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IBM Plays Against Microsoft's Applications Slide.
July 21, 2004... Microsoft Corp's slide into business applications is irresistible, and it is unnerving ISV partners who are turning to alternative platform providers including IBM Corp. That's according to Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM's ISV and developer relations -...

Sun Profits in Q4 Thanks to Microsoft Settlement.(quarter 4)
July 21, 2004... By Timothy Prickett Morgan When Sun Microsystems Inc said at the beginning of the year that it wanted to be profitable by the end of fiscal 2004, no one could have predicted the way in which it happened. Sun did indeed report a profit of $795m for the fourth quarter after booking $1.6bn...

Virgin Mobile Cuts Price of IPO.(initial public offerings)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2004... Sir Richard Branson has been forced to trim 15% off the flotation price of Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) Plc, after institutional investors rejected the original pricing as too high. Branson has built a massive business empire spanning airlines through to music shops. He had been planning...

Lindows/Linspire Inches Closer to IPO.(initial public offerings)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2004... Desktop Linux vendor Lindows Inc is inching closer to its proposed initial public offering but is now expecting to raise between $39.6m and $48.4m, rather than the $57.5m it originally expected. The San Diego, California-based company has confirmed that it is set to change its corporate...

UML Father Peeks Into Development Future.(unified modeling language)(Brief Article)
July 21, 2004... Software will become pervasive during the next 30 years, and development of applications will evolve accordingly, according to one leading industry thinker. IBM fellow Grady Booch yesterday predicted that IT systems will grow bigger as people come to rely on software in their day daily...