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    A new three-way alliance announced this week will help AT&T and IBM customers sell Lotus Development software as a service.

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    A conservative US think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software.

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    What sets J D Edwards apart from the likes of Siebel and PeopleSoft? We speak with Ian Hodge, managing director Australia/New Zealand, about the future of business software and services.

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    Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.

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  • HP ProCurve Switch 8212zl

    The ProCurve Switch 8212zl is a sophisticated and highly configurable network switch capable of handling 48 10-Gigibit Ethernet ports.

  • PentaWare PentaZip 6: Comprehensive compression

    PentaSuite is feature rich, but you'll get better service and support from venerable PKZip.

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

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