Peter Galli

Linux technology and solutions-based provider SuSE said on Wednesday that its latest Linux operating system and applications package, SuSE Linux 8.0, will be broadly available for purchase on April 22. The German-headquartered open-source company said the new version is based on Version 2.4.18 of the Linux kernel and will offer increased security, the KDE 3 […]

Corporate users are divided over the merits of a proposal that would force Microsoft Corp. to offer a stripped-down version of Windows as retribution for its antitrust transgressions. The nine states and the District of Columbia, which refused to accept the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Department of Justice, last week asked the Washington, […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to open up more of its proprietary source code to allow greater interoperability between different server operating systems and its Windows client and server operating systems. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler told eWeek on Tuesday that the Redmond, Wash.-based software firm would release the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol later this summer to […]

The American Antitrust Institute on Monday again argued that the proposed settlement in the antitrust case between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice should not be approved by a federal judge as both parties had failed to comply with the disclosure requirements of the Tunney Act. The AAI today filed an amicus, or […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Friday filed a private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. for harm that it alleged was inflicted by Microsofts anticompetitive behavior with respect to the Java platform and for damages resulting from Microsofts illegal efforts to maintain and expand its monopoly power. Sun also took aim at Microsofts .Net platform and strategy, […]

The Association for Competitive Technology may appear as a “friend of the court” and present 10 minutes of oral argument during the Tunney Act hearing in the antitrust case between Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice, Washington District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in an order filed with the Court late Monday. In a […]

The nine states and the District of Columbia, which have refused to accept the proposed antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice, on Wednesday rejected out-of-hand a Microsoft motion to delay the remedy hearings scheduled to start next Monday. In a filing posted with the Washington District Court on Wednesday in response […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday moved to delay for two weeks the remedy hearing between it and the nine states and the District of Columbia, which have refused to sign off on the proposed final settlement agreement between the software maker and the Department of Justice. In an emergency motion filed with the U.S. District Court […]

GNOME users and developers are upbeat about Sun Microsystems Inc.s decision last week to work with partners to develop a GNOME 2.0-based desktop for Solaris. Sun will collaborate with open-source software developer Ximian Inc., of Boston, and IT services company Wipro Ltd., of Bangalore, India, to provide a next-generation GNU Network Object Model Environment desktop […]

Microsoft Corp. should be forced to offer a modular version of its Windows operating system in addition to the fully integrated version of the product, according to the nine states and the District of Columbia that have refused to sign off on the proposed antitrust settlement between Microsoft and the Department of Justice. In an […]