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  • IE most influential tech product in last 25 years?

    Despite the ubiquity of the iPod, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the 'most influential' tech product of the past 25 years, according to a survey of IT professionals.

  • Hackers' video technology goes open source

    The developers of hacker video technology DivX are going public, opening up much of their work to the open source community.

  • Open source: Data underdogs

    While open source databases have scored some recent successes, they won't pose a serious challenge to mature commercial databases until they have added some essential reliability and management features.

  • Red Hat thrown into the ring

    Microsoft sent anything but hugs and kisses this February in a series of interviews criticising the open source community. Red Hat CTO takes this opportunity to strike back.

  • OS Wars: Microsoft vs Open Source

    Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand? ZDNet Australia assembled a panel of IT experts to find out which OS fits best.

Features and Case Studies (9)

  • OS Wars: Microsoft vs Open Source

    Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand? ZDNet Australia assembled a panel of IT experts to find out which OS fits best.

  • Feature: Ad-supported software

    How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?

  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.

  • Is mobile Linux ready for the enterprise?

    Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?

  • Big Blue's Mr. Web services

    IBM's Bob Sutor tells why service-oriented architecture is crucial to Web services development.

Reviews (2)

  • Can IT directors love Microsoft?

    Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.

  • What Microsoft should do with all that cash

    Commentary: Bill, Steve, et al are sitting on a US$49 billion pile of cash. They recently promised to spend about $7 billion of it on increased hiring and R&D. Not a bad idea--but I've got a better one.

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