Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems

Nokia acquires TrollTech

City of Chicago migrates to Linux

HP and Lenovo start offering Linux on laptop computers

ISO approves Open Document Format (ODF) as international standard

Philips electronics, others, announce breakthoughs in high-performance, low-power consumption microprocessors

Novell releases Mono 1.0, enabling Linux and Java integration with .NET

Sun Microsystems agrees to supply China with up to 200 million Linux desktops

City of Munich decides to abandon Microsoft for Linux

Venezuela's Banco Mercantil to utilize SuSE Linux on IBM mainframe, becomes first central bank to adopt Linux.     LWN article.

IBM, Sony and Toshiba jointly develop new microprocessor, promising a performance breakthrough

AMD launches Opteron processors, ushering in an era of low cost 64 bit computing