Meet Sun's open source ambassador
News As Sun Microsystems's unofficial ambassador to the open source community, Marco Boerries has a tough job. The company will make good on that promise by 13 October, a date Boerries claimed to find lucky.
[August 17, 2000, 9:42]
Yahoo boosts mobile efforts with iPhone app
News It's a socially connected address book," said Marco Boerries, executive vice president of connected life at Yahoo, in a speech at the CTIA Wireless show in San Francisco. Blueprint takes a different approach, however: instead of trying to provide...
[September 11, 2008, 11:01]
Exclusive: Will Sun lose a shining software star?
News Marco Boerries, Sun's vice president of Webtop and application software, has submitted his resignation, slated to become effective 26 January, according to several sources close to the company. The timing of Boerries' departure could not be much...
[January 18, 2001, 8:29]
Gnome throws down the gauntlet
News This is more than just another desktop or just another initiative," said Marco Boerries, Sun Microsystems vice president and general manager. Thirteen open source vendors and organisations launch their plan for an alternative to the Windows/Office...
[August 16, 2000, 9:01]
Yahoo ups its mobile game
News We have more than 450 million people coming to us every month, and their lives are locked into the PC browser," said Marco Boerries, senior vice-president of Yahoo Connected Life. Yahoo looks likely to announce on Friday that its email, instant...
[January 6, 2006, 8:30]
StarOffice designer launches software firm
News Marco Boerries, who developed Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, is set to unveil his new venture at CeBIT on Tuesday. Boerries' new company, VerdiSoft, will create software called CrossPoint Server, which will let service providers, such...
[March 12, 2002, 13:52]
StarOffice in the palm of your hand - Boerries
News Marco Boerries, founder of Star Division, the German software developer bought by Sun in August, said the StarOffice suite will be developed for WAP phones, 3Com PalmPilots and Symbian devices to enable access to applications and data from...
[October 15, 1999, 10:05]
Roundup: LinuxWorld 2000, San Jose
News Thu, 17 Aug 2000For all his allies in the open source community, Marco Boerries has one enemy: Microsoft The scope and scale of LinuxWorld, 14-17 August, in San Jose provides conclusive evidence that Linux is an operating system intent on taking...
[August 16, 2000, 16:11]
Yahoo serves up a taste of its Open Strategy
News Marco Boerries, head of Yahoo's Connected Life division, touted those efforts. We want to enable a mobile ecosystem for billions of users," Boerries said. Yahoo showed its vision on Thursday for what its Yahoo Open Strategy makes possible...
[September 12, 2008, 8:51]
