Stories by: Sandra Rossi

Australia's Andrew Eddie and Brad Baker, two of the core team members of Joomla!, the free open-source Internet content management system (CMS) that in three years has grown into a global development community with more than three million downloads in a year, will be guest speakers at a special event in Sydney on May 19, 2008.

Open source database company, Ingres Corporation, has announced four new appointments to its local team increasing its headcount to 32 staff spread across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland.

The Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) today began the rollout of Macquarie University's open-source Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) software to all NT public schools.

Analyst firms Gartner and IDC both released reports on the Asia Pacific server market this week but with different results.

In a bid to drive open source adoption in Asia, the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation have joined forces for the first ever open source community conference to be held in the region from November 26-30, 2007.

Australia may boast great cultural icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge but now the local ICT research community has developed an icon of its own, a robot that plays the violin.

Gartner today joined squabbling by vendors over the meaning, purpose and spirit of open source by declaring that users demand the right to modify and redistribute software code and the resulting products.

Australian software development company Squiz.net today announced the release of the newest version of its MySource Matrix open source CMS, version 3.12, under the GPL open source licence.

Nokia Australia has replaced the core management system used at its customer care centres across Australia with a solution built entirely on open source technology.

A new open source group, the Annodex Foundation, will be launched at the Australian Linux Conference being held in New Zealand this week.

Linux Australia is taking free and open source software to the streets with Australia's first Software Freedom Day on September 10, 2005.