Maybe the Olympics created such a feel-good atmosphere that everyone decided to give the boss another go, or perhaps with their heads glued to their TV sets the malcontents couldn't be bothered resigning. Whatever the reason, fewer local job changes came to The Rust Report's attention this week than is normal, although there were plenty of noteworthy moves abroad
Davnet, the Australian company that specialises in the infrastructure of smart buildings, has formed an alliance with Harmony Telecommunications to market broadband products and services in Singapore. Other alliances sealed during the week will also give Australian companies greater exposure on the World stage.
Sol 6 loses Yelland, Cross-Tasman ASP, ASPs all hype?
Cooperation predicted, Incompatibility issues, Growth in handhelds
Atmel scores Siemens' chip plant, Laptops cut cords, Baltimore secures PDAs
First CHA, then Netgear and now Victoria Police? James Robbins, Netgear's southern regional manager and former CHA marketing manager is set to leave to join the ranks of Victoria's "Force"
Four resellers signed, Corel scores financing deal with unnamed investor, Alliance completes first phase e-marketplace
Networking companies plunder ex-3Com, Geni teams up to put out network fires in NZ, Marconi to buy Mariposa for integrated access
NSW the digital state, Citrix turns to fire
A host of management tools for helping customers control, track and troubleshoot problems across enterprise networks took the spotlight at the NetWorld+Interop 2000 show last week.
As companies rapidly increase network infrastructure, more network professionals are looking for products that give a big picture of the enterprise environment, and let them anticipate and fix problems before they become serious, analysts say.
Australian solutions provider Praxa has called in a new chief from Deloitte Consulting and undertaken a restructuring to get back to its core competencies. The NCR old boys network continues to operate at Aristocrat, and elsewhere some intriguing changes took place during the week.
An all-in-one telecommunications solution for Intelligent Network service development has been produced by Australian company Pracom in league with Compaq, which will market the product internationally. In other news during the week the Australian Government moved to loosen some of the conditions applying to its IT outsourcing arrangements.
Financing a startup company is tougher than it has ever been. Some investors have been burnt badly after betting the farm when valuations were at an all time high. Many don't like to talk about it, but they have to learn from their mistakes. The startups suffer, as Len Rust explains
SecureNet and eSign Australia have joined forces to exploit their technologies in the development new public key infrastructure products and smart card security systems. Elsewhere this week the business action picked up a notch despite the ongoing saga of the Olympics
The Australian IT market will grow to be worth $A36 billion by 2004 with services showing staggering growth, according to one local forecaster. Elsewhere the researchers appeared to concentrate their efforts on the endlessly exciting e-commerce arena. Len Rust samples the latest offerings