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    Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software.

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    When Apple released Parallels Desktop in June 2006, it showed most users for the first time what they could achieve with desktop virtualisation.

  • Linux lab cuts staff and focuses on legal work

    Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work.

  • Linux lands big Reuters win

    Reuters is soon to announce plans to bring its financial information software to Linux in conjunction with Red Hat, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, sources said, a major achievement for the comparatively young open-source operating system.

  • Will open source force a sea change in IT?

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  • Will open source force a sea change in IT?

    Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?

  • Chizen: Friends, foes and China

    The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

  • Torvalds wraps up work on Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has released the last update to the current Linux development kernel, and says he will now turn his attention to the next version of the operating system core.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

  • Is Linux on the move?

    CIOs have moved from the sidelines to the playing field in the search for a successor to traditional data centre products. Have they found one in Linux?

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  • Torvalds wraps up current Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.

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