Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. has lived up to its promise made earlier this year to include an open-source database with its Solaris 10 operating system. The Santa Clara, Calif., company announced in mid-November that the PostgreSQL Global Development Groups open-source PostgreSQL database will be available as a downloadable add-on for OpenSolaris later this month and will […]

Autodesk Inc. plans to release the full code of MapServer Enterprise, its new Web mapping platform, to open source early next year. A snapshot of the MapServer Enterprise source code is available today through the recently established MapServer Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to support and promote open-source Web mapping. The full code […]

Oracle Corp. is betting its future on Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris operating system instead of the open-source Linux alternative. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., is moving away from Linux as its primary internal development platform on 32-bit machines, opting for Solaris 10 for development for most x64 (x86, 64-bit) architectures, including Suns UltraSPARC-based systems and […]

Microsoft Corp. will continue aggressively pushing customers toward the 64-bit computing platform by making a number of upcoming products only in 64-bit versions. The next version of Exchange, known as Microsoft Exchange Server 12—as well as the upcoming “Longhorn” release of Windows Small Business Server and Centro, the code name for Microsofts infrastructure solution under […]

Company chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates last week announced the second beta for Microsoft Corp.s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a 64-bit operating system for industry-standard x64 processors. Gates used his keynote address at the Supercomputing show in Seattle to make the announcement, which follows the release of the first, more limited beta […]

Microsoft Corp. has decided to open up its Office file formats and has submitted the formats to be considered for recognition as a formal standard by Ecma International, which will develop the documentation and make it available to the industry. A number of companies and organizations have stepped forward to co-sponsor the submission of the […]

Novell Inc. on Thursday lashed out at the Microsoft Corp.-sponsored study released this week that compared the real-world reliability of two platforms—Microsofts Windows Server System and Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Server—under evolving business requirements over an extended period of time. The report was conducted by Herbert Thompson of Security Innovation Inc. (a Microsoft certified partner) […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will distribute and support the open-source Postgres database with its Solaris Operating System, company officials said on Thursday, adding that Solaris ZFS, the new 128-bit file system with error detection and correction capabilities, will be integrated into OpenSolaris and Suns branded Solaris 10 in the May 2006 update. Sun also announced plans […]

Microsoft Corp. will release Wednesday the findings of another survey it has sponsored, this time comparing two platforms—its Windows Server System and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server—under evolving business requirements over an extended period of time. The study found that there are fundamental differences in the Linux and Windows models, and while there are […]

Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will use his keynote address at the Supercomputing show, being held in Seattle this week, to announce the second beta for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a 64-bit operating system for industry-standard x64 processors. The first, more limited beta, was announced at Microsofts Professional Developers Conference […]