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Friday, April 02, 2004

Sun shakes up jobs, money and partners. Saying that it is undertaking "one of the great repositionings of the post Internet bubble", Sun Microsystems not only announced Friday that it reached a settlement on antitrust charges and is collaborating with long-time foe Microsoft, but also named a new company president and said further restructuring will see the reduction of some 3,300 jobs. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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A quick look at the SUSE 9.1 beta. I was eager to get my hands on the newest version of SUSE Linux, the first version produced by the company under the Novell corporate umbrella. Like many others, I wondered how it would jell. SUSE has been a leading commercial proponent of the KDE desktop environment. Common wisdom the past few years has held that if you liked KDE, SUSE was your best bet. If Gnome was your choice, Red Hat was the best way to go. Prior to the SUSE purchase, Novell acquired Ximian, with its deep involvement with the Gnome project. Would KDE suddenly find itself a second class environment on the distro that loved it? Many feared that would be the case. What I learned with the beta should go a long way towards allaying those fears. [NewsForge]
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