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Caldera chief executive Ransom Love talks about open source, thin clients and his vision of a unified Unix/Linux platform.
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Scientists at Berkeley are close to releasing an open-source software code that could do for routing what Linux did for operating systems.
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British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.
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With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.
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