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The much-awaited breakthrough year for the open source desktop may never come

But that doesn't mean that Linux won't slowly work its way onto your PC. Progress may be slow, but it's happening

Sun moves a step closer to making Java open source

Schwartz says company is working to find a way to open up while maintaining compatibility

Who’s the JBoss?

Larry Ellison may one day call JBoss the one that got away. After bulldozing its way through the PeopleSoft takeover, the Siebel coup and several smaller deals, the purchase of an open source middleware maker should have been easy.

Will open source ever destroy its proprietary prey? Ask Apache

Commercial software won't be dying off any time soon, although we will see a shift in the makeup of data centres

Business evaluates Novell’s next move

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - While NetWare customers started to take a closer look at the Linux-based Open Enterprise Server product at Novell's BrainShare conference, company executives were outlining a roadmap for the next two releases.

Spinning the technology compass: What’s ahead in government IT in 2006?

‘Progware,’ open source, business continuity planning will all play a bigger role this year

Canadian open source association tackles policy issues

CLUE relaunches to tackle social policies concerning technology choices. One open source advocate says barrier to adoption is political

Open source hardware challenges current licensing models

Companies will be able to optimize software for servers, but questions still remain as to whether organizations would commercially deploy those apps

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