Peter Galli

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday said it had added 100 new third-party systems and 100 new components to its Hardware Compatibility List for the Solaris x86 operating system Platform Edition. “Our goal is to ensure that the Solaris x86 OS is available on the widest range of x86 systems,” said Ann Wettersten, a vice president […]

San Francisco-based Vector Capital Group has successfully acquired Canadian software maker Corel Corp., the companies said on Thursday. This means that Vector Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm, will acquire all the common shares of Corel for U.S. $1.05 a share. Corels securities should cease trading on the Nasdaq by the close of […]

The battle between The SCO Group and the Linux and open-source communities is apparently taking some innocent bystanders hostage. Take Centershift, a small startup ASP, based in Salt Lake City, that provides services to specific real-estate markets such as self-storage and multi-family residential housing. While Centershift is completely independent of SCO, it does share significant […]

Prominent members of the open-source community are angry that The SCO Group is including open-source technology in its products while attacking the community and the license that governs its work. The latest controversy follows the SCO announcement last week here at its Forum event that it has included Samba 3 in its latest OpenServer product. […]

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, this week responded to a range of allegations made by The SCO Group at its conference in Las Vegas. In a hard-hitting interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli, Torvalds disputed what SCO presented this week as evidence of illegal Unix System V code in Linux. […]

LAS VEGAS— The SCO Group Inc. wants a piece of the Web-services pie. To make the cut, its officials are working to build the same business case for Web services as established players such as Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. There are three powerful forces combining to change the computing landscape—ubiquitous network connectivity; the mass […]

LAS VEGAS—The immense distaste and anger of the open-source and Linux community, as well as of some enterprises, for The SCO Groups attack on Linux appears not to be going unnoticed by some of the major vendors. Intel Corp. was recently billed as one of the lead sponsors of SCOs Forum 2003 conference here this […]

LAS VEGAS—The SCO Group on Sunday said that it has compiled a list of all the large companies with numerous servers running Linux and warned that it would not hesitate to drag them into court if they refused to pay for UnixWare licenses. In his most definitive warning to corporate Linux users to date, SCO […]

LAS VEGAS—Members of the open-source community have approached The SCO Group with a proposal that they hope will allow them to look at the alleged offending Unix code in the Linux kernel either without or under a less restrictive non-disclosure agreement. SCO has said that no one can see its Unix code without signing an […]

LAS VEGAS—The SCO Group on Monday announced the rollout of several key components of its SCOx Web services initiative, Eric Hughes, the senior director of product management at SCO, said in his keynote address here on Monday. SCO is focusing its sights on SCOx, which was designed to help customers more fully utilize the benefits […]

LAS VEGAS—SCO does not agree with the notion that software is supposed to be free, and is fighting for the industrys right to make a living selling software, SCO CEO Darl McBride said in his keynote address here on Monday morning at the start of SCO Forum 2003. “We have been pushed into a corner, […]

Microsoft Corp. executives laid out the companys product vision for the next five years at its annual financial analyst meeting here late last month. And while fiscal issues were discussed during the daylong briefing, the main focus was on the future. Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said hes committed to aggressive investments […]