Peter Galli

Oracle Corp. will announce Tuesday that it has chosen Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris 10 operating system as its preferred development and deployment platform for most x64 architectures, including Suns UltraSPARC-based systems and x64 (x86, 64-bit) Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron and Intel Corp. Xeon processor-based systems. While the move has little immediate financial implications for […]

Microsoft Corp. is pushing forward with its plan to embrace 64-bit computing across all its products and has decided that the next version of Microsoft Exchange as well as the upcoming Windows Server “Longhorn” Small Business Server and its Centro infrastructure solution for midsize businesses will only be released as 64-bit and optimized for x64 […]

Even before company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates had finished explaining Microsoft Corp.s new Windows Live and Office Live offerings, industry observers and analysts were already saying that search giant Google Inc. still has the upper hand and warning that Microsoft needs to overhaul “its culture of derivative innovation.” In his Oct. 31 […]

Microsoft Corp., under increasing pressure to counter Google Inc.s moves to dominate the Web services arena, last week responded by trotting out extensions to its pervasive Windows and Office products that will be delivered over the Internet rather than residing on a users PC. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates introduced the new […]

If any doubt remained that Linux and open-source software are powering mission-critical systems in some of the largest enterprises, that skepticism was laid to rest at last weeks Open Source Business Conference here. At a CIO panel aptly titled “Beyond Linux in the Enterprise,” several executives talked about their Linux use and the motivation behind […]

NEWTON, Mass.—Microsoft Corp. announced a new shared source project on Wednesday that enables multiple browsers to be used as a thin-client interface connecting the Microsoft Business Solutions Portal server and the Solomon ERP system. Jason Matusow, director of Microsofts shared source program, announced at the Open Source Business Conference here the project, Business Portal Lite. […]

NEWTON, Mass.—Users will be free to comment on the upcoming complex and technical draft versions of the GNU General Public License 3.0 in an easy way, according to Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation. However, Moglen said Wednesday, speaking at the Open Source Business Conference here, the rewrite of the GPL is […]

NEWTON, Mass.—The ecology and diversity of open source licensing models was a good thing that helped drive the diverse business models in the free and open source software community, Hal Stern, the CTO for software at Sun Microsystems Inc., told the several hundred attendees at the Open Source Business Conference here on Tuesday morning in […]

NEWTON, Mass.—Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, wants to spend his time at the Open Source Business Conference here on Wednesday talking about more than the upcoming GPL Version 3, of which he is a co-author, but he also wants to discuss what free and open-source software means to business users […]

NEWTON, MASS.—The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) here will open on Tuesday to the news from the Free Standards Group that the Linux Standards Base (LSB) has been approved as an ISO standard. The LSB was approved as a PAS (Publicly Available Specification) by ISO/IEC (the International Standardization Organization and the International Electrotechnical Commission). The […]