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    Continuing its rhetoric against Microsoft's ambitious Internet plans, Sun Microsystems has said the needs of a global e-commerce system cannot be met by one company and touted Java as the solution.

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    Sun Microsystems has slashed its financial targets for the current quarter to about half of what analysts were expecting.

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    Was Sun's US$2.2 billion acquisition of Cobalt Networks the worst deal in the history of IT? Sun would have more left over if it had spent the money on footprints in the sand.

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    Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.

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