Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO—Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian explained rather than defended his companys deal with Microsoft in his keynote address at the annual LinuxWorld Conference here Aug. 8. “I know our deal with Microsoft is controversial, but it is necessary for our customers who have to deal with both Linux and Windows in their data centers. Virtualization […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Windows Vista has probably created the single biggest opportunity for the Linux desktop to take market share, Cole Crawford, an IT strategist at Dell, said in an address titled, “The Linux Desktop—Fact, FUD or Fantasy?” at the annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here. For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows […]

The Fedora 7 Linux distribution has been chosen as the platform for the Creative Commons LiveContent CD, an initiative to showcase free, open-source software and Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content. The LiveContent CD is the result of collaboration across a number of organizations, including Red Hat, which is providing in-kind engineering support via Fedora 7, as […]

SAN FRANCISCO—IBM and Novell have joined forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open-source application server market in a deal that will see Novell deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The companies are also targeting JBoss and will provide support and the migration tools […]

Palm is hoping that its upcoming Foleo mobile companion will help establish a new category of personal-computing products, especially given its 2.5 pound weight, small size and five-hour battery life. While the Foleo is designed as the mobile companion to its Treo smartphone, powered by either the Palm operating system or Windows Mobile, a Palm […]

Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK. The strategy behind that was to drive a wedge into the open-source community and unsettle the marketplace, Shuttleworth said. He also took issue […]

Hedge Funds Luring Away Prospective Microsoft Talent”> Editors Note: This is the second in a series of articles, based on an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, that examine the focus, strategy, challenges and opportunities for the software company going forward. The biggest challenge facing Microsoft today is making sure that it has enough qualified, […]

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially thrown its weight behind Microsofts Office Open XML format along with the OASIS Open Document Format. In July, the commonwealth added Microsofts format, also known as Ecma-376 or Open XML, to the list of approved standards in a draft of the Massachusetts ETRM (Enterprise Technical Reference Model), an architectural […]

Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie spoke at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting last week, and he gave his clearest, and most comprehensive, explanation of the company’s services plus software strategy to date. That strategy was “a very big deal” for the company, he said, while also making it clear that the services will be […]

Microsoft Wants Its HD Photo Technology to Be an Industry Standard”> Microsoft is looking to get more of its technology certified as an industry standard and has submitted its HD Photo technology to the Joint Photographic Expert Group for a decision in that regard. JPEG, a working group of the International Organization for Standardization, has […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft has big plans in the advertising world, a strategy underscored by its acquisition July 26 of AdECN, which provides an auction exchange for display ads, following its acquisition in May of aQuantive, which owns interactive ad agency Avenue A Razorfish. “We now have all the core components for our ad network,” said Kevin […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—The Open Source Initiative approved on July 25 its first new license in quite some time: the Common Public Attribution License, which is essentially the Mozilla Public License with a new attribution clause. But the road to approval was long and expensive, Ross Mayfield, CEO and co-founder of Socialtext, which submitted the license, told […]