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The Australian Taxation Office has selected a shortlist of suppliers who will bid for the last and largest of its three outsourcing contracts, a high-end computing deal believed to be worth a total of $800 million over five years.
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IBM plans to introduce new development tools, the first of many releases in the coming months as the company targets new business-software customers.
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Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.
Microsoft is acquiring some assets of Connectix, including software that permits Windows to run on a Macintosh and an unreleased server program.
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