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Thursday, March 28, 2002

Sun goes after Microsoft, sans lawyers

The battle between Sun and Microsoft took a new, non-litigious twist last week at the JavaOne conference when Sun announced that it would open portions of its Java Web services to the Open Source community. As our own Lori MacVittie discovered, this move won't really help Open Source developers, but it may just give the enterprise an alternative to the Microsoft .NET mobile initiative.

Some stories we're following today

Wired News -- Linux just nudged a bit closer to the desktop. Check out Wired's quick analysis of a very interesting tool from Codeweaver that lets users run Microsoft Office on Linux...without an emulator.

Slashdot -- Mozilla hits 1.0, now what? It looks like Netscape's Open Source baby has at last reached the 1.0 milestone. If only it could do CSS...



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