Sun Microsystems is toying with the idea of buying Linux seller Novell, saying that springing for the US$2.64 billion company would hurt rival IBM.
Government CIOs that dismiss open source software because of support issues, which is the case for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems.
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.
Red Hat has released the code to the directory server it acquired from Netscape and will start offering commercial support later this month.
OpenVZ, virtualisation software that carves a single version of Linux into separate containers for different tasks, now is available for computers using Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
Why has the country's biggest known desktop Linux implementation gone relatively unpublicised for so long?
The consultants that rolled out one of Australia's biggest known Linux desktop project are set to take on the big boys.
The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.
The next time you hear either company making a big deal about how easy it is to manage their "nix-based" desktops, read the fine print.
Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.
Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.
Microsoft will begin selling its directory technology as a standalone product separate from the Windows operating system.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Yahoo has unveiled a version of its Messenger service designed to work with corporate portals and business applications.
Last month we looked at thin-client terminals. This month RMIT examines the back end for thin-client setups.
We test and compare NAS devices designed to suit a specific set of medium-enterprise requirements.
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