Peter Galli

When Solaris 10 is released late this year, Sun Microsystems Inc. will be culminating years of development work on the operating system, as well as launching a major open-source initiative to go with it. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is on track to deliver on a new strategy, conceived some six years ago, of developing […]

In a move that should go a long way toward preventing fragmentation of open-source Linux distributions, the Free Standards Group last week announced the availability of availability of Linux Standard Base 2.0—and support for it by most major Linux distribution vendors. With 2.0, distributions that comply with LSB will now interoperate with application software written […]

Microsoft Corp. will allow governments around the world that use its software to have controlled access to the source code for its pervasive Microsoft Office 2003 desktop offerings for the first time. The Redmond, Wash., software maker on Monday in Europe will detail how it is going to give access to the code, an expansion […]

The Free Standards Group will announce on Tuesday the availability of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, and that this standard has the support of almost all global Linux distribution vendors. The Linux Standard Base is developed and maintained by the FSG and Version 1.1 was first released in January 2002 at the LinuxWorld Conference […]

When Microsoft Corp. announced last week it was scaling back the feature set for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, it may have inadvertently given competitors the opening theyd been looking for. Enterprises frustrated by Microsofts plan to delay key features of the Windows upgrade to meet a rollout schedule of 2006 for the […]

Microsoft Corp. is facing growing pressure from open-source software across every segment of its business—a competitive threat that could have significant consequences for its financial future going forward, the software maker said in its latest 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. “We continue to watch the evolution of open-source software development […]

Still feeling the pressure from Linux and other open-source software competitors, Microsoft Corp. is reaching out further to the open-source community with offers of joint development and testing. But its not yet clear if anyone is ready to listen. In addition to forming new initiatives to deal with Linux growth, including an upfront and official […]

Novell Inc. on Monday pared down the companys organization chart to better align its product development around twin goals: Linux and open-source platforms and solutions for identity services. Novell vice chairman Chris Stone on Monday sent staff members an e-mail informing them of the organizational changes. Stone said Novells future success will be based on […]

Microsoft sources said Wednesday that a British regulatory agencys objections to an anti-Linux advertisement published as part of its controversial “Get the Facts” campaign are moot because the ad is no longer running. The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) decision issued Wednesday found that a Microsoft advertisement placed in a British specialist magazine claiming that […]

Many enterprise IT managers are delaying for months any rollout of Microsoft Corp.s long-awaited and often-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, saying it is breaking too many of their applications. As a result of the customer push back, Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., last week delayed the automatic delivery of SP2 through Windows Update/Automatic Update until […]

As it makes moves towards a single Windows platform for 64-bit computing, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday offered to customers in its preview program new 64-bit desktop software builds as well as a fresher Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. In addition, the Redmond, Wash. company said it had changed the name of its Windows XP […]

Sun Microsystems on Wednesday announced another customer win away from Microsoft. This time, the state government of New South Wales, in Australia, will migrate 1,500 of its users in the Roads and Traffic Authority from Microsoft Outlook to Suns StarOffice productivity suite and Messaging products. The move, which aims to increase security and reduce escalating […]