Offering a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux turned out not to be such a simple matter after all.
Dell today announced its Latitude 2100, a netbook designed specifically for school children. It is also the first Dell product in Australia to offer the Ubuntu operating system.
Cisco has launched 'Unified Computing', a next-generation datacentre effort that encompasses virtualisation, a group of major technology partners and the networking company's first foray into making server hardware.
Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.
Queensland's ICT industry this morning launched itself wholeheartedly into the state election, placing advertisements demanding support from both sides of politics to boost technology jobs and the industry as a whole.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
So, it seems the WOW -- for Microsoft's Windows Vista -- is not now, but sometime in the future, maybe.
The only people who won't eventually move to Windows Vista are the Linux and Mac enthusiasts.
Fedora is Red Hat's younger, more community-driven desktop-centric distribution. ZDNet.com.au grabbed the ISOs hot out of the oven to see what Fedora 12 was all about.
If you want security coupled with flexibility and some good old-fashioned command line action in your UNIX of choice, look no further than OpenBSD.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
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Choosing a Linux distribution shouldn't come down to which desktop has your favorite color scheme. Linux distributions are different and some will suit your company's needs better than others. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler discusses five critical factors IT managers should consider when choosing a Linux distribution.
Microsoft chief executive discusses the software giant's recent concessions regarding open source software.
In an interview with News.com's Ina Fried the Microsoft chief executive talked about where Microsoft's new server products as well as relations with Brussels.
Vista's impact a year after its debut, employers making workers sick, and what Red Hat thinks of Ubuntu's success are some of the issues we look at this week on Club Builder.
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).
The appliance format of the Kbox 1000 puts a new slant on systems management, making the process significantly easier, quicker and more affordable compared to traditional software-only solutions.
Avaya's Aura is a suite of communication products, all bundled together in an effort to reach the dream of unified communications for businesses.
Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.
What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.
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