News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?

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Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database

• Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances’ that re-architect database-storage landscape
  • Hey, you, get onto my cloud!
  • From OpenWorld, Oracle and HP align forces to modernize legacy apps and spur IT transformation

• Joshua Greenbaum: Oracle, the Innovation Company: Core Innovation, Fusion Applications’ Debut, and Why It’s All Up to AIA
• Michael Krigsman: Oracle innovates with Social CRM; not ‘boring and lifeless’

Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms PDC attendees to get pre-beta Windows 7 buildSam Diaz: Will netbook growth hurt Apple’s Macbook sales

• Christopher Dawson: Netbooks or notebooks?

Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs gaping holes in Java for Mac;

• Cisco mega patch plugs serious IOS vulnerabilities

Christopher Dawson: The kids like Vista

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft Tinker - Best Ultimate Extra so far (although the bar is set pretty low)

Janice Chen: New Digital Camera Announcements and More from Photokina 2008

Jason D. O'Grady: Podcaster done for now

Zack Whittaker: Enterprise CRM “as in real life”

Ed Burnette: Google Gears now inside Android’s “Chrome Lite”

• Matthew Miller: The QuickOffice full Office suite is coming to the Google Android platform

Dana Blankenhorn: IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate

Ryan Stewart: Curl “Nitro” gets a beta 2 release

Larry Dignan: Yahoo formally launches its ad network

• ReadWriteWeb: Digg Doubles Its War Chest to Challenge Yahoo Buzz Internationally (Techmeme)

Richard Koman: If McCain skips debate, there’s always Google In Quotes

• Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?
• Google, NYC transform public transit info online

Boomtown: Layoff Alert: Not If … When

Paul Miller: Thomson Reuters unveils commercial version of Calais

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM

Sean Portnoy: Sony releases wireless streaming, DVD, and input modules for Bravia HDTVs

GigaOm: Two Ways to Get Comcast to Increase the Data Cap