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    Chinese authorities, with the assistance of the FBI, have cracked a piracy ring allegedly responsible for manufacturing and distributing more than US$2 billion-worth of counterfeit Microsoft software.

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    People in the Chinese government fear that Microsoft technology contains equipment that could cripple their infrastructure, and they are determined to do something about it: install Linux.

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    The UK government is carrying out nine Linux tests with IBM, to find out how much it could save by switching to open source.

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    LogicaCMG's head of business development, Space and Defence division, discusses Beagle 2 and the European rival to GPS.

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    Having successfully sparked the production of commodity server computers, the chipmaker may move next to help off-brand companies make low-end disk storage systems.

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    The PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards merger will enhance the combined entity's standing in the enterprise software space in Australia and pose a serious threat to SAP.

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