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Codefest looks to the future of Web development

If improving your Web development skills is high on your agenda for 2005, you may want to join the hordes of Web developers from Australia and overseas preparing to descend in Sydney for the annual MXDU conference. Read more »

Linux conference domain faces uncertain future

A proposed review of little-used second-level domains by .au Domain Administration (auDA) has left a cloud hanging over the domain for Australia's biggest Linux conference. Read more »

Oracle's eye on the future

As part of its semiannual analysts' day, Oracle on Wednesday outlined a range of plans for the New Year and beyond, from integration of PeopleSoft technology to its planned entry into the market for collaboration software. Read more »

Microsoft puts Exchange, SharePoint online

For perhaps the first time in its history, Microsoft made the case on Monday that businesses shouldn't run its software. Instead, the software maker argued that corporations should let Microsoft run the software for them. Read more »

Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris. Read more »

Black Hat expels reporters in network snooping

Three journalists for a French security magazine were kicked out of the Black Hat security conference after they allegedly sniffed the press room computer network on Thursday. Read more »

Developers flock to Sydney for codefest

Over 2600 developers from around Australia have gathered in Sydney for Microsoft's thirteenth annual Tech.Ed conference. Read more »

Microsoft's Ozzie: open source scarier than Google

Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie reckons open source programmers' freedom from answering to shareholders makes it a greater threat to Microsoft than Google. Read more »

Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

XP, Exchange take center stage at US TechEd

Microsoft is expected to lay off Longhorn evangelism in favour of current products at its IT conference. Read more »

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Linux.conf.au day one: Less hype more code

A sold out Linux.conf.au 2003 started with the cheering of Linux users, hacks and hobbyists when Linus Torvalds was introduced suited up as none other than Tux, the famous Linux icon. Read more »

Does innovation matter?

Do we really care who invented what feature first? Read more »

The beginning of the end of Java as we know it?

Though the two companies appear to be cooperating more, especially in the area of Web services, the desires of IBM and Microsoft to vanquish one another should not be underestimated. Read more »

Tim Huckaby on TechEd 2003

Tim Huckaby, CEO of InterKnowlogy, MSDN regional director of the year and guest speaker at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Brisbane talks to Builder AU on this years event and life as a CEO on the road. Read more »

Special report: MXDU 2005

MXDU 2005, happening on February 17 and 18, is an annual event for developers wanting to learn the latest hints, tips, and ideas on using Macromedia MX technology to build and deliver the best experiences on the web. 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 »

Spry: Standards, Dreamweaver & the future

We caught up with Scott Fegette, technical product manager for Dreamweaver to discuss the ins and outs of the upcoming Spry release. Read more »

Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world

Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Investigating open source

The proprietary/open source dilemma confronts governments and businesses everywhere--it's only a matter of scale. Read more »

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Will China produce the next GTA?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Is it only a matter of time before the next big gaming hit in the west is built in the east? Read more »

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