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    Investment company BayStar Capital has confirmed ties between two Linux foes, saying Thursday that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group.

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    The SCO Group's regional head has lauded a new US$50 million equity investment as reinforcing the fact the controversial company won't go away, but dismissed remarks from U.S. headquarters indicating early licence prices for Australian and New Zealand Linux users had been determined.

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    The networking vendor has launched two telephony platforms and an open-source-based VoIP appliance, all aimed at smaller businesses.

  • New XenEnterprise boosts virtual Windows

    XenSource has endowed its flagship virtualisation product with better Windows support, the company announced on Monday, but a new version due in June will bring greater changes.

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    The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate the potential of open-source software.

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    Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?

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    MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.

  • Novell reinvents itself around Linux

    analysis By purchasing SuSE Linux, Novell shows it's serious about breaking from its NetWare roots and riding the Linux wave.

  • KVM steals virtualisation spotlight

    A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.

  • Open source guru: MS could have killed Linux

    Linux and the open-source movement could have been thwarted if Microsoft had launched its propaganda campaign early enough, according to open-source guru Eric Raymond.

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    From the capital of Tugo to a Hang Seng IPO, it's on the Web -- if you can only find it. PC Magazine reviews 20 search engines that make the hunt easier.

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