Electricity utility Country Energy said this week that the due date for completion of its smart metering roll-out was 2017, despite plans to reveal the locations of a trial of the technology with IBM in the next two weeks.
Did a 1994 agreement with SCO hand Sun a smoking gun?
Under pressure from IBM and Microsoft, Sun Microsystems' Shahin Khan takes his job as chief competitive officer very seriously. These days, it's a role that requires just as much defence as offence.
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The federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEWR) recent upgrade of the back-end of its online services portal to Microsoft's 64-bit SQL Server 2005 database hit only one hitch -- it still required one 32-bit server.
Under pressure from IBM and Microsoft, Sun Microsystems' Shahin Khan takes his job as chief competitive officer very seriously. These days, it's a role that requires just as much defence as offence.
An industry split over a key Web services specification could come to a head next month, when companies backing the proposal meet to hammer out details.
Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.
As SCO forges ahead with a take no prisoners approach, its most fervent opponents are salivating at the prospect that a sealed 1992 settlement between the University of California, Berkeley, and Novell could disprove SCO claims to the Unix code. Imagine if Sun were holding a similar document in its files?
It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options.
It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options.
Virtual machines gained popularity as a way to emulate Windows on Mac OS or Linux. ZDNet Australia looks at the two most popular packages.
Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed,,"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity market,"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
Microsoft Office may be the standard, but there are a variety of competitors--old and new--that look like giving it a decent run for its money.
RMIT IT Test Labs take a look at the top enterprise applications for stopping viruses from ravaging your organisation.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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