HP and EDS customers should look at renegotiating existing contracts to push for price reductions and improved services following the US$13.9bn deal between the two outsourcing giants.
Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.
Greater Dandenong City Council (GDCC) has utilised a recent rollout of asset management software to discover PCs it didn't know it had and confiscate inappropriate software installations.
Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to its Virtual Server plans, announcing it will shift its next update of the software from a maintenance release to a paid upgrade.
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?
The increasing use of virtualisation has blurred the lines between physical and virtual worlds, creating a new issue for buyers and sellers of computer software: Software licensing as we know it is dying -- or already dead.
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.
The Internet is forcing software vendors to come up with a variety of new licensing models. Here are strategies to help you, the buyer, get the most bang for your buck.
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains.
Playing on the brunette-stereotype, the Nokia 6220 Classic is a 3G smartphone that transcends its demure looks with pragmatic appeal, a stand-out 5MP camera and assisted-GPS.
SQL Server 2005 will cost more but why aren't customers complaining?
The perceived viability of 3G networks has taken another blow with UK mobile company mmO2 announcing it had made a pre-tax loss of £10.2bn, and admitting that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.
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