Granted, it is potentially problematic for one company to own an essential piece of Net infrastructure.

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The dot-com plague has spread to Net infrastructure giants like Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people) and Sun--the two hated Silicon Valley rivals of Microsoft who funded the legal assault that began in Palo Alto, Calif.

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Voters set priorities, among them defence, infrastructure and a social safety net.

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