Peter Galli

Darl McBride, CEO for The SCO Group, is in Japan this week for a weeklong visit where he will meet a number of the Lindon, Utah, companys OEM partners in that country to explain his stand on Linux as well as to brief the Japanese press. SCO in March filed suit against IBM for more […]

As Microsoft Corp. continues to try and better gauge the attraction of open-source technologies to its customers and developers, a number of its officials will be attending this weeks OReilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) in Portland, Ore. The convention brings together the leaders of more than nine open-source technologies, and sessions will cover everything from […]

In a move that Microsoft Corp. says will help it continue to attract and retain key staff, the Redmond, Wash., software maker on Tuesday restructured the way it compensates employees, saying that starting in September it will give staff actual shares in the company rather than stock options as is currently the case. The new […]

The end of last month marked the third anniversary of Microsofts launch of its .Net strategy, which executives such as Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said at the time was a “bet-the-company thing.” But three years later, reactions are mixed as to whether that strategy, along with the vision that accompanied it, has […]

Microsoft Corp. last week made available the release candidate for its Windows Small Business Server 2003, the latest product in the Windows Server 2003 family headed for release. The Redmond, Wash., company also introduced a new standard version of the product—which will be in addition to the premium version—that is similar to the current product […]

While the Linux operating system has transformed the digital animation movie business over the past two years and now plays a mission critical role in those enterprises, the major Linux vendors are gearing up to address the next set of challenges: more memory and greater processing power. Movie houses from DreamWorksLLC, The Walt Disney Co., […]

The newest animated movie from DreamWorks studios and which opens to audiences this week, “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas,” is the first film ever created entirely on Linux. Mike Balma, Hewlett-Packard Co.s Linux business strategist, told eWEEK in an interview that the company has been working with DreamWorks since 2001 when it helped the […]

Just weeks after scooping up Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, as its first full-time fellow, the Open Source Development Lab is bringing his right-hand man Andrew Morton on board as well. The OSDL, a global consortium of technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, will announce on Wednesday that […]

Microsoft Corp. is getting a new open-source and Linux strategist as the end-of-financial-year staff shuffle continues. Peter Houston, who as the senior director of Microsofts Windows Server Strategies has had to defend and explain the companys response to the competitive threat posed by Linux and open source for the past 18 months, is now moving […]

Microsoft Corp. will on Tuesday announce the release candidate for its Windows Small Business Server 2003, the latest product in the Windows Server 2003 server family headed for release. Microsoft will also be introducing a new standard version of the product, which will be in addition to the premium version that is similar to the […]

IBM continues to win Linux deals in governmental agencies across Europe, on Thursday announcing six new deals from Belgium to Finland and Spain. At a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, IBM executives announced the six new Linux customers, which include Brussels-based Union des Classes Moyennes (UCM), a government agency that calculates salaries for doctors […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and SuSE Linux on Thursday will announce that they have entered into an agreement that allows HP to resell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HPs Itanium-based servers. This relationship provides customers with a single point of purchase, support and maintenance for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server […]