Peter Galli

As the Linux and open-source faithful flock to San Francisco for the annual LinuxWorld conference this week, the legal brouhaha between IBM and The SCO Group does not appear to be having any effect on customer willingness to implement the operating system or vendors ability to deliver for the enterprise. Linux experts say the show […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and SuSE Linux A.G. have entered into a global alliance that calls for Sun to preinstall SuSE Linuxs Enterprise Server 8 on its commodity x86 hardware systems, while SuSE becomes a Java 2 Standard Edition source licensee and will distribute Suns Java Virtual Machine with all its Linux products, the two companies […]

The current legal brouhaha between IBM and The SCO Group is not preventing Big Blue from moving forward with its Linux product offerings, support and services. IBM on Wednesday will announce a new server; a DB2 Linux integrated clustering environment; extended Linux support for the Lotus client and server; as well as three key Tivoli […]

Many Linux customers have no intention of paying The SCO Group for a UnixWare license that would indemnify them from legal liability for using the open-source operating system. SCO, which is suing IBM over Unix for more than $1 billion and which claims that Linux is an illegal derivative of Unix, last week said Linux […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. has grown its market share in almost all of its businesses over the past year, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday, while acknowledging that Linux had also grown its market share over that period. Speaking to financial analysts, media and investors at its Financial Analyst Meeting here, Ballmer addressed the competitive situation facing […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft Corp. corporate vice president for the MSN personal services and business division, on Thursday detailed the challenges and focus for his group over the next year. In an address at the companys Financial Analyst Meeting here, Mehdi said these efforts included improving customer satisfaction and decreasing churn, building a premium-services business, […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft made clear on Thursday that it has no intention of distributing any of its $62.7 billion cash-and-investment stockpile to shareholders until the legal risks posed to the company have been removed. Regarding reports that it was considering giving up to $10 billion of this back to shareholders through a dividend payment, Microsoft Corp. […]

REDMOND, Wash.—While the technology industry experienced a boom in the late 1990s that is unlikely to be repeated again during his lifetime, there are a number of exciting challenges ahead, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Thursday. Addressing a group of financial analysts and media at the Microsoft campus here, Gates said […]

Microsoft Corp. sold triple as many units of the Windows Server 2003 family in the 90 days since its launch than it did of Windows 2000 over the same period, Bob OBrien, group product manager for Windows .Net Server, told eWEEK on Wednesday. “In terms of the overall mix of our shipments, weve seen a […]

The SCO Group is beefing up its Web services offerings with the acquisition of Vultus Inc. and its WebFace Solution Suite. SCO, which is suing IBM for more than $1 billion in a contract dispute and which maintains that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, on Tuesday said it has acquired Vultus assets, engineering […]

The SCO Group is moving to intensify the pressure on IBM and Linux vendors by demanding a royalty fee from businesses for every copy of Linux they use. SCO, in the middle of a $1 billion-plus lawsuit with IBM, has sent letters to 1,500 of the largest global enterprises, warning them that it believes Linux […]

Software pioneer Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and creator of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, is keeping busy as chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation. Kapor sat down at the OReilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore., this month to share his views with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli. What is your take […]