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IBM and Oracle has come to a settlement over lawsuits launched against each other. IBM sued Joanne Olsen, a 30-year Big Blue veteran and former head of its services division. The lawsuit was filed by the company after Olsen was gained over by Larry Ellison after the purchase of Sun Microsystems.

In its filing IBM complained that Olsen had failed to take a year's gardening leave and was therefore taking advantage of confidential company information to help Oracle-Sun, which was now a direct competitor for big server and storage contracts.

Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting was speculating on The Register magazine on the possibility that Google may develop its own server chips. He supposes that taking into account Google’s scale and internal needs it is quite plausible that the company can do its own customized ARM implementation.