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Ushering in a new era of angst at Microsoft

April 11, 2006 Desktop Linux has finally turned into the real deal--and that can only mean real headaches for Microsoft, says Jon Oltsik. TAGS: Linux desktop, angst, Novell Inc., Novell Linux, Linux, TCO, OpenOffice, acquisition, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows

Year in review: Grappling with open source

December 19, 2006 As open source becomes pervasive, software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun are adapting in different ways. TAGS: JBoss, open source, Novell Inc., GPL, AJAX, IBM DB2, Red Hat Inc., middleware, Oracle Corp., MySQL, acquisition, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, database, Firefox

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

April 10, 2006 Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights. TAGS: JBoss, Red Hat Inc., ecosystem, BEA Systems Inc., open source, middleware, acquisition, open-source company, open-source software, Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Java, Linux, CEO, IBM Corp.
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