Peter Galli

IBM officials scoffed at Sun Microsystems Inc.’s intimations last week that it would buy Novell Inc., calling the rhetoric nothing more than an attempt to disrupt IBM and its customers. The issue ignited when Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz mentioned in interviews with the press, including eWEEK, that the Santa Clara, Calif., […]

IBM has combined several technology initiatives, including Linux, grid computing and virtualization, into a single high-growth business group, Strategic Growth Initiative, led by Jim Stallings, ex-general manager of Linux for the Armonk, N.Y., company. Stallings talked last month to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about SGI. What motivated the creation of Strategic Growth Initiative? We […]

LAS VEGAS—The SCO Group, which can count few large companies in the IT industry as its friend, continues to maintain a very strong working relationship with Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, along with Intel Corp. and some other, smaller companies, was a sponsor of the SCO Forum event here at the MGM Grand hotel this week, and […]

IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. are putting renewed pressure on Sun Microsystems Inc. with new solutions to help customers and ISVs move away from SPARC/Solaris and onto Linux. At this week’s LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM will announce new resources to help ISVs and developers port Linux applications to the company’s Power microprocessor architecture, which […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is considering making an attempt to acquire Novell Inc., a move that would have enormous repercussions for competitor IBM. In an interview with eWEEK, Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz acknowledged that the Santa Clara, Calif., company is considering making a move to buy Novell, saying that such a move […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. officials said they felt good about the company’s absolute and relative performance over the past few years. The only company that had outperformed it on a compound annual growth rate basis was SAP AG. Taking the podium Thursday to address the financial analysts and media assembled here at the company’s campus headquarters, […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released the first service pack for Office 2003, which is largely a collection of security and bug fixes for the entire Microsoft Office System but also contains some new feature enhancements for Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003. Office Service Pack 1 (SP1), available for download here, also […]

Targeting emerging markets where demand for its technologies is growing the fastest, IBM this month combined several initiatives, including Linux, grid computing and virtualization, to form a high-growth business group called Strategic Growth Initiatives. “The opportunity here is that customers are asking for gridded Linux networks and virtualized servers that can run multiple operating systems,” […]

Microsoft is facing pushback from volume licensees whose three-year Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance plans are about to expire. Many of the Redmond, Wash., company’s volume license customers, whose contracts have expired or are set to expire, are questioning the value they got from the programs and whether they should renew. At the same time, […]

Microsoft is losing another customer to an alternative desktop operating system, with Allied Irish Bank, one of Ireland’s largest banking and financial services groups, set to transition its branch-dependent applications and migrate about 7,500 desktop users off Windows and onto the Sun Java Desktop System over the next year or so. Sun Microsystems Inc., of […]

The open source Linux operating system continues to gain ground in governmental agencies around the world, winning another two converts this week. The Norwegian city Bergen on Tuesday said it plans to move 100 schools and 32,000 users away from its proprietary Unix and Microsoft Windows applications platform to Linux by the end of this […]

Microsoft on Monday afternoon released the much-anticipated second release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 2. But the Redmond, Wash., software firm was mum about the timing of its final release. At the same time, a Microsoft Corp. spokesman told eWEEK that he was unable to give a specific date for the final release of […]