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  • A video chat with Oracle Australia's chief

    We get the goss from Oracle Australia and New Zealand chieftain Ian White on the sidelines of the technology giant's gargantuan OpenWorld confab in the United States last week.

  • Jovial Ellison cracks IBM jokes

    Oracle supremo Larry Ellison has taken several potshots at his company's rival IBM, denigrating the power efficiency of Big Blue's hardware and opening fire on its blanket "Smarter Planet" marketing campaign.

  • Curtin Uni picks Microsoft Live@edu

    Curtin University has decided to put its 192,000 students and alumni onto Microsoft's hosted Live@edu email system and will be migrating them over this month.

  • Qantas plans slimmer, friendlier IT dept

    Qantas technology tsar David Hall today laid out his vision for a more streamlined IT department at the airline that would move past what he described as its "transactional and sometimes antagonistic relationship" with other divisions.

  • News Limited phases out Solaris

    Publisher News Limited has decided to cut down the number of its server operating systems from four to three, with Solaris drawing the short straw.

  • SA to build TAFE student info system

    The South Australian Government has signed a $20.4 million deal with SunGard Higher Education to build a new student information system for the state's entire Technical and Further Education (TAFE) network.

  • Centrelink revamps ICT services panels

    Welfare agency Centrelink has flagged plans to overhaul the way it procures a raft of ICT services, consolidating two separate panel contracts into one overarching deal with between 10 and 15 vendors.

  • Telstra scores $50m Visy contract

    Telstra announced today that it had won a five-year $50 million contract to provide a network services and cloud computing platform to packaging giant Visy.

  • ICT companies using more lobbyists

    Australian technology and telecommunications companies are making more use of lobbyists to gain influence in Canberra, the Federal Government's lobbyist register has revealed.

  • NZ, Australia to get Win7 first

    The first retail sales of Windows 7 will take place in New Zealand and Australia on 22 October, Microsoft confirmed this week.

  • ACCC eyes Oracle's Sun buy

    The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) today commenced monitoring Oracle's proposed US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

  • Sun touts Java app store

    Sun is to launch a Java application store, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has revealed.

  • Tasmanian Govt appoints hardware panel

    The Tasmanian Government has announced a list of technology hardware resellers and approved manufacturers to supply hardware to government agencies over the next five years.

  • Sun buyout leaves Aussies divided

    Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.

  • Oracle buy 'no worries' for MySQL users

    Australian MySQL expert Arjen Lentz today said that Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems and the associated MySQL open-source database assets was not a problem for MySQL users.

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