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BEA looks to new products for licence growth

BEA Systems is looking to new products to stimulate licence revenue and allay concerns about the company, according to its CEO Alfred Chuang. Read more »

CBA employs virtualisation to aid consolidation

The Commonwealth Bank will rationalise its data processing centres, mainframes and servers over the next few years as the bank improves efficiency and saves costs. Read more »

AIIA: Indian outsourcing threat can help Australia

Australian companies are slowly but surely outsourcing more of their programming projects to countries like India -- but this could mean better jobs for Australian coders, according to the Australian Information Industry Association. Read more »

Sun's next goal: A Linux ecosystem

Sun Microsystems' ambitions have grown another size larger. Read more »

UK degree to include legacy app migration

UK Cobol specialist is aiming to make IT graduates aware of the importance of skills in legacy applications Read more »

ATO gongs offshore development

Australian Taxation Office officials have opted for homegrown software development to keep the Change Program on track, and have all but ruled out offshore labour. Read more »

Sage: Invest in new product development or die

Slow but certain death awaits companies which put legacy ahead of innovation, say Sage. Read more »

Developers debate survival of Mozilla suite

The survival of the Mozilla application suite is very much in doubt as developers question whether the success of stand-alone products Firefox and Thunderbird mean the death of the integrated suite that spawned them. Read more »

Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. Read more »

Firefox 3: New front in the browser war

Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »

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Legacy apps and .NET

Maximise your investments by using legacy apps in conjunction with the .NET Framework. Use Host Integration Server to integrate your old apps with .NET to save money. Read more »

Migrating Legacy Applications

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis, takes a closer look at the steps you need to take to successfully migrate legacy applications. Read more »

Creating XML from legacy data

This article explains how to transform a nebulous application requirement into a flexible working solution. Read more »

Overcoming old legacy systems with XSLT and Muenchian grouping

One method developers can use for legacy systems takes advantage of XSLT and Muenchian grouping. Read more »

Why VB6 still matters

Visual Basic 6 code is something Microsoft needs to take another look at if it wants legacy applications to play nice with .NET Read more »

Under the covers of the .NET CLR

.NET promises to let developers write code in numerous compliant languages, but exactly how does the CLR accomplish this feat? Read more »

Digging code: Software archaeology

At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. 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 »

Copy legacy Oracle tables with SQL*Plus

Tables with a LONG datatype cannot be copied via the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT syntax. They can, however, be copied with the SQL*Plus COPY command. This Oracle tip shows you how. Read more »

Don't sweat migrating legacy .NET projects to Visual Studio 2008

Migrating to Visual Studio 2008 is a breeze. It automates the conversion process and allows you to continue working with older versions of the .NET Framework. Read more »

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    This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Ever wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Aussie developers will be able to get up close and personal with some of the iPhone engineers in November to learn how to build applications for the platform. Read more »

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