Peter Galli

Novell officials are welcoming the news that Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution, which they say validates their existing desktop-to-data center offering. Nat Friedman, Novells vice president of Linux desktop engineering, told eWEEK in an interview that Red Hats acknowledgment of the Linux desktops importance is welcomed. Friedman also said he is […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution. The move is designed in part to compete with Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE […]

SALT LAKE CITY—In a first for a Novell BrainShare conference, the company held a fireside chat between its own CTO Jeff Jaffee and Craig Mundie, the chief research and strategy office at Microsoft, the companys latest and most controversial partner, as part of the opening keynote address March 19. But the two steered clear of […]

SALT LAKE CITY—In his first keynote speech as Novell president and CEO at his companys annual BrainShare conference here, Ron Hovsepian presented his vision for the company, while explaining its controversial deal with Microsoft. Hovsepian started off by sketching the current market trends, including virtualization, which gives developers the opportunity to not have to rewrite […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came back to the Stanford Graduate School of Business on March 15 to share his insights into the world of corporate leadership, management and to call for more students to embrace a career in technology. The event, titled “A Conversation with Steve Ballmer,” was attended by several hundred Stanford students and […]

The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 at a media event in San Francisco on March 14 reflects not only years of engineering work by Red Hat itself, but also its collaboration efforts with strategic partners such as IBM. This collaboration resulted in the integration of Real-Time Linux capabilities, improved virtualization features and security […]

While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be released at an event in San Francisco on March 14, the company has not been sitting idle since the code went gold last month, with its engineering team already doing future planning and hosting worldwide summits, the first of which was held in February. Red Hat is […]

The general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on March 14 was not just the next release of the operating system, it represented the next generation, Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat, said at the launch event in San Francisco. “RHEL 5 is available today and is the cornerstone of […]

HSBC, the British-based banking and financial services group that has more than 125 million customers globally, is moving to standardize on a single Linux distribution: Novells SUSE Linux. The HSBC move is a direct result of the technical cooperation agreement penned between Microsoft and Novell in November 2006. As part of the agreement, the two […]

Microsoft has finally released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, which provides updates, security and stability enhancements, and the latest features for the Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 operating systems. This final release follows the second release candidate for Windows Server 2003 SP2, which was made available last November. It has seen […]