Peter Galli

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The software industry has a strong future regardless of whether its products are delivered as a service, as a component or in packaged form, Craig Mundie, Microsofts chief research and strategy officer, said April 30. Mundie, delivering the lunch-time address at the New Software Industry conference here, said that whatever the delivery mechanism, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The move away from the traditional packaged software model toward software as a service, with all its associated new business and revenue models, is a permanent one, speakers said at the New Software Industry conference here on April 30. “Prices will likely eventually go to zero for any standardized software product but, fortunately, […]

Microsoft will release the feature-complete, third beta for Windows Server “Longhorn” on April 25, which is also the first public beta of the software. The product remains on track for release to manufacturing in the second half of 2007, and the beta code can be downloaded here. Some 10,000 people in Microsofts technical beta program […]

Red Hat customers are already testing the code for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux real-time product, which is expected to be released later in 2007. The decision to release a separate real-time version of RHEL 5 marks a significant shift for Red Hat, which initially planned to bundle the technology into RHEL 6, the […]

NEW YORK–Virtualization, both on the software and hardware side, took center stage at the Linux/Open Source on Wall Street conference here April 23. In a panel discussion titled “Linux on the Leading Edge,” moderator Scott Handy, vice president of worldwide marketing and strategy for the System p at IBM, said virtualization was currently leading the […]

NEW YORK—Just how comfortable are CIOs in the enterprise with the use of Linux and open-source solutions, particularly on the mission-critical application front? That was the question put before the closing panel at the Linux/Open Source on Wall Street conference here on April 23, entitled “Selling Open Source to the CIO.” Venu Pemmaraju, senior investment […]

NEW YORK—More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year, Tim Burke, the director of emerging technologies at Red Hat, said at the Linux/Open Source on Wall Street conference here on April 23. “The real-time upstream kernel […]

A recent poll of some open-source developers found that while nearly half of the respondents believe that the upcoming GNU General Public License Version 3 will be good for open-source software, they are concerned about the patent, device, and digital rights management provisions in the recently released third draft of the license. The poll was […]

Microsoft is expanding its “Unlimited Potential” initiative to include offering a software package, the Student Innovation Suite, to governments and students in emerging countries across the world at a price of just $3. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will use the Government Leaders Forum, which he is hosting in Beijing on April 19, to announce new […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Some of the leading names in the browser market took to the stage at the Web 2.0 conference here on April 16 to give an update on the state of that technology, and all agreed that security was one of the biggest challenges facing the industry. The panelists, who were tasked with addressing the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The open-source business model fits in well with the concept of Web 2.0, John Roberts, the CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM, told attendees at the Web 2.0 conference here on April 16. Admitting that he did not know exactly what Web 2.0 meant when he started working on his presentation titled “Open Source Business […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on April 17 that there is absolutely no merit to the accusation by Microsoft and others that Googles acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion raises antitrust and privacy concerns. “Microsoft. Did you say Microsoft? And AT&T? Microsoft and AT&T? What is the year? They are wrong. Come on, they […]