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Exclusive: Will Sun lose a shining software star?

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

17 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 in... Read more

15 October, 1999 by Martin Veitch

StarOffice designer launches software firm

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

12 March, 2002 by Troy Wolverton

Yahoo serves up a taste of its Open Strategy

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

12 September, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Yahoo boosts mobile efforts with iPhone app

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

11 September, 2008 by Stephen Shankland

Who's who on Microsoft's Yahoo wish list

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

14 February, 2008 by Elinor Mills and Stefanie Olsen

Yahoo ups its mobile game

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

6 January, 2006 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft and Sun: Cut from the same cloth?

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

26 January, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley

Roundup: LinuxWorld 2000, San Jose

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

16 August, 2000 by Will Knight

Gnome throws down the gauntlet

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

16 August, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday

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

14 February, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

Is Sun really Public Enemy No. 1?

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

27 August, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

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apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

44 minutes ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

5 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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