SAP customers are forced to move to pricier support. The apps vendor says that as of Jan. 1, 2009, it will transition customers to its enterprise-level support, claiming that it brings an increased level of service. Ultimately, however, those customers will have to pay more money to get it. Related: Dialing down applications support and maintenance costs.Hewlett-Packard says it will offer a datacenter-in-a-box; the “box” being a 20-foot or 40-foot shipping container that houses servers and storage gear. Related: Microsoft builds its first major container-based datacenter. Symbian’s CEO, meanwhile, says that despite Google’s rival Android mobile phone platform, broader collaboration between the companies is possible in the future, either at the application or OS level. Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware, along with Dell, IBM and HP, all back a virtualization interoperability specification, the Open Virtual Machine Format, and commit to building tools that conform to it. And while Apple may not have been at Intel’s launch event for the newest Centrino, many of the improvements the mobile platform brings will be woven into Macs in the near future. Centrino 2: Coming soon to a Mac near you? Software Development