Peter Galli

Unwilling to cede any portion of the the enterprise software market to its competitors, Microsoft Corp. is pushing into the business intelligence space with a new offering designed to help customers get more out of their investments in Office. The Redmond, Wash., company last week announced that its Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 will […]

Details of the first rewrite of the GNU General Public License in 15 years are beginning to trickle out, and the documents authors say that it will include important changes to what is the most popular free-software license in the industry. The Free Software Foundation is just weeks away from announcing the road map and […]

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. is aggressively pushing to get Xen virtualization technology included in the Linux kernel as quickly as possible. Brian Stevens, the newly appointed chief technology officer of the Raleigh, N.C., company, said that previous efforts to merge Xen into the kernel ran out of steam when nobody stepped forward to drive […]

The Free Software Foundation is just weeks away from announcing the roadmap and process that will govern the release of the first draft of the rewritten GNU General Public License. Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the FSF and who is authoring the first rewrite of the license in some 15 years with its creator […]

Growth in PC and server shipments as well as a 50 percent increase in revenue from its mobile and embedded devices unit helped buoy Microsoft Corp.s revenue growth and operating income for the first quarter of its current financial year. Chris Liddell, Microsofts chief financial officer, said in a statement released after the financial markets […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is working hard to ensure that its Java Desktop and Java Enterprise Systems are supported on as many Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems as possible. Last week Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., announced plans to offer its Java Desktop System on all the main Linux distributions available today, while the latest […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has big plans for its Java Desktop System and on Tuesday announced a new program that will allow its desktop Linux variant to run on all major Linux distributions. While Sun remains fully committed to the JDS on both the Solaris and Sun Ray environments, it seeks to address the Linux space […]

Microsoft Corp. last week made Release Candidate 1 of Windows Server 2003 R2 available for download, moving one step closer to the final release of the long-awaited update to the companys flagship server system, which is due by years end. The release of the RC1 code follows the release of RC0 in late August. A […]

Microsoft Corp. is edging closer to using certified open-source licenses to govern the projects it releases under its Shared Source Initiative. The Redmond, Wash., software company last week cut back the number of licenses it will use for Shared Source projects going forward, from more than 10 to just three new template, or core, licenses […]

Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far more likely that Sun and Google […]