Peter Galli

Company chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates last week announced the second beta for Microsoft Corp.s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a 64-bit operating system for industry-standard x64 processors. Gates used his keynote address at the Supercomputing show in Seattle to make the announcement, which follows the release of the first, more limited beta […]

Microsoft Corp. has decided to open up its Office file formats and has submitted the formats to be considered for recognition as a formal standard by Ecma International, which will develop the documentation and make it available to the industry. A number of companies and organizations have stepped forward to co-sponsor the submission of the […]

Novell Inc. on Thursday lashed out at the Microsoft Corp.-sponsored study released this week that compared the real-world reliability of two platforms—Microsofts Windows Server System and Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Server—under evolving business requirements over an extended period of time. The report was conducted by Herbert Thompson of Security Innovation Inc. (a Microsoft certified partner) […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will distribute and support the open-source Postgres database with its Solaris Operating System, company officials said on Thursday, adding that Solaris ZFS, the new 128-bit file system with error detection and correction capabilities, will be integrated into OpenSolaris and Suns branded Solaris 10 in the May 2006 update. Sun also announced plans […]

Microsoft Corp. will release Wednesday the findings of another survey it has sponsored, this time comparing two platforms—its Windows Server System and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server—under evolving business requirements over an extended period of time. The study found that there are fundamental differences in the Linux and Windows models, and while there are […]

Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will use his keynote address at the Supercomputing show, being held in Seattle this week, to announce the second beta for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a 64-bit operating system for industry-standard x64 processors. The first, more limited beta, was announced at Microsofts Professional Developers Conference […]

Oracle Corp. will announce Tuesday that it has chosen Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris 10 operating system as its preferred development and deployment platform for most x64 architectures, including Suns UltraSPARC-based systems and x64 (x86, 64-bit) Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron and Intel Corp. Xeon processor-based systems. While the move has little immediate financial implications for […]

Microsoft Corp. is pushing forward with its plan to embrace 64-bit computing across all its products and has decided that the next version of Microsoft Exchange as well as the upcoming Windows Server “Longhorn” Small Business Server and its Centro infrastructure solution for midsize businesses will only be released as 64-bit and optimized for x64 […]

Even before company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates had finished explaining Microsoft Corp.s new Windows Live and Office Live offerings, industry observers and analysts were already saying that search giant Google Inc. still has the upper hand and warning that Microsoft needs to overhaul “its culture of derivative innovation.” In his Oct. 31 […]

Microsoft Corp., under increasing pressure to counter Google Inc.s moves to dominate the Web services arena, last week responded by trotting out extensions to its pervasive Windows and Office products that will be delivered over the Internet rather than residing on a users PC. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates introduced the new […]

If any doubt remained that Linux and open-source software are powering mission-critical systems in some of the largest enterprises, that skepticism was laid to rest at last weeks Open Source Business Conference here. At a CIO panel aptly titled “Beyond Linux in the Enterprise,” several executives talked about their Linux use and the motivation behind […]

NEWTON, Mass.—Microsoft Corp. announced a new shared source project on Wednesday that enables multiple browsers to be used as a thin-client interface connecting the Microsoft Business Solutions Portal server and the Solomon ERP system. Jason Matusow, director of Microsofts shared source program, announced at the Open Source Business Conference here the project, Business Portal Lite. […]