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  • Aviva cuts down back office IT

    Financial services company Aviva Australia has revealed it is in the midst of an extensive back office technology consolidation project, with Oracle software taking centre stage as a number of other platforms are eliminated.

  • Oracle plots grid computing consortium

    An executive with the database software maker says the company is building a consortium of industry players to help create standards for commercial use of grid computing.

  • IBM inks grid computing deals

    IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.

  • Linux moves on to next battles

    Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.

  • E-marketplaces: Finally registering

    Special report: In the wake of the dot-com crash, e-marketplaces have learned their lessons and are now focusing on the bottom-line deliverables that enterprises are demanding.

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  • Report: Learning is key to grid success

    Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits.

  • Survival of software's fittest

    In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.

  • Software licensing: Ready for hardball?

    The Internet is forcing software vendors to come up with a variety of new licensing models. Here are strategies to help you, the buyer, get the most bang for your buck.

  • Microsoft gets on the grid

    Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.

  • There's gold in them thar databases

    Finding hidden patterns and trends in masses of corporate data--in real time--takes up enormous processing power, but it can be very profitable.

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