Linux hits the commercial market, Feb 15, 2001

It's been a good year so far for Linux. Following January's 2.4 Kernel release, predictions were flying around that the open source platform would be squaring up to Sun Microsystems' Solaris by early next year as the corporate Unix flavour of choice.

Legal experts are lauding the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of Microsoft Corp.'s $135 million investment in rival Corel Corp., saying the union is 'dangerous' in its own right.

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