Peter Galli

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

Linux vendors Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc. today announced that they will standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise, to be known as UnitedLinux, in a move they say will streamline Linux development and certification. As was first reported by eWEEK on Tuesday, executives from the four […]

IBM on Wednesday will announce a five-year, $194 million deal to provide TSYS, the largest processor of retail accounts in the United States, with its next-generation technology infrastructure. The terms of the deal call for the Armonk, N.Y., company to provide TSYS with hardware, software, maintenance and services. This includes eServer ZSeries mainframe processors, the […]

A number of Linux vendors will announce on Thursday that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try to take on Red Hat Inc.s dominance in the industry. A media advisory issued on Tuesday said executives from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux on Thursday will make “a major announcement that will […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s outgoing chief operating officer and president, Ed Zander, said he decided to leave Sun partly because his chances of becoming CEO were slim. In a candid interview at Suns offices here last week, Zander, a 15-year Sun veteran, said that after three or four years of doing a job, “you hope to […]

Microsoft Corp. will release the first beta for the Windows XP Service Pack 1 in the next two weeks, and it will include changes that allow both computer manufacturers and users to hide Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger and Outlook Express. In late February the Redmond, Wash., software company said that it was […]

In a major coup for both Turbolinux and IBM, paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams Co. announced Thursday that it is installing an in-store network that will consist of 9,700 IBM NetVista personal computers running Turbolinux. The multi-million dollar deal, which Ralph Martino, the vice president of strategy for IBM Global Services in Armonk, N.Y, called the largest […]

In a major coup for both Turbolinux and IBM, Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores will announce on Thursday that it is installing an in-store network that will consist of 9,700 IBM NetVista PCs running Turbolinux. The multimillion-dollar deal, which Ralph Martino, vice president of strategy for IBM Global Services in Armonk, N.Y, said is the largest deployment […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.—Sun Microsystems Inc. has spent as much time and money on developing its latest Solaris operating environment as it had on any other product in the companys history, chief operating officer Ed Zander said at the launch of Solaris 9 here Wednesday. “The launch of Solaris 9 today has been five years in […]

IBM is on track to release the next version of its Unix-based AIX operating system in the second half of this year. That release will include many new features and technologies currently unavailable to users, and will come more than a year after the Armonk, N.Y., company released the current AIX 5L version, 5.1. “This […]