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Microsoft unveiled last Fall what will become known as its Oslo vision: a simpler, cheaper service-oriented architecture for Windows that can be implemented inside and outside the corporate firewall. This article sheds some light on a bit of what’s going on behind the Redmond curtain.

We’re now nearly six months out from Microsoft’s “unveiling? of Oslo - the company’s code name for its SOA strategy - and still, nobody really knows what it is.

It’s not as if we haven’t tried.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian thinks Sun Microsystems’ Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems are going nowhere. This article links to an interview with Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun, outlining his response to the harsh commentary from Hovsepian. 

Last week in my “Not Just Linux” blog, I pointed to a Linux Foundation podcast in which Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian sharply criticized Sun Microsystems? open source strategy and questioned the viability of the Solaris operating system. Not surprisingly, Sun took issue with his statements, as is evidenced by Patrick Finch’s blog post on the subject.

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