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BOM-ANU deploy $30m Sun supercomputer

BOM-ANU deploy $30m Sun supercomputer

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology will be the first major weather forecasting site worldwide to run on an open source stack as part of a $30 million-plus supercomputer rollout.
Staff Writers Mar 19 2009 1:32PM Hardware
Top 10 most recession-proof technologies

Top 10 most recession-proof technologies

Times may have been tough before, but few economic slumps have been on the level of the global recession currently gripping the planet.
Iain Thomson Mar 9 2009 9:03AM Software
Android could overtake iPhone by 2012 say analysts

Android could overtake iPhone by 2012 say analysts

Analysts at Informa are predicting that sales of phones using Google’s Android operating system will outpace Apple by 2012.
Iain Thomson Mar 6 2009 3:08PM Software
Open Text breaks Livelink Web 2.0 dependencies

Open Text breaks Livelink Web 2.0 dependencies

Open Text will enable users of eDOCS and its other enterprise content management systems to take advantage of Web 2.0.
Ry Crozier Feb 25 2009 3:02PM Software
Analyst: SaaS and open source ‘won’t happen’ in 2009

Analyst: SaaS and open source ‘won’t happen’ in 2009

Software as a service, the model by which software is hosted and delivered over the network, “will not happen” in 2009, according to Gartner research director, Andrew Rowsell-Jones.
Brett Winterford Feb 13 2009 3:32PM Software
GlassFish gets LAMP stack and multimedia add-on

GlassFish gets LAMP stack and multimedia add-on

Sun Microsystems has added an integrated LAMP stack and communications server add-on developed with Ericsson to its open source GlassFish Web platform.
Staff Writers Feb 11 2009 3:15PM Software
Microsoft pushes Vista for school laptops

Microsoft pushes Vista for school laptops

Microsoft is backing Vista as its platform of choice for the Federal Government’s student laptop project, despite XP’s dominance in the netbook market.
Ry Crozier Feb 9 2009 9:25AM Software
Technology giants propose white space plan

Technology giants propose white space plan

A collection of companies including Microsoft, Google and Motorola are teaming up for a new white space wireless network plan.
Shaun Nichols Feb 5 2009 3:11PM Networking
Mozilla champions Open Source Web video

Mozilla champions Open Source Web video

The Mozilla Foundation is putting its significant clout and cash behind an initiative to create an open video format on the Web which would let users watch streaming video all over the Internet without having to use a plug-in.
Sylvie Barak Jan 28 2009 6:42AM Software
Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 5.3

Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 5.3

Red Hat has released the latest version of its corporate Linux distribution, offering enhanced support for virtualisation and an open source implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java platform for the first time.
Daniel Robinson Jan 22 2009 6:20AM Software
Alfresco upgrades flagship ECM offering

Alfresco upgrades flagship ECM offering

Enterprise content management (ECM) firm Alfresco has released a major new version of its Alfresco Labs open source application, designed to offer greater social computing and collaborative functionality, and a viable alternative to Microsoft SharePoint.
Phil Muncaster Jan 22 2009 6:20AM Software
Adobe to open up Flash streaming protocol

Adobe to open up Flash streaming protocol

Adobe is to open up the messaging protocol used in its Flash platform to deliver multimedia content over the internet, in a move designed to help developers build richer applications.
Daniel Robinson Jan 22 2009 6:20AM Software
Open source developers take to the cloud

Open source developers take to the cloud

As many as 40 per cent of developers working on open source projects plan to offer their applications as web services hosted by cloud providers, according to the latest figures from Evans Data.
Sylvie Barak Jan 21 2009 6:26AM Software
Open source USB key to $2bn school laptop plan

Open source USB key to $2bn school laptop plan

The Rudd Government’s promise of a laptop for every child could fail without at least $2 billion in public funding, but an alternative USB ‘computer’ system pioneered in France may be its saviour.
Ry Crozier Dec 10 2008 3:07PM Hardware
iTunes preparing to open up?

iTunes preparing to open up?

Is Apple about to unwrap an early Christmas present for its users by unwrapping the DRM from its iTunes store songs?
Wily Ferret Dec 10 2008 7:12AM Software
Microsoft claims document interoperability improvements

Microsoft claims document interoperability improvements

Microsoft said that document interoperability efforts are steadily improving, and that a recent Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) event it held in Belgium has delivered many concrete results.
David Neal Dec 5 2008 12:48AM Software
Electronic recycling plant opens in Sydney

Electronic recycling plant opens in Sydney

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has opened a new e-waste recycling plant,but environmentalists are falling over themselves to say that it was not enough to solve the country's epidemic of gadgety garbage.
Nick Farrell Nov 20 2008 6:24AM Hardware
MySQL boosts performance with Query Analyser

MySQL boosts performance with Query Analyser

MySQL, the open source database branch of Sun Microsystems, has unveiled a new addition to its subscription service known as Query Analyser.
Shaun Nichols Nov 20 2008 6:10AM Software
Adobe throws 64 bit flash player open

Adobe throws 64 bit flash player open

Gift for Linux community
Sylvie Barak Nov 18 2008 6:25AM Software
Q&A: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation

Q&A: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation

Stallman discusses his views on free versus proprietary and open source software, social networking sites and privacy issues.
Rosalie Marshall Nov 15 2008 10:20AM Software

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