Peter Galli

Microsoft is aggressively reaching out to successful players in the high-performance computing and security spaces—markets that are new to it and which it is entering late—in the hope that they will become partners and drive the adoption of its new software into those nascent markets. The software maker, in Redmond, Wash., released Windows Compute Cluster […]

Microsoft announced July 18 a strategic relationship with XenSource for the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and Windows Server virtualization. The move means that when the technology is available, those enterprise customers deploying Novells SUSE Linux or Red Hats Red Hat Linux will have two world-class virtualization solutions built to take […]

Editors Note: This is the third in a series of articles that looks at how Microsoft plans to meet the enterprise needs of the mission-critical e-mail, calendaring and messaging market. As Microsoft moves closer to the release of Exchange 2007, its e-mail, calendaring and messaging product, it faces increased competitive pressure from long-standing competitors like […]

Microsoft is hoping that the release of the public second beta of Exchange Server 2007 on July 24 will undo some of the harm caused by the limited-release first beta, which was feature-incomplete and provided little of the familiar Exchange GUI. The lack of GUI led to the widespread belief that there would be significant […]

Editors Note: This is the second in a series of articles that looks at how Microsoft plans to meet the enterprise needs of the mission-critical e-mail, calendaring and messaging market. One of the major challenges and goals facing the development team working on Microsofts Exchange Server, is how to make the e-mail, calendaring and messaging […]

Editors Note: This is the first in a series of articles that looks at how Microsoft plans to meet the enterprise needs of the mission-critical e-mail, calendaring and messaging market. While Exchange 2007, the upcoming e-mail, calendaring and messaging server from Microsoft, is still based on the Extensible Storage Engine, a derivative of the Jet […]

Microsoft reported record revenue of $11.80 billion in the fourth quarter to June 30, 2006, a 16 percent rise over the same quarter of the prior year, on the back of strong customer demand for Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. The demand for all those recently released […]

Microsoft is living up to its promise to reach out and build bridges with the Linux and open-source community and will on July 18 announce a strategic relationship with XenSource for the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and Windows Server virtualization. The move means that when the technology is available, those […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—While Linux is almost in the mainstream, there are a number of pain-points for existing and potential customers that need to be addressed, says Christine Martino, the vice president for HPs open source and Linux organization. Addressing the media at an event at its campus here July 17, Martino pointed to a Forrester Research […]

CUPERTINO—Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, was made available worldwide on July 17. The platform, which the company says provides a secure and reliable foundation for enterprise computing from the desktop to the data center, will be showcased at the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & […]

The topic of licensing might not be the sexiest thing about the free and open-source software industry. But it is one of the most important issues, since the license governs exactly what companies and developers can and cannot do with their software. The legal implications of software licenses may also not seem important to many […]

Editors Note: This is the last in a series of articles that examines Microsofts strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. BOSTON—There can be enormous advantages for a company to build a product for Linux while also partnering with Microsoft, but there are also huge development challenges […]