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IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.
Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".
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The company is turning up the buzz on grid computing, as the OracleWorld customer conference gets under way in San Francisco.
Big companies are warming up to open-source database software as an alternative to Microsoft products, according to a new study.
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