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Middleware vendor SeeBeyond Australia has told customers "not to fret" over Sun Microsystems' offer to acquire the company for $US387 million.

Macintosh computers using Intel chips will be on the market by this time next year with all Apple Computer Macs moved over to Intel chips by the end of 2007, Apple said Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

The decision by MCI's board to accept the latest acquisition offer from Verizon Communications doesn't mean the bidding battle between Verizon and Qwest Communications International is over, analysts said Tuesday. While Verizon is generally seen by analysts as the more compatible suitor, Qwest shouldn't yet be counted out, they said.

Microsoft wrapped up its IT Forum in Copenhagen last week by singing the praises of new management tools that are part of a long-term vision for reducing IT complexity. But behind its more vocal announcements there emerged another significant tune, one that suggested that the software maker will have to be more willing to play with platforms from other companies in order to deliver its new strategy.

The ongoing economic slump is prompting businesses to devote IT resources to projects aimed at keeping downsized enterprises humming in the face of across-the-board staff and budget cuts.

E-CRM - CRM for the connected economy - holds out the next great promise of improved productivity and enhanced profits. It's what Cap Gemini Ernst & Young vice president Andrew Keene calls "the stairway to heaven".