EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

We begin with plans by Oracle to launch its customer relationship management (CRM) on-demand suite in a local data centre under a deal signed with HarbourMSP.

The news could prove a tempting option for government agencies and financial institutions prohibited under legislation from offshoring data.

Also today, the Victorian high school student involved in Twitter exploits, Red Hat hits back at Oracle and the latest news from the World Computer Congress in Brisbane...

-- Ry Crozier

MOST READ US hunters shoot down Google fibre Oracle releases monster "private cloud" box NBN Co reveals IT rollout progress ACCC to call 64 Kbps expert in Optus case Stallman crashes European Patent session FEATURED COMMENT "Its an argument of stability vs new features There is a reason why distros like debian 'stable' or redhat are years behind, its been (almost) proven with empiric evidence that the kernel (among other software) is bug free. If you want a newer redhat with just released features, its called Fedora, use it I just updated to the latest linux kernel 3 weeks ago, it has a regression where it will ..." deteego commenting on Oracle releases its own Linux kernel

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | September 22, 2010

Selects HarbourMSP to offer hosted service.

By Liz Tay | September 22, 2010

Javascript command used to distribute malware.

By Liz Tay | September 22, 2010

Algorithms let robots reflect and meditate.

By Brett Winterford | September 22, 2010

Defends performance, speed of updates.

September 22, 2010

International delegates met in Brisbane for the World Computer Congress 2010.

By Nate Cochrane | September 22, 2010

Monash says IT people are open hearted, quick witted and adaptable.

By Nate Cochrane | September 22, 2010

Swirls with discontent from last week's outage despite Telstra assurances.

By Staff Writer | September 22, 2010

British defence contractor to secure US cyber border.

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