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  • Grants system laissez-faire with billions

    An Oracle-based system used to administer grants for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) was not up to the task of monitoring the billions of dollars which has passed through it over the years, the federal auditor-general has said.

  • Oracle loses Melbourne to TechOne

    The City of Melbourne (CoM) will ditch its Oracle management systems in favour of local vendor TechnologyOne under a deal worth $3 million.

  • Oracle yet to tip Red Hat

    Oracle is yet to provide evidence Australian customers are switching to its Red Hat Linux support program despite announcing new business deals for the last quarter.

  • UXC buys JD Edwards consultancy

    Local IT services company UXC has acquired Adelaide-based JD Edwards consultancy Jigsaw Services for an undisclosed sum, bulking up its skills in the software now owned by Oracle.

  • Oracle claims Aussie apps wins

    Software giant Oracle went for overkill factor today as it named more than twenty new Australian customers of its enterprise applications.

Features and Case Studies (15)

  • Why Healthscope picked Technology One

    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.

  • Australia: ERP in government

    Phase two of government ERP implementations is set to take off. What can you expect? Also: Find out why one local city council had to ditch Oracle.

  • JD Edwards customers positive but wary

    A user conference in Melbourne almost goes pear-shaped for Oracle.

  • Oracle adopts RosettaNet standard

    The RosettaNet standard will provide a non-proprietary tool for developing business processes on Oracle's 9i application server.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

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