CSC has been awarded an outsourcing contract worth up to AU$21 million by West Australian electricity provider Western Power.
The Northern Territory government has awarded a three-year AU$7.5 million contract for mainframe application services to its incumbent supplier Fujitsu.
IBM later this year plans to release management tools for its mainframe server, including a "federated" security application for logging onto several systems at once.
IBM's Cognos subsidiary announced on Monday that it will make its Cognos 8 business-intelligence software available on the IBM System z mainframe running Linux.
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IBM plans to introduce new development tools, the first of many releases in the coming months as the company targets new business-software customers.
Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.
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Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.
Microsoft will offer developers a glimpse at future versions of its Visual Studio.Net development tools and highlight a number of additions to the product line.
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