The federal welfare agency has contracted Novell to provide identity management software for its nationwide network.
The conflict over document formats has taken a twist as some advocates for OpenDocument, or ODF, abandon the format in favor of the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium's Compound Document Formats standard.
Just weeks would be needed for Centrelink's identity management rollout to be streamlined to handle a proposed mass introduction of smartcards to either citizens or public servants, according to a vendor involved in the project.
Microsoft is creating a council with other technology vendors in an effort to sort out product interoperability problems.
Enterprise software vendor Computer Associates (CA) has backed the body behind the main cross-vendor Linux standardisation project in a move described by the body's chief as indicating a "critical mass" for the project.
A general rise in technical literacy driven by gadgets such as the iPod could be evidence that 'geekery' as a personality trait is becoming more pervasive.
It's not easy building a new version of Linux and establishing a large following. But with the Ubuntu project, one team of programmers has managed to do just that.
While other tech honchos play hard to get, Microsoft's boss holds a first-of-a-kind chat with a blogger, writes News.com's Jeff Pelline.
Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates.
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