Peter Galli

Microsoft made the February CTP (Community Technology Preview) for Windows Vista available to testers on Feb. 22, saying this is an enterprise release that was also feature-complete for the first time. The Redmond, Wash. software maker also gave information about a number of deployment tools and imaging technologies that will be made available alongside Vista, […]

Before the end of the year, Microsoft plans to roll out 34 suites, programs, servers, services and tools that will form its new 2007 Microsoft Office system family of products, previously known as Office 12. Retail pricing for the product remains unchanged from Office 2003, John Cairns, senior director of licensing and pricing in Microsofts […]

Open-source vendor SugarCRM the week of Feb. 13 became the first outside party to offer its software under the quasi-open-source Microsoft Community License. However, dont expect to see a rush of open-source companies looking to license their products the same way. For example, Shaun Connolly, the vice president of product management for JBoss, based in […]

Microsoft on Feb. 16 is set to announce 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools—13 of which are new—that form part of its 2007 Microsoft Office family of products, previously knows as Office 12. Retail pricing for the comparable versions of the product has not been increased, remaining unchanged from the retail prices for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—There was much discussion about the provisions contained in the first draft of the GNU General Public License 3.0 at the Open Source Business Conference here Feb. 14, including the anti-DRM wording, the license compatibility clause and the complete corresponding source code requirements. Mark Ratcliffe, a partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US […]

Novells new CTO Jeff Jaffe is very bullish on the outlook for the Linux desktop going forward, saying he believes it is on the cusp of a significant adoption wave. “I think we are approaching a tipping point on the enterprise desktop side. The industry has built a commercial infrastructure to make it easy now […]

Daniel Robbins, the founder of Gentoo Linux and its former chief architect, has announced that he has left his position at Microsoft. Robbins shocked the Linux world in June 2005 when he announced in a note to the Gentoo Foundation that he was leaving Gentoo to help “Microsoft to understand open source and community-based projects.” […]

Shared Source isnt just for Microsoft software anymore. Open-source vendor SugarCRM will on Feb. 14 announce its plans to launch a distribution of its Sugar Suite 4.5 software under the Microsoft Community License. That license is part of the Shared Source Initiative through which Microsoft shares some source code with customers, partners and governments worldwide. […]

Scalix on Feb.14 at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco will announce the immediate availability of Scalix 10, its enterprise e-mail and calendaring solution on Linux. Likewise, open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange will also announce at the show that its Service Pack 1 feature update for Open-Xchange Server 5 will be released in […]

The Open Source Development Labs and Linux firm Levanta are striking back at Microsofts anti-Linux “Get the Facts” research campaign. The Linux allies have published a 17-page research report entitled “Get the Truth on Linux Management” that challenges Redmonds claims that Linux has a higher TCO (total cost of ownership) and systems management costs than […]