Seattle software giant, Microsoft, has asserted despite press saying otherwise last week's 22,000 line submission to the Linux kernel was not motivated by any perceived GPL violation. Yet, do the facts bare out? Does the argument really stand to scrutiny?

SAP wants to teach its customers how to get better value from the software they're already paying for.

How many testers work at Microsoft? About half! Ok, joking aside, the real answer is surprisingly similar, according to this engrossing tome "How we test software at Microsoft" from Microsoft Press.

Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.

Database design isn’t rocket science but, at the same time, it is a craft which must take into account how the database will be used. More often than not this doesn’t happen and businesses everywhere are losing billions of micro-seconds on underperforming databases due to simple lack of care.

In this present turbulent economic time businesses would do well to consider the opportunity for process efficiencies and cost savings that technology can bring. Positive Workforce Solutions are doing their bit to help slash payroll costs without reducing headcount. That's the message from four large enterprises, each attesting to effiencies and reduced expenses.

A survey has shown Australian enterprises are experiencing incredibly high levels of software project failure, with more than half not being completed successfully. At an average of $197,000 per week, failed projects are wasting millions of dollars for already cash strapped companies.