Oracle, the world's second largest software company, dispelled some fears over Big Technology's future last week, announcing quarterly results that included a 28% rise in share price from a year ago.

But not all big names have been faring as well in recent months. Since its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS last week, Hewlett Packard has cut a total of 24,600 jobs--half of them in the U.S. And stock prices have been down by 10 percent or more at Sun Microsystems and Dell, which said their customers were cutting back on tech spending.

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