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.
Major open-source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community.
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.
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.
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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-).
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With logical domains, Sun's Niagara systems will catch up this year to rival Unix and x86 servers.
Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.
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.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
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