Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO—There are massive and epic changes taking place at Sun Microsystems Inc., underscored Tuesday by the companys announcement that it had consolidated 225 of its products into just six new systems in the Sun Java System family, Jonathan Schwartz, Suns executive vice president of software, said on Tuesday. In his keynote here at the […]

Red Hat Inc. and Oracle Corp. will tighten their relationship as the companies work together on the next version of Red Hats Enterprise Linux server. Officials at the OracleWorld conference here last week said Oracle will continue to contribute development work and code in areas such as management, clustering and enterprise database to the open-source […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. officials from CEO Scott McNealy on down this week will use the companys premier user show, Sun Network, to make a host of software system announcements around Project Orion and Project Mad Hatter, while stressing how affordable the initiatives are compared with Microsoft products. Orion essentially involves integrating all the component pieces […]

A new research study conducted by Forrester Researchs Giga Information Group unit and commissioned and paid for by Microsoft Corp. has found that Microsoft offers a cost advantage over J2EE/Linux as a development platform for certain portal-type applications. Microsoft in May commissioned Giga to undertake a research project to provide a Total Economic Impact (TEI) […]

In the latest big win for Linux and open source, infrastructure service provider VeriSign has decided to migrate 2,000 of its high-performance Unix servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel in a move the company says will help reduce its operating expenses. The 2,000 servers to be migrated operate across all of VeriSigns business […]

The SCO Group has been threatening corporate Linux users with legal action unless they obtain a license for its intellectual property, but until now, businesses have been unable to buy that license. The Lindon, Utah, company last week began selling its SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux, a run-time license that lets buyers use the […]

Embedded Linux developer LynuxWorks Inc., shaking off the legal uncertainty around Linux and whether it includes unauthorized Unix code, has embraced the upcoming Linux 2.6 kernel in its latest product. The San Jose, Calif., company this week will announce availability of a public beta program for the next version of its embedded Linux operating system, […]

Linux luminary Eric S. Raymond is taking the fight with The SCO Group right back to the basics: he has developed a utility known as a comparator that looks for common code segments in large source trees and which, on an Athlon 1.8 GHz box, has an effective comparison rate of over 55,000 lines per […]

Novell, which has pegged its future on Linux and Java, on Monday used its annual BrainShare Europe event in Barcelona, Spain, to announce a series of product innovations that it says will move it closer to that vision. Company executives said the firm is opening for beta testing its Novell Nterprise Linux Services, a bundle […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday launched its latest Office Online site, www.Office.Microsoft.com, which is a repository of free Office user resources on the Web. The site, which replaces the Tools on the Web site, paves the way for the new Office System 2003, which will be publicly available in October. In May at the Windows Hardware […]

Microsoft Corp. has once again shifted the schedule for the release of “Longhorn,” the companys next major version of Windows, leaving some users up in the air about an upgrade path. Microsoft executives from Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on down have long described Longhorn as the Redmond, Wash., companys most revolutionary operating […]

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds responded to the allegations made by The SCO Group at the SCO Forum in Las Vegas last month. In an interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli, Torvalds disputed what SCO presented as evidence of illegal Unix System V code in Linux. What are your views on the lines of […]