Peter Galli

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released the fourth service pack for Windows 2000, which contains the latest updates and security patches and fixes as well as support for USB 2.0 and 802.1x on the desktop. Microsoft released the Windows 2000 SP 3 some 11 months ago, at the end of July 2002. This latest service pack […]

Novell Inc. on Tuesday will announce Nterprise Linux Services, the first product in its upcoming Novell Nterprise Linux suite, which the company intends to deliver as it moves to embrace Linux across all its products and services. Nterprise Linux Services is expected to be available before then end of this year. Pricing will be announced […]

Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux open-source operating system, has some strong views about the , which he shared with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli in an e-mail exchange last week. Torvalds also last week announced he was taking a leave of absence from Transmeta Corp. and becoming the first full-time […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday reorganized its platforms group, combining the Developer and Platform Evangelism Business, the Windows Server System Business, and the Enterprise Storage and Management Business under the existing Servers and Tools Profit & Loss center (P&L), which will be headed by senior vice president Eric Rudder. However, Paul Flessner, who was senior vice […]

A recent study of Linux use inside corporations by the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) and the SDTimes reveals a broad use of Linux, but also shows that just a third of those companies have adopted the open-source operating system as a corporate standard computing platform. The survey was conducted among 8,000 SD Times readers, […]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday made the Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh available to its 15,000 technical beta testers via download at betaplace.com. While more than 600,000 beta testers have been involved in testing the Office System 2003 product so far, Microsoft has decided to first make the refresh available to the smaller group of […]

Open-source and Linux provider Red Hat Inc. swung back into the black in the first quarter of its 2004 fiscal year, while at the same time significantly reducing its operating loss. The company posted net income of $1.5 million, or $0.01 a share for the quarter, ended May 31. This compares to a net loss […]

Linux founder and lead developer Linus Torvalds will join the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) as its first full-time fellow, working exclusively on driving the development of the open-source operating system. The OSDL, which is located in Beaverton, Oregon, has been putting the current 2.5 Linux kernel through its paces with rigorous testing ahead of […]

The SCO Group and IBM are headed toward a major showdown this week as SCO prepares to make good on its threat to revoke IBMs AIX license. The move by SCO is only the latest in a series, which the Lindon, Utah, company insists is necessary to protect its intellectual property. Critics, however, say its […]

The SCO Group on Monday terminated Big Blues right to use or distribute its Unix-based AIX operating system. SCO, which is suing IBM for $1 billion, said it was going to file an amendment to the complaint against IBM with the U.S. States District Court of Utah, where the case is currently pending, for a […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is wasting no time prepping to take advantage of any potential customer fallout from the looming battle between the SCO Group and IBM over Big Blues license for AIX, its Unix operating system. SCO has said it will revoke IBMs license to ship AIX as it claims Big Blue has violated the […]

Some members of the open-source community are claiming that the SCO Group may have violated the terms of the GNU GPL (General Public License) by incorporating source code from the Linux kernel into the Linux Kernel Personality feature found in SCO Unix without giving the changes back to the community or displaying copyright notices attributing […]