Peter Galli

BOSTON—When Bill Hilf, Microsofts director for platform technology strategy, takes to the stage on April 6 to deliver his keynote address at the LinuxWorld Conference here, he is going to talk a lot about virtualization. Hilf is also going to trumpet the fact that XenSource is one of more than 45 vendors which have signed […]

BOSTON—Messaging company Sendmail is looking at open-sourcing more of its technologies, including its commercial administration tool, Sendmail Switch MTA, and its Sendmail Mailstream Manager. “We are looking at open-sourcing those products that we believe will bring innovation to the open-source community and create a level of excitement going forward, but also that can create some […]

Some of the largest proponents of Linux have realized that partners and customers dont want to replace all their existing Windows server software with open-source server software. Rather, they want them to coexist. That message will be delivered by the likes of IBM, Novell and Hewlett-Packard at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston April […]

Microsoft has a big surprise planned for not just those of its own customers using virtualization, but for those in the open-source community as well. On April 3, the Redmond, Wash., software giant will use the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston to announce that it is making its Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition […]

BOSTON—Novell opened the LinuxWorld Conference here with the introduction April 3 of the beta program for Mono 1.2, its open-source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework designed to help corporate IT and ISV developers migrate existing .NET applications to Linux and build new Linux and cross-platform applications. Novell also announced it is developing a new […]

BOSTON—Free and open-source developers looking for free financial and administrative help received good news at the LinuxWorld Conference here on April 3 with the establishment of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Software Freedom Law Center, a provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance free and open-source software, has set up the Conservancy to […]

Amid a growing cacophony of demand, the two largest Linux vendors, Red Hat and Novell, plan to bake virtualization into their enterprise products slated to ship later this year. But technology managers are mixed on the approach. The bake-in revolves around the Xen hypervisor, an open-source virtualization application that allows multiple operating systems to run […]

Microsoft has rebranded FrontBridge Technologies, as well as the secure messaging solutions it acquired along with the company last August. The company will now be known as Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, or EHS, and will provide hosted services in four distinct areas: filtering, archiving, continuity and encryption, Eron Kelly, director of Microsofts EHS, told eWEEK. […]

Microsoft has made new intellectual property licensing initiatives available for its hardware technologies, a first for the Redmond, Wash., software giant. The new intellectual property licensing initiatives cover its mouse and keyboard technologies; “U2” technology that enables a computer peripheral device to be connected to a computer using either a PS2 or USB auto-sensing interface; […]

There are just two things that John Loiacono says he would do differently if he could do it all over again: join Sun Microsystems three years sooner out of college and sell every share he had when the stock hit $130. In a public farewell statement posted to his Sun blog March 26, the former […]