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September 2008
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The End Evolution of IT
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How to Serve Fast-Growing Markets
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HPC Enters the Mainstream
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LinkedIn’s Performance Boost
Asia South: Insider’s View
Building Customer Value in Asia South

By Gan Boon San
As the new president of Sun Asia South, I look forward to continuing the good work of Lionel Lim, who’s moved up to become president of Asia Pacific. Open source is high on the agenda for our customers and for Sun.
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The CIO Perspective

The End Evolution of IT


Bob Worrall Your strong reaction to my June “The End of IT” column continues. Here's what you're saying — and some thoughts from me to continue the dialogue. » Full story

Bob Worrall
CIO, Sun Microsystems
Write me at cio@sun.com
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Harnessing the Emerging Market Opportunity
Peter Ryan Rapidly developing economies around the world are quickly changing the global business landscape. Sun's Peter Ryan, EVP of Global Sales and Services, shares his views on strategies for best serving these fast-growing markets.
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Supercharging the Enterprise:
HPC Enters the Mainstream

Low-cost commodity servers and blades and greater manageability combine to make high performance computing (HPC) a practical and powerful option to drive business performance. Sun's focus is to make HPC affordable and usable by the mainstream, while delivering the always-higher performance that traditional HPC users demand, according to Bjorn Andersson, Sun's director of HPC.
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How Open Source Is Changing IT
Jonathan Schwartz Thanks to thriving open source communities within organizations, problems deemed too expensive or difficult to tackle with proprietary technologies are being solved. This phenomenon is playing out around the world. And it's changing how IT delivers business value. » Read Jonathan’s blog
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