Peter Galli

As Microsoft executives continue to align the company around three distinct business units, they have decided to merge the Exchange and Real-Time Collaboration groups into a unit known as the Unified Communications Group. This new combined group will be led by Anoop Gupta, the current corporate vice president of the Real-Time Collaboration group, and will […]

A shake-up in the management and responsibilities of some of Microsoft Corp.s key Windows client and server team executives could be in the cards when Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsofts Platforms, Products and Services division, retires at the end of the year. While Allchin stressed in an interview with eWEEK that no decisions had […]

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

Microsofts decision to license all the Windows Server source code that applies to the antitrust requirements set out in the European Commission judgment against it has received a lukewarm response at best from competitors and trade groups. “With todays announcement, Microsoft has supplemented the existing resources with a new license for all of the Windows […]

Though outward appearances may indicate that Google Inc. is now Microsoft Corp.s biggest threat, customers should not kid themselves. Microsoft still has many of its top minds working on the previous holders of that title: Linux and open source. At its Linux and Open Source Lab in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft has a three-pronged attack to […]

Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of the software and intellectual property assets of UMT, a project and portfolio management and consulting firm. Microsoft first announced the deal with UMT in December, when it said it planned to combine the technology and expertise of UMT with its existing Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution, currently […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and co-author of the first draft discussion document for the GNU General Public License Version 3, said he is confident in the ability of the draft license to deal with the major issues that have emerged since the GPL was last updated 15 years ago: […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Tuesday that it will offer worldwide support for the entire JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite of products, and certify and integrate the JBoss Application Server for HP-UX 11i, Red Hat Inc.s Linux and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux. The move takes the existing agreement between HP and JBoss Inc. to the next level. For […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Is a new directive to take up the controversial issue of patents in the European Union in the cards? Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, believes so. He told eWEEK in an interview here at the First International Conference on GPLv3 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that “we have just […]

Editors Note: This story is the third and final part of the series about Microsofts Linux and open-source lab. Expect to see a lot more interoperability work between Microsoft Corp. and some of its open-source competitors over the next year—like the agreement struck with JBoss Inc. last year—as well as more participation by the Redmond, […]