Peter Galli

Concern is growing in the Linux community that the forthcoming UnitedLinux distribution will not be able to meet the enterprise server challenge of Red Hat Inc. in the United States. Red Hats dominance is worrisome to some industry players, who say the Raleigh, N.C., company needs effective competition to prevent it from becoming a Microsoft […]

Caldera International Inc. on Monday used its GeoFORUM conference in Las Vegas to announce that it will change its name to The SCO Group. The company also announced the release of new upgrades to its three server operating system products and launched a new partner program offering, SCOx. CEO Darl McBride said the rename did […]

Dell Computer Corp. will expand its use of Canadian-based software maker Corel Corporations productivity solutions in its computer product lines. Corel said this week that its word-processing package, WordPerfect 10, and spreadsheet application, Quattro Pro 10, would now be included as part of the WordPerfect Productivity Pack bundled on select models of the Dell Dimension […]

Turbolinux Inc., which provides Linux operating environments and multi-platform server provisioning and management products, has sold its Linux software business to Japanese software group Software Research Associates Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Turbolinuxs global Linux software business will become a division of SRA and be headquartered in Tokyo at Turbolinuxs former Japan division, spokesman Dino […]

Linux vendors are showing a renewed interest in developing a desktop version of the operating system to challenge Microsoft Corp. But many corporate users are simply not ready for—or not interested in—such a product. Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and SuSE Linux AG each maintain there is interest in a corporate desktop offering, and […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released the second service pack for Office XP, combining previously released and new updates into a single, integrated package. SP-2 is now available for download or can be ordered on CD. A full-file administrative version is also available so organizations can easily deploy SP-2 to all their Office XP users. Microsoft […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The Free Standards Group on Wednesday will announce that four leading Linux distributions have become Linux Standard Base certified. The certification of the distributions from Caldera International Inc., MandrakeSoft S.A., Red Hat Inc. and SuSE Linux AG comes on the heels of the initial launch of the LSB Certification program at LinuxWorld in New […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Red Hat Inc. is looking to expand its general retail Linux and enterprise server software offerings and so will release a formal desktop Linux product geared toward the corporate market early next year. Mark De Visser, a vice president at the Raleigh, N.C., open-source technology provider, told eWEEK Tuesday that Red Hat is “working […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. has been very responsible and contributed significantly to the open-source community, said Scott McNealy, Suns chairman, president and CEO, in his keynote presentation here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Tuesday. In his address titled “The Role of Linux in a Capitalist Society,” McNealy appearing before several hundred delegates defended […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dell Computer Corp. and Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday announced at LinuxWorld here that Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux will be used in the digital remastering of Universal Pictures and Image Entertainments “Apollo 13” movie scheduled to hit IMAX theaters this fall. Essentially the IMAX Digital Remastering technology uses the Dell servers […]