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Yahoo and Carl Icahn have apparently ended their public acrimony over the billionaire investor's proxy fight to replace the company's board of directors and its CEO Jerry Yang.

Yahoo has added a button on its main Web site linking to a page that lobbies shareholders to vote against Carl Icahn's plans for the company, stepping up its rhetoric in the days leading up to its annual meeting.

Sun Microsystems rolled out the latest upgrade to its Solaris operating system Wednesday, announcing a plan to add key middleware and management components that broaden the capabilities of its Unix platform.

When the yearly contract binding Sun Microsystems Inc. and the former Netscape Communications Corp. together for the iPlanet E-commerce Solutions joint company expires this spring, it looks as if the two companies will shake hands and part ways.