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  • EDS to take last crack at AU$1bn ATO mega deal

    The Australian Tax Office is preparing to put the last and largest of its IT outsourcing contracts centralised computing up for grabs, worth around AU$160 million per year. This is EDS's last chance to retain work with the ATO and possibly its first bid since its proposed acquisition by HP.

  • Govt CIOs: Vendors must play nice in multisourcing

    Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.

  • 2007: How was it for outsourcing?

    Government continues to shun colossal outsourcing contracts in favour of selective sourcing, while businesses display growing confidence in software-as-a-service -- however sustained skills shortages have plagued deployments, sparking interest in offshore options.

  • HP and EDS wed: Australian rivals to get a piece of the cake?

    Observers predict that Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of global outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion this week will bring a boost to the Australian integrated services market, but also warn the new Australian entity that its rivals will try to take advantage of the transition here.

  • Open source barred from Australian government

    Government was once the great hope for open source but it will continue to diminish due to a lack of support according to the CIOs of Australia's largest government agencies.

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  • Tax executives take to wireless

    The Australian Taxation Office could expand a pilot project involving access to corporate information through wireless means.

  • Battle of the bots

    You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.

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