Peter Galli

Large Unix vendors are spending as much time disparaging one another as they are dealing with the threat to their businesses from Windows and open-source Linux. Leading the war of words is Sun Microsystems Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., and its chief operating officer and president, Jonathan Schwartz, who has set his sights on IBM, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. officials said they have reached a number of significant milestones since announcing their landmark settlement and technical collaboration agreement. Still, eight months later, there is evidence of few tangible deliverables. In a recent press teleconference to update the progress between the vendors, Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer at Sun, […]

Autodesk Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have entered into a cross-licensing agreement that gives both companies access to a broad range of one anothers patent portfolios in a move that should allow each company to broaden its product offerings. The two companies will announce the deal on Thursday, which will promote the exchange and implementation of […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has already raised the ire of many in the open-source and Linux community with its submission of a new open-source license proposal for Open Solaris. The Santa Clara, Calif., company last month quietly submitted for approval the new CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License) to the Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit group […]

Novell Inc. and Netline Internet Service GmbH are expanding their current relationship in a move that will see Novell sell, maintain and support Netlines Open-Xchange Server. Novell will also now integrate Netlines Open-Xchange Server into its development, partnership and sales processes. Netlines groupware, which is based on the Netline Java Application Server, is already the […]

A stable and mature Linux kernel is enabling its chief developers to shift away from the common kernel development model to one that will result in more frequent releases. Up to now, once a production Linux kernel was released, stabilized, patched and updated as a point release, any new feature or technology in progress was […]

Some eight months have passed since Sun Microsystems and Microsoft signed their landmark settlement and technical collaboration agreement, and a number of significant milestones have already been accomplished during that time, executives from both companies said Wednesday. Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., told reporters via teleconference that both companies view this […]

Efforts under way to revise the popular GNU General Public License could put additional pressure on Microsoft Corp. by the time it tries to push its long-awaited Windows upgrades out the door. As eWEEK reported last week, the Free Software Foundation is working to revamp the GPL—the first such rewrite in 13 years. Eben Moglen, […]

The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set for its first revision in 13 years. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, last week weighed in on the upcoming challenges facing GPL Version 3 in an e-mail […]

With a relatively hostile environment that has pitted proprietary software against open source as a backdrop, the Free Software Foundation, the steward of the GNU General Public License, is working on the first revamp to the license in 13 years. The GPL, the most widely used free-software license, was created by FSF founder Richard Stallman, […]

Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. on Friday will announce a significant consolidation of multiple support and software license agreements with the U.S. Air Force into a single enterprise agreement worth as much as $500 million over six years. This multiyear deal will see Microsoft provide core server software, maintenance and upgrade support, while Dell will […]

Companies running ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications will shift away from Unix and Microsoft Corp.s Windows Server to Linux over the next five years, officials from IBM and Peerstone Research Inc. said on Friday. That move would spell bad news for Microsoft and would sharply slow the growth rate for Windows Server, they said. Adam […]