Peter Galli

IBM has opened a multimillion-dollar high-performance software and services laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new HiPODS (High Performance On Demand Solutions) Lab joins a grid of specialized IBM facilities in six countries: China, India, England, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The HiPODS Labs are part of a newly specialized Lab Services […]

The Norwegian city of Bergen has postponed its evaluation of Linux on the desktop for the time being, but that does not mean it has changed its focus on using Linux and other open-source technologies to consolidate IT resources, said Lars Tveit, Bergens director of competition and development. “The city of Bergen has chosen to […]

Virtualization technology has gone “prime time” and is being deployed in application server and Web server environments in addition to test and development scenarios, said a research report by Enterprise Management Associates released August 31. More than two-thirds of the 126-page report, which was written by EMA senior analyst Andi Mann and titled “Virtualization: Exposing […]

Microsoft and the Department of Justice have formally requested that the final judgment issued in the U.S. antitrust litigation against the software giant be modified. The proposed changes will reflect the two-year extension of the provisions related to Microsofts licensing program for communications protocols in the Windows desktop operating system. A joint motion in this […]

Microsoft appears to be on track to release Windows Vista for sale at retail outlets in January 2007—thats if the information posted on Amazon.com is correct. Online retailer Amazon.com is accepting preorders for Windows Vista software, which it says will be available on Jan. 30, 2007. /zimages/5/28571.gifMicrosoft is still aiming to launch Vista and Office […]

A Microsoft shared Source license was submitted to the Open Source Initiative for official approval as an open-source license—but it wasnt Microsoft who submitted it. “Someone submitted the Microsoft Community License, one of our Shared Source licenses, to the OSI without our knowledge or approval, but the OSI contacted us and asked if we wanted […]

Microsoft seems to have finally cottoned onto the fact that it can drive revenue from the use of legacy software by some of its largest customers, announcing on Aug. 28 a new Custom Support Agreement program. The new CSA plan extends Microsofts current product support program, which offers five years of mainstream support followed by […]

The State of Massachusetts has reaffirmed its commitment to begin using the OpenDocument Format by Jan. 1, 2007, a move that has been welcomed by the ODF Alliance. “We plan to implement ODF, using translator technology plugged in to Microsoft Office, in a group of early adopter agencies, including the Massachusetts Office on Disability, by […]

A Microsoft Shared Source license was submitted to the Open Source Initiative for official approval as an open-source license—but it wasnt Microsoft who submitted it. “Someone submitted the Microsoft Community License, one of our Shared Source licenses, to the OSI without our knowledge or approval, but the OSI contacted us and asked if we wanted […]

Red Hat chief technology Officer Brian Stevens escalated the debate over whether the open-source Xen virtualization technology is ready for prime time Aug. 16, saying Novell was being irresponsible and potentially damaging enterprises first experiences with Xen. The Xen technology lets users run multiple operating systems as guest virtual machines on the same hardware, allowing […]

Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Brian Stevens has escalated to new heights the debate over whether the open-source Xen virtualization technology is ready for prime time, saying Novell was being irresponsible and risked damaging enterprises first experiences with Xen. The Xen technology lets users run multiple operating systems as guest virtual machines on the same […]

The long-delayed and much-awaited Open Source Initiative report on open-source license proliferation has been released, but the current licenses have been placed into three broad categories and have not been ranked beyond that. The License Proliferation Committee was set up in 2005 in response to the growing concern that license proliferation was harmful to the […]