With a low barrier to entry, high developer popularity, and good software integration, PHP scripting language appealed to Victorian start-up Komodo for its development of a commercial, enterprise-grade content management system.
Australian icon Kennards Self Storage completed a $300,000 storage software implementation last month and now has its sights set on overhauling its communications network by signing a $50,000 IP telephony deal.
Tasmanian shell fish marketing company Tasea which trialled RFID technology for its fresh cargo last year is grateful to be in a business where privacy is not an issue.
Purchasing open source software provided by commercial companies is a good thing and installing it on more systems to reduce licensing costs is unethical, according to St George Bank’s chief manager of open systems Michael Page.
The South Australian Democrats has rejected a $50,000 content management system from an unnamed vendor for its new Web site in favour of the free PostNuke open source system.
After spinning off from its parent company four years ago, Perth-based company WA Go Online has started offering a suite of business applications delivered over the Internet that can be run either in-house or by an ASP.
A bill outlawing spyware is likely to go before Parliament as soon as September.
Whether it's a phone. a laptop, or a PDA, mobiles enable workers at all levels of a company the flexibility they need to get their jobe done. And the future looks set for more devices, some familiar, some new. Rodney Gedda looks at the market.
Many users of NT 4.0 have rejected Microsoft's recently announced product support extension and are planning a migration path to Linux.
Caught up in the tangle of manually installing and updating software, enterprises can find a tip or two in the open source community’s book on how to streamline the process, according to Google senior system administrator Marc Merlin.
Telstra looks like it is flagrantly disregarding the Australian Communication Authority’s (ACA) spam guidelines by forcing an opt-out of corporate e-mail and marketing material on users of its new online DVD service.
Microsoft’s relentless product support lifecycle is forcing users to seek out alternatives as upgrades add little business value.
Users of the MySQL open source database will soon have the option of calling Hewlett-Packard for support as the systems vendor extends its US-lead decision to Australia.
Enterprises relying on Technology One’s Finance One application on Computer Associates’ soon-to-be open source Ingres will be forced into a shotgun migration project within 12 months following the company’s decision to kill support for the database.
Less than one week after Sun Microsystems’ chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz pledged to open source its Solaris operating system, The SCO Group has stated that licence restrictions prevent Sun from contributing its work to the GPL (General Public Licence).