The longtime rivals make nice with a plan to help businesses use the open-source operating system along with Windows. Red Hat, meanwhile, moved quickly to pour cold water on the partnership.
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To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
VMware potentially changed the virtualisation software market by announcing that the upgrade to their GSX Server product would be made available for free to anyone that wants it.
Microsoft's CEO likes what he sees on the horizon as his company fits its message to changing times in the IT industry.
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One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation plans to integrate Intel's Itanium family of processors into its IT department -- despite a general lack of popularity for the platform.
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