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share this: opportunities... We announced just last week that we're edifice the Sun Cloud, atop open source platforms — from ZFS and Crossbow, to MySQL and Glassfish. By community hall on open source, we're able to avoid proprietary storage and head start products, equal with proprietary software.'" In related news, the Sun-IBM deal projected law last week has been called "anti-competitive" by a tech gang group, while others are speculating on how it could affect Linux and Java.

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