Peter Galli

Microsofts long-awaited Windows Server 2003 R2, the update to Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, is finally generally available, the company said on Feb. 1. This widespread availability follows the December 2005 release to manufacturing of the final code for this server software. Microsoft customers will now be able to buy Windows Server 2003 […]

While Sun Microsystems is open to licensing Solaris under Version 3.0 of the GNU General Public License, it will not reconsider its decision not to license the operating system under GPL 2.0, the current version of the license. Sun created the CDDL (Community Development and Distribution License) for Solaris after rejecting GPL 2.0 as too […]

The first draft discussion document for the next version of the GNU General Public License has only just been released, but some businesses already are expressing concern about its digital rights management provisions. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and co-author of the first draft discussion document, said at the launch event on […]

While the majority of Microsofts Windows client development team is working to get Windows Vista out the door before the end of this year, there is a small team already working on a set of core technologies for “Vienna”, the version that will follow Vista. Sources have told eWEEK that Microsoft is referring to Vienna […]

As Microsoft executives continue to align the company around three distinct business units, they have decided to merge the Exchange and Real-Time Collaboration groups into a unit known as the Unified Communications Group. This new combined group will be led by Anoop Gupta, the current corporate vice president of the Real-Time Collaboration group, and will […]

A shake-up in the management and responsibilities of some of Microsoft Corp.s key Windows client and server team executives could be in the cards when Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsofts Platforms, Products and Services division, retires at the end of the year. While Allchin stressed in an interview with eWEEK that no decisions had […]

The first draft discussion document for the next version of the GNU General Public License has only just been released, but some businesses are already expressing concern about its digital rights management provisions. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and co-author of the first draft discussion document, said at the launch event […]

Microsofts decision to license all the Windows Server source code that applies to the antitrust requirements set out in the European Commission judgment against it has received a lukewarm response at best from competitors and trade groups. “With todays announcement, Microsoft has supplemented the existing resources with a new license for all of the Windows […]

Though outward appearances may indicate that Google Inc. is now Microsoft Corp.s biggest threat, customers should not kid themselves. Microsoft still has many of its top minds working on the previous holders of that title: Linux and open source. At its Linux and Open Source Lab in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft has a three-pronged attack to […]

Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of the software and intellectual property assets of UMT, a project and portfolio management and consulting firm. Microsoft first announced the deal with UMT in December, when it said it planned to combine the technology and expertise of UMT with its existing Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution, currently […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and co-author of the first draft discussion document for the GNU General Public License Version 3, said he is confident in the ability of the draft license to deal with the major issues that have emerged since the GPL was last updated 15 years ago: […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Tuesday that it will offer worldwide support for the entire JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite of products, and certify and integrate the JBoss Application Server for HP-UX 11i, Red Hat Inc.s Linux and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux. The move takes the existing agreement between HP and JBoss Inc. to the next level. For […]