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The federal Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (DITR) has detailed plans to implement at least three new customer relationship management (CRM) systems based on Microsoft software.
A group of software makers, led by IBM and Microsoft, has announced a proposal to make Web services messaging more reliable, overlapping an earlier standards effort.
Microsoft plans to ask a European court in the next few days for an emergency order blocking a ruling imposed in March that levied a heavy fine and required that Windows be offered without a media player.
A group of software makers, led by IBM and Microsoft, has announced a proposal to make Web services messaging more reliable, overlapping an earlier standards effort.
Are Web services really the next 'big thing' to hit Australian businesses, or just another take on services Internet-users have had access to for years? Also, what is the 'next level' that developers are trying to achieve?
As the corporate sector creeps ever closer to levels of integration which promise to drive data entry pools into extinction, will Web applications become the foundation for the brave new rollout of Web services in Australia?
The growing influence of the Linux operating system and the open-source software movement will be on display as several large companies announce products and plans at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.
Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale May 21 with a price of US$75.95 in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
Sun plans to bundle its application server software into Solaris, a move that could shake the industry.
In the run up to a June 19 online launch of a whole new product line, Sun has just released its Sun One Portal Server 6, to replace the iPlanet Portal Server.
Yahoo has unveiled a version of its Messenger service designed to work with corporate portals and business applications.
The Web portal begins a campaign targeting IT managers who have banned its product at work.
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