Peter Galli

E-mail delivered to mobile phones is about to get easier to use in the enterprise, both on the proprietary and open-source fronts. On Feb. 6, Microsoft announced that Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has licensed its Exchange ActiveSync protocol to enable more secure, wireless direct synchronization between Exchange Server 2003 and its phones. The first implementation […]

Open source development labs is striking back at Microsoft and its Get the Facts research strategy with a 17-page report titled “Get the Truth on Linux Management” that challenges Microsofts claims that Linux has a higher total cost of ownership and higher system management costs than Windows. Andi Mann, an analyst at Enterprise Management Associates, […]

Open-source code advocates are calling for cooler heads to prevail in the often-heated debate about many of the revised terms in the first discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 that was released in early January. While there are many opinions and questions about how the draft should be revised, there is […]

Microsoft has moved to strengthen and broaden the intellectual property protections it offers those original equipment manufacturers and distributors across the globe that build and sell devices powered by its Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile software. The Redmond, Wash. based software maker will announce Feb. 9 that this strengthened IP protection now includes the defense […]

E-mail delivered to mobile phones is about to get easier to use in the enterprise, both on the proprietary and open-source fronts. On Feb. 6, Microsoft announced that Sony Ericsson has licensed its Exchange ActiveSync protocol to enable more secure, wireless direct synchronization between Exchange Server 2003 and its phones. The first implementation will be […]

Sun Microsystems, fighting hard to stem the tide of migrations off its Solaris operating system, is now aggressively moving to try and lure customers off Red Hat Linux, IBMs AIX and Hewlett-Packards HP-UX, to Solaris 10. As part of this initiative, the firm has struck deals with three global system integrators based in India—Satyam Computer […]

Microsofts long-awaited Windows Server 2003 R2, the update to Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, is finally generally available, the company said on Feb. 1. This widespread availability follows the December 2005 release to manufacturing of the final code for this server software. Microsoft customers will now be able to buy Windows Server 2003 […]

While Sun Microsystems is open to licensing Solaris under Version 3.0 of the GNU General Public License, it will not reconsider its decision not to license the operating system under GPL 2.0, the current version of the license. Sun created the CDDL (Community Development and Distribution License) for Solaris after rejecting GPL 2.0 as too […]

The first draft discussion document for the next version of the GNU General Public License has only just been released, but some businesses already are expressing concern about its digital rights management provisions. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and co-author of the first draft discussion document, said at the launch event on […]

While the majority of Microsofts Windows client development team is working to get Windows Vista out the door before the end of this year, there is a small team already working on a set of core technologies for “Vienna”, the version that will follow Vista. Sources have told eWEEK that Microsoft is referring to Vienna […]