News (12)

  • Governments vote against Microsoft

    Microsoft has had its share of bad courtroom experiences, but lately the software giant has been taking some of its hardest knocks in city council and legislative chambers.

  • Linux services move into the mainstream

    As more companies and government departments deploy Linux-based servers and desktops, the market for specialist support services is beginning to hot up, according to IDC.

  • Open source campaigns fought on wrong territory

    Proponents of open source and proprietary software are exchanging blows "on the wrong battleground" said Gartner Research vice president Andrea Di Maio today.

  • Linux ensnares another European city

    Bergen, Norway, has opted to replace Windows and Unix machines with Linux on servers for its schools and city databases, and could later put the open-source operating system on desktop machines.

  • 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.

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  • How corporate Australia battles information overload

    We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

  • A new Vista on Linux

    Will Windows Vista provide the boost Linux has been waiting for?

  • Google: Gunning for desktop space

    In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.

  • Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft

    Linux seller Red Hat has announced its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers, taking direct aim at Microsoft. Additional reading: Open Source Resource Centre

  • 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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