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Five countries, one cloud: IT Priorities round-up

What do Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and India have in common? Well for a start, the ZDNet IT Priorities team recently visited all five countries to learn about the different challenges faced by local CIOs.

September 27th, 2010 in IT Priorities by Munir Kotadia Comment 11 Votes

Microsoft ditched as Anglicans go open source

The Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church has decided to cut the Microsoft umbilical cord by moving to open source, starting with Office which will be replaced in the next three years.

July 10th, 2008 in Lymbers by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

Gates is gone but the fight goes on: Stallman

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.

July 7th, 2008 in Proprietary by Richard Stallman Comment Vote

Government CIOs 'do not understand open source'

Government CIOs that dismiss open source software because of support issues, which is the case for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems.

June 13th, 2008 in Support by Munir Kotadia, and Marcus Browne Comment Vote

Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

May 15th, 2008 in Open Source by David Braue 1 Comment Vote

MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan

Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community.

May 9th, 2008 in Change by Matthew Broersma Comment Vote

Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda

Companies building Web sites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.

May 1st, 2008 in Web by David Meyer Comment Vote

Proprietary vendors lose $60bn to open source

Open-source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by US$60 billion a year, according to research.

April 23rd, 2008 in Jboss by Matthew Broersma Comment Vote

Open source to take enterprise by stealth

In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner — whether IT managers know it or not.

April 7th, 2008 in Open Source by Peter Judge Comment Vote

ATO avoids open source due to security concerns

Security concerns have kept the Australian Tax Office (ATO) from adopting open source software, according to the agency's CIO Bill Gibson.

March 17th, 2008 in Ato by Liam Tung, and Brett Winterford 1 Comment Vote

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