Peter Galli

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Research demonstrated a number of cutting-edge technologies that are under development at an event here Sept. 26, including a transparent display that uses computer vision, technology that brings real-world aspects back into computing, and the use of spatial memory to navigate source code. At an event at the Redmond campus to celebrate Microsoft […]

Linux vendor Red Hat on Sept. 18 will roll out a new series of open-source subscriptions that include offerings from recently acquired middleware provider JBoss. The products will be immediately available to Red Hat’s global distributors and resellers. The new Red Hat Application Stack subscription includes RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), JBoss AS (Application Server) […]

Virtualization technology has gone “prime time” and is being deployed in application server and Web server environments in addition to test and development scenarios, said a research report by Enterprise Management Associates released August 31. More than two-thirds of the 126-page report, which was written by EMA senior analyst Andi Mann and titled “Virtualization: Exposing […]

Microsoft and the Department of Justice have formally requested that the final judgment issued in the U.S. antitrust litigation against the software giant be modified. The proposed changes will reflect the two-year extension of the provisions related to Microsoft’s licensing program for communications protocols in the Windows desktop operating system. A joint motion in this […]

Microsoft seems to have finally cottoned onto the fact that it can drive revenue from the use of legacy software by some of its largest customers, announcing on Aug. 28 a new Custom Support Agreement program. The new CSA plan extends Microsoft’s current product support program, which offers five years of mainstream support followed by […]

The State of Massachusetts has reaffirmed its commitment to begin using the OpenDocument Format by Jan. 1, 2007, a move that has been welcomed by the ODF Alliance. “We plan to implement ODF, using translator technology plugged in to Microsoft Office, in a group of early adopter agencies, including the Massachusetts Office on Disability, by […]

Microsoft is working on a new reparations strategy, known internally as a customer incentive program, for those customers with volume licensing programs who will be negatively affected by the delay in the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Most enterprises buy volume licensing agreements from Microsoft, along with Software Assurance, which guarantees them the […]

Oracle is holding its own in the open-source database space, while not seeing any competition in the enterprise database market from open-source companies, Bob Shimp, the vice president of Oracle’s technology business unit, told eWEEK July 31. It is also not seeing increased competition as a result of Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss earlier in […]

Oracle is fast losing its patience with both XenSource and VMware over their reluctance to work together to help develop a single interface that will integrate a variety of virtualization solutions in the Linux kernel. “We certainly believe in one simple universal way to integrate a variety of virtualization solutions, and that is the way […]

REDMOND—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to offset some of the fallout from what Wall Street sees as the company’s hedging on when Windows Vista would ship. In a talk about shareholder value at its annual financial analyst meeting at the campus here on July 27, and after the company’s stock fell more than 2 percent […]

REDMOND, Wash.—The decision by Chairman Bill Gates to transition away from working full time at Microsoft to assuming a part-time position has ushered in a new era and a new job for CEO Steve Ballmer. “When Bill announced his role change, I felt like I was entering a new era and had a new job, […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—Google believes that open source is one of the strongest ways to preserve industry competition, and its goal is to help this industry remain healthy and keep injecting fresh blood into it, said Chris DiBona, Google’s open source program manager, in a presentation at the annual O’Reilly Open Source Conference here July 26. “The […]