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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Sun embraces, takes aim at Red Hat Linux - Computerworld -"Executives from Sun Microsystems Inc.'s software group today said that the company plans to ship a version of its Java Enterprise System server software for Red Hat Linux within 60 days. But they also took direct aim at Red Hat Inc.'s Linux offering as a key rival of Sun's Solaris operating system.
Speaking at a meeting with reporters here, Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of software at Sun, claimed that the performance of Solaris now is "at parity with or better than Red Hat" on low-end servers with up to four processors. That applies to systems based on Xeon or Opteron processors in addition to Sun's own Sparc chips, he said. "
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Internet Week > Open Source > Novell Executive Makes $250 Million Case for Open Source > March 16, 2004:"Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone stumped for the viability of an open-source business model to kick off the Open Source Business Conference Tuesday, emphasizing a theme that will likely be repeated at Novell's BrainShare next week. Stone defended Novell's choice to support Linux by investing over $250 million to buy Linux vendors Ximian and SUSE Linux. He said the move was not intended to replace Novell's longstanding investment in the NetWare operating system, but rather complement it. "
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