The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
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This year's marketing budget for Oracle's independent software vendors, systems integrators and resellers in the Asia-Pacific region will exceed the amount allocated in 2001, a company executive has said.
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Oracle is betting on the lure of cost savings and the strength of its database to help sell its new product, Oracle Collaboration Suite. Get an advance look at this competitor to Microsoft Exchange.
Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.
Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.
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IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
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