Peter Galli

As Microsoft continues to ratchet up its focus on unified communications, it will use the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles the week of May 14 to announce 15 new phones and devices from nine of its partners. This is part of the Redmond, Wash., companys drive to provide customers with devices that connect […]

SAN DIEGO—Red Hat officials gave more details about the companys new global desktop on May 9, revealing that it is based on a stripped-down version of the existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and contains applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution. “Our enterprise desktop has some 1,500 applications, so we stripped this down […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Red Hat officially rolled out at its annual summit here May 10 an online service for North America that delivers pre-configured, fully integrated solution stacks for 14 business applications. The new service, known as Red Hat Exchange, was previewed on March 14, when the Linux vendor announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise […]

In an effort to meet its quality and shipping goals, Microsoft is cutting a number of core features from its upcoming Windows Server virtualization technology, code-named Viridian. As a result, Viridian will not include Live migration, hot-add resources such as storage, networking, memory and processor, while support will be limited to 16 cores or logical […]

SAN DIEGO—Red Hat announced its upcoming new client product, the Red Hat Global Desktop, at its annual summit here on May 9. The global desktop is designed to deliver a modern user experience with an enterprise-class suite of productivity applications, and was developed in collaboration with Intel to enable its design, support and distribution. “We […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Open-source solution provider Red Hat will use its annual summit to share its vision of a new paradigm for business PCs, which includes a partnership with Intel Corp. to deploy appliances in a virtual machine to bring enterprise-class management and security to the PC. As part of the deal, Red Hat will deliver […]

Accenture and Interface21 will use the annual JavaOne show in San Francisco on May 8 to announce Spring Batch, an open-source framework for the development of enterprise batch applications. Spring Batch is a lightweight, comprehensive batch framework designed to enable the development of robust batch applications vital to the daily operations of enterprise systems. It […]

Dell has joined Microsoft and Novell in their business collaboration that is designed to provide greater interoperability between Windows and SUSE Linux and give customers on both sides intellectual property assurance. Under the agreement to be announced May 7, Dell will buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft that it will make available to […]

After more than two years in development and testing by some 20 million beta testers globally, Microsoft will launch Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, in 36 languages across the world May 7. Windows Live Hotmail customers will also, later this month, be able to access their Hotmail e-mail and contacts for free, […]

Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical, said May 3. “I do not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to […]

Dell and Canonical will announce a partnership on May 1 that will see the hardware giant ship Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on some of its desktop and laptop computers. The move, which has been expected for some time, makes Dell the first major desktop vendor to release consumer desktops and laptops with preinstalled Linux. Jeremy Bolen, […]

Leading Linux distributors Red Hat and Novells SUSE have welcomed the news that Dell is going to prebundle Ubuntu Linux on certain consumer machines, saying the move is good for society, customers and the industry. “Its great news that Dell has decided to join other OEMs in delivering Linux desktops. Demand for Linux clients is […]