Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO—While virtualization has been embraced by Novells SUSE and Red Hat, major hardware and software makers say the leading Linux distributors need to do more on the management tools front to catch-up with industry leader VMware. Novell has already baked the Xen virtualization technology into its shipping SLES 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) product […]

Sun Microsystems plans to open-source its implementation of the Java ME specification and is shooting to have that done by the end of this year, Sun executives said Aug. 14. This is the first time Sun has said publicly that Java ME (Java Platform, Micro Edition) is part of its plan for open-sourcing Java. Until […]

IBM is taking instant messaging to Linux—on both the desktop and server. The company will use the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, taking place Aug. 14-17 in San Francisco, to announce that its Lotus Sametime IM platform will support Linux. “This move will mark the first time that the millions of Linux users worldwide will have […]

Scalix has released a community preview of Scalix 11, the next version of its Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging platform, which is due to ship in November. This latest version will bring further ease of administration and allow deep integration with legacy environments, CEO Glenn Winokur said Aug. 14, adding that new features include a […]

Microsoft is doing its best to discredit a recent eWEEK story on the companys plans to make good on expectations by some of its Software Assurance licensees who felt cheated by Microsofts failure to deliver Vista and Office 2007 when promised. This is sad, given the fact that Microsoft is actually doing the right thing. […]

While Microsofts Internet Explorer browser has lost further market share this year, there has been a significant slowdown in the acceptance of its largest competitor, the open source Firefox browser, according to a white paper released by Janco Associates on Aug. 11. Internet Explorer has continued to lose market share this year, to 75.88 percent […]

Open-source software has clearly entered the mainstream as it is being strongly adopted within the enterprise, a point underscored by the fact that many CIOs are now implementing it as policy within their organizations. This is according to Raymond Zachary, a senior analyst and open-source practice head at The 451 Group. In a media conference […]

Microsoft is working on a new reparations strategy, known internally as a customer incentive program, for those customers with volume licensing programs who will be negatively affected by the delay in the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Most enterprises buy volume licensing agreements from Microsoft, along with Software Assurance, which guarantees them the […]

Oracle is fast losing its patience with both XenSource and VMware over their reluctance to work together to develop a single interface that will integrate a variety of virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel. “We certainly believe in one simple, universal way to integrate a variety of virtualization solutions, and that is the way that […]

Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said. As Virtual PC for Mac was originally developed on the PowerPC platform, the amount of time that […]

The free Debian Linux operating system has added the OpenVZ virtualization software to its “unstable,” or development, distribution, known as Sid. That operating-system-level server virtualization software, developed by the OpenVZ Project, is built on Linux and creates isolated, secure virtual environments on a single physical server. These virtual servers ensure that applications do not conflict […]

Microsoft is planning to release its recently acquired application migration technology, known as Alohabob, along with the first release candidate for Windows Vista later this quarter. Microsoft acquired the Alohabob technology with the purchase earlier in 2006 of application-transfer specialist Apptimum. At that time, Microsoft said its plans for Apptimums intellectual property and technology assets […]