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  • IBM sets DB2 database free

    IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move designed to win software developers over to its products.

  • New database vendor snaps up Aus clients

    Database company and "Oracle killer" EnterpriseDB has just unveiled its plans for Australia and already has a handful of customers, including financial firm Bailey Roberts Group.

  • Rivals encroach on Oracle's database lead

    Oracle is facing the biggest threat ever to its database dominance, as IBM, Microsoft and new competitors chisel away at its market share.

  • Microsoft targets Oracle licensing to win customers

    With the upcoming launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft will focus its massive resources on the issue of licensing, in an attempt to win customers for Oracle and IBM.

  • Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate

    The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.

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    Firm quietly working on data storage software designed to help companies find business documents scattered across their networks.

  • Metadata: The future of storage?

    There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.

  • What's wrong with Java

    IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would benefit everyone -- even Sun.

  • Middleware: Computing's unsung hero

    Experts claim the MQ Series is one of the 'top technologies of the computer age'.

  • Australia's affair with mainframes

    Leading Australian companies HCF, ANZ Bank, Westpac and St George share their ups and downs with the mighty mainframe in this special report.

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