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Red Hat CEO in whirlwind Oz visit
Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst arrived in Australia yesterday for the first time, with plans to meet major customers and government representatives. Read more »
Interview: Red Hat's new CEO
Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News. Read more »
IT mega-projects: First 100 days are crucial
Executives wanting success from major IT projects need to be "ruthless" in spruiking their benefits to staff, and should only give their direct reports three months to win employees' hearts and minds before replacing them, a senior PricewaterhouseCoopers analyst has reported in sharing the results of recent research on CEO effectiveness. Read more »
Mozilla gets new head honcho
Mozilla Corp., the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, has promoted chief operating officer John Lilly to chief executive, the organisation behind the Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software said. Read more »
Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET strategy has come to a standstill, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google. Read more »
Ballmer calls security a never-ending battle
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the task of trying to stay one step ahead of virus writers and hackers is a never-ending battle. Read more »
Novell ejects CEO, CFO
Novell's board of directors on Thursday in the US named chief operating office Ron Hovsepian as CEO to replace Jack Messman, and ousted the company's chief financial officer. Read more »
XenSource gets new CEO, direction
Open-source virtualisation expert XenSource has chosen a new chief executive and altered its business strategy. Read more »
Ex-XenSource CEO touts desktop virtualization
Virtualisation start up Pano Logic, which founded by ex-CEO of XenSource, intends to offer a new solution to the desktop thin client market. Read more »
AIIA's Moon presses Conroy for broadband timetable
Australian Information Industry Association CEO Sheryle Moon has called upon the new Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, to outline a schedule for rolling out a national broadband network. Read more »
Features (11)
The Power of Perception
In some places, IT still has a perception problem, but this problem can be overcome to the benefit of the business. Read more »
What's senior management's view of your project?
You may find yourself wondering what managers above you think about your work. Here are some insights into what may be going on in their heads and how you can help manage your manager's view of your projects. Read more »
Towards a Semantic Web
The ability to interpret machine semantics on the Web is becoming crucial to many industries. Can Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web help create a new Web order? Read more »
Software projects--ROI balancing acts
Optimising the profitability of a software project depends on balancing short-term costs with long-term benefits. Here are the key factors which will help the decision-making process. Read more »
Will MySQL become the next Linux?
MySQL AB had just $5 million in revenues last year, but company CEO Merten Mickos gives off the impression that his company could become the next Red Hat or Oracle. Read more »
Your biggest project management mistake
What's your worst project management mistake? Some project management veterans share their biggest blunders. Add yours to the list. Read more »
Longhorn beta unlikely this year
Microsoft's efforts to bolster security in Windows XP will likely delay the release of a widespread test version of its forthcoming operating system until next year. Read more »
Smart planning reduces Web services security risks
Web services have great potential, but security concerns are preventing many organisations from taking advantage of the technology. Here are several suggested policies that CIOs can follow to develop a solid Web services plan. Read more »
Reliable software--"Mission Impossible"?
Sustainable computing may sound like a slogan out of the pages of a New Age manual, but there's nothing crunchy about the people behind it. Read more »
Keeping the door open...and shut
A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »
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