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• Sun buyout leaves Aussies divided

  Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.

• Hardware to escape market doom and gloom

  Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year.

• Australia buying fewer, more expensive servers

  The number of servers shipped to the Asia Pacific region has increased by 10 percent, but shipments to Australia have taken a 7.9 percent dive.

• Sun's Unix market position slips

  IBM and HP may have narrowly edged past long-time leader Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers -- but it depends on who you listen to.

• Green IT will hit Australian govt 'like a ton of bricks'

  Australia's federal government is lagging behind when it comes to green IT initiatives and needs to be more critical of vendor "recycling" claims, says analysts.

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  A testimonial bites back

  Never have I seen a stranger vendor "testimonial" given than that by the NSW Department of Primary Industry's Warwick Lill of Sun Microsystems at Gartner's datacentre summit last week.

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• VoIP war stories from the Australian front

  In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.

• Who guards the guards: Storage

  Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.

• Linux: The reality in Australian enterprises

  The maturity of open-source software tools and services has created a groundswell of Linux users in corporate Australia, a senior Gartner analyst said.

• Analysts: Strategic planning still crucial

  Strategic planning is more important than ever now the trend towards utility or on-demand computing is introducing a new class of IT mistake.

• Is this the RHEL deal?

  Has Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) finally come of age with its latest release and will enterprises in Australia start taking Red Hat seriously?

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  Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending

  At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.

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• Microsoft to limit access to Office 11

  The next version of Microsoft's Office software will run only on the latest releases of the company's operating systems, leaving older OS users in the dark.

• New chip powers high-end Intel servers

  Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four-and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems.

• Servers of a higher order: 4 high-end platforms tested

  With such a wide variety of server platforms available, we take a look at some beefy servers sporting some very impressive processing grunt.

• Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X

  The two companies are cooperating on a version of Sun's StarOffice productivity software for Mac OS X. The plan has one rival in mind: Microsoft Office.

• Sun sets US$76 price tag on Office rival

  Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale May 21 with a price of US$75.95 in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.

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