Peter Galli

Microsoft reported record revenue of $11.80 billion in the fourth quarter to June 30, 2006, a 16 percent rise over the same quarter of the prior year, on the back of strong customer demand for Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. The demand for all those recently released […]

Microsoft is living up to its promise to reach out and build bridges with the Linux and open-source community and will on July 18 announce 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 […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—While Linux is almost in the mainstream, there are a number of pain-points for existing and potential customers that need to be addressed, says Christine Martino, the vice president for HPs open source and Linux organization. Addressing the media at an event at its campus here July 17, Martino pointed to a Forrester Research […]

CUPERTINO—Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, was made available worldwide on July 17. The platform, which the company says provides a secure and reliable foundation for enterprise computing from the desktop to the data center, will be showcased at the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & […]

The topic of licensing might not be the sexiest thing about the free and open-source software industry. But it is one of the most important issues, since the license governs exactly what companies and developers can and cannot do with their software. The legal implications of software licenses may also not seem important to many […]

Editors Note: This is the last in a series of articles that examines Microsofts strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. BOSTON—There can be enormous advantages for a company to build a product for Linux while also partnering with Microsoft, but there are also huge development challenges […]

Editors Note: This is the third in a series of articles that examines Microsofts strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. BOSTON—Microsoft may not have answered all the questions prospective partners had when they attended a summit before the companys annual Worldwide Partner Conference here, but it […]

BOSTON—Microsoft will use the second day of its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here to talk about all the opportunity that remains for its partners and how its People-Ready business has broadened the scope of that for them. In a keynote address to be delivered July 12, Microsoft Server and Tools Marketing Corporate Vice President Andy […]

Editors Note: This is the second in a series of articles that examines Microsofts strategy of gaining market share and driving new solutions to market through its partner base. Microsoft is aggressively reaching out to established, successful players in the High Performance Computing and security spaces—markets that are new to it and which it is […]

Desktop collaboration software options for the Linux platform will get a boost when IBM releases its Lotus Notes on Linux product on July 24. Arthur Fontaine, IBM Lotus senior offering manager, told eWEEK that this is the industrys first business-grade collaboration software to support Linux on the desktop. Now the millions of Lotus Notes users […]