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  • Sun makes Niagara an open-source chip

    In a bid to increase the relevance of its processor line, Sun Microsystems pledged Tuesday to make the underlying designs of its new UltraSparc T1 an open-source project.

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    A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.

  • Sun: 'Microprocessors are dead'

    Today's microprocessors will become extinct by the end of the decade, to be replaced by computers built onto a single chip, Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos said Tuesday.

  • Who says standards are sacred?

    "After you." That is essentially what technology companies hear when asked to submit their original technologies to standards bodies or for open-source licenses.

  • IBM to Sun: free Java

    Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.

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  • IBM to Sun: free Java

    Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.

  • Letting Jini out of the bottle -- again

    Microsoft and Intel see Web services popping up everywhere, but their vision is strangely reminiscent of archrival Sun Microsystems' with an earlier technology called Jini.

  • Are sharks circling HP?

    Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.

  • Big Blue's Mr. Web services

    IBM's Bob Sutor tells why service-oriented architecture is crucial to Web services development.

  • Consumers lead the way for enterprise players

    Tech giants' newfound respect for consumer power is their roundabout way of winning enterprise customers, says CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti.

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  • Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (Beta)

    Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.

  • Can IT directors love Microsoft?

    Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.

  • What is '.NET' anyway?

    Are you little confused about what .NET really is? You're not the only one. This article from Builder.com sheds some light on what .NET is and isn't.

  • Getting in tune

    Microsoft cozies up to the music industry to protect rights--or is it setting up a new beachhead for Windows? Can Microsoft be trusted?

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