The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is tendering for a partner to integrate its Financial Support System (FSS) upgrade project into its new environment.
The Federal Department of Health and Ageing has gone to market for a supplier to update the IT systems which run the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) after years of putting up with paper-based and time-consuming processes.
National Australia Bank CEO Cameron Clyne has said that the bank's Next Generation core banking project is running on course, but declined to give any details of its progress.
Fujitsu today announced an 18-month deal with WA's largest electricity provider Verve energy to design and implement an energy trading management system.
An Oracle-based system used to administer grants for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) was not up to the task of monitoring the billions of dollars which has passed through it over the years, the federal auditor-general has said.
Few people are better qualified than Tom Kyte to instruct developers on how to form questions asking for help.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.
It comes at no surprise to learn that HR people use IT certifications to choose between candidates when hiring, but in some organisations it can also inhibit career advancement.
Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?
Sydney's first ever Media140 conference, held at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) studios, drew around 300 academics, journalists and media enthusiasts to discuss the benefits and risks that professionals face in using open social networks, such as Twitter.
There are large conferences, and then there is Oracle OpenWorld. A mega-conference that sees over 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco.
Longhaus' Sam Higgins and Perth developer Chris Muir give the Australian reaction to announcements at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in the US this week.
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.
We chat to Oracle ANZ chief Ian White on the sidelines of OpenWorld 2009.
Few people are better qualified than Tom Kyte to instruct developers on how to form questions asking for help.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than its biggest competitor, IBM.
At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says hed like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.
If you are in the market for a blogging platform, content management system or a complete web platform, you can do far, far worse than choose WordPress.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
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