Peter Galli

Microsoft has made new intellectual property licensing initiatives available for its hardware technologies, a first for the Redmond, Wash., software giant. The new intellectual property licensing initiatives cover its mouse and keyboard technologies; “U2” technology that enables a computer peripheral device to be connected to a computer using either a PS2 or USB auto-sensing interface; […]

There are just two things that John Loiacono says he would do differently if he could do it all over again: join Sun Microsystems three years sooner out of college and sell every share he had when the stock hit $130. In a public farewell statement posted to his Sun blog March 26, the former […]

Sun Microsystems open-source strategy, or what some see as a lack of it, and its refusal to open-source Java have come under question again, this time by a former staffer who left Sun to start his own company. Peter Yared, founder and CEO of San Francisco-based ActiveGrid, has posted an open letter to Sun President […]

Just as the Novell BrainShare conference got under way here, Microsoft claimed that it migrated 3.3 million customers off NetWare and onto Windows over the past two years. The software giant, based in Redmond, Wash., also has launched a new program to lure customers in the education and state and local government sectors off NetWare […]

As Novell prepares to release a slew of new products this summer, the company faces a number of challenges, particularly how to win customers of the Windows platform while also persuading its legacy NetWare users to migrate to Linux. But there are also some bright spots in the Waltham, Mass., companys future—such as the release […]

Just days after announcing a delay in when Windows Vista will ship, Microsoft has significantly restructured its Platforms & Services Division and appointed Steve Sinofsky, who has headed the Office team until now, to lead the Windows and Windows Live groups, giving him broad responsibility for planning future versions of Windows. While the Redmond, Wash., […]

A text-to-speech translation application, one of the many services that uses Sun Microsystems Grid computing system, did not fare very well on its opening day, March 22, as it was hit by a denial-of-service network attack that forced the application off the public Internet. Since users of the Sun Grid have to go through a […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Novell is working on a new integrated suite of tools that will allow customers to manage heterogeneous data center environments across Windows, Unix and Linux. The tools also help users maximize server utilization by setting up a series of workload policies based on the business application resources required. The project, currently titled “The […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Novell is talking to a number of OEMs about getting its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 preinstalled on the hardware systems they ship. But while Ron Hovsepian, Novells president and chief operating officer, said the company had nothing to announce in this regard at its annual BrainShare conference here, Novell is talking […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Just as the Novell BrainShare conference gets under way, Microsoft is claiming that it has migrated 3.3 million customers off NetWare and onto Windows over the past two years. The software giant, based in Redmond, Wash., has also launched a new program to lure customers in the education and state and local government […]

The move to embed virtualization technology deep into the Linux kernel is stuck on the workbench. Despite earlier optimistic predictions by Red Hat executives and others in the open-source community that the work would take just a couple of months, they now say that the technology is still “far from ready for inclusion in the […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Novell executives used the companys annual BrainShare conference here to pledge to continue to support NetWare 6.5 until at least 2015 for those customers who had no plans to upgrade to Linux. “We will support NetWare 6.5 for as long as customers continue to use it. So I urge those of you who […]