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  • The price of paranoia

    What do escalating security costs really buy us? Are they making us stronger or weaker?

  • Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship

    The SCO Group's legal actions against Linux have shed light on the inner workings of the open-source programming project and on the operations of a company desperate to survive. They've also created a cottage industry for conspiracy theorists over Microsoft's role in the affair.

  • Open source picks some new fights

    Open-source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft.

  • Why software comes at a cost

    Everybody loves cheaper PCs, and as hardware integration gets tighter, prices continue to fall, but thanks to business software bucking the downward trend, systems just keep getting more expensive.

  • An IBM-Microsoft conspiracy?

    Gates Mills, Ohio, is an actual town--population 2,508. Some "Microsoft is evil" conspiracy theorists believe that in this town resides the software world's version of "The Truman Show."

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  • Cut variable and fixed costs using VMware

    VMware can replicate multiple workstations on a single machine, potentially saving you thousands in hardware costs. What should you be aware of?

  • Linux: Making the change

    The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.

  • Negroponte's laptop plan moves closer to reality

    Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

  • Microsoft-SCO: Fact and fiction

    Is Microsoft funding the SCO Group's legal fight against Linux? ZDNet hopes to shed some light and answer common questions swirling around the duo's relationship.

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Reviews (45)

  • Servers on a budget: 4 Servers tested

    Need a new server but only have AU$2500 to spend? The range of options is surprisingly good as long as you're willing to do without some of the fancy features.

  • Tech Guide: Software on the cheap

    Fed up with paying through the nose for programs? Need to repopulate a system with applications following a disaster? You need our guide to free and low-cost software.

  • IBM details Blue Gene supercomputer

    IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.

  • Asus TS500-E5 tower server

    Asus' TS500 offers reliability, speed and efficiency at a low price for a mid-range tower server. However, case design is not ideal, and the system strangely requires a PS2 keyboard and mouse.

  • Seven mail servers tested

    Microsoft Exchange might be the most popular mail server but is it the best? We test the alternatives.

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