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Microsoft's name brand dominance, however, still plays a limiting factor, and breakthroughs in vertical markets remain marginal. "As far as going out and promoting open source for the broad base ...

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Sun also is working to ensure interoperability among applications built for Sun's Solaris and standard Linux distributions, and vice versa, Schwartz said. "You'll be able to run Linux applications ...

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