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Sun Microsystems is stepping away from an effort to sell the Linux operating system for desktop computers, the server and software company's top software executive said Tuesday.

Sun Microsystems and IBM announced partnerships around Sun's Solaris operating system and its Java software on Monday, a sign that Sun is taking a less adversarial approach to relations with its computing industry rivals.

Stuart Wells, VP of Strategic Development and Sun Financing, shares his insights on how the Sun grid and utility computing will change the business of buying and using computer assets.

MadPenguin reviews Xandros Desktop 3 Business Edition, screenshots included.

Xandros Corporation has released Xandros Business Desktop 3.0, an "instant alternative for Windows business desktops".

Sun Microsystems is embarking on a $50 million ad campaign, associating its products and services with some of its prominent customers such as eBay, General Motors, and Major League Baseball. Responding to declining sales and influence in the industry, Sun is revamping its image, down to their packaging, office decor and even on-hold music.

A detente between longtime rivals Microsoft and Sun Microsystems has resulted in more money changing hands and soon will produce more details on the companies' cooperative work. Elsewhere, SCO gives Sun blessings to open-source Solaris. Despite all that, Sun misses revenue, profit targets.

Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer were chosen to be the charter members of the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board. They will be responsible for the direction of the project and coordinating the efforts of volunteer contributors.

A paper published on February at Sun's site, by Greg Wright, Matthew L. Seidl and Mario Wolczko: An Object-aware memory architecture. Quoting from the abstract:

From a very personal and revealing interview with ex-Sun executive Danese Cooper: "The prevailing open source wisdom is that Linux is going to win, and anything you do that doesn't directly influence Linux in a positive way is not a good thing. We spoke to Linus Torvalds about this once, the OpenSolaris team, and he expressed interest in the project as a way for him to be able to get the Open Source community around Linux to move to a higher level, you know, to match some of the advantages that are in Solaris. We were talking about a virtuous cycle where Solaris gets better because of the places where Linux is better than Solaris now. Like especially for one and two processor performance, and Linux gets better because of the places where Solaris does better now. The beneficiary is the consumer."

Aalaap Ghag reviews the Xandros Desktop OS 3 OCE in his 3-page article.

In this document I will walk you through the process of creating a Debian package for Xandros 3.0. When completed this package will install the Kasablanca FTP client. Read more.

To begin this review, I visited Xandros download page, snagged the public torrent, downloaded the ISO, and burned myself a copy of Xandros 3.0.1 OCE. Credit goes to Xandros for having a professional website that's easy to negotiate and for offering instructions to help new users of all platforms perform this task.

Sun this week at LinuxWorld revealed its Java Desktop 3.0 enterprise Linux desktop environment. Sun has not yet given a laundry list of features, but has indicated that device support and productivity are the foremost attributes of the upgrade.