Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.
The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations.
Business spending on IT in Australia and the Asia Pacific region will remain flat in the coming year, which means if IT companies want to grow they “cannot ignore” China, according to an IDC analyst.
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Investors will focus on Telstra's outlook for the next two years and particularly the progress of its "transformation" and the associated cost savings, when the company releases its results next week.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
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Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.
Being able to build a data warehouse right from the beginning of a company's life can eliminate some of the pitfalls typically associated with the project, but doesn't necessarily eliminate the most obvious one: uncontrolled data from multiple sources.
Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
While the introduction of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) will have a significant impact on the storage environment though 2006/7, over the next 12 months clients should be wary of the hype vendors will use to promote it.
A report has found that more than half the companies surveyed had increased their information-security budget in the past year.
The new version of Microsoft's widespread Office software package won't likely spur immediate mass upgrades among businesses upon its release, analysts said, due in part to a complex set of added features.
A leading analyst house is urging mobile operators to abandon their plans for third-generation (3G) networks.
The Web portal is set to announce an agreement to add WebEx online collaboration features into its enterprise instant messaging software.
PDAs are rapidly gaining in popularity, but with new wireless capabilities being added, how can you possibly do without one?
Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.
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