Through its collaborative Web development project with Sun, the IWT will rebuild the technology behind Borg's 12-year-old Systers.org virtual community to extend the community to all technical and scientific women's support and mentoring groups.

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Sun's transparency project also draws attention to the company's hyper-efficient server technology.

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The Java awe is supposed to reflect on Sun's "Project Orion, " a collection of software introduced this year to compete with IBM products.

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