Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems has absolutely no plans to create a large transactional database that would go head-to-head with those from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, said John Loiacono, Suns executive vice president for software, speaking to media and analysts at a “town hall” meeting at the JavaOne conference here on Tuesday. Responding to a question for […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s recent decision to release the millions of lines of source code for OpenSolaris, the open-source version of Solaris 10, may be just the thing the company needs to expand the developer base for, and applications written to, OpenSolaris. The single code base gives developers and customers access to the code for all […]

Microsoft continues to reveal details about the core features it plans for its Longhorn operating system, the next version of Windows that is due in late 2006 on the client side and in 2007 on the server front. The latest Longhorn core feature to be confirmed by Microsoft Corp. is RSS, which Microsoft will integrate […]

The litigation between the SCO Group and IBM is having repercussions in the most unexpected place: at Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that it is strengthening the IP (intellectual property) protection, or indemnification, it provides to all the PC manufacturers it works with, from the larger OEMs and smaller OEM System Builder partners, to OEM […]

The royalty-free license under which Microsoft Corp. plans to make its upcoming Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General Public License and will prevent many open-source and free-software projects from using them, advocates say. In addition, a leading patent official, Dan Ravicher, is questioning the validity and enforceability of Microsofts […]

The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General Public License and will thus prevent many free and open-source software projects from using the formats, community officials say. In addition, a leading patent official is calling into question the validity […]

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday will release the long-awaited millions of lines of source code for OpenSolaris, the open-source version of its Solaris operating system, a move designed to expand the developer base for, and applications written to, that platform. The single source code base covers the core operating system, networking, system libraries and commands for […]

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. has turned over control of the open-source Fedora Project, which the Raleigh, N.C., company currently sponsors and controls, to the newly established Fedora Foundation. Until now the Fedora Project has been dominated by Red Hat staffers, with the technical lead and the steering committee all being Red Hat employees. As […]

Microsoft Corp.s “Longhorn” server will be a far more configurable system than past Windows releases, allowing customers to change the servers setup on the fly by selecting which components to load. “We are in the final stages of preparing to ship the first beta; Longhorn Beta 2 is well-understood, so its in very solid shape,” […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—In an effort to get enterprises to use its solutions for branch offices, Microsoft Corp. has released the Branch Office Infrastructure Solution, a prescriptive architectural guidance based on the Windows Server System Reference Architecture. “This is a set of guidance that walks organizations through how to best think about designing, building, deploying and managing […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Microsoft Corp. used its Tech Ed conference here Monday as a platform for some of its large enterprise customers to discuss their experiences with the company. The tables, however, were turned when someone in the audience asked the panelists what they thought of the companys enterprise licensing schemes. Frank Gillette, chief analyst at Forrester […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Although Microsoft is still working on the next version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn and due to ship in 2007, the company already has a team working on Longhorn Release 2 and is looking at the potential feature set for Blackcomb, the version that follows Longhorn. “We have already begun planning for Longhorn R2 […]