Peter Galli

Disgruntled Solaris users are pushing Sun Microsystems Inc. to decide on the fate of the operating environment on Intel Corp. processors. Sun officials in Palo Alto, Calif., have been going back and forth with the Solaris Intel user base since January, when the company said Version 9 for the x86 architecture was being “deferred” in […]

The German government last week said it is moving to standardize on Linux and an open-source IT model at the federal, state and local levels. As part of this move, the government signed a nonexclusive contract with IBM that will facilitate moving its agencies to Linux and help develop innovative IT solutions based on open […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is evaluating Hancom Office, a desktop productivity suite produced by Koreas Hancom Linux, for possible inclusion in its European and American distributions. Last month eWeek reported that Red Hat would no longer include Suns branded StarOffice desktop productivity suite because Sun had decided to charge for the product and because it […]

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday encouraged every employee to adopt a new culture and mission of excellence, responsibility, strong values and inclusivity. In a four-page memo sent to all staff late Thursday, Ballmer said many Microsoft employees felt a disconnect in the way they saw themselves, their mission and motives compared to the […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released the first beta of Service Pack 1 for its Windows XP operating system. While the service pack includes all the security fixes, application compatibility updates and updated drivers released since the launch of the product last October, it also includes elements that comply with the changes required by the consent […]

After some four years in the making, the Mozilla 1.0 open-source Web browser suite was released on Wednesday. The code for the browser can be downloaded from the Mozilla.org Web site, founded by Netscape Communications Corp. to develop its browser in an open-source environment. In a statement released on Wednesday, the community said Mozilla 1.0 […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. may have a new challenge before it regarding the companys new Solaris 9 operating system: convincing contented Solaris 8 users its worth the upgrade. John De Stefano, a software engineer with 3ParData Inc., in Fremont, Calif., said his company is in no rush to move to Solaris 9 but not because of […]

The move last week by four Linux developers to create a unified distribution promises a new era of standardization for the open-source operating system and could help drive it further into the enterprise. Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc. announced the development of a new code base for enterprise servers […]

Microsoft Corp., moving to downplay the impact of the recent Linux-based agreement between IBM and the German Ministry of the Interior, on Monday stressed that its relationship with the German government remained strong and was unaffected by the IBM arrangement. Big Blue and the German agency on Monday announced an agreement that would help the […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday agreed to stop using an accounting practice that the Securities and Exchange Commission said resulted in the software company misstating its income by material amounts between July 1994 and June 1998. In a statement issued on Monday, the SEC said it brought a settled administrative enforcement action against Microsoft ordering the […]