Peter Galli

The Free Software Foundation will release the third discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 on March 28, some eight months after the previous draft was made public. The move will push back the final release of GPL 3 by several more months, which means the license is now unlikely to debut […]

More than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold globally in February 2007, the first month of sales since its widespread consumer release. That is significantly more than the 17 million copies of Windows XP that were sold in the first two months following its release in October 2001, Kevin Kutz, a director in […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Novell took the unusual step at its annual BrainShare conference here of holding a “fireside chat” between its own Chief Technology Officer Jeff Jaffee and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, as part of the opening keynote presentations. That move underscored the awareness among Novells top executives that the controversial […]

PALO ALTO—Sun Microsystems expects to start generating 10 percent operating profit in fiscal year 2009, but that is dependent on a number of factors, such as continuing to move the company away from its history of being a “walled garden,” CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at a media event here on March 23. Schwartz said, “We […]

Microsoft has struck a patent agreement with Fuji Xerox that gives the Redmond software maker access to broad patents relating to document management systems that it can use in existing and future products. For its part, Fuji Xerox—which is owned by FujiFilm Holdings and Xerox and provides business solutions that enhance the management and utilization […]

SALT LAKE CITY—While Novells controversial patent deal with Microsoft got a lot of attention at the companys annual BrainShare conference here this week, CEO Ron Hovsepian is unapologetic about the move. He argues that the deal has been good for Linux adoption as well as for Novell, pointing to several large deals done recently that […]

Novell officials are welcoming the news that Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution, which they say validates their existing desktop-to-data center offering. Nat Friedman, Novells vice president of Linux desktop engineering, told eWEEK in an interview that Red Hats acknowledgment of the Linux desktops importance is welcomed. Friedman also said he is […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution. The move is designed in part to compete with Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE […]

SALT LAKE CITY—In a first for a Novell BrainShare conference, the company held a fireside chat between its own CTO Jeff Jaffee and Craig Mundie, the chief research and strategy office at Microsoft, the companys latest and most controversial partner, as part of the opening keynote address March 19. But the two steered clear of […]

SALT LAKE CITY—In his first keynote speech as Novell president and CEO at his companys annual BrainShare conference here, Ron Hovsepian presented his vision for the company, while explaining its controversial deal with Microsoft. Hovsepian started off by sketching the current market trends, including virtualization, which gives developers the opportunity to not have to rewrite […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came back to the Stanford Graduate School of Business on March 15 to share his insights into the world of corporate leadership, management and to call for more students to embrace a career in technology. The event, titled “A Conversation with Steve Ballmer,” was attended by several hundred Stanford students and […]

The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 at a media event in San Francisco on March 14 reflects not only years of engineering work by Red Hat itself, but also its collaboration efforts with strategic partners such as IBM. This collaboration resulted in the integration of Real-Time Linux capabilities, improved virtualization features and security […]