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    Microsoft and open-source enterprise applications vendor SugarCRM unveiled a technical collaboration on Tuesday under which Sugar CRM will release its next customer relationship management suite under the Microsoft Community Licence.

  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • Sun expands open-source Java plan

    Sun Microsystems will begin releasing significant open-source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to the gadget version of the software technology.

  • Challengers forge into open-source integration

    Two initiatives from open-source companies JBoss and LogicBlaze point to the growing encroachment of open-source products on pricey back-end software.

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  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • Migration news: Windows to Linux, and vice versa

    Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?

  • Microsoft learns to live with open source

    Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.

  • Open source's next frontier

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

  • Sun floats open-source database idea

    Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates.

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  • 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.

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    Windows XP continues to be a hot topic amongst Australia's IT professionals. ZDNet Australia takes a look at some tips and analysis.

  • Instant Messaging Road-Test

    There are a swag-load of instant messaging applications available these days -- we run eight of them through the wringer, to save you the trouble.

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