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    Central Queensland University (CQU) is set to retire a number of "disparate servers" as its implementation of Oracle 10g (version 2) nears the end of the hardware deployment phase.

  • Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle

    Oracle continues to dominate the database software market, but challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say

  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Itanium gets supercomputing software

    Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

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  • Oracle enters the grid

    commentary A great leap for computer-kind or a small marketing step?

  • Microsoft gets on the grid

    Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.

  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

  • Sun's open-source gamble

    Company president Jonathan Schwartz has ordered an open-source makeover. Can it put Sun back on the right course after continuous periods of revenue decline?

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