Stories by Ellen Cresswell

Marketing management reorg at Compaq

Compaq's marketing communications director William Calarese has resigned and will return to British Telecommunications as the head of its global brand alliance program for Asia-Pacific and South America.

PwC launces e-services

Australian enterprises will be the testbed for a new Internet services offering from global giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.

PwC launches e-services

Australian enterprises will be the testbed for a new Internet services offering from global giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Getronics trims staff

Twelve staff have been retrenched in a middle management fat-trimming exercise at network services giant Getronics.

Y2K delays ETrade global launch

Y2K technology freezes in the US have hampered ETrade Australia's attempts to offer online cross-border trading with US financial markets.

NEC issues about face

Despite repeated assurances to the contrary, NEC Australia's computing group announced today it would amalgamate its operations with Packard Bell NEC from next year.

SCO aims at enterprise users

SME traditionalist SCO is attempting to shift into the enterprise Unix space as the Intel-based servers have become more scalable.

Hold off on ASPs: Microsoft

Despite the current hype, it will be at least five years until application service providers (ASPs) become common place, according to a senior Microsoft executive.
John Connors, vice president of Microsoft's worldwide enterprise group, said the ASP principle was "more complicated than it appears on the surface", and users should give the practice due consideration before hosting their applications.

Com Tech enters ASP arena

Com Tech has joined the Application Service Provider (ASP) game from afar, leasing its data centre facilities to budding service providers.

Gartner rejects Linux community attack

Gartner Group today rejected claims its unflattering assessment of Linux belied a Microsoft bias, after publication of its assessment produced a furious backlash from amongst the Linux community.

Gartner slams Linux with hostile review

A damning report from Gartner has all but put the kiss of death on Linux, but devotees of the OS maintain it's a force to be reckoned with.
"Linux is the 'hype du jour' that is thought by some to have the potential to upset Microsoft's dominance on the mainstream desktop," the Gartner Group report says.

Telstra refutes Oracle deal

Telstra has backed away from reports it is on the verge of signing a significant internet TV deal with Oracle.

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