Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to preview the beta of its upcoming StarOffice 8 desktop productivity suite, currently slated for release by midyear, as well as Release 3 of its Java Desktop System, due next quarter, at the LinuxWorld Conference in Boston this week. Herb Hinstorff, a director at Sun, told eWEEK that the Santa Clara, […]

A week after Sun Microsystems Inc. touted its release of some 1,600 Solaris software patents, the company is fielding criticism for limiting the use of those patents to OpenSolaris project developers. Despite claims that they had significantly trumped IBM, which last month released 500 software patents to any developer working on an approved project, Sun […]

Sun Microsystems chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos on Monday added his voice to the chorus of Sun executives explaining their rationale for using the newly created Common Development and Distribution License for their Open Solaris project. “Open software is fundamentally about developer freedom,” Papadopoulos said. But many in the open-source community, including Linux kernel creator […]

Microsoft is hosting about 800 of its system partners, ISVs and Office application developers at its Redmond, Wash., campus this week to drill down into deep technical issues, talk about high-level business challenges and explore what the Office System is all about. But attendees at the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference hoping to get the […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—In 1991, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, rewrote the GNU General Public License and simply put the final version out over e-mail; that was the last time the GPL has seen significant change. Reworking this current version, however, is not going to be quite so easy, Eben Moglen, the legal counsel […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is rolling out its newest Java Enterprise System release, along with five market-driven subsets aimed at solving specific business problems. Sun officials will announce the new JES suites this week at its quarterly Network Computing event at the Sun campus in Santa Clara, Calif. The software will be available in early March. […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—The current state of the corporate software market could best be described as a train wreck, Brian Behlendorf, the chief technical officer and co-founder of CollabNet, said here Tuesday at the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) Enterprise Linux Summit. Industry research shows that some 45 percent of all software development projects in 2003 were […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—A slate of Linux and open-source software luminaries took to the stage Tuesday here at the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) Enterprise Summit, as they discussed how their interests and concerns have expanded along with the capabilities of open source. The keynote address, titled “An open conversation with Linux and open-source software notables,” was […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—The open-source industry is stepping up to the plate to protect its developers and projects from legal attack. The Open Source Development Labs, a global consortium established to accelerate the adoption of Linux, has raised more than $4 million for a newly established intellectual property fund that will provide the seed money for the […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—The Free Standards Group has decided to move away from a single, core LSB (Linux Standards Base) specification, and is instead going to break this down into different modules that can be combined to give a server or desktop LSB standard. “We decided that rather than add everything to the LSB core, it would […]

BURLINGAME, Calif.—As the issue of intellectual property and patent enforcement continues to gain traction in both the open-source and proprietary software industries, lawyers from open-source companies are clearly taking the issue seriously. In a talk entitled “Reviewing the Use of Open Source Software in the Enterprise” at the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit here on Monday, […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday posted a 7 percent year-over-year rise in revenue to a record $10.8 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2004, on the back of strength in both its business and consumer operations. This is the second time the software companys revenue has breached the $10 billion mark; the first was in […]