Peter Galli

The first production version of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris 10 operating system likely will not include two technologies when it ships early next year. Missing will be the 128-bit Solaris ZFS file system and the Janus technology that allows Linux binaries to run natively on Solaris, officials of the Santa Clara, Calif., company said. Click […]

The abrupt resignation of Novell Inc. Vice Chairman Chris Stone this month may have a negative impact on the company’s relationships with the open-source and Linux communities. Stone, an executive with Novell since March 2002, was the force behind the Waltham, Mass., company’s push into Linux and open-source software, as well as its acquisitions of […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Sun executives took attendees for a trip down memory lane Monday as they unveiled the company’s upcoming Solaris 10 operating system. Speaking at Sun’s quarterly Network Computing event here at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Sun’s CEO and chairman Scott McNealy said Solaris 10 would be available in the first quarter of 2005. […]

As Sun Microsystems Inc. prepares to deliver Solaris 10 by year’s end, one of its key features—”Project Janus”—may be postponed and added next year to a product update due to incompatibility issues with Linux applications. Project Janus is designed to let Linux applications run on Solaris unmodified. But many Linux binaries have dependencies for native […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. officials on Tuesday offered new details on its open-source strategy. The company said publicly what most industry players understood for a long time: Sun’s top priority is supporting its Solaris operating system rather than Linux. At a briefing in San Francisco ahead of this month’s launch of Solaris 10, John Fanelli, the […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is getting closer to making its Open Solaris project, along with the final pieces of Solaris 10, a reality. At its quarterly SunNetwork Conference, to be held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., Nov. 15, Sun will unveil Open Solaris and give final pricing and other details for […]

By announcing plans to maintain its current per-processor server software licensing, Microsoft Corp. has pleased customers and, in the process, put serious pressure on competing software developers to do the same. The Redmond, Wash., company announced last week that it will keep licensing products in the Windows Server System family—including SQL Server, BizTalk Server and […]

As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn’t end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source alternative. Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday ventured further into the complex world of software licensing, making some changes and adding new features to its programs. Wednesday’s fifth quarterly Volume Licensing Webcast to customers and partners was led by Brent Callinicos, who assumed the role of corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Licensing and Pricing group earlier this […]

When Solaris 10 is released late this year, Sun Microsystems Inc. will be culminating years of development work on the operating system, as well as launching a major open-source initiative to go with it. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is on track to deliver on a new strategy, conceived some six years ago, of developing […]

Novell Inc. on Monday pared down the company’s organization chart to better align its product development around twin goals: Linux and open-source platforms and solutions for identity services. Novell vice chairman Chris Stone on Monday sent staff members an e-mail informing them of the organizational changes. Stone said Novell’s future success will be based on […]

Many enterprise IT managers are delaying for months any rollout of Microsoft Corp.’s long-awaited and often-delayed Windows XP Service Pack 2, saying it is breaking too many of their applications. As a result of the customer push back, Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., last week delayed the automatic delivery of SP2 through Windows Update/Automatic Update until […]