Stories by: Stephen Bell

Novell President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ron Hovsepian sees the acquisition of the JBoss application server by Red Hat as having "further validated our early adoption of JBoss."

A bank spokesman suggests interest in anti-fraud devices for ATMs might create a shortage and lead to delays in delivery.

Some internet users and administrators see increased input by governments into the public policy aspects of the internet as worrying, but ICANN chairman Vint Cerf views it as a positive move.

A spokesman for ICANN's "at-large" advisory committee has accused the organisation publicly of having lost touch with its philosophical "roots".

Vint Cerf says New Zealand needs to look to "open access" to the internet rather than a business model that allows domination by any one party.

NCR will launch programs designed to process the enormous amounts of data associated with radio frequency identification (RFID).

The State Services Commission of New Zealand has chosen IBM as its preferred supplier of network management and service delivery for the Government Shared Network (GSN), but nobody will say how much the contract is worth.

John "Maddog" Hall will consider parallels between open source software and music, addressing the risk that patents "kill off ideas instead of promoting them" at this year's Australasian Linux conference, to be held in Dunedin this week.

Wellington tech company Surveylab's ideas have "huge potential worldwide", according to Jenny Morel, head of investment company No 8 Ventures.

Many members of New Zealand's Parliament, according to inside sources, pay close attention to newspaper website polls canvassing public opinion on issues of the day, despite the fact that the respondents are a self-selected sample of those with internet access and a thirst for making their opinions known.

Movement towards open source is beginning to slow down, suggests Microsoft New Zealand's platform strategy manager, Brett Roberts. He claims some local customers are returning to Windows after tasting a Linux-based environment.