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• Banks 'should give back to open-source community'

  Major open-source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community.

• 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.

• MySQL gives Sun a foot in the door

  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.

• ASX: no word on Linux

  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.

• 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?

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• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

• Novell CEO: We made Microsoft open up

  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.

• Commonwealth Bank: Michael Harte, CIO

  ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).

• 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?

• The state of ERP

  Looking to enhance your business with an ERP system? Here's our round-up of the top vendors.

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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.

• IM compatibility closer to reality

  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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