Peter Galli

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell’s vision for the future is the agile infrastructure, and the company has a new project code-named Fossa to address this plan, which will include both open-source and proprietary software. “CIOs want agility, yet IT infrastructure is anything but agile today. So that is Novell’s vision for the future: the agile infrastructure, and […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Hewlett-Packard will start shipping some of its notebook and desktop computers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 preinstalled later this year. “We are really excited by this deal because of the power that the HP distribution channel brings, the reach they have and their commitment to interoperability. I am very enthusiastic about what […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell has welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court March 17 that allows its antitrust suit against Microsoft to move forward. That decision follows a ruling by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., that Novell can continue with its multibillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit, which deals with the damage the company […]

SALT LAKE CITY-Novell used its BrainShare 2008 conference here to start talking publicly about its development plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, the next version of its server operating system. Among the company’s lofty goals is to make SLES 11 available as an appliance that will be supported by a new tool set designed […]

SALT LAKE CITY – When Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian takes to the stage to open the company’s BrainShare 2008 conference here March 17, he will talk about what has been achieved over the past year and what he hopes to do in the year ahead. Part of that will be to stress the company’s financial […]

Is Microsoft secretly preparing for a new computing scenario where a reborn mainframe emerges that supports multi-user computing on centralized desktops? Directions on Microsoft analyst Rob Helm believes so, pointing out that two of Microsoft’s most recent acquisitions-Calista Technologies and Kidaro-have been companies whose technologies could facilitate multi-user computing on centralized desktops. Helm was responding […]

Microsoft is buying enterprise desktop virtualization company Kidaro as it works to meet its ambitous goal of providing virtualization solutons from the desktop to the data center. The software giant plans to include Kidaro’s virtualization technologies in future updates of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance, a suite of desktop-management tools that has […]

A Peek Behind the Microsoft Research Curtain A Peek Behind the Microsoft Research Curtain – Networking for the Client C2, one of Microsoft’s newest social networking projects, lets users access data from a variety of different sources, including e-mails and Facebook and MySpace profiles. C2 also lets users pull photographs from public sources and from […]

LAS VEGAS-Ever wondered what drives Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, or what he does every day as head of the largest software company in the world? Well, apparently, so do lots of other people. During a fireside chat at the annual MIX conference here March 5, moderator Guy Kawasaki, a managing director at Garage Technology Ventures […]

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft CEO Ballmer came to the MIX conference to sit down for a quiet fireside chat and talk about those issues important to developers. Instead, what he got was a complete grilling about Yahoo, Google and Apple. Guy Kawasaki, a managing director at Garage Technology Ventures and a former Fellow at Apple Computer, moderated […]

LAS VEGAS-Microsoft is hoping customers and developers will accept the release of the Internet Explorer 8 beta as concrete evidence of its commitment to the recently announced new interoperability principles. Microsoft rolled out a set of four new interoperability principles Feb. 21 that it said would ensure open connections, promote data portability, enhance support for […]