Peter Galli

ORLANDO, Fla.—There has never been a more exciting time to be in information technology than right now, and the rate of innovation and impact that IT will have on the world over the next decade will be larger than its impact in the past 10 years, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees Monday at the […]

NEW ORLEANS—Red Hat Inc. has decided to hand over control of the open-source Fedora Project, creating the new Fedora Foundation to manage the project. Mark Webbink, the deputy general counsel at Red Hat, of Raleigh, N.C., will make the announcement during a talk at the Red Hat Summit here early Friday morning. Until now the […]

Some five months after IBM gave open-source developers unfettered access to 500 of its software patents, the Armonk, N.Y., company has turned its attention to the broader concept of harnessing that model to spark innovation, an effort already catching on with other large technology vendors. “We are interested in innovation, not just in companies and […]

NEW ORLEANS—The often-hostile relations between Microsoft and the open-source community are thawing, and new dialogues appear to be opening between senior officials in both camps. In continuing its outreach to the most prominent members of the open-source community, Microsoft has invited Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative and vice president of open-source affairs […]

NEW ORLEANS—There is an ever-increasing focus on innovation or, as IBM refers to it, on-demand computing. So said Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBMs vice president of technical strategy and innovation, at the Red Hat Summit here on Thursday. Delivering a keynote address at the Red Hat Summit titled “The Future of IT in an On-Demand World,” Wladawsky-Berger […]

NEW ORLEANS—In the past, IT managers looking to implement Linux-based servers faced significant barriers to adoption: misperceptions about open-source systems and a general lack of awareness. However, an increasing number of enterprise customers are willing to stand up and attest to the benefits from an open-source platform, including converts in the financial, retail and pharmaceutical […]

In contrast to its reputation for being difficult and sometimes expensive to implement, some large enterprises are beginning to see significant cost savings and performance benefits as a result of migrating to Linux. Harry Roberts, CIO for Boscovs Department Store LLC, in Reading, Pa., told attendees at the Linux Solutions Retail Conference here last week […]

The ability of animators to turn an imaginary world into reality for millions of movie-goers rests solidly on the shoulders of technological advances, said Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder and CEO of the DreamWorks SKG studio. At a recent media conference about “Madagascar,” the latest animated movie from DreamWorks, which opens at theaters around the country […]

NEW YORK—Nokia officials on Wednesday used the LinuxWorld Summit here to not only launch the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and the Nokia Internet Tablet 2005 software edition, but also to explain why they decided to develop an open source device. Ari Jaaksi, of Nokias open-source software operations, told attendees that this was the first true […]

NEW YORK—As several hundred of the Linux and open-source faithful gather for the two-day LinuxWorld Summit here, the message that Linux has not only come to Wall Street but has been embraced by it is resounding loud and clear. The sessions on Wednesday and Thursday focus primarily on the business case and security issues around […]

Microsoft Corp.s enterprise group is refocusing and growing its sales and services teams, raising the question of whether enterprises will want to purchase more software directly from the Redmond, Wash., company or continue to buy from their longtime partners. Over the next five years, Microsofts enterprise group plans to boost its sales force by 60 […]

Longtime rivals and mutual antagonists Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are making progress on their year-old cooperation, having moved from the courtroom to the lab and now entering the market. Until now, there has been scant evidence of tangible deliverables from the partnership. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Sun CEO Scott McNealy changed […]