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There are no free lunches (or dinners) except for Linus Torvalds at Jonathan Schwartz's table. The Sun CEOs dinner invitation to Torvalds - the chief overseer of the Linux kernel - has had the blogsphere buzzing over the past several days.

Chinese Linux developer Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. is likely to bundle key Java technologies from Sun Microsystems Inc. with its Linux offering, according to an executive of Sun. A formal announcement of this deal, if finalized, is likely to be made at Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco in June.

Sun Microsystems Inc. last month made good on its promise to open source its Unix operating system, Solaris. However, only the Dynamic Tracing software code is currently available for download; the rest will be available in the second quarter of 2005, Sun said.

Open-source software start-up SugarCRM Inc. announced it will release the first commercial enterprise version of its Linux-based open-source CRM application on Sept. 9 , starting at US$149 per seat for the first year.

Microsoft Corp. this week released its Windows Template Library (WTL) technology under an open-source license, marking the second time the company has turned one of its projects over to the SourceForge.net development site.