News (163)

More News >

Features and Case Studies (71)

  • 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.

  • Java desktop wins over major Irish bank

    Sun Microsystems announced late yesterday that Allied Irish Bank would migrate 7,500 of its users to the Java Desktop System software.

  • Sun to upgrade Linux desktop software

    Sun Microsystems plans to release the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers.

  • Linux hacker: The battle for the desktop

    Part II: Linux Kernel hacker Alan Cox explains why the world needs open source software on the desktop and why Linux was perfect for Iceland.

  • Open source's next frontier

    Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (25)

  • Sun to give StarOffice Java flavour

    Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that better pits it against Microsoft's dominant Office.

  • Mandrake 8.1 offers superior server platform

    Mandrake Linux 8.1 represents a significant step toward a serious, reliable alternative to Microsoft Windows' server and desktop operating systems.

  • ThinkFree Office 3

    ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office that lacks advanced tools but offers a free online component that's a handy work in progress for frequent travellers.

  • Adobe ships Flash player for Linux

    Adobe Systems on Tuesday made good on a promise to release a Linux version of the latest Flash Player, software that lets Web browsers view multimedia information such as YouTube videos or animated advertisements.

  • Lotus Notes/Domino 8, Beta 2

    In version 8 of IBM/Lotus's upcoming collaboration suite, the client (Notes) moves to a new Java framework while the server (Domino) gets a number of overdue enhancements.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "open source"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
open source


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 8 .net
  2. Popularity: 8 adobe
  3. Popularity: 6 ajax
  4. Popularity: 12 apple
  5. Popularity: 5 bea
  6. Popularity: 11 browser
  7. Popularity: 5 eclipse
  8. Popularity: 7 enterprise
  9. Popularity: 24 european union
  10. Popularity: 7 explorer
  11. Popularity: 6 gnome
  12. Popularity: 12 google
  13. Popularity: 5 hat
  14. Popularity: 17 ibm
  15. Popularity: 5 ie
  16. Popularity: 8 internet
  17. Popularity: 6 java desktop system
  18. Popularity: 9 lamonica
  19. Popularity: 79 linux
  20. Popularity: 5 longhorn
  21. Popularity: 8 martin
  22. Popularity: 8 microsoft
  23. Popularity: 18 microsystems
  24. Popularity: 5 mobile
  25. Popularity: 7 mozilla
  26. Popularity: 11 novell
  27. Popularity: 19 open
  28. Popularity: 17 open-source
  29. Popularity: 5 opera
  30. Popularity: 8 operating system
  31. Popularity: 5 operating systems
  32. Popularity: 9 os
  33. Popularity: 13 oss
  34. Popularity: 5 red
  35. Popularity: 14 red hat
  36. Popularity: 9 safari
  37. Popularity: 5 server
  38. Popularity: 12 shankland
  39. Popularity: 12 software
  40. Popularity: 13 solaris
  41. Popularity: 18 source
  42. Popularity: 10 staroffice
  43. Popularity: 9 stephen
  44. Popularity: 65 sun
  45. Popularity: 16 sun microsystems
  46. Popularity: 5 t&b
  47. Popularity: 13 unix
  48. Popularity: 9 web
  49. Popularity: 8 web services
  50. Popularity: 17 windows

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured