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Show me the savings." That, it seems, is what IT purchasing managers are telling "green technology" evangelists in the vendor community. Hard-nosed pragmatism, rather than philanthropy, appears to be the dominant driver of green technology adoption, for now at least.

Being green can save you a lot of green, is a message Big Blue is promoting heavily these days. IBM execs are emphasizing how deployment of green technologies, particularly in their data centre, can translate into hard dollar savings.

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