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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Dell plans servers based on Sun Solaris software

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    Michael Dell, Chief Executive Officer of Dell Inc., attends a news conference in New Delhi March 20, 2007. Dell will license Sun Microsystems Inc's Solaris operating system and build computers based on the Sun software, the companies said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc (DELL.O) will license Sun Microsystems Inc's JAVAD.O Solaris operating system and build server computers based on the Sun software, the companies said on Wednesday.

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    Details of the multiyear deal were announced by Michael Dell, founder and chief executive of Dell, and Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, at Oracle Corp's (ORCL.O) OracleWorld user conference in San Francisco.

    No financial terms were disclosed.

    Solaris-based computers can run on Sun's SPARC processors or on more mainstream microprocessors from Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N).

    "Dell's offering of Solaris redefines the market opportunity for both companies," Schwartz said in a statement. "The relationship gives Dell broader reach into the global free software community with Solaris and OpenSolaris, and gives Sun access to channels and customers across the volume marketplace."

    (Reporting by Eric Auchard; additional reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston; editing by John Wallace)
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