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At least one analyst notes that organizations should devise their own ROI models before adopting open-source as a viable software choice

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced this month that it is shipping the next generation of its storage resource management software, Storage Essentials 5.0, which is now integrated with its server management software, Systems Insight Manager.

For the first time, Microsoft Corp. Windows was the leading OS in new servers in the third quarter, as the overall worldwide server market grew a robust 8.1 per cent, market research company IDC said

IBM Corp. has won a deal for its 64-bit Power5 Unix servers with China's State Administration of Taxation, that it says represents the company's largest Unix installation in Asia. The installation will rank among the company's top 10 largest Unix customers.

Microsoft Corp. said it would offer its Word, Excel and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats. The development comes as a group of technology rivals led by IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are mobilizing a global effort to push the OASIS consortium's Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as a global standard format for these kinds of documents.

Advocates of free software and open-source software are neither protesting nor dancing in the halls of the Kram conference and exhibition center at the Internet summit in Tunis. A few who are critical, including Richard Stallman, are questioning why they even came.

Boosting its Solaris OS, Sun Microsystems plans to distribute the PostgreSQL open source database with Solaris and will enable Red Hat Linux binaries to run unmodified on the OpenSolaris open source version of the operating system.