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Telstra today declined to confirm or deny a report that it was firing up to 100 staff from its troubled IT services division KAZ.
Hewlett-Packard has appointed one of its own executives to lead the Australia and New Zealand division of its new subsidiary, IT outsourcing giant EDS, shunting aside the group's acting managing director Neil Emerson in the process.
Hewlett-Packard today said it was "too early" to comment on whether Australian job cuts would result from the US$13.9 billion acquisition of EDS or even which executive would lead the combined entity locally in the immediate future.
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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.
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