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SLIDE SHOWS

Here's our look at the 20 companies, people, technologies and trends worth watching in the New Year.

Lotusphere 2010 attendees were treated to some sneak previews of IBM Lotus' development plans, as well as several days of fun in the Florida sun.

Ubuntu has had its ups and downs in its technology battles with Microsoft's Windows desktop OS platform, and the next "up" in this series should be April 29.

HARDWARE

IT managers generally weren't the early adopters of cloud-computing applications but they're starting to come around to the lower costs and improved flexibility offered by cloud-based productivity applications. Here are 20 of the coolest we've seen so far.

[01:53 PM, January 28, 2010]

The combination of Oracle VM with a variety of server and desktop virtualization technologies from Sun will give Oracle a complete virtualization offering, but the company will face hurdles trying to leverage VMware out of Oracle accounts.

[12:08 PM, January 28, 2010]

As Apple comes off the announcement of its iPad multimedia tablet, it turns out a European chip maker had already trademarked the name "IPAD."

[11:11 AM, January 28, 2010]

After having to settle with Cisco in 2007 in an ownership dispute over the name, "iPhone," Apple may now face the same issue over its forthcoming product, the "iPad."

[11:06 AM, January 28, 2010]

It's thin, it's light, it's got Steve Jobs written all over it -- but will the Apple iPad be a game-changer of the magnitude of the iPhone and iPod?

[07:24 PM, January 27, 2010]

HP tells VARs to expect a number of health-care oriented channel programs in the next few weeks, including EMR product bundles and app development communities.

[06:22 PM, January 27, 2010]

The move, in the wake of Oracle's $7.4 billion Sun acquisition, reverses Sun's emphasis on indirect sales, Oracle executives said during 'road map' presentations.

[05:51 PM, January 27, 2010]

Oracle is planning to invest heavily in the development of Sun's hardware, but will also focus on optimizing Sun's server, storage, and microprocessor products specifically to accelerate Oracle applications.

[03:18 PM, January 27, 2010]

More than nine months later, Oracle finalizes its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

[10:20 AM, January 27, 2010]

With its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems a done deal, Oracle today will detail its plans for combining Sun's products with its own. But what are channel partners looking for?

[08:00 AM, January 27, 2010]

NetApp is the second major storage vendor to sign on to work with Cisco's UCS platform -- following EMC -- giving credence to Cisco's claims that its UCS is open for partnering with other storage vendors.

[12:09 PM, January 26, 2010]

New photos of the anticipated Apple tablet, the iSlate, make the rounds on the Internet.

[10:34 AM, January 26, 2010]