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  • Australia still in dark over EDS job cuts

    EDS Australia is yet to obtain a regional breakdown of global workforce cuts of three to four per cent announced by chief executive Dick Brown in the United States overnight, a spokesman said.

  • Commbank exits EDS Australia holding

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is selling its 35 percent stake in Electronic Data Systems' (EDS) Australian operation back to its outsourcing partner.

  • 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.

  • EDS, Volante tipped to beat HP to South Australian contract

    EDS appears to have jumped the final hurdle, knocking Hewlett-Packard out of the race for one of the juiciest South Australian government outsourcing contracts, distributed computing support services.

  • Massive Microsoft migration for Australia Post

    Australia Post will migrate 10,000 users from its ageing Microsoft operating environment to the XP and Server 2003 platforms in a major win for services giant EDS.

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  • Read the blog post - Iain Ferguson

    Talking outsourcing

    If there's one jurisdiction that can claim to have learned from harsh experience in outsourcing, it's South Australia. Here's hoping others are paying close attention to how it applies those lessons.

  • Australian security: the lucky country

    Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Protecting local jobs

    Satyam Computer Services has taken a big step towards dispelling fears that foreigners will eventually takeover Australia's IT industry.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Telecom NZ can't take a joke

    Telecom New Zealand last week stopped Web sites all over the world from hosting a satirical version of one of its recent television ads.

Features and Case Studies (41)

  • EDS wins AU$58 million Vic outsourcing contract

    Global services group EDS has signed a AU$58 million outsourcing agreement with the Victorian government to manage VicRoads' IT infrastructure for five years.

  • EDS: Linux 'strategically important'

    The outsourcing specialist said it was "proactively engineering" Linux into its product portfolio, backtracking on previous statements that the open-source software was not suitable for large enterprises.

  • AU Tax Office extends outsourcing deal with EDS

    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended their outsourcing arrangement with troubled IT giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

  • Banking on outsourcing

    The Bank of Queensland is in the midst of a $480 million outsourcing partnership with EDS which has seen the bank's profits double in the last three years.

  • Minding the back end

    Business process outsourcing (BPO) is on the rise, with traditional IT services companies moving into this space. ZDNet Australia looks at what is happening in this emerging market.

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