Peter Galli

Novell Inc. on Tuesday said it had joined the Open Source Development Lab and that Jeffrey Hawkins, a Novell vice president, had been elected to the OSDL board of directors. The announcement follows a string of major Linux moves by Provo, Utah-based Novell this fall, as the company embraced the operating system and promised to […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is embarking on a strategy that challenges Microsoft Corp. on a brand-new front: the consumer market. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is negotiating with major retailers Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Office Depot Inc. to include Suns Java Desktop System on planned offerings of low-priced consumer PCs and laptops. /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK Labs […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a strategic five-year agreement with the United Kingdoms Office of Government Commerce to establish the Java Enterprise System and the Java Desktop System as the underlying infrastructure and desktop solutions for the public sector. This latest deal comes hot on the heels of the announcement last month that […]

The SCO Group, which is involved in a protracted legal battle against IBM and is threatening lawsuits against corporate Linux users, on Thursday moved to respond to some of the criticisms of its legal claims. In an open letter by Darl McBride, SCOs chief executive officer, provided a view on the key issue of U.S. […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will announce a partnership with Electronic Data Systems Corp., in which the Plano, Texas, IT outsourcing firm will provide migration services, training, help-desk and call center desktop services for Suns Java Desktop System. /zimages/3/28571.gifRead eWEEKs review of Suns Java Desktop System. Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software at Sun, […]

Microsoft Corp. is streamlining its licensing programs in a move designed to make more of its intellectual property portfolio broadly available to its partners and competitors. The Redmond, Wash., software giant on Wednesday will also announce two new IP licensing programs: one for its ClearType technology, which allows text to be read on an LCD […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday announced a number of new x86-based blade servers, including the Sun Blade 2500, the first multiprocessor capable SPARC 64-bit workstation for under $5,000. Addressing a press conference entitled Network Computing 03-Q4 at the trendy Clift Hotel here in San Francisco, Clarke Masters, the executive vice president of Suns Enterprise […]

The war of words between the SCO Group and the open-source community continued last week with the publication of a paper by a Columbia University Law School professor, who described SCOs position as “desperate.” “SCO: Without Fear and Without Research,” by Eben Moglen, who is also general counsel of the Free Software Foundation, is based […]

The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) on Wednesday will announce a new initiative aimed at raising awareness about how the Linux kernel is developed. The initiative comes as the war of words and litigation between The SCO Group Inc., the open-source community and the companies that support it, continues unabated, and ahead of the release […]

The war of words between The SCO Group and the open source community continues unabated, with SCOs legal claims coming under fire again in a paper written by Eben Moglen, a professor of law at Columbia University Law School and the general counsel of the Free Software Foundation. Moglen, who has been very vocal on […]

As the SCO Group prepares to battle at least one Linux user in court, legal experts said that the companys strategy is less about the legal merits of its claims and more about compelling additional Linux users into paying its license fees. Earlier this week, the SCO Group said it planned within 90 days to […]

Novell Inc., which earlier this year acquired developer Ximian Inc. and is in the process of acquiring SuSE Linux AG, on Thursday reported a net loss of $109 million or $0.29 a share. This loss included $130 million in non-recurring charges, principally to increase a valuation allowance for net deferred tax assets, for the fourth […]