25 states unite to fight Microsoft motion, Mar 16, 2002

Nine states and the District of Columbia return to court Monday to determine a remedy for the company's antitrust violations. But Microsoft had asked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to dismiss the states' litigation, arguing that the states should not be allowed to set antitrust policy over the Justice Department. The Justice Department and nine other states settled the case in November.

Gerhard Burtscher has a lot on his plate. Not only did he accept the post of CEO at German Linux distributor SuSE in December, he also took on the management of five newly created business units.

High on Burtscher's to-do list is getting SuSE ready for Advanced Micro Devices' forthcoming 64-bit chip, Hammer. He is also balancing the needs of business clients with those of the sometimes-chaotic Linux and open-source communities. Last but not least, Burtscher is angling to make SuSE the company that fulfills the German parliament's mandate to equip its servers with Linux.

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