Peter Galli

Alan Cox, an employee at Linux developer and distributor Red Hat Inc. and a right-hand man to Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux open-source operating system, implied on Monday that he would resign if AOL Time Warner Inc. acquired Red Hat, as has been much speculated over the past few days. In a […]

Microsoft Corp.s road to software as a service has been so pocked by security and availability problems that customers are beginning to question whether such lapses, if not fixed, could keep .Net from becoming a reality. The crisis of confidence follows a week in which server problems prevented Windows customers from being able to download […]

Netscape Communications Corp., a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, on Tuesday filed a seven-count lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., seeking redress for Microsofts anticompetitive conduct against Netscape. In a prepared statement released on Tuesday, AOL said its case is based on the same anticompetitive conduct that formed the basis of the governments antitrust case against the […]

As the Linux community congregates in New York for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the center of attention, as always, will be Linux creator Linus Torvalds. A little more than a year ago Torvalds released the 2.4 kernel and has spent much of the year working on numerous 2.4.x versions to further stabilize and strengthen […]

Office XP Web Services Toolkit and Smart Tag Enterprise Resource Toolkit, released last week, will enable developers to put XML Web services data into Office XP, which Microsoft Corp. officials said will make it easier for users to access important information in applications they use daily. “Right now, our vision for the .Net platform as […]

Sales are up at Microsoft Corp. The Redmond, Wash., software giant on Thursday posted revenue of $7.74 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001, beating analyst expectations. That was an 18 percent increase compared with the same period a year ago. But Microsoft also reported that it took a $660 million charge for estimated […]

Subscribers to Microsofts Developers Network were still experiencing problems late Wednesday afternoon (PST) trying to download the just released final code for Visual Studio .Net and the .Net Framework from the site. A Microsoft spokesman confirmed to eWeek that the reason for the delay was overwhelming demand by subscribers to immediately download the Visual Studio […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., taken aback by the vehemence with which users met its recent decision to defer indefinitely the release of its upcoming Solaris 9 operating environment for network servers on the Intel platform, will meet a group of customers and developers who use Solaris on Intel to try to work out a compromise. Graham […]

Windows users have been prevented from being able to download critical patches to protect their computers from security vulnerabilities since late last week, due to problems accessing Microsoft Corp.s Windows Update site. While users have long complained about the unreliability of the update site, the current problem began last Thursday and continued throughout the weekend. […]

The competition between server rivals Sun Microsystems Inc. and Intel Corp. took another turn last week, with Sun announcing it will not release a version of its upcoming Solaris 9 for Intels platform. Graham Lovell, a Solaris director at Sun, in Palo Alto, Calif., said Sun will “defer” the producing of Solaris 9 for Intel, […]