Peter Galli

Demand for Linux on the mainframe continues to grow, with IBM notching another win on its eServer mainframe. The latest: Korean Air is moving its Flight Schedule Enquiry System and its Daily Revenue Accounting System to Linux on IBM hardware and software. Korean Air is implementing IBMs WebSphere and Tivoli systems through an eServer z900 […]

The open-source communitys attempt to develop code for Microsoft Corp.s .Net platform may be met with resistance from Microsoft, raising questions about how cross-platform .Net may ultimately be. Linux distributor Ximian Inc. last week announced the Mono Project, its line of open-source replacement parts for .Net products; Mono would include ways to run C# programs […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday scored a victory in its ongoing legal battle with the Department of Justice and state attorneys general by independently settling its antitrust case with the state of New Mexico. The settlement still leaves 18 states united against the Redmond, Wash., software giant, but legal sources say others could follow suit. New […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced major concessions relating to the inclusion of its Internet Explorer browser in the Windows operating system, following the recent findings of a U.S. Court of Appeals that a number of its past licensing policies were “restrictive, anti-competitive and violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” Microsoft today said it had […]

In a change of course, Microsoft Corp. wants interested parties to propose new Web services based on its HailStorm platform and then collaborate with the Redmond, Wash., software company in the creation and deployment of these services. But theres a caveat: Microsoft has not guaranteed that this technology and intellectual property will be shared by […]

The unanimous decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals last week that Microsoft Corp. engaged in anticompetitive activity to maintain its monopoly in the operating system market had both Microsoft and the Department of Justice claiming victory. However, as Microsoft rolled out its top brass to laud the ruling—which also vacated Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons […]

The U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today set aside the breakup of Microsoft Corp. proposed last year by District Court Judge Thomas Jackson Penfield and sent the case back to the lower court. And, as expected, the court said the case should be heard by a new judge. But, significantly, […]

Microsoft Corp.s head wireless executive is leaving his job, and it is certainly not because he finished it. Paul Gross, senior vice president for the Mobility Group, wants to spend more time with his family, according to company officials. But sources close to the situation report that Gross was encouraged to leave because various initiatives […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.s confidence that it will ultimately prevail in its federal court battle, critics feel the company is playing with fire in its recent maneuvers. With Microsofts inclusion of so-called smart tags and other technologies in the forthcoming Windows XP operating system, legal experts say the company is practicing the same types of behavior […]

Linux vendors and their partners are not losing any sleep over the discrepancies in recent research estimates of the actual penetration Linux has had among enterprise servers. Gartner Dataquests new study—sponsored in part by Microsoft Corp.—showed that only 8.6 percent of all new server shipments in the third quarter of last year ran Linux. But […]