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McNealy keeps busy at Sun

Despite leaving the chief executive role at Sun Microsystems last year, Scott McNealy is staying active with the company as chairman, and remains as outspoken as ever. Read more »

Sun flirts with Ubuntu

At JavaOne, both sides say they really like each other -- suggesting a role for Ubuntu's upcoming "Dapper Drake" operating system on Sun Microsystems' servers. Read more »

Sun considers buying Novell

"What would owning the operating system on which IBM is dependent be worth?" wonders Sun's chief operating officer Read more »

Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers

Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday — a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo. Read more »

Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier

Sun Microsystems has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software license that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system. Read more »

Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News. Read more »

IBM debuts new Linux-only server

IBM has announced a new low-end server, its first Power processor-based system that can run the Linux operating system without needing IBM's AIX as well. Read more »

Canonical to launch Hardy Heron this week

Canonical plans to release Hardy Heron, its newest version of Ubuntu Linux on Thursday. Read more »

Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris

In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux. Read more »

Novell, Red Hat ready Linux servers

Novell's NetWare-SuSE Linux combination is slated for completion next month. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is also due this summer. Read more »

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Sun bets its future on Java

Sun's recent moves towards supporting Linux might feel like a warm embrace for the open source movement. But it has much more to do with supporting anything that will enhance the Java ecosystem. Read more »

Building the Linux business infrastructure

IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you? Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

Who is Godot in the Java world?

Sun's increasingly isolated position in the industry must leave the Java community wondering what will happen if the standard eventually has to stand on its own . Read more »

Deliver RSS content with JSP and JavaScript

You can generate RSS feeds for your JSP-based web site easily. We'll show you how. Read more »

Unplugged: Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell

After 17-years trying to get the other technology gurus at Sun to follow his lead recently appointed software CTO Rob Gingell is now responsible for steering the shift from Unix to Java. Read more »

Who says standards are sacred?

The latest Java dispute opens the window on a little-discussed truth: Standardisation usually favors bigger companies. And many companies are much better off without them. Read more »

Microsoft's singing in C#

Microsoft and its allies have quietly expanded an effort to gain acceptance for C#, the software giant's competitor to Java and a foundation for its next-generation Internet services. Read more »

A Quickstart to Common Lisp

Common Lisp is one of the most powerful and efficient languages out there, but it's still widely misunderstood. It's predecessor Lisp is almost fifty years old and projects are still being started using it -- get the basics under your belt with this quick start. Read more »

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Mixed Emotions

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »

Competition: Club Builder Christmas Hamper

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- To celebrate the 2007th episode of Christmas, and to look back at the year that was 2007, the Builder AU team are offering a Christmas hamper chock full of developer event goodies from 2007. Read more »

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

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