Google and Sun may butt heads over Android, Nov 18, 2007

Google Inc. could be heading for a showdown with Sun Microsystems Inc. over the way Android, Google's new mobile phone software platform, handles Java.

The man in charge of Microsoft's strategy for living in harmony with Linux lays out the company's opportunities with open source and the open source business model.

In response to one of my Everex articles, commenter Alan Rochester clued me in to the Canada-based Linux store, which is offering a somewhat similar $199 PC preloaded with Ubuntu 7.10.

A provider of Linux-based 802.11n WiFi arrays has announced a research collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) around 802.11n WiFi. Xirrus will help the Pittsburgh-based university deploy campus-wide 802.11abgn WiFi, with CMU helping to tune Xirrus's Linux-based "ArrayOS."

To Michael Prince, CTO at Burlington Coat Factory, Oracle on Linux is a good idea. "We run all the Oracle we can under Linux," he says. When it comes to Linux technical support, however, he turns to IBM.

Federico Mena-Quintero, the last member of the first openSUSE Board being interviewed on the ‘People of openSUSE’, is a full time GNOME ‘bug-fixing’ hacker, and one of the founders of the GNOME Project.

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