With the upcoming launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft will focus its massive resources on the issue of licensing, in an attempt to win customers for Oracle and IBM.
After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.
Database company and "Oracle killer" EnterpriseDB has just unveiled its plans for Australia and already has a handful of customers, including financial firm Bailey Roberts Group.
IBM upped the stakes in the United States in an ongoing contest over corporate e-mail software with a program that offers business partners up to US$20,000 to dump Microsoft's Exchange in favour of IBM's Lotus software on Linux.
Senior vice-president of IBM Linda Sanford explains why the handoff to an offshore partner should be embraced, not feared.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Microsoft's fiercest foes--Java software providers--are showing growing admiration for their powerful rival.
There's a significant shift in storage fundamentals afoot, and it's not SAN and NAS--metadata promises to turn static, monolithic data repositories into malleable storage clouds.
Firm quietly working on data storage software designed to help companies find business documents scattered across their networks.
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On this week's Club Builder we look at some local scientists who have made a break through in fibre throughput, a group of local lads win big in Paris and we hand out our first Honesty Award.
Check out the basic IBM ThinkPad R51 if you're low on cash, but think twice before loading up on expensive options.
You heard it here first: IBM ViaVoice wins the speech recognition battle by default, but would have won even if the competition hadn't failed.
We test seven of the most outstanding, envy-inducing notebooks.
All Lenovo computers worldwide will soon come bundled with Microsoft's Windows Live software, the companies announced Wednesday.
We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance
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