Oracle supremo Larry Ellison has taken several potshots at his company's rival IBM, denigrating the power efficiency of Big Blue's hardware and opening fire on its blanket "Smarter Planet" marketing campaign.
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The consultants that rolled out one of Australia's biggest known Linux desktop project are set to take on the big boys.
Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful
IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would benefit everyone -- even Sun.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Microsoft's fiercest foes--Java software providers--are showing growing admiration for their powerful rival.
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Palm has announced a major initiative with IBM, igniting the battle against Microsoft for the corporate handheld space.
Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.
Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed,,"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity market,"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
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