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Forget China and India, Vietnam is tipped to become the hottest offshoring destination within the next five years.
EDS appears to have jumped the final hurdle, knocking Hewlett-Packard out of the race for one of the juiciest South Australian government outsourcing contracts, distributed computing support services.
RailCorp NSW has decided to outsource components of its information and communications technology operations to vendor Fujitsu, officials said late this afternoon.
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Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Google should come clean on datacentres
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