Peter Galli

SALT LAKE CITY—Novell CEO Jack Messman rolled out the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform at the companys annual BrainShare conference here on March 20, describing this as the platform for the open enterprise that leverages the assets of Linux, open source and Novells engineering efforts. “This platform supports all of Novells products and is a […]

Sun Microsystems is losing its head of software, John Loiacono, to Adobe Systems. The Santa Clara, Calif., company on March 16 confirmed that John Loiacono, who took over as executive vice president of software in 2004 after then incumbent Jonathan Schwartz was appointed chief operating officer and president, is leaving and that March 24 will […]

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

Microsoft is hosting some 400 of its small and midsize customers and partners at its Redmond, Wash., campus on March 14 as part of its inaugural Small Business Summit titled “Take Your Business to the Next Level.” Aside from the campus event March 14, Microsoft staff members will also host more than 40 online sessions […]

Linux vendor Red Hat will give an update on its virtualization initiatives March 14 at an event in San Francisco hosted by Tim Yeaton, Red Hats executive vice president of enterprise solutions, and Brian Stevens, chief technology officer at the Raleigh, N.C., company. Also attending the event will be representatives from strategic hardware partners Intel […]

Linux vendor Red Hat has big plans to create an integrated virtualization environment that will simplify virtualization deployment for its customers. This “Integrated Virtualization” strategy was announced at a launch event in San Francisco on March 14, as first reported by eWEEK, and will essentially see the Raleigh, N.C., company tightly integrate virtualization capabilities with […]

Users of the gnu general Public License have no need to worry about Sarbanes-Oxley. Thats the upshot of a white paper published by the Software Freedom Law Center on March 8. The paper dismisses recent claims that the GPL violates the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The SFLCs white paper follows those from the legal department at embedded-systems […]

The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, on March 10 sent Microsoft a hard-hitting letter, telling the software maker that it was still out of compliance with its antitrust order. The Commission did not mince its words, saying in a statement released in Brussels that Microsoft had added nothing substantial to the […]

Novell is betting that its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 will be the release that drives widespread business adoption of its Linux desktop, especially as it brings features like integrated desktop search, which is not yet found in its largest competitor, Microsofts Windows. Executives from Novell, based in Waltham, Mass., are in Germany for […]

Corel has landed a deal with German OEM software distributor Markement to bundle its WordPerfect Office X3 desktop productivity software into Markements PCSuite 2006. The deal sees WordPerfect Office X3 replace StarOffice in PCSuite. The PCSuite 2005 Standard Edition included StarOffice 7, CorelDraw Essentials 2 and Marco Polo EuroRoute 2005 mapping software, while the Professional […]

Microsoft plans to make a Technical Refresh of its Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 1 program available to testers the week of March 13. A company spokesperson told eWEEK that the refreshed code would include an updated build of the new user interface and fixes for the bugs most commonly reported by testers, resulting in a […]

The Software Freedom Law Center on March 8 will publish a white paper that dismisses recent publications that have alleged GNU General Public License violations in relation to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The three-page white paper, titled “Sarbanes-Oxley and the GPL: No Special Risk,” essentially counsels users of the free software license that they […]