Enterprise technology giant IBM must be thanking Australia a billion or more correctly four, after Big Blue's local office pulled in more than $4 billion in revenues for the first time in the 2008 calendar year.
Australian start-up Proteome Systems has teamed up with IBM to land a multi-million dollar deal to provide Charles River Laboratories International with technology related to proteomics, which is the study of protein structure and function.
Fujitsu Australia's chief Rod Vawdrey last week backed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's $42 billion stimulus package, saying the intended consumer-led recovery was the best way forward.
Perth-based IT services firm ASG today said it was confident it would win major contracts in coming months and had opportunities in both the government and corporate spheres.
With the upcoming launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft will focus its massive resources on the issue of licensing, in an attempt to win customers for Oracle and IBM.
The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.
IBM has been slow to integrate its acquisition of security vendor ISS, but its decision to do so spells certain doom for smaller security vendors pitching for big business, according to analysts.
Dell has beat rival offers from Hewlett-Packard, IBM and ADNet Technology to win a large chunk of Sydney Water's IT spend for at least the next three years.
After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
IBM upped the stakes in the United States in an ongoing contest over corporate e-mail software with a program that offers business partners up to US$20,000 to dump Microsoft's Exchange in favour of IBM's Lotus software on Linux.
Database company and "Oracle killer" EnterpriseDB has just unveiled its plans for Australia and already has a handful of customers, including financial firm Bailey Roberts Group.
Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.
IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move designed to win software developers over to its products.
Glen Boreham will replace Philip Bullock as CEO following the latter's promotion to lead Big Blue's hardware business in Asia-Pacific, the company said today.
IBM's Lotus division has introduced the latest updates to its desktop messaging and collaboration server software.
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