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October 27, 2005 Matthew Szulik says computing customers increasingly are rejecting proprietary products that lock them to a particular supplier. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., open-source software, messaging, open source, Linux, CEO, IBM Corp., server, Microsoft Corp.

November 3, 2006 New technical and legal partnership is meant to take Red Hat down a notch--and could help Novell too. TAGS: Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., Rick Sherlund, Steve Ballmer, SuSE, open source, open-source community, open-source software, Linux, agreement, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Microsoft Windows

May 10, 2005 CEOs Steve Ballmer and Matthew Szulik met for a meal recently, sources say. How's Microsoft feeling about open source these days? TAGS: Red Hat Inc., antitrust, GPL, open source, Steve Ballmer, source code, Bill Gates, open-source software, New York, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, CEO

January 10, 2006 Developers take arms against possible attacks on open-source software. Also: Patent gains and a Java refrain. TAGS: Mono, Fedora Project, open source, Novell Inc., Java, open-source software, Red Hat Inc., Linux, CEO, IBM Corp., blog

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, open-source company, acquisition, middleware, Novell Inc., open-source software, Oracle Corp., Linux, IBM Corp., CEO, Java

October 26, 2006 Hackers are getting their hands on Linux code, and Oracle now has its nose in the Red Hat tent. TAGS: open source, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux, consortium, open-source software, Sun Microsystems Inc., CEO, security, Microsoft Corp.

May 4, 2007 The start-up focused on e-mail and calendar software for servers adds support for the up-and-coming version of Linux. TAGS: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, server software, open source, open-source company, GNOME, Red Hat Inc., Linux, open-source software, Mozilla Thunderbird, Java, CEO, server, Web browser, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

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