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Sun's open source chief leaves following Oracle merger
Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday.
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- Freescale touts cheap Linux tablet
- Novell gets buyout offer from hedge fund
- Novell president's pay goes down to $5.7m
- Stallman and Free Software Foundation launch Day Against DRM
- Free Software Foundation to Google: Free the On2 video codec
- Novell and Linux Professional Institute launch dual certification
- Norwegian government study rejects Microsoft file format
- Microsoft CodePlex open source group appoints exec
- Sun CEO Schwartz resigns on Twitter
- Google ditches IE6 support for Gmail
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Open source reaches hardware products
Open source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. Could the same philosophy, the free and public dissemination of underlying code and specs with multiple developers from disparate sources contributing to the design, work for tech gadgets as well?
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Is Novell worth $2 billion?
Novell isn't the IT giant it once was, but the company may be well worth the $2 billion offered in a takeover bid by a New York hedge fund, analysts say. Novell's value is "at least that, and more," says Gartner analyst Earl Perkins.
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Linux market share grows vs. Windows and Mac OS X shrinkage
We're told Linux is the only OS with a growing market share: Windows and Mac OS X actually shrank. The Net Applications report also shows Windows 7 already dwarfing all versions of Mac OS combined. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers review the data.
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Ex-Sun boss spills beans on Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
Jonathan Schwartz has started dishing dirt from his days at Sun in a blog called "What I couldn't say..."
Management
British Airways IT worker charged for 'terrorism plot'
A British Airways software developer planned to carry out terrorist attacks by taking advantage of a walkout by airline staff, a court heard today.
Technology
Intel launches six core Gulftown Core i7 chip
Intel showed off its first six-core processor for desktops, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, which will go into workstations and enthusiast PCs targeted at gamers.
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BP refines £4.7bn operational efficiency plan
Oil giant BP is aiming to remove a total of $7 billion (£4.7 billion) from annual operational costs, aided by a huge overhaul of IT, processes and project management.
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