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Stacked up

Even by the standards of a business that reinvents itself as routinely as the computing industry does, the last year has been an unusually momentous time for the global IT sector.

Since last April, corporate IT buyers have been obliged to stand by and watch as their key suppliers have been swept up in a wave of major alliances and mergers. For many, it is fair to say that it has not been an entirely reassuring spectacle.

First, the Unix and Java community was jolted into life by Oracle’s $5.6 billion capture of Sun Microsystems – which finally achieved... read more...


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