Since partnering with ERP vendor Damgaard mid last year, specialist financial systems company Scalable Data Solutions (SDS) has gone from strength to strength, according to SDS's managing director, John Crew. The integrator has taken eight orders in Australia for the Damgaard Axapta ERP solution, with three sites already live, making it the biggest Damgaard dealer in Australia, according to Crew.
IT research firm International Data Corp (IDC) has sized the local 1999 services market, showing IS outsourcing leading the charge, estimated to be worth around $2 billion, but it's not likely to happen again, according to Merv Langby, IDC's chief analyst, services.
Australian-based network consulting firm SLI Consulting has been brought in to redesign and benchmark stage two of what is being touted as the largest Win 2000 storage area network rollout in the world.
One of South Korea's largest ISPs, Thrunet, servicing over three million subscribers, was looking to deploy a new domain, Korea.com, with the initial installation comprising 120 clustered 8-way Compaq Presario servers with 31TB of multi-level RAID SAN storage to service five million potential subscribers.
After setting up shop in Australia six months ago, Linux developer Red Hat has signalled a new channel push, launching its Certified Channel Partner Program.
Having managed to secure retail distribution agreements with a number of channel companies for its low-end SOHO products, Red Hat is looking to bolster its high-end offerings.
Looking to boost its DSL modem sales, customer premises equipment manufacturer Netcomm has found an unlikely channel to market, in the form of broadband services provider Quadtel.
The two companies have formed an alliance in which Quadtel will in effect become Netcomm's distributor, reselling the vendor's hardware both locally and internationally, while Netcomm in turn will leverage Quadtel's broadband offerings when it comes to implementing its planned DSL rollout in the not-too-distant future.
Server application software developer Citrix Systems has appointed a new man to head its marketing department in an attempt to bolster its Asia-Pacific branding operations and further its push into the local enterprise space locally.
Garry O'Brien, formerly national sales manager, Australia/New Zealand, for IBM's Personal Computing Group, is taking up the position of marketing director for Citrix Systems, and is looking to "skill up the channel". In doing so, he hopes to enable Citrix to penetrate the enterprise market.
Ericsson has staked a claim on tomorrow's wireless Internet market sending a strong warning to traditional networking vendors that another player has hit the scene.
Australian-based security integrator Megatec has been called into the lineup to assist the NSW Police Department with its email content filtering policy.
Gearing up for Australia's potential broadband explosion, US RADIUS developer Funk Software has set its sights on the Australian market signing up inTechnology as its operations base down under.
inTechnology, a self-contained company derived from Logical Communications, has been contracted as a local office in both Australia and New Zealand, under the trading name of Funk Software Australia.
Despite a Y2K-bug-related interruption, UK-based software developer Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) has managed to get back on track with the development of its Make it SOE product, chalking up $2.5 million in sales so far this year. At the same time, the company has continued to aggressively recruit resellers in NSW and VIC to bolster its local presence.
Networking and data storage distributor Lan1 is hosting a technical roadshow across Australia to educate resellers about RAID and other storage developments.
Ingram Micro has stepped in to become the exclusive distributor of contact management tool ACT! 2000 after Tech Pacific pulled out of distributing the product at the beginning of the year.
Dataflow creditors were told they are going to have to wait another 14 days before they get any real information regarding the fate of the now defunct education software distributor.
Catching up with its international operations, Cisco Systems Australia has announced the implementation of the networking vendor's Go To Market (GTM) strategy.
A leading integrator has scored the lucrative tender for Education Queensland's School LAN Project, while the project itself has renewed reseller concerns over the State's cumbersome purchasing policy.