Lincolnshire County Council in the UK has started shifting thousands of workers from Novell to Microsoft systems as part of an IT overhaul.
Cairns City Council has embarked on a telecoms overhaul that will see more than 1,000 users switch to VoIP and could even lead to the adoption of dual-mode Wi-Fi/cellular phones and the deployment of public hotspots.
Microsoft unveiled ambitious plans on Monday to encourage the use of its products across London councils, using Newham Council to showcase what its software can do.
Most of Australia's largest metropolitan councils have said they are not immediately interested in adopting Google's Gmail or Apps corporate packages, despite comments by one of the search giant's local partners to the contrary.
The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate the potential of open-source software.
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Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
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The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
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In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.
New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.
After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system.
AMD has released its Opteron processor, and several companies have also announced products based on the chip.
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