Offering a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux turned out not to be such a simple matter after all.
Social networking behemoth Facebook today confirmed the poorly kept secret that it has opened an office in Sydney to focus on advertising sales in Australia and New Zealand.
Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering establishing an Australian datacentre as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
As the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems, Simon Phipps spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the MySQL acquisition, and community engagement on OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris.
We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.
The NSW Government's release this week of an expressions of interest tender to give low-cost laptops to every senior public school student in NSW is a big step, but will these systems be Windows or Linux?
Office 2007 continues to be the focus of discussion here at Big Deal, but the most recent crop of reactions to my postings have shifted from the possible nuisance value of interface changes to the potential upside for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to the desktop suite crown.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
There's no doubt that Ubuntu is a worthy rival to Windows 7 and even hands Mac OS X a cold dish of nasty in its stellar 9.04 release. Hats off to Mark Shuttleworth and his team: you got game.
Long overshadowed by its GNOME and KDE-based brethren, Xubuntu is a handy Ubuntu solution for older PCs or for users that want a lighter desktop footprint.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering establishing an Australian datacentre as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
If you're using a Microsoft Windows operating system there is also a good chance that you use Office and Outlook as your email client. But is this really a choice?
As Australia and various other nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Open Office XML becomes an ISO standard, the Redmond giant is attempting to downplay fears that OOXML adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.
Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said.
The Australian Federal Police will expand its fight against identity crime and theft internationally when it opens an office in India some time this year, AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty said.
The Australian Federal Police will expand its fight against identity crime and theft internationally when it opens an office in India some time this year, AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty said.
The Australian Federal Police will expand its fight against identity crime and theft internationally when it opens an office in India some time this year, AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty said.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
The Agora brings the concept of a low-cost netbook firmly back on the agenda, but its woeful wireless performance seriously detracts from its value proposition.
For undemanding users who aren't into HD video, Asus' Eee Box B206 is worth a look; however, it's not powerful enough to take on other media-centre PCs.
Zoho Writer 2.0 provides one of the richest feature sets of any online word processor, now more accessible thanks to an interface revamp. And, of course, it's free...
While the interface of IBM's free office suite is sexy, its hunger for system resources and lack of features mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is still the best free office suite. Also, watch out for Symphony's lack of OOXML support.
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