Peter Galli

Microsoft and Red Hat are no closer to a deal involving intellectual property cooperation, Microsoft has confirmed. “Red Hat and Microsoft have previously had conversations about interoperability, but none of our recent conversations have included discussions about intellectual property cooperation,” Horacio Gutierrez, Microsofts vice president of intellectual property and licensing, told eWEEK. This effectively puts […]

We may now have an answer to the question of whether Red Hat and Microsoft are talking about intellectual property and patents—they aren’t—but that issue is far from dead. Horatio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s vice president for intellectual property and licensing, has finally confirmed that while the company talks to Red Hat about interoperability from time to […]

Some Microsoft partners are questioning how successful the software maker’s hosting business will ultimately be if it doesn’t also embrace other third-party solutions. While Microsoft is increasingly looking to provide hosted services to customers, like its upcoming Dynamics Live CRM service and Exchange Hosted Services, some competitors question how effective that strategy will be. Keith […]

Surprise, surprise! Salesforce.com is not exactly happy about Microsoft’s upcoming new on-demand Dynamics Live CRM service, which was showcased at the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver on July 10. Salesforce.com is also less than pleased about the fact that Microsoft has undercut its pricing fairly significantly. The Dynamics Live CRM service, which will […]

DENVER—While Office has always had a big reseller channel, Microsoft recognized that it needed to add a different kind of partner in its ecosystem to accompany the rise of SharePoint. The reason, said Chris Capossela, the corporate vice president of Microsofts business division, is that just as SharePoint gives customers new ways to connect documents […]

DENVER—Microsoft will release Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 together on Feb. 27, 2008 in what will be the companys single largest launch ever. “There is a feeding frenzy out there and we are committed to bringing this innovation to you, our partners and our customers. This will be the single […]

DENVER—Microsoft will invest $20 million in several new technologies and initiatives over the next year to help extend its Dynamics partner ecosystem to ensure that partners can meet market demand and increase their growth rates. “This $20 million investment will be very targeted at training 4,000 technical people within partner organizations and recruiting 1,000 additional […]

DENVER—As Microsoft continues to ramp up its Live software and services strategy, the company will use its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here July 10 to showcase its new on-demand Dynamics Live CRM service, which will be operated and managed within its datacenters and available later this quarter. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will also announce […]

DENVER—Microsoft and its partners must change the way they have traditionally done business to accommodate software as a service, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here July 10. Ballmer started his keynote—to the tune of “Lets Get It Started”—by going into the audience and shaking hands up and down […]

DENVER—The big-picture message Microsoft executives will try to convey at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference that kicks off here July 10 is that software plus services is the future. Underscoring this message is the fact that CEO Steve Ballmer will use his keynote to announce a partnering framework for Microsoft around software plus services. Speaker […]

Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well […]

Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front. But the Linux vendor wants to limit those talks to pure […]