Peter Galli

BOSTON—Microsoft is using its annual Tech Ed developer conference to stress the tight integration of its applications and how this will allow developers to build better solutions more quickly. The opening keynote address was delivered here by Bob Muglia, the senior vice president of Microsofts server and tools business; Chris Capossela, the corporate vice president […]

Microsoft is finally ready to enter the high-performance computing market, a technology dominated by open-source Linux technology. The Redmond, Wash., software maker released Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to manufacturing on June 9, with general availability of the product scheduled for August. It will be sold via volume licensing and OEM licensing for an estimated […]

Microsoft will use its annual Tech Ed conference to be held in Boston the week of June 12 to publish the new Windows Server System Common Engineering Criteria for infrastructure software produced in 2007. Among the new criteria are improved feedback platform for users; IPv6 support; Web services adoption; improved diagnostics; identity and access management; […]

As Sun Microsystems ponders its next steps on the road to open-sourcing Java, it is acutely aware of the concern among developers and customers that compatibility be maintained going forward. “Developers tell us that while open-sourcing Java would be nice, they dont want us to rush the process and [not maintain compatibility]. So we will […]

SAN FRANCISCO—While there is no inherent discontinuity with making Java open-source and keeping the technology compatible, the community will have to remain vigilant in this regard, according to a Sun executive. “I do not think anyone wants to break Java compatibility, but any of the large licensees with the market power to distribute their own […]

The first draft of the Office Open XML file format specification, which Microsoft submitted to standards body Ecma International in November 2005, has been published. In December 2005, Ecma accepted Microsofts application to produce a standard for office productivity applications that is compatible with Microsofts Office Open XML file format. The draft specification, which is […]

Microsoft is ratcheting up its enterprise search offerings and is set to announce a new client-based application known as Windows Live Search as well as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search, a new server product. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will deliver the news during his keynote address at the 10th […]

An executive e-mail penned by Bill Gates, Microsofts chairman and chief software architect, will be sent out to customers and partners on May 17 to coincide with his keynote address to more than 100 CEOs representing many of the worlds leading companies at the software giants annual CEO Summit the same day. Below is full […]

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz said he is a huge fan of open source and of lowering the barriers to entry for developers and customers across the world. He also believes that position does not contrast with where the Santa Clara, Calif., company is headed with Java. “We have open-sourced the server with Glass Fish […]

SAN FRANCISCO—It is not a question of whether Sun Microsystems will fully open-source its Java technology, but rather how it can best do that, according to newly appointed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Senior Vice President Rich Green. Schwartz, who delivered the opening JavaOne keynote to a packed house of several thousand people here May […]