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  • Sun releases Jini with open-source licence

    Sun Microsystems on Wednesday released its latest Jini development toolkit under the Apache open-source licence.

  • Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle

    Oracle continues to dominate the database software market, but challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say

  • IBM: Linux investment nearly recouped

    After promising to invest more than US$1 billion in Linux, Big Blue says software and system sales have proved more than lucrative.

  • Open source picks some new fights

    Open-source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

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  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

  • Open-source database gaining favour

    Big companies are warming up to open-source database software as an alternative to Microsoft products, according to a new study.

  • IBM alphaWorks: From software theory to fact

    Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.

  • Grid computing luring mainstream backers

    High-tech giants are nudging the grid computing into the business world. Is the obscure concept in your company's future?

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

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  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

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