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Corporate technology supplier Insight Enterprises has won a multi-million contract to sell Microsoft software to the whole of the Victorian Government.
Microsoft said on Wednesday in the US that it had finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software.
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A new research report suggests that companies can't outperform their competitors simply by outspending them on technology.
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