Peter Galli

Netline Internet Service, of Olpe, Germany, has released Open-Xchange Server 5, which lets IT administrators create and implement applications without having to changing their existing infrastructure components such as databases, directory services, message transfer agents, e-mail servers or Web servers. End users also can keep their preferred mail and groupware client, usually Microsofts Outlook but […]

Spikesource Inc., which provides open-source IT services, has developed a solution to address the lack of uniform integration, certification, testing and support for open-source software. SpikeSource used the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco last week to announce the production availability of seven preconfigured SpikeSource Core Stacks, as well as the companys related customer […]

Hoping to bring some order to the chaotic system of open-source licenses, Computer Associates International Inc. is spearheading a campaign to create a single, common open-source license to which options can be added through a template. The Template License is designed to help address the proliferation of open-source licenses that currently exist—more than 60 at […]

Two years after releasing Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Corp. has finally given customers the first update to the operating system, Service Pack 1. The Redmond, Wash., software vendor March 30 released the code to manufacturing and as a download for users. It has security enhancements and reliability and performance improvements. Samm DiStasio, a director of […]

Microsoft Corp. has moved its focus away from sponsoring studies that compare the total cost of ownership for Windows and Linux, and is now turning its attention to reliability, an area where the perception favors Linux. The Redmond, Wash., software company on Wednesday will release a reliability survey it commissioned and paid for, which finds […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Jonathan Schwartz, Suns chief operating officer and president, on Tuesday presented a spirited defense of his companys decision to use the Common Development and Distribution License for its OpenSolaris project rather than the GNU GPL, under which the Linux operating system is licensed. Giving the opening keynote address at the second annual OSBC (Open […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday announced the five members of its OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board to steward the evolution of that community and its governance model, including open-source luminary Roy Fielding, the co-founder of The Apache Software Foundation. The board will have five members initially, two of which have been selected from the pilot OpenSolaris […]

Determined to have its presence seen and its voice heard by its core customer constituencies amid the growing open-source chorus, Microsoft is coughing up cash and sponsoring targeted open-source conferences. The Redmond, Wash., software maker is a platinum sponsor of the OSBC (Open-Source Business Conference), being held in San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday. Jason […]

SpikeSource Inc., an open-source IT services company, has developed a solution for what it says is one of the biggest problems facing open-source technology adoption by large enterprises today: the lack of uniform integration, certification, testing and support for that software. SpikeSource, of Redwood City, Calif., will use the Open Source Business Conference in San […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has again scaled back its once-grand plans for its N1 Grid utility computing initiative, while at the same time doing an about-face on its promise to deliver N1 Grid and associated services on multiple hardware platforms simultaneously. The Santa Clara, Calif., company will now release N1 Grid first on its own hardware […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is already hard at work on the feature-set for the next version of its Solaris operating system, which is taking place on a parallel track to the development of updates for Solaris 10, released at the end of January. The plan is for new features and technology from the next version of […]

Microsoft Corp. late Wednesday night made the code for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 available to customers as a free download, some two years after the product was first released. The Redmond, Wash., software company will simultaneously release the code, which includes security enhancements and some reliability and performance improvements, to manufacturing. In an […]