Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. is edging closer to using certified open-source licenses to govern the projects it releases under its Shared Source Initiative. The Redmond, Wash., software company last week cut back the number of licenses it will use for Shared Source projects going forward, from more than 10 to just three new template, or core, licenses […]

Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far more likely that Sun and Google […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday detailed its plan to beef up, align and broaden its investments in the business intelligence space, using the Microsoft Office System to help customers better leverage their existing applications. The Redmond, Wash.-based company also announced that its Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 product would be available in November. This is […]

While Microsoft Corp. has publicly said it has no immediate plans to submit its newest Shared Source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval, the company met with the OSI board this week to discuss the matter. At issue for Microsoft is the fact that the OSI has, at times, taken positions that could […]

While Microsoft Corp. has no current plan to apply for Open Source Initiative approval of the new licenses that will govern its Shared Source projects going forward, the Redmond, Wash., software maker has not ruled this out as a possibility going forward. As eWEEK first reported, Microsoft has cut the number of licenses it will […]

Microsoft Corp. is slashing the number of licenses it will use for its Shared Source Initiative from now on, while at the same time radically shortening and simplifying the text of those licenses. The move, which will be announced on Wednesday morning at Oscon, the OReilly European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam, will see Microsoft […]

Microsoft Corp., IBM and Novell Inc. last week all responded to customer calls that they adapt their licensing models to better reflect the fast-paced and ever-changing technology development world. Microsoft will now no longer charge users of Windows Server System products in virtual machine environments licensing fees at installation but rather at the time of […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday came closer to the final release of Windows Server 2003 R2, expected before the years end, by making Release Candidate 1 available for download. The release of the RC1 code, which is available here, follows the release of RC0, in late August. A Microsoft spokesman told eWEEK.com on Monday that the […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. has signed new multiyear global subscription agreements with both Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. that will consolidate and expand HPs existing Linux use agreements with the two vendors. “In a nutshell, what this does is take internal Linux usage at HP up a notch. While there are currently more than 15,000 Linux-based […]

IBM and Novell Inc.s SuSE Linux have joined forces to offer customers a single subscription option for servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 in an IBM BladeCenter chassis. “What we are offering is a single SLES 9 license for an IBM BladeCenter chassis, which is the first of a kind-pricing deal as, until now, […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected two key Microsoft Corp. patent applications relating to the companys file allocation table file system. But Microsoft officials still hold out hope that the company ultimately will succeed in the quest to patent FAT. In June of last year, the USPTO said it would re-examine the patent […]

The true value of the new alliance between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Google Inc. lies not in the fairly innocuous mutual distribution deal the two companies announced here last week but rather in the myriad possibilities now open to them, officials and industry observers say. Under the agreement, the two companies will promote and enhance […]