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  • Chills at Microsoft's security huddle

    Microsoft likes to keep its friends close -- and now that security companies are its foes, it may well want to keep those even closer.

  • XenSource gets new CEO, direction

    XenSource, a start-up trying to commercialise software that lets several versions of Linux run on the same computer, has chosen a new chief executive and altered its business strategy.

  • Win2K clustering: Optimising reliability?

    Whether you're providing Web services to your company or customers, hosting critical applications and data, or building a bulletproof e-mail infrastructure, load balancing and cluster services are key tools for providing reliability and fault tolerance. Take a look at Microsoft's offering.

  • Penguins: Power to the enterprise

    It started as a small rebellion--a warning shot fired at the Windows monopoly by independent-minded programmers. But the open-source movement traditionally associated with the happy penguin and the pierced, tattooed crowd is increasingly moving into the enterprise, mingling peacefully with commercial and proprietary code.

  • Oracle mostly backs Tanner on Web 2.0

    The Australian government's approach to information management has previously often been "grandiose" and overly simplistic, according to Oracle's Australian division, which today mainly backed comments by finance minister Lindsay Tanner that the government needed to adopt Web 2.0-style tools.

  • Oracle plans content management splash

    Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year.

  • Microsoft unveils free enterprise search

    Microsoft is targeting the lower end of the enterprise search market with Search Server 2008, a free version of which will also be available.

  • EMC hawks subscription backup service

    EMC has launched a new strategy and a product for businesses looking to make use of online storage and backup -- the company also plans to roll out the service in Australia the second of this year.

  • Ubuntu-maker launches Bazaar development tool

    Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has released a content-development tool designed to move development into the Internet age.

  • IBM ships Content Manager software

    IBM said Tuesday it is shipping IBM Content Manager, software that provides a single point of management for unstructured content proliferating throughout many organizations.

  • Microsoft-Novell pact doesn't dent Red Hat growth

    Red Hat is still the flavour of the month in the Linux market, despite Novell making some inroads after its controversial alliance with Microsoft.

  • French parliament picks Ubuntu for Linux switch

    When members of the French parliament and their assistants return from their summer break, they will conduct parliamentary business on PCs running Ubuntu.

  • Adobe's Creative Suite 3 hits store shelves

    Adobe Systems has released in four packages the next generation of its design and Web applications.

  • Put your money where the media centre is

    Consumers may be slowly warming to the benefits of Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) PCs, but most businesses are still unaware that this steadily growing market promises new potential revenue streams with a relatively small investment.

  • French MPs dump Windows for Linux

    After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it's the French MPs' turn to switch to open source. From June 2007, PCs in French dputs' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software.

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