Technology's role in boosting productivity and the resulting beneficial effects on the economy are hardly news to IT professionals and technology savvy managers. But now there's renewed pressure on IT departments to deliver strategic business advantage and a heightened awareness in the boardroom is going to shine the spotlight on CIOs a lot brighter. Len Rust explains
Ariba, Microsoft and IBM vowed they would spark the development of a business-to-business (B2B) Internet directory standard that could greatly simplify completing transactions over the Web.
In an article titled Burnie Gets Network Appliances MD Gig', Computerworld Today's 16 October edition incorrectly describes Michael Burnie as the former head of US enterprise storage giant EDS Asia Pacific. Mr Burnie was in fact employed by EMC Corporation. Computerworld apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Novell Akamaizes' Web speed with partnership, WANs with a difference, Nortel completes Alteon Web Systems purchase
Xircom has released its new credit-card sized handheld product called the Xircom Rex Pro 5.
Gnow your Gnokia
HP takes over classroom, RosettaNet's new head, Megatec's name change, EDS wins $US9 billion Navy contract
LookSmart still talking, Melbourne IT tenders top-level domains, Dot.com disasters
buy.com joins e-comm fraud-fighting squad, FinancePlus appoints New Day as channel partner, Tivoli's new POS system, OziSoft and GT merge
Bullant stings California, Up to mischief, Open platforms just ace
Novell proposes directory domain, Corel gets Microsoft money, new leader, Brisbane IT firm offers NFR security tools
Australian e-security specialist eSec has made a breakthrough on the world stage by negotiating an alliance with Linux specialist Red Hat. Other Aussie battlers also made their marks in the international arena this week
If you wondered how well the application service provider (ASP) hosting model is being accepted by corporate users consider the forecasts of growth at more than 60 per cent a year and annual revenue of $US2.5 billion by 2004. The figures came from Gartner Group. Len Rust looks at these predictions, as well as other recently released prognostications from the professionals
CSC and Optus spent black Friday ruing the deal that might have been after Westpac announced that its multi-billion dollar outsourcing requirements will be handled by IBM Global Services Australia and Telstra. While that news put all else in the shade, Australian companies continued during the week to show they can hold their own on the world stage