Peter Galli

Senior executives from Sun Microsystems Inc. will take the stage Monday at the companys last quarterly Network Computing event at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., to finally unveil the Solaris 10 operating system, which is scheduled to ship by the end of January 2005. Solaris 10, which Sun officials say reflects […]

Defending intellectual property and patent licensing is quickly becoming a hot button for proprietary and open-source software developers alike. For many, its not a case of if but when Linux and open-source software developers will be forced to license other vendors intellectual property, regardless of how complicated it may be to execute under the GPL […]

The abrupt resignation of Novell Inc. Vice Chairman Chris Stone this month may have a negative impact on the companys relationships with the open-source and Linux communities. Stone, an executive with Novell since March 2002, was the force behind the Waltham, Mass., companys push into Linux and open-source software, as well as its acquisitions of […]

The first production version of Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris 10 operating system likely will not include two technologies when it ships early next year. Missing will be the 128-bit Solaris ZFS file system and the Janus technology that allows Linux binaries to run natively on Solaris, officials of the Santa Clara, Calif., company said. /zimages/2/28571.gifClick […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Sun executives took attendees for a trip down memory lane Monday as they unveiled the companys upcoming Solaris 10 operating system. Speaking at Suns quarterly Network Computing event here at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Suns CEO and chairman Scott McNealy said Solaris 10 would be available in the first quarter of 2005. […]

After playing nice with one another earlier this week when they announced a $536 million legal settlement, Novell and Microsoft on Friday were back attacking one another again. The flare-up comes as Novell Inc. on Friday filed suit against Microsoft Corp. in U.S. District Court in Utah seeking unspecified damages arising from Microsofts efforts to […]

Microsoft Corp. said it will expand its intellectual property protection policy and now cover all customers using current and earlier versions of its software, in a move designed to further differentiate its products from Linux competitors. Until now, Microsofts large volume licensing customers were the only ones protected under its IP indemnity program, but this […]

Corporate IT users are getting caught in the middle of another spin war between Microsoft Corp. and the Linux and Unix communities, most recently Novell Inc. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a memo late last month to customers and partners lauding the benefits and advantages of the Windows platform over Linux and Unix, raising the […]

As Sun Microsystems Inc. prepares to deliver Solaris 10 by years end, one of its key features—”Project Janus”—may be postponed and added next year to a product update due to incompatibility issues with Linux applications. Project Janus is designed to let Linux applications run on Solaris unmodified. But many Linux binaries have dependencies for native […]

Evidence of Novell Inc.s corporate culture clash surfaced on Thursday, as the company said Chris Stone, Novells vice chairman, would leave the company. Stone, who has been away from his post attending an executive management program at Harvard University since September, said he left the Waltham, Mass. company to “pursue other interests.” “It is with […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. officials on Tuesday offered new details on its open-source strategy. The company said publicly what most industry players understood for a long time: Suns top priority is supporting its Solaris operating system rather than Linux. At a briefing in San Francisco ahead of this months launch of Solaris 10, John Fanelli, the […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is getting closer to making its Open Solaris project, along with the final pieces of Solaris 10, a reality. At its quarterly SunNetwork Conference, to be held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., Nov. 15, Sun will unveil Open Solaris and give final pricing and other details for […]