Local whitebox giant Optima has taken the wraps off five new Intel systems and is prepared to add AMD Opteron-based servers to its catalogue if only the market demanded them, according to server product manager Ole Mortensen.
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is to clamp down on businesses using public telephone directories for marketing purposes and will release new privacy guidelines next month.
Notebook manufacturers may be gung ho over the multimedia-driven consumer market, but Intel has the business market firmly within its sights with its next-generation Centrino mobile technology unveiled today.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) in Canberra is considering dumping Microsoft Office in favour of open source software for 3000 staff, according to a request for expressions of interest.
Dual core processors will increase software licensing costs by up to 50 percent by 2006, warns Gartner research vice president Andrew Butler.
The Northern Territory government plans to introduce IP telephony as part of an all-departmental communications and network overhaul valued at around $140 million over five years.
Despite concerns by local open source industry groups that an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will result in US-led intellectual property laws being applied here, Austrade is confident the agreement will open a $US30 billion homeland security market to Australian technology companies.
Sydney-based startup Crux Cybernetics has developed a hosted work and resource management solution aimed at helping companies better manage projects, especially those which are distributed.
Red Hat may have veraciously eaten away at Sun Microsystems' market share for Solaris on Sparc in recent years but the company president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz is confident that it can effectively compete in the x86 server space and regain customers from the increasingly popular Linux vendor.
Motorola may have shredded 120 staff from its software group last month but spin-off company Freescale Semiconductor has modest expansion plans for its local operations based in Adelaide, according to Australia and New Zealand manager Jay Yantchev.
Sun Microsystems' high-profile president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz has struck a raw nerve with his inflammatory Weblog entries which has led to Hewlett-Packard sending a letter of demand to Sun to put an end to the commentary.
Industry murmurs about a lack of commercial support for Linux are justified, according to Education in the Workplace Institute director Ihian Mackenzie who believes the "free" nature of Linux is stifling its penetration in the business market.
Despite already facing end user scrutiny over its delayed release and the possibility forcing another hardware refresh, Microsoft’s next generation of Windows - codenamed Longhorn – will sport a multitude of enhancements, according to the company’s senior vice president of servers and tools Eric Rudder.
Originally spun off from the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane, IT security company Wedgetail Communications has been acquired by US-based Vintela in a deal the company claims will make integrating Windows and Linux environments easier.
If those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it, Google strategists might want to take a good look back at how a dynamic Netscape was choked by a browser-bundling Microsoft in the late 90s, as chairman Bill Gates divulged the company’s Internet search ambitions in Sydney recently.
