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Jean Lesage International Airport is using unified communications and the latest wireless standards to allow airlines to make common use of check-in counters. Now the pressure's on, according to the COO

The city of Paris intends to reduce its dependence on software suppliers with "de facto monopolies," but considers an immediate switch of its 17,000 desktops to open source software too costly.

The city of Paris intends to reduce its dependence on software suppliers with "de facto monopolies," but considers an immediate switch of its 17,000 desktops to open source software too costly, it said Wednesday.

Dell Computer Corp. CEO Michael Dell and Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison shared a stage Wednesday to detail a growing alliance built around selling clustered server systems to enterprises, while predicting that their systems and open-standards approach would relegate proprietary systems to niche status.

Galileo International is deconstructing its entrenched applications, such as those for handling airline fare inquiries and ticket booking, into Web services components with interfaces based on Simple Object Access Protocol.

Intel Corp. plans to show off its fastest processor to date for workstations and servers at the Siggraph 2001 computer graphics trade show in Los Angeles next week, the company said Friday.