Allison Taylor

Sun Microsystems Inc. of Canada is not only officially releasing its Sun Java Systems in Canada this week, but the software company also continued its six-city whirlwind trip across the country in an effort to promote Sun's new family of software systems.

In a strategic move to extend its grip in the open source community, Novell Inc. dispelled months of industry speculation early in Nivember, announcing a US$210 million dollar cash deal to acquire German-based SuSE Linux AG

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Showing two per cent revenue growth in the third quarter of 2003, the worldwide server market grew faster than expected, according to some figures released on Wednesday by IDC.

Showing support for two relatively new industry standards, Oracle Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has placed two new tools for portal applications, or portlet development, on its Web site.

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems Inc. announced on Tuesday that the Java Community Process (JCP) has approved the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 specification.

Microsoft Corp. launched a royalty-free licensing program on Tuesday for companies that want to access documents created using Office 2003

In an effort to enable enterprise developers with the ability to deliver rich Internet applications using existing tools, design patterns and infrastructure, Macromedia Inc. unveiled its new presentation server and application framework on Monday.