Tasmania's ICT industry is being held back by poor infrastructure, ineffective government support and market size, according to a report into the sector released by the state's treasurer yesterday.
As the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems, Simon Phipps spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the MySQL acquisition, and community engagement on OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris.
NetSuite's Australian office yesterday said it intended to extend its drive to capture Salesforce.com customers by significantly undercutting its rival's prices on its customer relationship management (CRM) offering.
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Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing a vision which the software giant claims would benefit suppliers and PC users, despite a likely higher cost of ownership to consumers.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Shoving everything into a hosted environment effectively creates a quick and dirty disaster recovery strategy.
With the Australian Dollar breaking the 92 US cents barrier recently, and predictions it could reach parity with the US Dollar by Christmas, there's good news and bad news for the ICT industry.
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Never have I seen a stranger vendor "testimonial" given than that by the NSW Department of Primary Industry's Warwick Lill of Sun Microsystems at Gartner's datacentre summit last week.
There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.
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.
What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.
Telstra's T-Suite shows great promise. But users would be wise to note that there are still many bugs the telco and its partners are yet to iron out.
We've taken a quick peek at three business productivity products Telstra now offers online as part of its software-as-a-service T-Suite initiative.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
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.
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance
Dell's new OptiPlex GX280 offers the latest Intel computing technology for an approachable price.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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The long-awaited separation of Telstra
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