Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its “Director of Linux Interoperability” and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab — and his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community.

In an e-mail late Thursday night, a Microsoft representative said the role will be filled by Tom Hanrahan, who was most recently the director of engineering at the Linux Foundation, the group created through the recent combination of the Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs.

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IBM on Monday introduced 3Com-developed software that it hopes will drive the use of its high-powered System i for IP telephony.

IBM has offered System i for awhile with basic IP telephony features meant to replace a business’s traditional PBX telephone switching system. The latest 3Com offerings, however, extend the server’s capabilities through integration with IBM Lotus Sametime collaboration software and Domino e-mail server.

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