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  • IBM elevates Novell and Red Hat to highest tier partner status

    IBM further showcased its longstanding commitment to Linux today when it announced that key commercial Linux vendors Novell and Red Hat had been promoted to its highest partner level. 

  • Open source enters BPM market

    Business process management (BPM) vendor Intalio has taken its product suite into open source waters with the purchase of FiveSight. 

  • Sun's server gambit for Solaris

    Sun Microsystems unveiled two new servers touting high performance, low power and low prices. Experts debate whether the move will bring new customers into the Solaris fold and turn around Sun's Unix fortunes. 

  • Geek humor: Dating design patterns

    What if everything you knew about design patterns, or elements of reusable object-oriented software, was a lie? 

  • Covalent tosses Salesforce for SugarCRM

    Covalent had been a Salesforce.com customer since the beginning. But when license fees got out of control, the company's founder and COO looked to open source for a solution. 

  • IDC: Server revenues up, shipments slowing down

    IDC's server tracking report said virtualization strategies are affecting volume server sales. IT pros are purchasing more robust hardware to handle more complex workloads. 

  • Vendors ranked on license flexibility, simplicity

    A recent Forrester report has ranked several of the top vendors by how flexible and how simple their licensing policies are. 

  • Readers, experts square off on the best Linux books

    Despite the fact that some consider it to lack depth, Running Linux tops the list of IT pros' favorite Linux and open source books. Get more Linux and open source book recommendations here. 

  • IBM open source gang missing key players

    IBM unveiled plans to develop open source storage management software with endorsement from some key players, but EMC, HP, HDS and Symantec are missing, leaving users disappointed. 

  • SpikeSource defends Business Readiness Rating

    SpikeSource vice president JoaquÍn Ruiz addresses users' concerns about the validity and feasibility of the Business Readiness Rating project.