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Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris OS, analysts said. On a conference call ...

At a recent Sun Microsystems press event, Sun execs talked up plans to market the company’s Solaris Unix OS to startups and small-to-midsize businesses. “Open source is what [customers] want to go ...