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    The database company is working on a project to let Mozilla's open-source desktop software work better with Oracle's business applications.

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  • Oracle bands with open-source patent group

    Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.

  • Govt CIOs still misunderstand open source: Novell

    The problem with open source software is a lack of understanding, not a lack of support, according to a Novell executive who hit back at the CIOs from some of Australia's top government agencies.

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    The database company is working on a project to let Mozilla's open-source desktop software work better with Oracle's business applications.

  • Study: Open source produces best results

    A consulting group has found that a key networking component of Linux is of higher quality in several ways than that of competing closed-source software.

  • MySQL to Oracle: Be afraid

    MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.

  • Microsoft move may spark database price war

    The company outlines plans for SQL Server, including a new lower-cost workgroup version aimed at open source and other competitors.

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    OpenGroupware.org has been launched with plans to create applications that compete with Microsoft Exchange server products.

  • Open source threatens Java servers

    Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

  • Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

    These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Duelling databases: Four apps tested

    Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.

  • Sun sets US$76 price tag on Office rival

    Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale May 21 with a price of US$75.95 in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.

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