Peter Galli

PORTLAND, Ore.—Dont expect to see a single virtualization technology baked into the Linux kernel in the near future. Thats because XenSource and VMware are butting heads instead of working together to come up with a joint solution, Greg Kroah-Hartman told attendees on July 26 here at the annual OSCON (OReilly Open Source Conference). Kroah-Harman works […]

PORTLAND—Scalix has taken the open-source plunge and will contribute parts of the source code for its messaging infrastructure platform to the community. It has also negotiated a new licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard that supports open-sourcing the portions of the Scalix product line that are based on HPs OpenMail technology. At the annual OSCON (OReilly Open […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—Google believes that open source is one of the strongest ways to preserve industry competition, and its goal is to help this industry remain healthy and keep injecting fresh blood into it, said Chris DiBona, Googles open source program manager, in a presentation at the annual OReilly Open Source Conference here July 26. “The […]

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 […]

Microsoft may not have answered all the questions prospective partners had when they attended a summit before the companys annual Worldwide Partner Conference here July 11-13, but it certainly convinced many of them that they should join forces with the company. Microsoft invited some 320 potential partners to attend the Partnering Executive Summit on July […]

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 […]