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Despite its strong ties to proprietary software vendors, the Australian Taxation Office has finally dipped its toes into open source by establishing a Linux-based system for information analytics.

Although reluctant to deploy open source software within its corporate network, Australia Post, has developed a time-keeping system for some 35,000 employees using a collection of open source tools.

You would probably imagine that a company that writes and sells software would make the protection of that software paramount. That's why it's hard to believe that my company has implemented no comprehensive efforts to prevent its bread-and-butter software falling into the wrong hands.

Enterprises looking for an alternative to proprietary development tools now have a range of open source software that can reduce the overhead and time to market.

A dispute between a prominent open-source developer and the maker of the software used to manage Linux kernel development has forced Linux creator Linus Torvalds to embark on a new software project of his own, in addition to the Linux kernel.

The Mozilla Foundation is cutting off development of its flagship Mozilla browser suite with the current 1.7.x line, but says it will back a community-supported version of the suite for those that wish to continue using it.

Legal professionals in NSW will soon access NSW court reference material via the new Judicial Information Research System (JIRS) application developed entirely in-house with Linux and open source technologies.

Attackers are no longer bothering to attack average Linux systems, because there's so much more money to be made from invading Windows, according to security researchers.

Linux vendors have begun releasing fixes for two critical security bugs in a networking component that could allow a denial-of-service attack or enable an attacker to take control of a system.

A flaw in the Linux kernel allows a 20-line C program to crash most distributions using the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels running on x86 and x86-64 architectures, according to security researchers.

I recently visited Zope, where I sat in on a training session for Z4I (Zope4Intranets), a commercial product that's layered on top of the open source Zope platform. Z4I is a toolkit for portal construction and content management. At the session, I met George Mengelberg, digital production engineer at the Joint Intelligence Center Pacific (JICPAC), a U.S. Department of Defense organization that chose Z4I over the likes of Documentum or Stellent. The big content management solutions can cost up to a million bucks, Mengelberg notes, not including the inevitable customization. As a taxpayer, I was glad to know that JICPAC had embraced a little-known product that it judged would meet its requirements as well, if not better, than a higher profile and much more expensive solution.