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Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.
A research paper released yesterday featuring a list of the top 10 predictions for government IT worldwide has indicated that tech-savvy departments will begin to adopt Web 2.0 applications this year.
After low year-end spending in 2003, businesses are likely to spend more on information technology than the amount they have budgeted for 2004, according to market research firm Gartner.
The Australian Customs Service says outsourcing most of its IT functions to one vendor was successful, but resulted in lack of innovation and internal expertise.
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Australian customers were today digesting the implications of last night's widely-predicted AU$7.6 billion acquisition of customer relationship management vendor Siebel Systems by Oracle.
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Public sector IT projects are moving forward but stakeholders have been stumped by the election. John Kost, managing VP for Gartner's government team, says people don't know who will make decisions once their project is implemented.
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