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The National Australia Bank has taken a pre-tax writedown of AU$409 million on its software assets for the year as botched initiatives such as its notorious global enterprise resource planning project take their toll on the financial institution's full-year bottom line.
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Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
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