Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. has come clean about the pace at which it intends to open-source its entire software stack, and that pace will be slow and measured. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is compensating for that caution by increasingly making software available to users at no cost, in what some in the industry describe as […]

Microsoft Corp. is working hard to make sure the latest version of its e-mail, calendaring and messaging server, Exchange 12, appeals to both enterprise IT administrators and end users. The first beta of the product, released earlier this month, offers enhanced administrative controls as well as a unified messaging feature that will deliver fax, voice […]

Some five months after Google announced plans to open a product research and development center in China, and said it was appointing former Microsoft vice president Kai-Fu Lee to head the operation, the parties have settled the matter. In a brief statement released late Thursday, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said the parties had entered into […]

The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has again rapped Microsoft Corp. over the knuckles, this time warning the Redmond-based software maker that it could face a retroactive fine of up to $2.37 million a day for failing to comply with its antitrust order. The fine, if levied, will start on Dec. […]

Those who hope Sun Microsystems Inc. will open-source all of its software products anytime soon are in for a big disappointment. Sun executives, including president Jonathan Schwartz and John Loiacono, the executive vice president for software, have all repeatedly said that the Santa Clara, Calif., company intends to open-source its entire software stack over time. […]

Microsoft Corp. released to testers Monday a build for both the Windows Vista client and for the Longhorn Server. Both the Longhorn Server and Vista client build number is 5270, testers said. Microsoft made the bits for both Windows builds available simultaneously for testers to download from the Microsoft Connect tester Web site. According to […]

Open-source and proprietary software companies have railed against comments Microsoft Corp. officials made earlier this week when releasing the first beta of Exchange 12, the upcoming e-mail, calendaring and messaging server, that it faced little competitive threat from open-source solutions. Jeff Ressler, the director of product planning for Microsoft Exchange, in Redmond, Wash., told eWEEK […]

People want to be able to store their information for the long term without having to continually pay to upgrade their document software to maintain this or be forced to accept the alternative: that this data will passively disappear over time if they do not do that, Sun Microsystems Inc. officials said Wednesday. The solution […]

Microsoft Corp. will on Wednesday release the first beta of Exchange “12”—the next version of its e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging server—to a closed group of some 1,400 testers selected from its global customer, OEM, ISV and system integrator base. Although in January Microsoft canceled a version of Exchange that was due this year, Exchange […]

IBM has elevated Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. to highest-tier partner status by making them members of its Strategic Alliance program. The move will make it simpler for clients to acquire open standards-based Linux hardware, software and services through integrated and streamlined sales, distribution, and services channels, Mark Elliott, the general manager […]

Irelands government is the latest in Europe to consider embracing Linux and open-source software, with initiatives under way to create nationwide Open Source Centers of Excellence. The centers would provide expertise to examine the use of open-source software going forward, government officials said last week. Momentum, a trade association representing some 170 of Northern Irelands […]

Standards body Ecma International accepted on Thursday Microsoft Corp.s application to produce a standard for office productivity applications that is compatible with Microsofts Office Open XML Formats. “At the General Assembly meeting held in Nice on December 8, 2005, Ecma International has created Technical Committee 45 (TC45) to produce a formal standard for office productivity […]