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  • SAP: Love those developers, hate that open source

    Enterprise software giant SAP is making a renewed push to build ties to the developer community, but that enthusiasm isn't likely to extend to making the source code for any of its core components available.

  • Australian corporates underwhelmed by .Net

    Despite extensive marketing by Microsoft, enterprise awareness of the company's .Net Web services platform remains low, a new survey shows.

  • Telstra still key to Sun in Australia

    Execs say they're happy with Sun Microsystems' performance in Australia, but much of that can still be attributed to a single customer -- Telstra.

  • Roadblocks abound in Sun's global grid plans

    While Sun Microsystems continues to roll out new applications for its pay-as-you-go grid computing network in the US, international customers face a much longer wait for the global rollout of the service.

  • Open source Solaris turns profitable while McNealy stands ground

    Despite relinquishing the chief executive officer role at Sun Microsystems last week, chairman Scott McNealy has no intention of reducing his public profile as the company continues to hammer its open-source-is-a-profitable-future message.

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  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Forget the raised floor, where are the generators?

    The components that make up a modern datacentre often look disturbingly like commodity items: a server here, a rack there, spaghetti tangles of cable everywhere. But there's one item that is still something of a rarity -- and no, I'm not talking about the expertise needed to run it.

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