Peter Galli

As the Linux community gathers in San Francisco this week for the LinuxWorld conference, two of the industrys largest companies will use the show to put the squeeze on Sun Microsystems Inc. Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM are each planning to roll out aggressive product and marketing programs designed to lure Solaris customers from Sun to […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has done an about-face with regard to its January decision not to offer Solaris 9 for the Intel x86 architecture going forward. Jack OBrien, manager of Suns Linux Business Office in Menlo Park, Calif., confirmed to eWEEK that Sun will now introduce Solaris 9 for x86 going forward. This latest decision is […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM on Thursday will both announce a slew of new Linux customer wins. HP also will announce updated Linux software releases, services and community developments. The Cupertino, Calif., companys announcements come some 100 days after its merger with Compaq Computer Corp. and ahead of next weeks LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San […]

The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will launch a pilot program that allows companies to more easily communicate their financial information over the Internet and which helps investors more easily analyze this data. The pilot program uses Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a new platform developed for corporate […]

Microsoft Corp. is being tight-lipped about how many of its business customers have signed up for its controversial Licensing 6 and Software Assurance program. The cut-off point for customers to ink a deal, which essentially committed them to a two- or three-year annual contract with the right to upgrade every time to a new version […]

Microsoft Corp. released the long-awaited and much delayed Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 for general download on Thursday afternoon. The service pack is available at its Web site as well as on CD. Many frustrated customers who had been trying to find the SP3 download earlier in the day expressed concern that its release was […]

Microsoft Corp. still has a long way to go to meet its .Net aspirations, but the company has vision for the strategy nevertheless. At an event here last week to discuss the 2-year-old initiative, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said .Net is more about building applications on networks and on protocols than on […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will detail the roadmap for its software-as-a-service .Net strategy at a media event at its Redmond, Wash., campus. Sources told eWeek that while the focus of the event will be “directional” in nature rather than product oriented, it will be used to announce Release Candidate 1 of the much delayed Windows […]

Microsoft Corp., which faces mounting competition and price pressure focused on its Office desktop productivity suite, is set to release the first beta of an Office upgrade. Due later this year, the beta will feature far greater use of XML and Web services for reporting, analyzing, importing and exporting information—particularly in Outlook and Excel, Steven […]

The debate over open-source software and the commonly used GNU General Public License erupted again with Tuesdays release of a 17-page white paper from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. The institution, a Washington think tank that is partly funded by Microsoft Corp., released the paper written by its president, Kenneth Brown, and titled “Opening the […]