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Sun's fighting chance

September 20, 2004 Forrester CEO George Colony argues that if Sun goes down, it's going to go down taking very big swings. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, pricing, intellectual property, Linux, Intel x86, vendor, IBM Corp., platform, operating system, cell phone, Microsoft Corp.

Sun flirts with Ubuntu

May 17, 2006 At JavaOne, suggestions fly that Sun Microsystems will ship servers with "Dapper Drake" version of Ubuntu Linux. TAGS: JavaOne, Ubuntu, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Sun Sparc, Ubuntu Linux, Linux, server, operating system

Sun to set Solaris free, after a fashion

November 15, 2004 Operating system to come at no charge for servers with x86 processors. But the bug fixes will cost you. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris 10, open-source programmer, IBM AIX, Intel x86, open source, x86 processor, AMD Opteron, Linux, free, bug fix, software company, pricing, server

Red Hat plans app server in 2004

December 18, 2003 The Linux seller plans to expand into a new Java software market in the first half of 2004, encroaching on the application server turf of IBM, BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems. TAGS: application server, Red Hat Inc., BEA Systems Inc., Java software, JBoss, J2EE, Sun Microsystems Inc., support services, Java, open source, server, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, IBM Corp., pricing, operating system

Keeping pace with open source

June 29, 2007 Linux looms large in software shifts in India. Plus: Version 3 of the GPL gets a long-awaited release. TAGS: GPL, Linux, open source, India, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, operating system, PC

OpenVZ ported to Sun Niagara servers

December 29, 2006 Linux can be subdivided into "containers" on Sun's newest Sparc servers, matching a feature Solaris already possesses. TAGS: OpenVZ, Sun UltraSPARC, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, container, Sun Solaris, Intel Itanium, Linux, Red Hat Inc., open source, server, Intel, operating system

Red Hat exec takes Sun to task on open source

September 24, 2004 Michael Tiemann criticizes software rival Sun for its support of patents and for keeping Java proprietary. TAGS: software patent, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., open source, Jonathan Schwartz, SCO Group Inc., open-source software, open-source community, OpenOffice.org, AMD Opteron, exec, agreement, OpenOffice, Sun Solaris, Java, Linux

Open source makes inroads

September 12, 2006 Red Hat follows Novell's lead with Xen-enabled Linux beta, as Ubuntu's founder aims for success in emerging markets. TAGS: open source, Red Hat Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc., Xen, Linux, variant, Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems Inc., blog, Microsoft Corp.

Rising challenges in open source

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., consortium, Linux, open-source software, Sun Microsystems Inc., CEO, security, Microsoft Corp.

Linux gets built-in Cell processor support

March 21, 2006 Updated kernel includes Oracle software for clustered databases, improves how OS runs on multiprocessor systems. TAGS: multiprocessor, Linus Torvalds, kernel, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Linux, Oracle Corp., Sun UltraSPARC, T1, Linux kernel, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp., file system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., programming, server

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

May 14, 2007 Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents. TAGS: patent, open-source software, open source, Linux kernel, OpenOffice.org, Linux, Steve Ballmer, Novell Inc., intellectual property, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., lawyer, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., article

Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic

April 19, 2007 New 7.04 version features virtualization and crash-reporting tool--but only if you're able to download it. TAGS: Sun NetBeans, Ubuntu, Project GlassFish, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., virtualization, Linux, Red Hat Inc., computer company, Novell Inc., open source, CEO, server, Dell, operating system

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, IBM DB2, AJAX, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., middleware, MySQL, acquisition, IBM Corp., Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., database, Microsoft Corp.

Year in review: New players enliven open source

December 21, 2007 Yahoo, Google, Adobe, Sun Microsystems, and even Microsoft freshen up the open-source marketplace. TAGS: open source, open-source software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Mozilla Corp., Linux, Firefox, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web browser
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