Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart.
IT infrastructure services giant EDS has drawn a line in the sand over the way it intends to drum up new infrastructure business, with selective sourcing, open source and IBM definitely not part of the equation.
Concerned by mounting industry criticism that Australia's long-stay IT visa scheme is being rorted by unscrupulous operators, federal IT and Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan has pledged the government will investigate.
With the Federal Budget only weeks away, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has bypassed Communications and IT Minister Senator Helen Coonan to court the chorus of discontent emanating from the government's back bench with a costed demand for widespread tax reform.
In what could be a boost for the local IT industry, the Department of Defence will start prototyping of new Network Centric Warfare (NCW) technologies to bring Australia's combat capabilities up to speed with friends and foe.
With the looming merger of IT analyst shops, Gartner and Meta Group, some clients say they are worried about a drop in analysis quality, service levels and vendor independence.
Communications shadow minister Stephen Conroy has called for competition watchdog the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to be granted powers to seek Telstra divest itself of assets should the telco abuse its market power.
Hungry for maintenance revenue, Oracle Corporation chairman and CFO Jeff Henley has stated the vendor will keep PeopleSoft's controversial licensing system for the foreseeable future, but also left the door open for aggrieved customers to negotiate a better deal.
Communications minister Senator Helen Coonan has ruled out the break-up and individual sale of Telstra's different business divisions as part of the government's forthcoming sale of the Telco.
In an ascendancy that shows CIOs and IT managers really can scale the corporate ladder to claim the CEO's chair, the former CIO of airline Regional Express (Rex) Hans Van Pelt, has taken out the top job at upstart and business-class only airline OzJet.
Plagued by a growing epidemic of spoofers, spammers and phishers hijacking its brand name, online auctioneer eBay has dumped its e-mail-only support model to keep wary enterprise customers happy.
A series of major federal government IT projects face delays and escalating costs as solid evidence emerges Australia could soon be in the midst of a high-level IT skills shortage.
As of Friday May 13 2005, Australia's numerous utility providers will feel the helping hand of the government over the coming months, with a series of free, special workshops to skill SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) users on the finer points of IT security and critical infrastructure.
Victoria's government has chosen to stick with the managed IT services they know, with the state's Department of Premier of Cabinet and the Department of Treasury and Finance awarding a $12 million infrastructure contract to incumbent vendor Unisys.
A drought of IT skills in the nation's capital has seen the Australian Tax Office (ATO) forced to shift a showcase software development project from Canberra to Melbourne because the agency is unable to fill 100 new positions required to complete the project on time in the nation's capital.