Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications.
Global software giant Oracle has commenced a recruitment drive for specialists to help deliver on a contract it inked several months ago to deliver the first step of a new core banking system to the National Australia Bank.
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A server running happily after 10 years' service with OUP has claimed the prize in HP's hunt to find the UK's oldest, working HP-UX installation.
Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project.
HP this week staged its first software forum for the Asia Pacific region at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
The move to Itanium has meant a rocky road for Hewlett-Packard's high-end server group. But the man leading the company's transition to the Intel chip believes the worst potholes are in the rear-view mirror.
Many times, service providers don't know anything has gone wrong until they're hit by a flood of user complaints. Such was the case for Telstra when its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in Sydney came crashing down one day.
To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
IBM's head of virtualisation is on a mission to spread the word about a technology that is reshaping the structure of IT around the world.
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In version 8 of IBM/Lotus's upcoming collaboration suite, the client (Notes) moves to a new Java framework while the server (Domino) gets a number of overdue enhancements.
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