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.
The Australian Stock Exchange is keeping tight-lipped about the possibility of deploying Linux, despite recent moves by major US exchanges to use the open-source environment to run everyday operations.
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.
Major open-source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community.
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Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery.
ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).
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?
With logical domains, Sun's Niagara systems will catch up this year to rival Unix and x86 servers.
The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.
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