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IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are worried about company politics should go ahead and do it without asking, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan IT manager Mark Uemura.

Problem solving is the broad theme for this year's Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) conference.

Search maverick Google missed widely on Wall Street's earnings expectations for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2004, its first quarterly financial report after launching its initial public offering.

Two months after announcing the resignation of its chief financial officer and six weeks after it changed the way it books support subscription revenue, Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. has named a new CFO.

Red Hat, the world's largest distributor of Linux, has sent what its CEO Matthew Szulik calls "a very strong message to investors and customers" by appointing Charles E. Peters Jr. as its new chief financial officer to replace Kevin Thompson.

After a bumpy ride toward becoming a publicly traded company, Google finally saw its stock start trading on the Nasdaq exchange at around noon Eastern Daylight Time Thursday and with a strong opening at US$100.01, up from its US$85 initial offering price. The stock, which trades under the GOOG ticker symbol, closed at US$100.34, up 18 percent.

Red Hat warned investors on Tuesday that it will restate three years' worth of financial results to reflect a change in how it accounts for subscription revenues. Red Hat said that although the change won't affect the total revenue ultimately collected by the company, it will shave the vendor's reported sales and profits over the last few years.

Google has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, putting the Internet search pioneer on its way to becoming a public company.

For hackers or 'script kiddies' to attack and severely damage a Web site or corporate server it's almost a point-and-click exercise using widely available 'downloadable exploits'.

The Liberty Alliance Project, which is developing Web technology to facilitate single-sign-on authentication, plans to support interoperability between its system and Microsoft Corp.'s rival Passport system.

Advanced Micro Devices has begin shipping two new versions of its Athlon XP processor and says machines based on the chips can be expected in September.