Mac Gift Guide 2007: 10 picks for your favorite Apple fan

It can be tough to shop for the Mac lover on your list. From the fanciful to the extremely practical, here are 10 great gift ideas.

Sun to dangle prize money in front of open-source developers

Sun Microsystems plans to create a financial awards program in an effort to compensate open-source developers for their work -- and spur more activity within the communities for its technologies.

Sun readies its first server virtualization offering

Sun Microsystems said it plans to release a virtual server management console in January and then follow that with a virtualization hypervisor in next year's second quarter.

Salesforce offers data sharing for customers

Companies can share CRM-related data, such as sales leads, as well as other types of information, such as job openings.