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  • Sun mulls buying Novell

    Sun Microsystems is toying with the idea of buying Linux seller Novell, saying that springing for the US$2.64 billion company would hurt rival IBM.

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    Government CIOs that dismiss open source software because of support issues, which is the case for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems.

  • Ex-OpenDocument advocates opt for W3C alternative

    The conflict over document formats has taken a twist as some advocates for OpenDocument, or ODF, abandon the format in favor of the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium's Compound Document Formats standard.

  • Niagara gets Linux virtualisation boost

    OpenVZ, virtualisation software that carves a single version of Linux into separate containers for different tasks, now is available for computers using Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor.

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    A new phase of wrangling over the future of the dominant open-source license, the General Public License, is set to begin on Wednesday and to end 90 days afterward.

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    The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.

  • Desktop management: Solaris vs Novell

    The next time you hear either company making a big deal about how easy it is to manage their "nix-based" desktops, read the fine print.

  • Sun's novel idea

    Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.

  • A new day for business security

    Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.

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    Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.

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