Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO–IBM executives on Wednesday talked up the need for open standards-based integration across all applications and platforms while, at the same time, announcing a host of new product offerings. As expected, Steve Mills, a senior vice president and group executive of IBMs software group, used his keynote address at the companys annual technical developer […]

Microsoft Corp. will on Tuesday announce the beta of its .Net Speech Software Development Kit, a Web developer tool based on the Speech Application Language Tags, or SALT, specification. The Redmond, Wash., software company is also planning a .Net Speech platform for building and deploying telephony and multimodal applications. This is essentially server technology and […]

As Sun Microsystems Inc. grapples with the loss of several senior executives, including President and Chief Operating Officer Ed Zander last week, the company must devise a business plan that returns profits and satisfies customers. Disgruntled customers and partners last week said they hope Zanders departure, scheduled for July, and that of other executives will […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s decision to start charging users for its upcoming StarOffice 6.0 desktop office productivity suite is coming at a price: Linux sales and service company Red Hat Inc. has decided not to use StarOffice 6.0 in any of its distributions going forward. Red Hat is a leading distributor of Linux desktop and server […]

The OpenOffice.org community on Wednesday released the first version of its free office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org 1.0. The software, available for download at www.openoffice.org, shares the same code base as Suns upcoming StarOffice 6.0 software, which Sun has said will no longer be available as a free download when it is released later this month. […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., ratcheting up its focus on the software side of its business, on Monday appointed Jonathan Schwartz, its current chief strategy officer, as executive vice president of an expanded software group, effective July 1. Suns expanded software organization will unify its current software operations and brands, including the Solaris Operating Environment, the StarOffice […]

SuSE Linux today shipped SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for 64-bit IBM eServer zSeries, which SuSE claims is the first server operating system to fully support the HiperSockets feature that accelerates the speed of the data transfer between virtual servers in the IBM mainframe. The latest version of the enterprise server also supports the ReiserFS […]

On the surface, Microsoft Corp.s support for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s forthcoming 64-bit Opteron chip, announced last week, appears to be a way of hedging its processor bets. Some, however, say the move is actually a calculated step to thwart Linux. Currently, Unix systems based on proprietary operating systems dominate the 64-bit processor space, where […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Wednesday will announce that Microsoft Corp. has agreed to support the chip makers upcoming 64-bit Hammer family of processors, sources said. The announcement will end months of speculation about whether Microsoft would provide the critical software support AMD has long sought in order to make its new architecture, debuting late this […]

Microsoft Corp. is ratcheting up efforts to catch companies migrating from Unix to Linux before they make the switch. As part of the effort, the Redmond, Wash., software giant has moved Doug Miller, current director of competitive strategy in the Windows division, to the new role of director of Unix migration strategy. In addition, Microsoft […]