Peter Galli

“Longhorn” wont make its first appearance until the end of next year at the earliest, but with enterprises demanding better security tools, Microsoft Corp. is not waiting for the next version of Windows to ship before it makes changes to improve the security of some key components such as Internet Explorer, which will see a […]

For some Microsoft investors, the latest quarterly results were either up or down, given ones perspective. The company on Thursday offered investors a 5 percent rise in revenue to $9.62 billion for the quarter ended March 31 over the same quarter a year ago. But that figure was down by more than $1 billion when […]

SEATTLE—While Microsoft Corp. intends to ship both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of its Longhorn Server software when it ships sometime in 2007, it plans to release a 64-bit-only version of Small Business Server in that time. Going forward, 64-bit computing will be the default system Microsoft ships, and it will also be the system it […]

Last weeks release of Open-Xchange Server 5 will allow IT administrators to migrate systems to and integrate them with an open-source environment as well as create and implement applications without having to change their existing infrastructure components such as databases, directory services, message transfer agents, e-mail servers or Web servers. Users can retain their preferred […]

Long relegated to menial file and print server duties in most enterprises, Linux is now playing a mission-critical role in financial trading and other highly sensitive networks on Wall Street. The traction in the financial sector is part of broader Linux adoption growth, which is expected to continue through this year and next, according to […]

SEATTLE—As the hardware industry descends on Seattle for the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will use the event to announce on Monday the release of Microsofts Windows 64-bit server and client software. WinHEC, which focuses on the hardware side of the house for Microsoft, […]

SEATTLE—Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Monday laid to rest talk that Microsoft might be scaling back its commitment to the Tablet PC, saying there will be a major new version of the Tablet operating system in the Longhorn timeframe. In his opening keynote address here at WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering […]

Sun Microsystems on Thursday released the third version of its Java Enterprise System infrastructure software, which includes new software like the Sun Java System Identity Manager, Sun Java System Portal Access, the NI Grid Service Provisioning System and the Sun Java Studio tools portfolio. The JES also now offers multiplatform support for Solaris 10 on […]

NEW YORK—Database-intensive applications are the next frontier for Linux, but those applications need to be ported to the open-source operating system, Deborah Williams, the group vice president of financial insights at research firm IDC, told attendees at the Linux on Wall Street conference here on Wednesday. When that happens, Linux will become the operating system […]

Members of the open-source community are expressing concern over rapid feature changes in the Linux 2.6 kernel, which they say are too focused on the desktop and could make the kernel too large. Sam Greenblatt, a senior vice president at Computer Associates International Inc., in Islandia, N.Y., said that while the kernel is evolving for […]

The doubts of naysayers aside, Longhorn is going to be a heck of a lot more than just Windows XP Service Pack 3. Thats the view of Jim Allchin, the group vice president of Microsoft Corp.s Platforms group, who told eWEEK.com in an interview that Longhorn is a “big deal”—not just for the company, but […]

A German court has issued an injunction against Fortinet (UK) Ltd., the British subsidiary of Fortinet Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif., company that produces firewall and antivirus security software products. The GPL-violations.org project uncovered alleged violations by Fortinet (UK) Ltd. of the GPL (GNU General Public License); specifically that Fortinet used GPL software in certain products […]