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  • Red Hat scoops up JBoss for US$350m

    Linux distributor Red Hat said on Monday that it has signed an agreement to buy open-source company JBoss for at least US$350 million, a move that expands Red Hat's product line and adds to its growth potential.

  • Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate

    The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.

  • Open source threatens Java servers

    Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

  • Red Hat sued over JBoss technology

    Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open-source software company.

  • HP expands open-source support

    Hewlett-Packard is set to announce plans Wednesday to expand its support for open-source software.

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  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

  • Open source reshaping services market

    The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.

  • Open source for content management

    Unlike in North America and Europe, several factors are driving a greater interest in the Asia-Pacific region for open source content management-related technologies.

  • 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.

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