Peter Galli

In a move that could ultimately deal a heavy blow to Microsofts intellectual property rights, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine the patent the company holds on the FAT (file allocation table) file system, a format used for the interchange of media between computers and digital devices. The request to re-examine Microsoft Corp.s […]

Microsoft Corp.s plans for a common set of services that promise its server platform products will work better together are being met with skepticism. The Redmond, Wash., company next year will begin rolling out products for the Windows Server System family based on Microsofts Common Engineering Roadmap, officials said. /zimages/2/28571.gifClick here to read about Microsofts […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week formally committed itself to releasing Solaris operating system code as open source, but no final decisions have been made on the specific details. Sources close to the company, however, said Sun executives are struggling with details of the move, such as what license to use, whether to open all the […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week is planning to give users of its Solaris operating system a sneak peek at the next version and its new file system. Among the many new features of Solaris 10, due by years end, is the DFS (Dynamic File System)—a 128-bit system that will automate many common tasks for system […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will make a number of product announcements at its quarterly Network Computing Webcast in California and its SunNetwork Conference 2004 in Shanghai this week—not the least of these being the second version of its Java Enterprise System and Java Desktop System. The biggest change in the Java Enterprise System is that it […]

Microsoft Corp. is evaluating the best way to enhance and package high-performance computing capabilities for its customers, but has made no final decision on how this will be delivered. Published reports on Monday said Microsoft had launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing (HPC), a move seen as a direct […]

Linux is getting driven deeper into the core products of Computer Associates International. At its CAWorld conference in Las Vegas this week, CA will make several announcements regarding extended support for Linux and open-source software. Central to the effort, according to Computer Associates International Inc. officials in Islandia, N.Y., is the formation of a new […]

SAN DIEGO—Acknowledging that upgrading Access databases has proven to be a major stumbling block to Office 2003 upgrades, Microsoft unveiled at TechEd 2004 here a toolkit designed to head off potential incompatibilities. The Microsoft Access Conversion Toolkit includes a new scanning tool, a reporting front-end and various e-learning documentation that will streamline Office 2003 deployments, […]

Computer Associates International Inc. will use its annual CA World user conference in Las Vegas on Monday to make a slew of open-source announcements, including establishing a new open-source foundation that will support Plone, an out-of-the-box content management system built on the free Zope Application server; unveiling a new open- source license, and placing a […]

SAN DIEGO—One of the biggest challenges of the current economic and IT environment is that customers have been under enormous pressure to do more with less, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a packed house in his opening keynote here at the annual TechEd conference. In an address entitled “Value across the lifecycle: doing more with […]

Microsoft Corp. officials, in spelling out the road map for Windows Server, last week clarified the companys position on how close the server version of “Longhorn” will ship after the client. Bob Muglia, Microsofts senior vice president for the Windows Server Division, told eWEEK editors last week that the Longhorn server will ship in 2007, […]

Microsoft Corp. used its recent WinHEC conference in Seattle to give more specifics about its road map for the release of “Longhorn,” the next version of Windows, as well as to talk up potential adoption of 64-bit computing. Jim Allchin, Microsofts group vice president of platforms, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli after […]