based server application that enables users to run a broad range of operating systems, including Windows, .Net, […]

IBM will soon introduce new high-end pSeries servers designed to run Linux natively, marking the first time the companys proprietary AIX 5L Unix-based operating system wont be required to run its top-of-the-line servers. Previously, customers could run Linux by partitioning a single system into several virtual servers. However, since Linux was not supported natively, the […]

Microsoft Corp. is pushing further into digital rights management with a plan for a DRM server due to go into beta testing later this year. DRM technology enables content creators, such as record companies, to encrypt content and define who can decrypt it and how they can use it. Microsoft is counting on increasing adoption […]