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    If Google starts behaving oddly later this year, it might not be due to too many YouTube videos of Britney Spears losing it or a stealth attack by Microsoft's minions, but because of a forthcoming change to the Python programming language.

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    A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.

  • PHP, Python, Samba get security tick of approval

    Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.

  • Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'

    Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster.

  • PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

    Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.

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    We talked to Hayden Lindsay, IBM Rational's vice president of enterprise tools and compilers about enterprise modernisation. He identified five key factors that are inhibiting business responsiveness.

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    The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.

  • Microsoft learns to live with open source

    Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.

  • Database start-ups bet on open source

    Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.

  • How to slam spam

    If we're losing the battle against spam, how can we win the war? In this special report, ZDNet Australia presents a comprehensive resource centre for IT professionals battling spam.

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Reviews (3)

  • Why MS software is driving me nuts

    COMMENTARY--What is it with Microsoft and incomprehensible error messages? Why can't its programs explain what's wrong in plain English? And that's not my only MS complaint--stand back and let me gripe.

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    Web Services tool, or the next best programming environment? -- Visual Studio .NET is a combination of things. We investigate precisely what those things are.

  • KOffice falls short of Microsoft Office standard

    The latest version of this Linux-based office suite has a lot of ground to cover before it can catch up with the de facto corporate standard, Microsoft Office.

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