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Oracle's squeeze play on Microsoft may backfire
By John Hogan, News Editor
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Microsoft's legal budget must give its accountants fits, even with all of that cash in reserve. Sometimes, however, a courtroom brawl comes calling even when Redmond's just minding its own business.
That was the case this week, when Oracle executives starting hinting that they may use legal means to force Microsoft to hand over documents from its landmark antitrust case so Oracle can use them as ammunition in its own fight against the Department of Justice.
The DoJ has sued Oracle to stop its attempted hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, which makes line-of-business applications that compete with those from Larry Ellison's company, as well as Germany's SAP.
Click here to read how the Oracle-PeopleSoft case affects Microsoft, as well as a wrap-up of the rest of the week's news.
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TRUE IT BLOOPERS
Oops! True IT Blooper #128: The telepathic printer
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One day a computer service representative got a pretty typical call from a panicking customer. No matter what she tried, her computer simply would not print. After a night of slaving away over the machine, it printed perfectly. But the next morning the customer called saying that once again, it would not print. Read more to find out what the not-so typical solution was.
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