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    The recent launch of IBM's Office application suite is part of a broader challenge to Microsoft's entire .Net development framework, say industry experts.

  • Making Web services practical

    While the jury debating Web services is still out, there are some new compelling reasons to deliberate. Columnist Tim Landgrave describes some interesting implementations in the intranet/extranet scenario.

  • Laying the Web services foundation

    Although a raft of W3C participants have signed on to major specifications required for this environment to flourish, there’s still a lot of work to be done in order to make Web services a viable Internet platform for cross-application communications.

  • ABC signs deal for online overhaul

    Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) officials have awarded EMC a content management system contract as part of an overhaul of the public broadcaster's Web site.

  • Research report adds new twist to .NET findings

    A research company engaged by Microsoft to compare .NET against IBM WebSphere/J2EE has added a unique twist to its results by describing many of them in terms its own code of conduct refers to as "gross and ultimately useless generalisations".

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  • Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

    special report The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer.

  • Making Web services practical

    While the jury debating Web services is still out, there are some new compelling reasons to deliberate. Columnist Tim Landgrave describes some interesting implementations in the intranet/extranet scenario.

  • The best of open source and .NET development

    Imagine the power of running code created by Microsoft development tools on a Linux machine or including an open source component in a proprietary product. In an interview, author Brian Nantz explains how to do it.

  • Australia: Web services has matured

    Is Web services pure hype peddled by software vendors desperate to create new revenue streams or is the technology quietly yielding returns to Australian businesses?

  • Straight to the source: Microsoft's Paul Houghton

    Tackling everything from security issues to open source, we put the tough questions to Paul Houghton, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.

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  • MS and IBM get caring and sharing

    Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.

  • Work together, IM giants told

    Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

  • Performance problems?

    We examine tools that can drill down through your applications to pinpoint exactly where loading causes trouble.

  • Bluetooth blues

    Bluetooth promises the world, or the operation of all within it -- that is, if you can get it to work in the first place.

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