The Western Australian government has awarded Oracle an AU$67 million contract to help consolidate the back office functions of more than 100 of its agencies into three.
Darwin-based IT services firm CSG has acquired local company CingleVue, which focuses on providing Oracle services to customers in the education sector.
Virgin Blue has grounded plans to outsource the maintenance of its Oracle e-business systems, chief information officer David Harvey said late yesterday.
eBay, Cisco, SAP and Oracle are amongst a number of technology companies that have paid former politicians and others to try to influence the Queensland Government, the state's new lobbyist register revealed this week.
An independent review of the Western Australian Government's mammoth Shared Corporate Services Project has recommended it proceed according to its current plan and budget, as it was currently meeting its revised milestones.
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Phase two of government ERP implementations is set to take off. What can you expect? Also: Find out why one local city council had to ditch Oracle.
Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.
In this candid interview with ZDNet.com.au, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses why he thinks rival VMWare will fail, how the financial crisis will be good for open source, and why cloud computing will be the future.
It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.
Is certification better than experience? Here's what industry analysts and IT professionals have to say, including issues with MCSE.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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Microsoft's Tracey Fellows on Windows 7
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