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Signature-based antivirus is dead: Get over it

A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well. Read more »

Banks 'should give back to open-source community'

Major open-source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community. Read more »

SAP opens arms to NetWeaver community

Business applications giant SAP expanded its partner network and launched a community forum meant to foster development for its NetWeaver software. Read more »

Big changes ahead for Flash

Macromedia took centre stage at the Flashforward2005 conference on Thursday morning to promise significant changes in its Flash animation software. Read more »

Oracle's Beehive buzzes at OracleWorld

Oracle unveiled a new open enterprise software application on Monday in the US, designed to improve the way users collaborate and communicate on projects. 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 »

Lundy: Time is right for open source in government

Open source might get a better look-in within government, says Senator Kate Lundy, if those responsible for purchasing decisions were forced by policy to evaluate all the options on the market. Read more »

Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers

Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday — a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo. Read more »

Novell CEO: We made Microsoft open up

Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery. Read more »

Favour us over proprietary software: FOSS advocates

Federal politicians should dump their policy of procurement neutrality and actively encourage agencies to adopt open source software, OSS supporters claim. Read more »

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Features (15)

Eclipse emerges from Microsoft's shadow

Here's why Eclipse is clearly on track to take over from Visual Studio as the leading tool platform in the industry. Read more »

Borland's bird's-eye view

Borland chief strategy officer Ted Shelton provides penetrating insight on .Net, Java, Web services, and today's controversies over standards in Part 1 of this interview. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Damian Conway

Builder AU recently caught up with the Australian Perl guru to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl, PHP, and the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne. Read more »

All about Longhorn

COMMENTARY -- Longhorn will be immensely popular once it is released, because Longhorn is revolutionary technology that makes desktop computing better. Read more »

Special coverage: Linux.conf.au 2004

Adelaide is set to host Linux.conf.au 2004 --one of the world's largest gatherings of open source developers--Builder AU takes you behind the scenes, in this exclusive coverage. Read more »

It's 9:00am: Do you know where your people are?

Today's workforce is located everywhere. This geographic dispersion of workers presents some interesting management challenges-especially for the IT manager. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

The open-source techie who means business

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »

Is the CIO role facing extinction?

Things have changed, and the clout that was once lavished on the CIO position is no longer automatic. In fact, the big question under debate is whether CIOs are even needed today. 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 »

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Blog (2)

Ruby needs a facelift

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- The Ruby Association has announced a new competition to redesign the logo for the Ruby programming language. Contestants have until the end of the month to design a new logo that best represents the language. Here's my entry... Read more »

10 PR 2.0 tips for startups

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- You’ve got a great product and spent much of your budget on developing your software or service and now you’re left with a marginal budget for marketing and PR. Sound familiar? Read more »

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