Peter Galli

The SCO Group Inc., which has sued IBM for more than $3 billion and claims that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, on Thursday said it had received a $50 million cash boost in a private investment deal led by BayStar Capital, an investment fund. BayStar, which is based in Larkspur, Calif., and has […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. on Wednesday released the latest update of its Software Express for Solaris code, which includes an optimized networking stack for both commodity x86 and Sparc hardware. Software Express for Solaris is a new code delivery mechanism that gives customers the code for the next version of Solaris, due for release by fall […]

More than 5,500 Microsoft Corp. partners came to New Orleans last week to attend the Redmond, Wash., companys first-ever Worldwide Partner Meeting. And Microsoft didnt disappoint, announcing the general availability of Small Business Server 2003. eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli caught up with the man in charge of the product, Orlando Ayala, senior vice president […]

One week before Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates announces the global release of Office System 2003, Jeff Raikes, the Group Vice President of Microsofts Productivity and Business Services Group, sent customers an executive e-mail detailing the benefits of the updated productivity suite. Microsoft executives were busy last week, working hard to drive […]

NEW ORLEANS—Information worker productivity is at a tipping point, becoming a workspace for innovation, integration and teams, with Microsoft itself making a major transition and working with its partners to make this happen, Jeff Raikes, Microsofts group vice president on productivity and business solutions, said Friday. Addressing several thousand attendees at the Worldwide Partner Conference, […]

NEW ORLEANS—When Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.s group vice president of productivity and business services, takes the stage here on Friday morning to deliver his keynote address at the Worldwide Partner Conference, he will highlight the opportunities the Office System family of products represents to Microsofts partners. Raikes will stress that there is a great number […]

NEW ORLEANS — Windows continues to offer value compared to open-source software and Microsoft will continue to drive that message home to both customers and partners, according to Will Poole, Microsofts senior vice president of the Windows client business group. Delivering the last keynote — in a mammoth five-hour session — to the attendees at […]

NEW ORLEANS—Microsoft Corp. senior executive Paul Flessner gave attendees at the companys Worldwide Partner Conference here Friday a taste of the future by laying out a product roadmap that included Yukon and Longhorn. Yukon, the next version of Microsofts SQL Server database, is slated for a late 2004 release; Longhorn, the next Windows update, will […]

NEW ORLEANS—Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer Thursday moved to show the thousands of partners attending its Worldwide Partner Conference here that the software titan does take security seriously and is actively working on ways to improve it. In his keynote address, titled “Partnership, Innovation and Customer Focus,” Ballmer said there are times in any companys […]

NEW ORLEANS—Microsoft has built a new partner program, the next-generation partner program, that will deliver against the range of customer needs and realize their potential, Allison Watson, Microsofts vice president of its Worldwide Partner Group, said here on Thursday. Addressing several thousand partner attendees at Microsofts first ever Worldwide Partner Conference, which brings together two […]

The U.K. government on Wednesday ratcheted up its commitment to using Linux across its departments, announcing nine proof of concept pilot open-source software projects across central government departments and the wider public sector. The nine pilots are being coordinated by the Office of Government Commerce and the Office of the eEnvoy, and build on the […]

As Microsoft Corp. prepares for its first ever Worldwide Partner Meeting here in New Orleans on Thursday—where it will announce the general availability of its Small Business Server 2003 product to the more than 5,500 partners expected to attend—Orlando Ayala, Microsofts senior vice president of small and mid-market solutions & partner group, sat down to […]