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  • HP silent on Aussie job cuts

    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.

  • ATO unfazed by HP/EDS cuts

    Hewlett-Packard's move to chop about 24,600 jobs worldwide following its US$13.9 billion EDS buy might not have much impact on the merged group's operation in Australia, according to Australian Taxation Office CIO Bill Gibson.

  • EDS reassures Aussie clients

    The Australian division of Texan IT services giant EDS has sent its major local clients letters assuring them that its US$13.9 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard wouldn't result in a drop in service levels.

  • KAZ to fire 100 staff?

    Telstra today declined to confirm or deny a report that it was firing up to 100 staff from its troubled IT services division KAZ.

  • All quiet at EDS Australia's union

    Despite the fact that outsourcer EDS is soon to be engulfed by Hewlett-Packard, the employees' union has not heard any rumblings about the merger.

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    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.

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

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    What do you need to do to get a bunch of Microsoft-obsessed geeks really excited?

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  • 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.

  • EDS embraces newest Siebel applications

    Siebel Systems will announce today in the US that the first company to complete installation of its latest customer relationship management system is IT services giant Electronic Data Systems.

  • 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.

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