Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a technology partnership with two IT ministries in the Chinese government as well as the formation of a new company, China Standard Software, to deliver a China-branded software stack based on Suns Java Desktop System. Sun CEO Scott McNealy will make the announcement during his Monday morning keynote […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. may bow to pressure from customers and partners to broaden the platform base of its Java Enterprise System software. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is considering porting the software, which takes all the components of the Sun Open Net Environment software stack and integrates them into Solaris, to other platforms over the […]

Novell Inc.s planned $210 million acquisition of SuSE Linux AG raises many questions, especially about the future of the network services companys NetWare operating system. Novell CEO and Chairman Jack Messman maintains that the Provo, Utah, company has no plans to phase out NetWare as an operating system, saying that it is simply adding Linux […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will ship its Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 next week, and the reference implementation of this will be its Application Server 8. Sun officials on Thursday also said they would next week announce the date on which its 64-bit Opteron portwill be available for the Solaris operating system. They also announced that […]

Novell Inc. on Tuesday released the latest version of Ximian Red Carpet Enterprise, the first Ximian product to ship since it acquired the developer in August. Ximian first released Red Carpet Enterprise last October. The product provides enterprise software package distribution for Linux, including dependency resolution, distribution, installation, rollback, repairs and reporting. The latest software, […]

The bold operating system moves made last week by Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. create a new battleground in the consolidating Linux space and leave each company with a host of new challenges. Novells $210 million purchase of SuSE Linux AG is the vendors second acquisition this year, following the purchase of open-source developer […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday will announce the release of its Virtual PC technology to manufacturing and that the final product will be available to customers by the end of this year at a lower price than the original Connectix product. Microsoft in February acquired the Virtual Machine assets of Connectix Corp., a privately held company […]

Novell Inc.s acquisition of SuSE Linux AG had nothing to do with competing with Microsoft Corp. and everything to do with driving Linux deep into the enterprise, Novell and SuSE officials said at a media teleconference on Tuesday morning. Chris Stone, vice chairman of Novell, of Provo, Utah, stressed that the deal had not been […]

On the same day last week that Microsoft Corp. officially spoke about “Longhorn,” the next version of Windows, Linux creator Linus Torvalds moved a step closer to the final version of the 2.6 Linux kernel with the release of the test9 version. The final version of the 2.6 Linux kernel is expected to be released […]

Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. on Monday made clear its intention to focus on the enterprise space, telling customers that it will no longer be maintaining or releasing any of the its Red Hat Linux line after the end of April 2004. The Raleigh, N.C. firm sent its Red Hat Network customers an e-mail, […]

Microsoft Corp. officials are spending a lot of time at this weeks Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles explaining some of the core technologies in Longhorn, the next version of the Windows client operating system, and the scenarios they enable. At the same time they stressed that existing applications will continue to run on Windows […]

The next major upgrade to the Linux kernel, Version 2.6, edged a step closer with the release over the weekend of the test9 version of that kernel. Linux founder Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton, the maintainer of the upcoming 2.6 kernel, said test9 is now ready for enterprise testing. Test9, the latest version of the […]