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Microsoft Corp.'s request for suspension of the European Commission's anticompetition decision and other interim measures will be heard in the European Court of First Instance (CFI) on Sept. 30.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is extending support for its Java Enterprise System (JES) to third-party operating systems and hardware platforms in a move aimed at gaining more uptake for the server software and throwing more weight behind its pricing model, the company said Tuesday.

In May, after spending considerable time reviewing design options with my graphic designer, the majority of my site was switched to pure XHTML.

Open standards and interoperability consortium The Open Group is calling on software developers and the IT industry at large to declare their independence from proprietary technology, in what the group is touting as a virtual call to arms against closed standards.

Sun Microsystems Inc. said attendance jumped to 14,000 at its JavaOne conference this month in San Francisco. Yet Sun continues to struggle in the commercial tools market, despite its cachet as the inventor of Java.

A recent move by the SCO Group Inc. promises to make Unix ELF code as well-known in IT circles as Orlando Bloom's portrayal of the Lord of the Rings' elf prince, Legolas, is with teenage girls.

Business process execution language (BPEL) is the XML-based language of Web services "orchestration"

Two former Red Hat Inc. employees have started their own Linux company, dubbed SpecifixT Inc. (Specifix), marketing a Red Hat-compatible version of Linux that users can modify to fit their business-specific needs