"IBM has a database, Lotus, Tivoli and middleware to draw on," says Cihra. "[HP's] OpenView is a great product, and Compaq has some fantastic clustering technology, but these are not standalone businesses.
I summarize the recent progress made with the DEEP2 survey on the Keck telescope, a fantastic tool to study galaxies, and galaxy clustering, at redshift one.
There's now a seafood centre with occasional pop-up dining, a cluster of "pod" shops and a fantastic Italian ice-cream parlour, Spurreli, that has drawn praise from Jean-Christophe Novelli.
"This a real fantastic laboratory at the galactic center to understand how a nuclear star cluster comes about, how new stars are being formed in an environment where there shouldn't be any new stars," he said.
Wherever they stay in SVG, many visitors make a trip to the Tobago Cays, a cluster of uninhabited islands in a coral reef lagoon offering fantastic snorkelling and swimming with turtles.
Behind the 16th-century Palazzo dei Banchi, dominating the eastern end of the Piazza Maggiore, is a picturesque cluster of narrow streets, packed with opulent small shops bursting with a fantastic variety of fruits, vegetables, cheeses and cured meats.
