EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

More details have emerged on Oracle's plans for Sun Microsystems.

There will be hardware cutbacks in Sun's range, particularly in low-end systems.

But Oracle will pump money into the open source side of the business, with a cloud version of OpenOffice to go head-to-head with Google Docs...

-- Ry Crozier

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TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | January 29, 2010

Three months earlier than expected.

By Iain Thomson | January 29, 2010

Hardware cutbacks.

By Iain Thomson | January 29, 2010

OpenOffice to take on Google Docs in the cloud.

By Ry Crozier | January 28, 2010

Cause of the meltdown.

By Ry Crozier | January 28, 2010

But future impact of customer restructuring unknown.

By Angelica Mari | January 29, 2010

Multi-year SAP rollout.

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