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  • Lentz on Open Database Alliance board

    Arjen Lentz, executive director of Brisbane-based company Open Query, has become a member of the interim board of directors for the Open Database Alliance (ODBA) an organisation intended to promote the ecosystem around free and open source databases.

  • Oracle buy 'no worries' for MySQL users

    Australian MySQL expert Arjen Lentz today said that Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems and the associated MySQL open-source database assets was not a problem for MySQL users.

  • Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs

    Sun Microsystems late last week announced plans to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs.

  • Sun releases MySQL 5.1

    Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications.

  • Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate

    The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.

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  • Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue

    When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.

  • Sun's chiefs on the hot seat

    Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?

  • Software's 'stack wars'

    To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.

  • Making a case for enterprise open source

    Bringing any new system into an established organisation, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea.

  • Linux in the virtual world

    Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.

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Reviews (4)

  • Hiking the price -- with no complaint?

    SQL Server 2005 will cost more but why aren't customers complaining?

  • Novell cozies up to open source

    The networking-software company bets on open source and standards to build momentum for its operating systems and security software.

  • OpenOffice.org versus Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

  • OpenOffice.org takes on Microsoft Office

    The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

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