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    As the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems, Simon Phipps spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the MySQL acquisition, and community engagement on OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris.

  • OpenSolaris now on Toshiba laptops

    Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops.

  • OpenSolaris tackles Ubuntu dominance

    Sun has crafted the second release of OpenSolaris with a number of improvements in an attempt to make it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Canonical's Ubuntu.

  • Amazon adds Windows to its cloud

    Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems.

  • OpenJDK gets pencil lines not formal governance

    OpenJDK is set to benefit from Sun's lesson with OpenSolaris that just because a project's governance is "dreamworthy", it may not suit developers.

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    Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.

  • Sun rises on xVM stategy

    Sun Microsystems' xVM virtualisation efforts are getting louder and louder.

  • Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

    After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.

  • FAQ: The Sun-Google partnership

    What specific move did Sun and Google announce?

  • Ubuntu carves niche in Linux landscape

    It's not easy building a new version of Linux and establishing a large following. But with the Ubuntu project, one team of programmers has managed to do just that.

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