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    Sun Microsystems got more serious on Monday about its effort to sell cheap servers, rolling out two new machines and announcing deeper ties with Oracle and Red Hat.

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

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    These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

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