Peter Galli

Several months after surprising the industry by announcing an integration partnership, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. could be heading for their first rift. Since announcing a cooperative technical agreement in April, the pair has been working on ways to help users move secure, highly structured data between their respective environments. Theyve also been meeting […]

IBM has combined several technology initiatives, including Linux, grid computing and virtualization, into a single high-growth business group, Strategic Growth Initiative, led by Jim Stallings, ex-general manager of Linux for the Armonk, N.Y., company. Stallings talked last month to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about SGI. What motivated the creation of Strategic Growth Initiative? We […]

IBM officials scoffed at Sun Microsystems Inc.s intimations last week that it would buy Novell Inc., calling the rhetoric nothing more than an attempt to disrupt IBM and its customers. The issue ignited when Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz mentioned in interviews with the press, including eWEEK, that the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

The SCO Groups ongoing legal battle against IBM and others is having a negative impact on the company, leaving it with few new customers for its Unix software and current users reluctant to pay additional licensing fees. Both issues are taking a serious financial toll on the company, which saw its revenue for the second […]

Netline Internet Service GmbH, of Olpe, Germany, will announce at LinuxWorld this week that it is open-sourcing its Open-Xchange Server, the core technology behind its Linux-based groupware, collaboration and messaging application, under the GNU General Public License. That move will let customers and partners download the code for free and contribute to the project. Open-Xchange […]

LAS VEGAS—The SCO Group, which can count few large companies in the IT industry as its friend, continues to maintain a very strong working relationship with Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, along with Intel Corp. and some other, smaller companies, was a sponsor of the SCO Forum event here at the MGM Grand hotel this week, and […]

IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. are putting renewed pressure on Sun Microsystems Inc. with new solutions to help customers and ISVs move away from SPARC/Solaris and onto Linux. At this weeks LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM will announce new resources to help ISVs and developers port Linux applications to the companys Power microprocessor architecture, which […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is considering making an attempt to acquire Novell Inc., a move that would have enormous repercussions for competitor IBM. In an interview with eWEEK, Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz acknowledged that the Santa Clara, Calif., company is considering making a move to buy Novell, saying that such a move […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. officials said they felt good about the companys absolute and relative performance over the past few years. The only company that had outperformed it on a compound annual growth rate basis was SAP AG. Taking the podium Thursday to address the financial analysts and media assembled here at the companys campus headquarters, […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bounced onto the stage here Thursday in his usual jovial, uber-salesman style, telling the media and analysts in attendance that he was more psyched up to address this analyst meeting than he had been since he became CEO in 2000. “Today is a very different day for me. We had […]

REDMOND, Wash.—As Microsoft looks at offering tailored, market-specific Office System products, this fall it will release in Japan a new product called Microsoft Office Interconnect, currently under beta testing, that is essentially a contact manager. The product allows users to have a unique, electronic business card that can be mailed around, secured with digital signatures […]

REDMOND, Wash.—While Microsoft remains committed to security and will raise the protection bar with its release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) next month, there is no single silver bullet to the problem, Will Poole, senior vice president of Microsofts Windows client division, said at the annual analyst day here Thursday. Security issues have […]