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March 19, 2007 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian and several other Linux initiatives, now will work with Solaris and Linux. TAGS: Debian, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, founder, chairman, blog, open source, operating system, server

April 5, 2005 Sun, trying to keep its software relevant, is looking to draw open-source credibility to advisory board for OpenSolaris project. TAGS: OpenSolaris, Apache Software Foundation, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, founder, consultant, project, IBM Corp., operating system, server

February 21, 2006 Gnome brings the OS to its desktops, Debian's founder moves on, Ubunto's Goobunto, and more. TAGS: GNOME, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux, founder, Novell Inc., operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., blog, open source

July 1, 2005 Founder of pen computing pioneer claims Microsoft illegally tried to thwart Go's attempt to enter the PC operating system market. TAGS: Stacy Drake, handwriting recognition, antitrust suit, antitrust, claim, founder, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., operating system, PC, Microsoft Windows

October 10, 2006 More often than not, big Internet acquisitions turn out to be disappointments, or at least a bit ahead of their time. TAGS: Spyglass, Mirabilis, VA Software Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., founder, IPO, PayPal, America Online Inc., acquisition, YouTube, Yahoo! Inc., TV, Google Inc., software company, Intel

February 11, 2004 Sun Microsystems agrees to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. TAGS: Kealia, AMD Opteron, Scott McNealy, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Microsystems Inc., co-founder, Intel x86, AMD, Sun Solaris, Cisco Systems Inc., server, founder, conference, CEO, Intel

January 28, 2004 As the open-source tools initiative prepares to gain independence from founder IBM, competitors and Java programmers are closely watching its future technical direction. TAGS: independence, Java software, BEA Systems Inc., technology provider, Java, IBM Corp., founder, open source, organization, development tool, IDE, direction, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference

April 7, 2005 OSI gets under way with an effort to pare down the number of open-source software licenses in widespread use. TAGS: OSI, license, proliferation, open source, program manager, founder, open-source software, Computer Associates International Inc., Intel, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference, Linux

February 15, 2005 Boycotting the patent system means "leaving oneself exposed for absolutely no good reason," says HP's Linux vice president. TAGS: software patent, patent, OSI, GNU, Richard Stallman, Open Source Development Labs, HP, open source, Linux, intellectual property, open-source software, copyright law, vice president, founder, Sun Microsystems Inc., idea

May 30, 2000 Delve behind the headlines to meet the leading citizens of high technology's unique global village. TAGS: CTO, General Electric Co., CEO, founder, researcher, president, chairman, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Google Inc., security

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