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  • IBM mainframes Cognos 8 for System z

    IBM's Cognos subsidiary announced on Monday that it will make its Cognos 8 business-intelligence software available on the IBM System z mainframe running Linux.

  • Hardware to escape market doom and gloom

    Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year.

  • Gartner: Linux continues drive into datacentres

    A straw poll of attendees at Gartner's Data Centre Conference in January revealed that 40 percent of them were running a combination of Linux or Unix and Windows. This shows that there is little sign that "Linux will 'hit a wall', the analysts suggested in a research note published this week.

  • Report: Oracle pulls into tie with IBM in databases

    In the race to sell database software worldwide, Oracle improved its position to a "virtual tie" with IBM last year, according to a report by researcher Gartner.

  • Microsoft makes gains in database arena

    Microsoft gained ground on its database rivals in 2002, despite a decline in sales for the market as a whole, according to research published Wednesday by Gartner Dataquest.

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  • Linux boosts database sales?

    The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year, fuelled in part by sales of Linux.

  • Is this the RHEL deal?

    Has Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) finally come of age with its latest release and will enterprises in Australia start taking Red Hat seriously?

  • Vista looks to get tablets on write track

    Microsoft tunes Windows Vista to help tablet PCs make better sense of your scribbles and scrawls.

  • Cashing in on Linux

    To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.

  • Australia's affair with mainframes

    Leading Australian companies HCF, ANZ Bank, Westpac and St George share their ups and downs with the mighty mainframe in this special report.

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  • Future bright for brainy phones?

    From downloading emails to surfing on the go, phone-PDA (personal digital assistant) hybrids have long promised users higher productivity in today's Web-connected world.

  • Is the iSeries make-over enough?

    IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?

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