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Published 6/12/2009 at The Register

...all we got was this old T-shirt As top Sun execs get ready to deploy their golden parachutes as Oracle prepares to devour the company for a mere $5.6bn in July, someone is about to make a killing on T-shirts.… Whitepaper - Creating portals with Office Sharepoint: put an end to the information free for all (link)

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