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  • India leader advocates open source

    The President of India added to a growing foreign-relations headache for Microsoft with a speech in which he advocated broader adoption of open-source software.

  • Sun: US recession would help open source

    Sun executives claim that open source will benefit as US consumer spending grinds to a halt, and that its revenues are not negatively impacted by its development of "free" software.

  • Brazil joins OOXML appeal conga line

    Brazil is to appeal the International Organisation for Standardisation decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500.

  • Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification

    Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four.

  • Accountancy firm dumps Microsoft for OpenOffice

    The Melbourne member office of international accountancy and business advice provider HLB International is mid-way through the process of replacing its Microsoft Office-based desktop suite with the OpenOffice.org open source alternative.

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  • India's licence to open source

    Does anyone really need another open-source licensing model? One of the leaders of India's IT movement says yes.

  • Red Hat: Battling Microsoft on foreign soil

    Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik sees potential for open source in overseas markets, but obstacles include Microsoft.

  • Asia's open source hangup

    One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia.

  • The right and wrong predictions of 2007

    In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.

  • OS Wars: Microsoft vs Open Source

    Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand? ZDNet Australia assembled a panel of IT experts to find out which OS fits best.

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  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

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