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• Linux should rival Apple, urges Ubuntu founder
  But work with, ahem, Windows.
• Ubuntu prepares Launchpad 2.0 release
  But admits community lags rivals.
• VMware offers free software to battle Microsoft
  New CEO gets retaliation in first.
• Dell offers new Ubuntu PCs
  Inspiron 1520 and XPS M1330 available now
• AMD says it's still in low-power chip game
  Bobcat still being developed but no plans for release just yet.
• Government looks to be carbon neutral by 2012
  Turn those PCs off!
• HP to offer data centre in shipping container
  Company finally gets its own 'Mini-Me' data centre.
• Intel faces new EU anti-trust charges
  Company said to have squeezed AMD out of stores.

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• Linux set to make mobile splash?New
  Android has raised the profile, and iPhone has raised the stakes. The world is ready for mobile Linux.
• Can open source fly on mobiles?
  When Nokia hands the Symbian OS over, the majority of the world's smartphones will be on an open source OS. Will it change the game, or suffer fragmentation and undue vendor influence?
• 5 easy ways to commit career suicide
  If you've never made a huge career-limiting mistake at work, be grateful - and watch out for all the many ways that one could still sneak upon you.

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• Check-list for the economic green datacentre
  How can you deliver economic benefits in an environmentally sound manner, while addressing power and cooling issues in the datacentre?
• How to improve your datacentre operations
  Hardware, software and networks are more reliable than ever, but electrical and mechanical infrastructure improvements lag, so that operator errors, electrical and mechanical single points of failure, design problems, and construction defects are leading causes of datacentre disruptions.
• How to keep virtual test environments in check
  Using virtualisation for testing reduces costs and saves money, but environments need to be managed or they can run amuck.

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• Demand and Supply in IT
  

  How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.

• The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
  

  Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.

• Oracle Database 11g Application Development
  

  Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.

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• 5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
  Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents.
• EPEAT's progress
  EPEAT has stronger support from the US government and HP has just announced a raft of EPEAT-registered kits.
• Vista SP1 Release Candidate targets performance, reliability, security
  The just-released Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC), like the previous beta, does more to improve the internal plumbing of Windows Vista than it does to make any major changes to the interface.

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• Microsoft Hyper-V RC1
  With Hyper-V finally launched, it's time to have a look at how it stacks up against the VMware, the clear market leader. The result? While there's still some distance to go, VMware should start getting worried.
• Aagon Client Management Platform
  A nicely-designed client manager for Windows-based PCs, with central monitoring and a good GUI, and which should scale well, thanks to being based on a proper DBMS.
• Windows Vista SP1
  Microsoft is getting set to deliver the final bits of what has become an increasingly controversial patch cycle. Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which went 'gold' a few weeks back, was finally made available via Windows Update yesterday.
• Windows Server 2008
  It's been a long time coming but Windows Server 2008 has finally seen the light. Our reviewers have found the product comes with an impressive range of new features - the improved security a definite plus - even if there are some glaring gaps.
• Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1
  We found file copying to be much slower than under XP or pre-SP1 Vista, Microsoft insists that there are security as well as performance enhancements in Vista Service Pack 1. You also won't be reduced to minimal functionality if Microsoft's activation system suffers from glitches.

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• The next big move in chip manufacturing
  The time for change has come, says Joe Draina, associate director of International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative, in this interview with the Techworld-affiliated IDG News Service.
• Every silver lining has a cloud
  What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor - is no news, bad news?
• CA's chief architect talks mainframes
  CA's chief architect talks about the importance of the mainframe to CA, and why it's decided to re-package its software and drop its prices.

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• Water-cooled servers gaining steam
  Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency.
• A pair of green-IT users
  Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials
• Servers go front and centre
  General Motors might be globalising its business, but in the area of servers, the auto-maker is thinking small.

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