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  • Scared or oblivious: Australia's SMEs on Linux

    Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.

  • Sun's Unix market position slips

    IBM and HP may have narrowly edged past long-time leader Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers -- but it depends on who you listen to.

  • Report: IBM to shift work overseas

    IBM is declining to comment on a report that it plans to move the work of as many as 4,730 programmers to India, China and elsewhere, but it said this week it expects hiring next year in the United States to equal or increase over 2003 levels.

  • IBM and unions still talking

    Negotiations between IBM and workers at the company's Sydney facility at Baulkham Hills were ongoing, a representative from the Australian Services Union said today.

  • 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.

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    Services the secret to our future

    Today, we exist in an economy where the services sector is the economy.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Protecting local jobs

    Satyam Computer Services has taken a big step towards dispelling fears that foreigners will eventually takeover Australia's IT industry.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Should you respect your Elders?

    How many vendors do you usually evaluate when trying to determine the best solution for a contract? Ten? Twenty? How about 100?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Is your telco taking security seriously? It should be

    It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

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    What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?

  • Security vendor survey: Will they side with the government?

    Security software vendors may soon side with US government authorities and intentionally fail to report "certain spyware" to customers if ordered by a court to remain quiet, according to a survey of leading firms.

  • Moore's Law can't stand the heat

    Over the past few years, the amount of electricity required to power a server in a datacentre has more than doubled. In this special report, we look at why many datacentres today are facing a power and cooling crisis.

  • IAG gets automated for content deployment

    Insurance companies are typically a risk-averse bunch, but in 2002, the online content strategy being used by Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Australia's largest general insurer, was looking increasingly risky.

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    Is certification better than experience? Here's what industry analysts and IT professionals have to say, including issues with MCSE.

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  • Lotus Notes/Domino 8, Beta 2

    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.

  • Avaya and Lenovo team up on VoIP

    Avaya and Lenovo have announced a partnership to enhance IP communications on ThinkPad notebooks, the companies announced on Wednesday.

  • IBM scraps another product line

    Hot on the heels of news that IBM had scratched the TransNote portable PC from its ThinkPad range, IBM Australia has announced plans to discontinue WorkPad, its line of Palm OS handhelds.

  • IBM reveals supertiny transistor

    IBM has developed what it says is the world's tiniest working transistor.

  • Computing on a budget: 7 PCs tested

    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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