Software giant Oracle is to buy server and software maker Sun Microsystems, the two companies announced late Monday.
Optus this week claimed the 3G mobile outages it had been suffering were normal and every telecommunications carrier would be having similar issues.
The nation's number two telco Optus today said it would reduce its prepaid wireless broadband quotas as of 24 November, saying the former quotas were only an initial offer.
VMware's forthcoming ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor update will allow users to change the amount of RAM allocated to virtual machines without rebooting them, VMworld 2008 attendees heard this week in the US.
The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
For those of us running Linux desktops, a graphics card decision can make or break a system in ways no commercial OS user can fathom.
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A YouTube video has changed my view of the world. And no, this time it didn't involve a monkey or a grievous injury captured on camera.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
Take one ColdFusion veteran and mix in a healthy dose of prolific book writing, and chances are you will end up with Ben Forta.
There are large conferences, and then there is Oracle OpenWorld. A mega-conference that sees over 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco.
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In the heady days of January 2008, database maker Oracle had finally captured the prize that it had been courting for many months, BEA, and in an instant became the largest middleware player in the market. But are the real results yet to appear?
The NetBSD Project recently released NetBSD 5.0, the 13th major release of its Unix operating system. If you are not familiar with the BSD mentality, it's a back-to-basics approach. Those familiar with Unix environments will find themselves right at home.
Take one ColdFusion veteran and mix in a healthy dose of prolific book writing, and chances are you will end up with Ben Forta.
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than its biggest competitor, IBM.
Like Microsoft's tabletop Surface computer, the touch-controlled Sphere can sense multiple, simultaneous contacts, allowing a number of people to use it at the same time. The system works by projecting an image onto the inside of the sphere, while infrared technology senses the touch input
Alienware's new version of the M17x makes some welcome design tweaks and offers the best laptop gaming hardware you can get. Just be warned: it ain't cheap.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
The Fusion-io ioDrive is in a performance field of its own. Home users are much better off RAIDing a few SSDs together; however, for those running servers that need extra throughput now, the Fusion-io represents an expensive, but justifiable saviour.
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0 is a powerful tool and a vital upgrade for Web designers, especially those who create dynamic sites.
The new wave of hybrid PDA business phones are here. The gadget gurus from RMIT decide who talks the talk.
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