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Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news

Thursday 16 August 2007, 6:16 PM

Sun, IBM to reveal OS tie-up

Posted by RichardThurston

Sun and IBM will make a major operating system announcement at 7.15 tonight. Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM vice president Bill Zeitler will speak to the press then. They didn't give any details in advance, except to say that it is to discuss "an operating system agreement".

The two companies have never exactly got on like a house on fire.

Sun only has one OS, of course - Solaris, which it has been trying to promote as an alternative to Linux. IBM has traditionally advocated Linux. So it will be interesting to see what comes of this.

Support for Solaris on System x, perhaps.

Our sister site CNETNews.com will have its finger on the pulse this evening from across The Pond, and we'll update you first thing in the morning.


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