Peter Galli

Microsofts revenue rose 13 percent to $10.9 billion in the third quarter to end-March 2006 from the same period a year earlier on the back of a surge in demand for newly released products, especially the Xbox 360 system. Operating income for the quarter rose 17 percent to $3.89 billion from the $3.33 billion in […]

NEW YORK—There are a number of opportunities and challenges for Linux and open-source software going forward, particularly in highly competitive industries with specific needs, like the Wall Street financial services companies. While Linux and open-source software got a resounding endorsement from a panel of vendors and investors during a session at the Linux on Wall […]

NEW YORK—The Open Business Readiness Rating launched a new initiative designed to maximize open-source software knowledge across organizations at the Linux on Wall Street conference here on April 24. While corporate and Wall Street CIOs and IT directors will be targeted as members of the new OpenBRR Corporate Community, the current plan is that membership […]

NEW YORK—Linux and open-source technologies are here to stay and will continue to make inroads into the financial services sector, speakers from both the vendors and Wall Street communities said here at the Linux on Wall Street conference. In a session titled “Leveraging Open Source to Build Cutting Edge Trading Applications,” Jeremy Lehman, chief software […]

As Microsofts Exchange team gives user groups, administrators and customers a first look at Exchange 12, which is currently still being beta tested, concerns are rising about the extensive retraining and high costs that will be involved in moving to the new product. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., is talking to Exchange user groups around the […]

IBM has broken its silence about the potential implications of Red Hats acquisition of JBoss on their current close relationship, saying that it will continue to partner strongly with both Red Hat and Novell. Red Hat announced April 10 that it was looking to acquire JBoss for $350 million, a move that significantly expands its […]

Membership in the OpenDocument Format Alliance has almost quadrupled over the past month. The Alliance, a coalition of organizations from across the world whose goal is to enable governments to have direct management and greater control over their documents, was launched on March 3 with 36 initial members, but that has now grown to 138 […]

Will he stay or will he go? Thats the million-dollar question about the future of Sun Microsystems CEO and co-founder Scott McNealy. Well, at least thats what the rumor machine would like us to believe. Speculation about McNealys future at Sun is not new: Weve been there so many times before, and well most certainly […]

Red Hat has significantly expanded its reach and product portfolio with the acquisition of JBoss for $350 million, but the company will have to navigate some potentially choppy waters with existing partners. The acquisition of JBoss, announced April 10, means Red Hats web of partnerships has become more complicated. For instance, JBoss, as an independent […]

When David Skok, a general partner at Matrix Partners in Boston, first heard about a company called JBoss, he was interested, mostly because he had also founded a company in the application server space, Silverstream Software, before becoming a venture capitalist. But Skoks interest sharpened when some of the companies Matrix had invested in told […]

Does Red Hats acquisition of JBoss for $350 million conflict with the very cozy relationship that has existed between Red Hat, IBM and Oracle? Some analysts think it does. “IBM and Oracle now clearly see JBoss as a major competitive threat and will be less likely to favor Red Hat going forward,” said Scott Donahue […]

Microsoft is giving customers of its Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Enterprise Edition and the open-source community a free ride. On April 3, the Redmond, Wash., software company announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here that its Virtual Server product, which allows users to deploy virtualization technology, is available as a free download from […]