News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.
Is Cabir rife in Sydney's taxis?
Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, has labelled pirated software as a "tougher competitor" to his company than open-source software.
Apple announced today that it would open a second official retail store in Sydney at 9am this Saturday (9 August), in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood.
Apple today peeled off the blue boards concealing its George Street Sydney store, where a handful of Apple fans have already started queuing for the official opening at 5pm tomorrow.
What do you need to do to get a bunch of Microsoft-obsessed geeks really excited?
With Melbourne resuming its rightful place as Sydney's slightly embarrassing provincial neighbour after the Commonwealth Games, the scene is now set for an event of real significance.
You've only got to hang around a datacentre for about 30 seconds before someone starts raving on about virtualisation. While the cost benefits of virtualisation are obvious, the management challenges often get swept under the carpet.
Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.
Most mobile services which are peddled as the "next big thing" have been around for donkey's years, while operators and handset manufacturers try to find a reason to convince consumers to actually pay for them. GPS looks to be going down the same road.
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.
The lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments, says former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn.
Open-source software is the industry's most notable "disruptive innovator", says Gartner. Will Microsoft be forced to advocate the platform?
So you've done the math and decided there may be a good business case for Linux after all. Just make sure you don't dive into the world of open source without fastening the rope securely to the bridge.
SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.
At a press conference in Sydney this week, antivirus firm F-Secure demonstrated how one of its malware analysis tools -- called FS-CSI graphically displays the behaviour of software.
This is a selection of short interviews with executives from Salesforce.com, Intranet Dashboard, McAfee and IBM, which were conducted at the CeBIT exhibition in Sydney last week.
Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant, said Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and CEO, who was in Sydney today. Also: Watch the four-part video.
Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant, said Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and CEO, who was in Sydney today. Also: Watch the four-part video.
Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant, said Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and CEO, who was in Sydney today. Also: Watch the four-part video.
New products this week include biometric scanners, flashy phones, and a whole heap of software. Check out all this week's Australian product announcements.
If you've got so much e-mail you don't know how you'll cope, have we got the software for you!
Everyone needs backups, but how do you recover a server quickly? We look at some of the options available for snapshot backup and other disaster recovery techniques.
In the second instalment of the ZDNet Australia's Film to Fibre trilogy, we look at video editing software, the effect it is having on how films are made, and who makes them.
It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business.
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