Peter Galli

While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be released at an event in San Francisco on March 14, the company has not been sitting idle since the code went gold last month, with its engineering team already doing future planning and hosting worldwide summits, the first of which was held in February. Red Hat is […]

The general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on March 14 was not just the next release of the operating system, it represented the next generation, Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat, said at the launch event in San Francisco. “RHEL 5 is available today and is the cornerstone of […]

HSBC, the British-based banking and financial services group that has more than 125 million customers globally, is moving to standardize on a single Linux distribution: Novells SUSE Linux. The HSBC move is a direct result of the technical cooperation agreement penned between Microsoft and Novell in November 2006. As part of the agreement, the two […]

Microsoft has finally released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, which provides updates, security and stability enhancements, and the latest features for the Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 operating systems. This final release follows the second release candidate for Windows Server 2003 SP2, which was made available last November. It has seen […]

While Microsoft officials say the worst of the problems regarding the daylight-saving time change that took place March 11 have passed, some customers are still complaining of “nightmare” issues with Outlook and their calendars. This year, DST (daylight-saving time) started three weeks earlier than customary, and will end a week later than usual on Nov. […]

The extension of daylight-saving time by a month in the United States is causing enormous grief for some IT administrators running Microsoft software, as many of the software programs running on their users systems need to be individually patched to reflect the change. This year, DST (daylight-saving time) starts on Sunday, March 11—three weeks earlier […]

Microsoft will distribute the public beta of its voice over IP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, and its unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, to millions of testers later this month. Microsoft is also, for the first time, making the interoperability specifications for both products available to partners. The move should help […]

The next version of Microsofts budgeting and planning software, Microsoft Forecaster 7.0, will be released to manufacturing March 28 and will be generally available in early April. Pricing for the software, developed by Microsoft subsidiary FRx Software, starts at $8,500 for the server plus one user, with each additional user costing $500. Those customers currently […]

Microsoft has released an open letter that accuses IBM of driving the effort to force the OpenDocument Format on users through public procurement mandates, which the Redmond, Wash., software maker views as an attempt to restrict choice and limit adoption of its Office Open XML format. Microsoft is also speaking out against what it sees […]

Sun microsystems will release a preview version of its OpenDocument Format plug-in that facilitates two-way conversion of Microsoft Word documents to ODF in February, with the final release expected in April. The technology, known as the StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview plug-in application for Microsoft Office 2003, will be made available as a free download. […]

Microsoft will announce three new Windows Live services for mobile devices at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Feb. 12: Live Search on Windows Mobile, Live Search on Java and Windows Live for Windows Mobile. The new services will provide new search and communications capabilities to help people more easily and efficiently access information […]

IBM has a new open client offering that runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows and, later this year, the Apple Macintosh, and which is supported by services from IBM, Red Hat and Novell. Customers will be able to select technologies and applications from IBM and some of its business partners. These include IBM productivity tools that […]