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    Open source and the need for speed

    Enterprise technology development and improvement rarely takes place as quickly as most IT managers would like, but blaming that lack of speed on the inherent complexity of the problems involved can sometimes be a lazy knee-jerk reaction.

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  • Salmonberry or Samba? What's in a name for Tridge

    Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.

  • Is the FOSS community divided?

    One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.

  • Australia sources for open strategy

    Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?

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