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Do hundreds of gallons of used vegetable oil belong anywhere near a data center, let alone inside? Phil Nail thinks so.

There are several theories floating around about why there aren't more women in IT - and it's a pressing matter, considering the impending labour shortage. Some claim that IT doesn't appeal to women, or girls just aren't good at maths. But when it comes to IT, are men really from Mars and women really from Venus?

Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we have is a software vendor suddenly awash in tens of billions of unspent dollars that it can now lavish on other Internet firms.