Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.
IBM has made available a Linux-based collection of virtual desktop applications that run on a server without the need for desktop hardware or Microsoft software, according to a report on Wednesday on The Wall Street Journal's website.
While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner analyst has warned.
For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat.
Microsoft said on Friday that it has pushed back the delivery date of its SQL Server database until the third quarter of this year.
The leaders of Australia's ICT industry are currently in a state of panic over the debatable prospect of an economic downturn in the sector and are going too far with cutting jobs.
Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.
What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?
The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Graham Andrews of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Thank you for joining us today and congratulations on being 'highly commended' by the Australia CIO of the Year judging panel.
Microsoft Exchange might be the most popular mail server but is it the best? We test the alternatives.
Outlook has been copping some heat lately, largely for attracting virus writers, while Thunderbird has been getting all of the good press. We examine the two products, and other e-mail clients available today, so you can see if replacing Outlook really is an option.
In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?
The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?
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