EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

With the Inform customer event rolling into Sydney today, iTnews sat down with EMC Australia managing director David Webster for a sneak peek at his keynote address.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Webster sees the EMC-VMware-Cisco partnership as the creation of a cloud-ready platform.

But the question is whether that kind of vendor integration might be a bit too close for VMware, which has always been cautious not to favour EMC over any other hardware player. Perhaps the tide is changing... let us know what you think.

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

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By Daniel Robinson | June 02, 2009

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By Daniel Robinson | June 02, 2009

Adobe has updated its developer tools for interactive content, releasing a design tool for creating user interfaces and an enhanced version of its Flex Builder application, now renamed Flash Builder 4.

By Staff Writers | June 02, 2009

Microsoft said it would buy some of the assets of Rosetta Biosoftware, part of a Merck unit which makes data management software for medical researchers.

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