Australian firms can now make money out of software developed in-house with the help of a new intellectual property specialist start-up.
IBM has announced that it will be making software development kits available to independent software vendors worldwide who choose to use the new Tivoli Autonomic Monitoring Engine.
One of PeopleSoft's flagship Asia Pacific clients, Air New Zealand, today revealed it is unfazed by aggressive wrangling between the enterprise software developer and competitor Oracle.
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The first public auction of shares in CRM company NetSuite closed on Wednesday evening at a price of US$26 a share -- double the original forecasts.
Aussie smartcard vendor ERG has decided to outsource to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and you can't help but think of the Qantas example.
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.
The internet has been awash with rumours about Windows 7, with a pre-beta release being handed out to attendees at the Professional Developers Conference in the US this week. But how many Windows 7 versions will there be?
Last week's blog on why consumers might be confused by contradictory messages on computer security from banks drew a few objections from interested parties ones that I thought would be worth responding to this week.
The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".
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Software makers are moving toward subscription-based licensing, as changing demands from customers dictate a shift from the paradigm of a one-time sale with upgrades, a report says.
At the AusCERT 2008 conference in the Gold Coast, ex-NSA staffer Brian Snow, told ZDNet.com.au that software can be secure -- but only if vendors overhaul their development processes.
Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.
IT vendors are still too interested in building flashy products instead of ensuring their software is bug free, which is an unsustainable situation, according to James Turner, industry analyst at IBRS.
CA's Melbourne office includes one of the largest antivirus research labs in the southern hemisphere. Part of that is a little room that contains numerous filing cabinets stuffed full of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch disks, each of which contains a "live virus".
Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group.
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McAfee, without realising it, has fixed a serious flaw in its popular product for managing security software, the security vendor said on Friday.
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