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Hyperic launches open source management project

The company is applying the open source model to the enterprise management software business Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

GNOME sliding Linux onto business desktops

The next version of GNOME has been designed to make it easier for administrators to deploy the Linux desktop environment in enterprises. Read more »

Schmidt: Enterprise shouldn't fear Google cloud

Google CEO Eric Schmidt reckons the company's cloud computing model is mature and secure enough for the enterprise -- but without support staff, analysts say business users won't touch Google. Read more »

Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift

Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week. Read more »

Microsoft offers ten reasons to shun Google

Microsoft has launched an attack on Google in which it seeks to dissuade businesses from downloading Google Apps. Read more »

Gartner: Prepare for consumer-led IT

Gartner analysts predict there will be a large-scale shift in technology influence toward consumers and away from central corporate IT departments. Read more »

Salesforce aims higher with new service

Salesforce.com is expanding its hosted applications lineup with a new high-end service aimed at big companies. Read more »

April plans for Sun's storage roadmap

Sun Microsystems will outline its long-term storage strategy in early April following the completion of the company's US$4.1 billion acquisition of storage vendor StorageTek back in September last year. Read more »

Novell brands its own open-source religion

Novell is readying two major product launches meant to make its open-source software more palatable to corporate customers. Read more »

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A better model for enterprise software

Business Service Providers are the next generation of enterprise software--a better business model that achieves higher benefits for customers, more quickly and for much less cost. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

Web 2.0 meets the enterprise

Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes. Read more »

Evaluate the hidden enterprise design tasks before committing to an API

Here are the reasons why the right API choice can make complex enterprise application development run more smoothly. Read more »

The ultimate guide to 'shrink-wrapped' Software evaluation

Packaged software has long been used to perform standard corporate functions such as accounting and payroll, now it's moving into most core business, do you know what you're in for? Read more »

A brief review of the EJB 2.1 specification

In this article, Builder.com gives you an overview of the advancements introduced in the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) 2.1 specification. Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

.NET and serviced components

The .NET Framework provides enterprise services for building highly scalable solutions, but the implementation can be tricky. Learn when and where these services should be used. Read more »

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Enterprise Architecture has failed in a big way

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Most EA initiatives failed. My guess is that more than 90% never really resulted in anything useful. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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