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  • VMware reveals ESX 4.0 features

    VMware's forthcoming ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor update will allow users to change the amount of RAM allocated to virtual machines without rebooting them, VMworld 2008 attendees heard this week in the US.

  • Canterbury Uni adopts Vista

    Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK has moved to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in time for the new academic year.

  • Everything is big in Queensland

    Queensland never does anything by halves.

  • Qld education progresses PC project

    Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation.

  • Major vendors in virtualisation moves

    Microsoft, Citrix, Novell and Sun Microsystems all made announcements around virtualisation overnight.

  • Ubuntu gets user interface team

    Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, this week said it would hire a team to help make open source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use.

  • Microsoft attacks potential VMWare feature

    Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMWare for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.

  • Ubuntu debuts Jaunty Jackalope

    The Ubuntu project has detailed plans for the April 2009 version of its Linux distribution, continuing its habit of naming its software after animals by dubbing Ubuntu 9.04 "The Jaunty Jackalope".

  • McAfee speeds up updates

    What if your desktop security application could detect and remove a new threat that was only minutes old? That's the impetus behind McAfee's Artemis technology, announced yesterday.

  • Aussie CIOs poke under Chrome bonnet

    Australian chief information officers have shown a mixed reaction to Google's new Chrome browser, which was released in testing form last week to early adopters' praise.

  • Red Hat buys virtualisation firm

    Linux vendor Red Hat has bought its way further into the virtualisation market, to compete against VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, with a US$107 million purchase of Qumranet.

  • CommBank rolls out Office 2007

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has completed a deployment of Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite to 38,000 desktops a year after giving Google Apps the thumbs down.

  • NZ Customs upgrades data warehouse

    The New Zealand Customs Service has started planning a major upgrade of its internal data warehouse, which has already played a crucial role in helping to identify and apprehend drug traffickers.

  • Quark Australia gets new chief

    Global publishing software giant Quark has appointed a new executive to lead its Australia and New Zealand operation after its previous country manager left for Epson.

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