Peter Galli

One of the fundamental questions that Red Hats acquisition of JBoss raises is what impact that deal might have on existing agreements between JBoss and companies like Microsoft and Novell. For its part, Microsoft is saying there will be no change to its existing technical collaboration agreement with JBoss, but Red Hat is hedging its […]

BOSTON—Microsoft has launched a new Web site called Port 25 that is designed to give a birds-eye view of its internal open-source software laboratory and elicit feedback and ideas about how it can work better with the open-source community. Bill Hilf, Microsofts director for platform technology strategy, used his keynote address, titled “Interoperability: Dealing with […]

BOSTON—While Microsofts Windows Hypervisor technology, code-named Viridian and currently under development, will not be ready when Windows “Longhorn” Server ships sometime next year, company officials are optimistic that it will be available “sooner rather than later.” But they are not yet prepared to say exactly when “sooner” might be, especially in light of the recently […]

BOSTON—Proponents of the free and open-source software development model are using the recently announced delays in the shipping of Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 products as an example of how the companys software engineering process simply does not work well. They are also pointing to how it stands in direct contrast with the way […]

BOSTON—When Bill Hilf, Microsofts director for platform technology strategy, takes to the stage on April 6 to deliver his keynote address at the LinuxWorld Conference here, he is going to talk a lot about virtualization. Hilf is also going to trumpet the fact that XenSource is one of more than 45 vendors which have signed […]

BOSTON—Messaging company Sendmail is looking at open-sourcing more of its technologies, including its commercial administration tool, Sendmail Switch MTA, and its Sendmail Mailstream Manager. “We are looking at open-sourcing those products that we believe will bring innovation to the open-source community and create a level of excitement going forward, but also that can create some […]

Some of the largest proponents of Linux have realized that partners and customers dont want to replace all their existing Windows server software with open-source server software. Rather, they want them to coexist. That message will be delivered by the likes of IBM, Novell and Hewlett-Packard at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston April […]

Microsoft has a big surprise planned for not just those of its own customers using virtualization, but for those in the open-source community as well. On April 3, the Redmond, Wash., software giant will use the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston to announce that it is making its Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition […]

BOSTON—Novell opened the LinuxWorld Conference here with the introduction April 3 of the beta program for Mono 1.2, its open-source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework designed to help corporate IT and ISV developers migrate existing .NET applications to Linux and build new Linux and cross-platform applications. Novell also announced it is developing a new […]

BOSTON—Free and open-source developers looking for free financial and administrative help received good news at the LinuxWorld Conference here on April 3 with the establishment of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Software Freedom Law Center, a provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance free and open-source software, has set up the Conservancy to […]

Amid a growing cacophony of demand, the two largest Linux vendors, Red Hat and Novell, plan to bake virtualization into their enterprise products slated to ship later this year. But technology managers are mixed on the approach. The bake-in revolves around the Xen hypervisor, an open-source virtualization application that allows multiple operating systems to run […]

Microsoft has rebranded FrontBridge Technologies, as well as the secure messaging solutions it acquired along with the company last August. The company will now be known as Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, or EHS, and will provide hosted services in four distinct areas: filtering, archiving, continuity and encryption, Eron Kelly, director of Microsofts EHS, told eWEEK. […]