Stories by Julian Bajkowski

Treasurer wades into Telstra's offshore jobs row

The federal treasurer Peter Costello has fired a shot across Telstra's bows over the redeployment of 450 IBM code-cutting positions at Telstra to India, urging Telstra (and presumably IBM) to examine all options very carefully before axing the positions.

Telstra, government attacked over IBM job cuts

The Federal government and Telstra has come under heavy fire over the redepoloyment of 450 Telstra code cutting jobs to IBM India, with both the federal opposition and the Australian Computer Society accusing the government of allowing Telstra to ride roughshod over the national interest.

Telstra applications deal sees 450 IBM jobs sent to India

IBM Global Services will send 450 local jobs to India in order to keep alive its applications development and maintenance development contract with Telstra after the telco’s blunt ultimatum to IT vendors to sharpen prices, improve service or get out.

2004 outlook: Front end loaders

The Computerworld editorial team has collected the views of analysts and the industry about what to expect in the New Year. In this instalment, senior journalist Julian Bajkowski talks to industry representatives about the challenges facing content management in 2004.

If vendors were Santa…and users behaved

It was the week before Christmas, and all through the in-house data centre not a user was stirring, not even a mouse… except for one or two minor NT reboots, a small router problem and a mysteriously fluctuating UPS.

Interview: Cops Tool Up to Do a Job On Data

While Tony Rooke has been NSW Police CIO for less than a fortnight, he has outlined some of the biggest technological changes since the introduction of radio for police operational communications.

NSW Police to overhaul architecture, dump mainframes

Only days after his appointment as the CIO of the NSW Police, Tony Rooke has revealed that the force will completely overhaul its IT architecture and infrastructure dumping the current mainframe platform for Unix-based open systems.

Fed security site offers Linux download

If gentlemen prefer blondes then, it would appear, intelligence agencies prefer Linux. Or at least so it would seem judging by downloads on offer at OnSecure, a joint portal of the highly secretive signals intelligence collection agency the Defence Signals Directorate and the spam-busting National Office of the Information Economy.

Customs 'monster' passes Senate

Legislative amendments to extend the go-live date of the Australian Customs Service's trouble-plagued Cargo Management Re-engineering (CMR) system by a year has been passed by the Senate, but not before the federal opposition made hay in the Upper House over the delay.

Outsourcers need to come clean

If it were not for the last five years of bad value equalled by bad service, it would be almost possible to feel sorry for large outsourcers. I say almost possible, because at the end of the day (or in this case five- to 10-year contracts) it is gradually emerging that those who, following the business ideology of the time, sent almost every piece of IT kit and staff packing to the nearest friendly multinational willing to lighten them of seven to eight digits worth of budget.

Bean-counters on the nose with CIOs

Some of the auditing staff sent in to check compliance of IT departments with corporate governance and regulatory standards frequently know little about IT, less about infrastructure and are gouging stretched budgets to deliver for a substandard result, according to a growing number senior IT professionals.

Beware RFID vendor hype: Manugistics

When it comes to the amount of publicity RFID is attracting these days, Manugistics Australia's managing director Tim Moylan makes no bones about being just a little sceptical.

NSW Police appoint CIO

New South Wales Police has hired its first CIO, with Tony Rooke taking the helm to develop, oversee and implement the force's information and technology strategies.

RFID needs ‘forky’ toughness

Anyone subjected to the current onslaught of vendor hype around Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) may be interested in some projected results from cautionary voices who spoke to Julian Bajkowski

Telco billing gets a drilling

In an effort to spare CFOs and enterprise telco managers the pain of fluorescent markers or forcing comma-delineated ASCII into spreadsheets, AAPT has launched a self-service, online billing reports system for enterprise customers.

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