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Webjet has turned to virtualising its servers to help slash maintenance costs and provide a four-times increase in availability.

Hewlett-Packard announces sweeping changes to its Labs. Stephen Lawson reports, and takes a look at a few of the projects currently in development.

A phone from Sony-Ericsson, a notebook from Sony and PCs from Dell and Hewlett Packard came top of their categories in a study of green electronics devices conducted by Greenpeace. There's little cause for celebration, though, as they only scored around half marks, leaving plenty of room for improvement.

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.

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

Apple rarely competes directly -- with anyone.

At the age of four Jon Maddog Hall stuck the wires from a rabbit-ear television antenna into an electric socket which sent him flying across the room. Acknowledging the power of technology, Hall went on to forge a career and life based around it. He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Hall has been the executive director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a volunteer. He has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer in the Digital Unix marketing group and Bell Laboratories among other companies.

At the age of four Jon Maddog Hall stuck the wires from a rabbit-ear television antenna into an electric socket which sent him flying across the room. Acknowledging the power of technology, Hall went on to forge a career and life based around it. He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Hall has been the executive director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a volunteer. He has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer in the Digital Unix marketing group and Bell Laboratories among other companies. He will be speaking at this year's Linux World Conference to be held in Sydney March 28 to 30. Even though Hall wishes he could have 50 hours in a day and use Star Trek transporters instead of planes to save time, he managed to take the time to speak with Computerworld about his life, open source, Linux International and the upcoming conference.

What began with single application, edge network services a few years ago, has exploded into core database and business systems at the Linux-loving Optus.

Fuelled by strong sales of Windows and Linux systems, the worldwide server market grew to US$11.5 billion during the second quarter of 2004, according to numbers released Friday by industry research company IDC.