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  • Nortel names former Motorola exec as CEO

    Nortel Networks has a new chief executive officer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffs

    Sun Microsystems announced on Friday that it has moved to a new phase of legal and technical cooperation with longtime foe Microsoft that will involve a payment of US$1.95 billion to Sun.

  • 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.

  • Joy leaves Sun

    Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company.

  • Can Linux do Web Services?

    Is Linux ready to move beyond file and Web servers to application and Web services servers? The answer, if IBM has anything to do with it, is an unqualified yes

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Sun strategy: A Java giveaway

    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.

  • Tech exec exodus expected to continue

    Is it a case of collective burnout? From Microsoft's Belluzzo to Sun's Zander, many tech executives bidding adieu.

  • 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.

  • Chip wars: Now there are three

    Compaq Computer's announcement that it will use Intel's Itanium chips in its high-end servers and transfer its Alpha chip expertise to Intel represents a dramatic overhaul of the market. As a result, just three major chip designs are left to compete: Intel's Itanium, Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc and IBM's Power.

  • Sun sharpens its Java sword

    Continuing its rhetoric against Microsoft's ambitious Internet plans, Sun Microsystems has said the needs of a global e-commerce system cannot be met by one company and touted Java as the solution.

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