Peter Galli

Much of the talk that Linux isnt ready for the enterprise was put to rest last week as a string of large companies, ranging from E-Trade Group Inc. to DreamWorks SKG, announced deployment plans for the operating system. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here, large IT customers cited the competitive advantage Linux provides in […]

NEW YORK – The Free Standards Group has released two Linux standards platforms that it believes will allow true interoperability between the multitude of Linux distributions and also facilitate better internationalization capabilities. In a press conference here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Thursday, the FSG released the Linux Standards Base 1.1, which provides […]

NEW YORK – Hewlett-Packard Co. and DreamWorks SKG today announced a three-year, multimillion-dollar technology strategic alliance aimed at revolutionizing animation production using Linux. In her keynote address this morning to hundreds of Linux enthusiasts here at LinuxWorld, HP CEO and Chairman Carly Fiorina said the company will provide computing infrastructure for DreamWorks next-generation digital studio […]

NEW YORK — A group of hardware and software vendors will announce late Wednesday morning here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that they are working together to develop a new version of the Linux operating system that is optimized for the telecommunications industry. A working group for the carrier-grade version of the open-source operating […]

Linux continues its steady march to becoming a mission-critical, enterprise-ready operating system with the requisite applications Wednesday with the announcement that Hewlett-Packard Co. will resell and co-brand Turbolinux Inc.s PowerCockpit server provisioning software with HPs Netservers and Blade server lines. PowerCockpit was released in early September 2001 and is designed to make it easier for […]

NEW YORK — IBM will on Wednesday will announce a significant customer win for Linux: that E-Trade, the online personal financial services company, will be moving its entire architecture to IBM Intel servers running Linux. As part of his keynote address at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here on Wednesday afternoon, William Zeitler, senior vice […]

The MIT X11 license chosen by Ximian Inc. for the class libraries produced by the Mono Project is an open-source license that Microsoft Corp. feels is far more appropriate for commercial use than the GNU General Public License, according to Microsoft officials. The X11 license allows developers to modify, publish, distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies […]

NEW YORK–Officials from Microsoft Corp. are once again attending the annual LinuxWorld conference and expo here, which started today, to keep abreast of what the competition is up to. In an interview with eWEEK, Doug Miller, the director of competitive strategy in Microsofts Windows division, said Linux is just one of the competitors that Microsoft […]

One distributor of the Linux operating system is switching to a less traditional licensing program for part of an upcoming development platform, indicating a major shift in the mainstream open-source philosophy. Linux desktop developer Ximian Inc. this week will announce that the first pieces of the Mono Project—an initiative to deliver a Unix- and Linux-compatible […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday released the second early access version of its upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers. The second beta of the Solaris upgrade features LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) support through the integration of the iPlanet Directory Server. The Solaris operating environment is the backbone of the Sun Open Net […]