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ACT Greens MP demands Firefox

Canberra's shared services organisation InTACT came under fire at the state's budget estimates for not allowing members of the Legislative Assembly to use Mozilla's popular browser Firefox. Read more »

Firms will adopt hybrid software cloud

Most businesses will deploy a hybrid cloud computing model based on proprietary and open source software due to the complexity of niche enterprise applications, said a Red Hat executive. Read more »

Open source adoption ramps up

Eighty five percent of companies are already using open source software, with most of the remaining 15 per cent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner. Read more »

Yahoo to chop at least 1,400 jobs

Yahoo yesterday in the US reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for the third quarter, issued cautions about a weakening advertising market, and confirmed that layoffs were indeed on the way. Read more »

World Bank gets hacked

The computer network used by the World Bank Group has suffered a series of at least six intrusions since mid-2007, according to a report. Read more »

Silicon Valley trip for Qld minister

Queensland's information and communications technology minister Robert Schwarten has scheduled a trip to the US and Canada to meet with global tech giants and top-ranking public sector technology officials. Read more »

Gates is gone but the fight goes on: Stallman

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers. Read more »

Cisco partners sell fake routers to US military

Cisco admits its partners sold counterfeit Cisco products to the US military, posing a serious threat to military and critical national infrastructure, according to the FBI Read more »

Dell, HP, Lenovo rev up Linux with driver promise

Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux. Read more »

Sun sheds light on its open-source future

Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development. Read more »

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10 open source projects worth checking out

The open source field is pretty crowded, but certain projects stand above the rest. This article introduces 10 open source tools and solutions you don’t want to overlook. Read more »

Reap the green IT benefits of thin client computing

This article notes that applying a selective and rigorous methodology to a thin client migration will position IT teams to reap the enhanced green IT and ROI benefits that the computing model offers. Read more »

Five alternate careers for IT pros

Considering a career change? Book author Janice Weinberg points out some of the paths open to IT workers. Read more »

Use this process to estimate a project's effort hours

Once you understand the effort that's required for a project, you can assign resources to determine how long the project will take and estimate labor and non-labor costs. Here's a process you can use to estimate the total effort required for your project. Read more »

Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET

In the wake of the recent PDC and TechEd developer events, Microsoft has decided to put some of its key executives out on the road to explain the innovations that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 have in store. Read more »

10 midyear resolutions for net admins

We've put together a list of resolutions aimed at helping net admins line up their priorities, effectively deal with the day-to-day issues, and plan and execute improvements. Read more »

Why does process improvement fail?

It's clear, both anecdotally and objectively, that process improvement efforts have failed far more often than they have succeeded. Read more »

Perceiving the true potential of technology

Robin Christopherson, head of accessibility at AbilityNet, says he owes everything to the freedom technology has provided Read more »

Special report: Linux.conf 2005

Builder AU will be covering the latest news, interviews and blogs from Linux.conf.au 2005 live in this special report from Canberra. Read more »

Insights into Linux Web site deployment

Peter Harrison, author of the Linux Quick Fix Notebook, discusses the Web site hosting decision making process and shares his thoughts concerning the future of Linux. Read more »

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Adoption-led software procurement

Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, describes an alternative regime for getting software into the business. A regime that comes from inside enterprises rather than vendors. Read more »

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Azure: A matter of trust

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »

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