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    Oracle laid out the pros and cons of nine potential acquisitions, offering in court documents a rare glimpse into the software maker's merger mindset when sizing up potential deals.

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    The company's implication - that an open-source licence subjects licensees to intolerable restrictions that a commercial licence does not - is an invitation to apply additional scrutiny. So we did.

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    Battle is under way in mini database market, and the competition is fierce.

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    Oracle's innovation and performance in the enterprise database market made it the envy of its competitors--including IBM, Microsoft, and Sybase. However, their efforts to expand their core business outside the enterprise database market may end up costing them their leadership position in that market as well.

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    Is recently released Mac OS X Jaguar just a catch-up to Windows XP features, or is there more to Apple's latest operating system than meets the eye.

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  • Enterprise OS wars: Symbian v Windows Mobile

    Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.

  • High-tech megamergers: Still make sense?

    Fuelled by Oracle's acquisition of Siebel Systems, Silicon Valley once again asks itself if megamergers are good for the industry.

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