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Story 1: Java is becoming the new Cobol

                – Java is losing ground to Ruby on Rails, PHP, and other cool new languages when it comes to rich internet applications, that is in favor of the most developers.

Story 2: Sun Microsystems is back in the game

               – Sun Microsystems is struggle to keep the company’s name on the buy lists of enterprise IT shoppers

Story 3: Hackers take aim at Mac OS X

                  – The days when you can assume that Apple’s products are exempt from harm are over.

Story 4: There are some threats you can worry less about

                  – Spammers have dialed back their use of so-called image spam, which tricks filters by embedding text within an attached image.

Story 5: Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits

               – Despite the H-1B visa limit of 65,000, the real total of visas issued to highly skilled workers is closer to 400,000 annually, according to the feds. That, say some critics, may mean that the law is being abused.

Story 6: Open source’s new commercial strategy

               – Open source companies have been steadily integrating parts of the hated commercial software subscription model into their business.

Story 7: End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives

               – Telcos and cable companies that already have fiber in the ground are offering end-to-end Ethernet also known as metro Ethernet services.

Story 8: Blade servers arrive for the masses

               – a new generation of blades is actually designed for smaller businesses, who typically don’t have sophisticated datacenters for their blades.

Story 9: BI is dead; long live BI

              – With three of the largest competitors in the field taken over by software giants, you’d think that the best days of the business intelligence market were over. You’d be wrong.

Story 10: Balance of power shifts to software buyers

               – Despite the wave of consolidation sweeping the industry, buyers have actually gained more leverage than ever when it comes to making deals with their vendors, notes a PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis.