Peter Galli

Alan Cox, the right-hand man to Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux open-source operating system, has told kernel developers that he will not be maintaining the current 2.4 Linux kernel when Torvalds hands it over in a few weeks to concentrate on the 2.5 development tree. In a recent posting on the Advogato […]

The settlement reached between Microsoft and the Department of Justice in the landmark antitrust case was fair and reasonable, but would change the way the company had traditionally done business and delivered software, Bill Gates, Microsofts chairman and chief software architect told the media Friday morning. “We went the extra mile to resolve this case […]

The likelihood of a quick, negotiated settlement that was acceptable to all parties in the Microsoft antitrust case was dealt a major blow on Thursday when California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said he would continue to urge the 17 other states to take the review time they needed to fully understand every word and every […]

IBM is working with a number of IT vendors and customers to develop a road map that will help it define the strategic design requirement and assist with the self-management infrastructure for autonomous, self-healing systems. The Armonk, N.Y., company will also announce Wednesday a services offering to automate key electronic business processes and better predict, […]

German-headquartered SuSE Linux is planning to distribute IBMs entire line of software for Linux in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the two companies are set to announce at the LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt, Germany on Tuesday. SuSE will act as a value added Linux distributor for the IBM Linux software line, which includes more […]

NEW YORK — For Microsoft Corp., XP isnt enough. The Redmond, Wash., company, which held a glitzy affair here last week to launch its newest operating system, Windows XP, already has development teams working on the two subsequent Windows releases, code-named Longhorn and Blackcomb. As a result, users will face the prospect of two more […]

NEW YORK — The release of Windows XP marks the end of the era of too many PC crashes and the beginning of the end for the narrow bandwidth era, Bill Gates said in his keynote address here Thursday celebrating the launch of Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system. “Microsoft has been working for more than […]

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp. announced the first wave of pricing for its Web services here on Tuesday, detailing a three-level pricing structure for developers that includes a fixed annual fee and a charge per application certified. Chris Payne, a vice president in Microsofts .Net Services group, told eWEEK that there will be an entry […]

NEW YORK — The launch of Windows XP will not change the fundamentals of the PC industry overnight, and will not have a significant effect on sales of new computers in the short-term, according to Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. “We are going through an economic downturn and the release of Windows […]

NEW YORK – As Microsoft Corp. prepares for the worldwide launch of its new Windows XP operating system here on Thursday, it is already looking to the future and has a large team of engineers hard at work on its next operating system release, currently code-named Longhorn. In an interview with eWEEK ahead of Thursdays […]