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IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.
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.
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Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.
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