Australia's biggest companies are today reeling from shock overnight news that billions of dollars collectively invested into their Siebel CRM platforms now face an uncertain future after a lightening raid by Larry Ellison's Oracle Corporation snared the ailing CRM vendor for $US5.85 billion.
IT managers and professionals are finding it nearly impossible to stay on the right side of the law and keep their jobs.
Less than three hours after launching a new Hotmail address to expose government waste, the Australian Labor Party has warned public servants to never use their work computers or e-mail addresses to send information to it.
In a cultural watershed at Australia's largest retail finance institution, the board of the Commonwealth Bank has replaced card-carrying IT critic David Murray with technology evangelist and former CIO, Ralph Norris.
With pressure to rack up ever more sales and beef up their supply of IT talent, vendors are cherrypicking staff from their client base.
Australian PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users today breathed a collective sigh of relief on news that Oracle Corporation has finally succeeded in its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft.
A cloud of uncertainty and a war of words have engulfed IT contractors, employers and casual employees because of proposed employment law changes to go before the South Australian Parliament tonight.
The Australian Health Insurance Commission (HIC), the government agency responsible for Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, is shopping for a whole-of-enterprise identity management solution to give 20 million consumers and health care providers access to secure electronic transactions.
Employees of private and government organizations working with highly sensitive information are still failing to adequately secure laptops containing highly sensitive information, with a spate of recent robberies prompting a stiff warning from a former Australian intelligence chief.
The IT security of Australian Web-hosting providers has come under serious question, with more than 30 state and local government Web sites defaced in the last six months – including the homepages of two locally hosted foreign diplomatic missions and the highly sensitive NSW Casino Control Board.
Competing computer security vendors racing against each other to find and publish new software vulnerabilities are pushing users to the brink. They need to grow up and start getting responsible about the way they release information into the community, AusCERT director Graeme Ingram has warned.