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    Last month, the 32-year-old celebrity co-founders of Google each sold more than US$160 million worth of their company's stock.

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  • Oracle's pursuit of Siebel

    In the midst of a hostile takeover battle for PeopleSoft, database giant Oracle already eyeing Siebel Systems.

  • At SAP, putting software in drive

    Shai Agassi has a technical mind, as one would expect of the president of product and technology for the world's largest enterprise software applications vendor, SAP.

  • Oracle to swallow Siebel for US$5.8 billion

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  • Advantage Plex 5.1

    Advantage Plex is a development tool for Windows, J2EE and iSeries 400 environments.

  • Intel accelerates Itanium schedule

    The chipmaker adds a new chip for 2004 and moves up the launch date of an Itanium with two processors.

  • Age has not wearied them

    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

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