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Exclusive: Will Sun lose a shining software star?

...the eve of the company's 5 February Web-services strategy launch. Marco Boerries, Sun's vice president of Webtop and application software, has submitted... Read more

18 January, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley

Meet Sun's open source ambassador

As Sun Microsystems's unofficial ambassador to the open source community, Marco Boerries has a tough job. Like just about every official with a... Read more

17 August, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

Yahoo serves up a taste of its Open Strategy

...foundation to other ways to use the internet: mobile phones and televisions. Marco Boerries, head of Yahoo's Connected Life division, touted those efforts. "We... Read more

12 September, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Yahoo boosts mobile efforts with iPhone app

...persons they care about. It's a socially connected address book," said Marco Boerries, executive vice president of connected life at Yahoo, in a speech... Read more

11 September, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Who's who on Microsoft's Yahoo wish list

...his background as former chief technology officer of security company Verisign. And Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo's connected life division, is a... Read more

14 February, 2008 by Elinor Mills and Stefanie Olsen

Yahoo ups its mobile game

...every month, and their lives are locked into the PC browser," said Marco Boerries, senior vice-president of Yahoo Connected Life. "With a Yahoo ID... Read more

6 January, 2006 by Elinor Mills

StarOffice designer launches software firm

Marco Boerries, who developed Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, is set to unveil... Read more

12 March, 2002 by Troy Wolverton

Microsoft and Sun: Cut from the same cloth?

...its Webtop software, such as StarOffice and StarPortal (but not its creator, Marco Boerries, who is seemingly flying the coop). A while back I wondered... Read more

26 January, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley

Roundup: LinuxWorld 2000, San Jose

...ambassadorThu, 17 Aug 2000For all his allies in the open source community, Marco Boerries has one enemy: Microsoft AMD Hammer chip nails open sourceWed, 16th... Read more

16 August, 2000 by Will Knight

Gnome throws down the gauntlet

...This is more than just another desktop or just another initiative," said Marco Boerries, Sun Microsystems vice president and general manager. Instead, the Gnome (pronounced... Read more

16 August, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

StarOffice in the palm of your hand - Boerries

Marco Boerries, founder of Star Division, the German software developer bought by Sun... Read more

15 October, 1999 by Martin Veitch

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday

...big in business circles, says Balsillie. I also catch Yahoo! executive VP, Marco Boerries, who shows off a new product called OneConnect - due to launch... Read more

14 February, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

Is Sun really Public Enemy No. 1?

...either. To Sun's credit, former StarDivision founder and now Sun VP Marco Boerries is attempting to improve Sun's relations with the open-source... Read more

27 August, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

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