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Management vendor Quest Software Friday said it had acquired NetPro, a competitor that also offers tools to manage Microsoft infrastructure environments.

Surgient has renamed and updated its virtual lab automation software, which aims to relieve some of the burden on IT departments by allowing business units to set up their own virtual compute environments for internal projects like application development and testing.

Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.

The future of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) will be decided on November 26 when the deadline for proposals will close.

Heathrow’s T5 software testing issues have highlighted the importance of software testing, I hope that lessons have been learnt and that CIO’s across the world will take note in the future.

Integrating enterprise communication tools -- from telephony to e-mail, conferencing and instant messaging -- is the key to delivering a richer collaboration environment that increases productivity. But deployment and management of unified communications systems can be daunting.

Microsoft on Monday released the first service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 programming framework, offering improvements for building client, Web, and data-driven applications.

Paul Cormier is Red Hat's executive VP and head of Red Hat products and technologies divisions. His experienced thumb is firmly planted in many Red Hat pies; including engineering, product management and product marketing. The company credits the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Cormier's leadership and experience in enterprise technology. Cormier has returned Down Under on another visit to Red Hat's research and development team in Brisbane, and took some time out to chat with Computerworld about the anticipated boom in virtualisation, cloud computing, Microsoft's open source initiatives, CentOS, JBoss Application Server 5.0, how open source software can aid the current economic downturn, and of course, the growing role of Linux and RHEL in the enterprise.

An EMT subsidiary is poised to win a contract which would see the company be responsible for the provision of all drivers' licenses issued by the Vietnamese Transport Ministry.

Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.

Metrics tell us if a good job is being done or not and when things start to deteriorate or improve. They act as a yardstick to demonstrate improvements - or at least to ensure we are not regressing.