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Sun continues to pursue talks with Apple Computer to have Java applications run on Apple's iPhone while acknowledging a third party's efforts toward the same goal.

Sun offered informational updates Monday on several ongoing efforts in the open-source arena, including product plans for the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS, Java, and the GlassFish application server.

Directory services are a critical component of any enterprise environment. These services provide a database for central account management for both user and computer, as well as a framework for sharing that information among workstations and servers. Mac OS X's native directory service is called Open Directory.

Propelled by the release of its Version 2.0 in October, the free Firefox Web browser saw almost a 50% increase in use during 2006, according to one Web measurement firm.

VMware reports strong initial interest in its virtualization software designed to run on the Mac computer platform, but skeptics doubt it will improve Apple's share of the enterprise market.

Demand for desktop PC motherboards "is falling off a cliff" in late October as users put off purchases until the Windows Vista OS launches in January, investment banking firm Goldman Sachs said Saturday.

Sun Microsystems has released NetBeans 5.5, the latest version of the company's open-source Java IDE (integrated development environment), aiming to beef up the software's productivity tools and improve its look-and-feel.

With Internet Explorer, Microsoft has increased its share of the global web browser market to 85.85 percent, a gain that comes at the expense of Mozilla's Firefox and Apple Computer's Safari browsers.

Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt the specification as a standard in December.

Munich has begun its migration to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned and nearly three years since the city announced its move to open source software.

Mozilla developers have released an updated version of their Firefox browser that fixes a number of security issues, four of them rated critical.