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  • Zander: HP merger gives Sun an edge

    Indecisiveness at the newly merged Hewlett-Packard is opening the door for Sun to lure away its customers, says departing Sun President and COO Ed Zander--and IBM had better watch out too.

  • Motorola CEO: iTunes phone coming soon

    Motorola CEO Ed Zander hailed a solid quarter for the phone maker and promised that the long-awaited, oft-delayed iTunes phone will debut soon.

  • Motorola ready to spin off device unit

    Motorola, the third largest cell phone maker in the world, may spin off its handset business as it tries to turn around its business, the company has revealed.

  • Struggling Motorola finds hope with new CEO

    Motorola CEO Ed Zander is finally on the way out. He will be replaced by COO Greg Brown, with shareholders hoping that Brown will bring the company's handset business back into the black.

  • Motorola CEO: Apple 'to build a smart phone'

    Motorola CEO Ed Zander on Thursday downplayed disparaging remarks he made last week about Apple Computer's newest music player and predicted that the Mac maker will build its own mobile phone.

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  • Servers lead out Sun's Linux drive

    Sun Microsystems has said that it would sell general-purpose Linux servers, a dramatic departure for the company that for years has advocated the use of its own Solaris operating system.

  • Sun's chiefs on the hot seat

    Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?

  • How to blow a billion...or two

    Was Sun's US$2.2 billion acquisition of Cobalt Networks the worst deal in the history of IT? Sun would have more left over if it had spent the money on footprints in the sand.

  • Sun goes on the software offensive

    commentary Scott McNealy has taken the bull by the horns and announced two software bundles aimed at Microsoft's desktop market and IBM's middleware customers.

  • Building the Linux business infrastructure

    IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you?

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    Ellison modelling Oracle on IBM

    At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says hed like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems.

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    Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.

  • Licensing program angers MS customers

    Microsoft's software licensing program is not proving popular - about two-thirds of its biggest customers are yet to sign up, and some are exploring alternatives.

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