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  • No Aussie datacentre for NetSuite

    For NetSuite customers, price, availability and performance of applications outweigh the desire to have their data kept inside the country, the company's CEO Zach Nelson said today.

  • Gartner: 'Wake up IT, you work in business'

    To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.

  • Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

    Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner?

  • OS X more appealing than desktop Linux: Gartner

    OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops, according to research group Gartner.

  • Time for Linux bigots to take a back seat

    Ideologues have to fade into the background and keep their philosophical debates within the the community.

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  • Cutting back the fat

    Less can mean more for resource-constrained organisations that want to save on costly IT solutions.

  • BPO: Save money or fix your processes?

    Business process outsourcing has much in common with its smaller sibling IT outsourcing, but there are still some lessons to be learned.

  • SMEs: Time to change channels

    Small and medium enterprises will have to factor in the competency of a vendor's channel partners as a key criteria in package selection, says Meta Group.

  • Software Assurance not so assuring?

    Microsoft has added disaster recovery aid to its Software Assurance maintenance plan but analysts question the sincerity of the offering.

  • Will Lotus users bite Microsoft's bait?

    A new program to convert Lotus Notes/Domino users to the Microsoft platform stands on shaky ground in Australia and the rest of Asia-Pacific, and has the potential to fail miserably.

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