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  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • Machiavelli, schizophrenia and Microsoft's never-ending story

    Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.

  • Oracle president backpedals on 'oligopoly' report

    In a government deposition, Oracle President Charles Phillips downplayed the relevance of a report he issued in his previous job as Morgan Stanley analyst, in which he declared that SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft comprised an oligopoly for back-office business applications.

  • The Looking Glass world of telco deregulation

    Around the globe monopoly or near-monopoly markets are beating competitive ones in the broadband roll out race. Isn't that exactly the opposite of what we were told would happen?

  • The Year 2000 in review

    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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  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • PeopleSoft customers, employees weigh deal

    Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.

  • Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft

    Linux seller Red Hat has announced its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers, taking direct aim at Microsoft. Additional reading: Open Source Resource Centre

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