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  • Will Microsoft buy Red Hat?

    OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

  • Oracle e-mails urge scare tactics

    Three days before Oracle publicly announced its intention to buy PeopleSoft, the deal was already viewed as a way to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of PeopleSoft customers.

  • IBM Australia denies Rational analyst comment

    IBM has denied analysts' claims its A$3 billion acquisition of modelling tools specialist Rational Software is designed to woo developers away from Microsoft's .Net initiative.

  • Oracle: We'll take J.D. Edwards too

    Oracle has said it will consider buying PeopleSoft even if the proposed merger with J.D. Edwards goes through, and more acquisitions may be on the cards.

  • PalmSource makes Linux acquisition

    PalmSource, which makes software for mobile devices, said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire China MobileSoft in a deal expected to expand the company's global presence and put Linux applications squarely in its product plans.

  • Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

    Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range.

  • LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging

    Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business.

  • Nokia to acquire Linux firm Trolltech

    Nokia is to buy Trolltech, the company whose Linux-based Qt application-development framework is at the core of many PC and mobile applications including Google Earth and Skype.

  • Linux speeds up computer forensics for cops

    Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations.

  • Will change of CEO hit Red Hat?

    The man who led Linux seller Red Hat from a newly public but largely unproven open source company to a force to be reckoned with is giving his office to an executive largely unknown in the software industry.

  • Update released for Gnome Linux desktop

    The Gnome project has released the first test version of the Gnome 2.22 desktop this week, with changes including a new Web-browser engine, updates for virtual network computer and accessibility, and a new file system.

  • Is the demand for desktop Linux negligible?

    There's been much fanfare about Linux replacing Windows on desktops but we've yet to see any major adoptions take place -- this may have something to do with the fact that in Australia, none of the major PC manufacturers have offered Linux as a pre-installed option.

  • Open source take-up booming in APAC

    Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey.

  • Red Hat launches open-source Exchange

    Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange, a site where customers can buy a range of open-source applications from the company's business partners.

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