However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.

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The 32-year-old, who played for Russain club CSKA Moscow earlier in his career, broke the deadlock with a header from captain Server Djeparov's free-kick and then stole in at the near post to convert a low cross.

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Enter Sibblingz: a startup that Tuesday launched a cloud-based game server that allows game developers to more quickly and easily create free-to-play games with micro-transactions in them, across Facebook, iPhone and the Web simultaneously.

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Oracle mushroomed in the client-server business, with sales executives sometimes throwing free developer databases from helicopters to crowds of independent allies.

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Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) mushroomed in the client-server business, with sales executives sometimes throwing free developer databases from helicopters to crowds of independent allies.

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Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.

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The software leviathan stunned a rookery of Linux users yesterday at a conference and expo in Boston with the revelation that it will now provide technical support for the open-source software running on Virtual Server, and would make Virtual Server 2005 R2 available free.

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