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Showing 1-14 of 14 results foundYear in review: Microsoft tries to find its 'wow'
December 19, 2007 Company finally gets Vista out the door. It also spends a bundle on acquisitions and looks ahead to the "computing cloud."Red Hat: Microsoft still 'aggressive as hell'
June 1, 2006 CEO Matthew Szulik talks about staying relevant in a world where the operating system isn't the talking point it once was.Commentary: Novell surfs the open-source wave
May 14, 2004 Forrester Research says Linux and open source seem to have energized Novell's user and partner community and may give Novell a chance to undo its most fundamental error vis-a-vis Microsoft.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.Novell delays open-source project
November 18, 2003 Developers and corporate customers eager to get their hands on an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net line of programming tools will need to wait a little longer.Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP
June 15, 2005 After years of beefing up its software for corporate use, the software behemoth is threatened by a cut-rate, open-source challenger.McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape
June 9, 2005 Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.Novell snaps up Linux company Ximian
August 4, 2003 The networking software maker accelerates its Linux push with the acquisition and pledges its commitment to Ximian's high-profile, open-source projects.Sun to open source code for office software
July 17, 2000 The company will open the source code of its Star Office software Wednesday, but a major new version of the product has been delayed.Industry cheers Novell's Linux buy
November 6, 2003 Computing industry stalwarts such as HP, Oracle and even Microsoft welcome Novell's planned buyout of SuSE Linux, saying the move will mean a stronger business partner for their own wares.Sending the penguins out with a hot foot
October 27, 2006 perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle.Novell advocates open source
January 21, 2004 The Linux convert proclaims its strong support for open-source programming--but made the case for a pragmatic approach that blends in its own proprietary applications.Red Hat acquires AOL's Netscape server software
September 30, 2004 Linux seller plans to release Netscape Enterprise Suite as open-source software in bid to expand, News.com has learned.Week in review: Seismic shifts
November 3, 2006 Between the Microsoft-Novell deal, and a call for a less U.S.-centric Internet, major change appears on the tech world's horizon.
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