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The tipping point on fuel prices arrived about a month ago for Bill Lucas, an engineer in the IT department at US-based utility We Energies. He stopped using his car for his 35-minute commute and now takes a bus, which costs only US$2.50 each way, thanks in part to a ticket subsidy from his employer. Lucas says he has a lot of company on his bus rides.

South Australian-based financial services firm Data Action has standardized its server, storage and hardware systems moving from a Hewlett-Packard (HP) Unix environment to Sun Microsystems' Solaris 9 operating system.

Listed company BioProspect has signed a pact with a second major drug developer interested in testing its library of compounds extracted from Australian plants.

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Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca PLC is to outsource its IT operations to IBM Corp. in a deal worth US$1.7 billion over seven years, the companies announced Thursday.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca PLC in London will outsource its IT operations to IBM Corp. in a deal worth US$1.7 billion over seven years, the companies announced this week.