Industry authority Software Engineering Australia (SEA) announced today that it will cease operations. The organisation will sell its training and consulting services business to Object Consulting and existing cash assets will go to the Australian Information Industry Association.
A working party composed of representatives from the ICT industry has cautioned that mandating software quality accreditation can be detrimental to small to medium companies and is pushing instead for continuous software process improvement.
Australia's national open source industry body, OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia), and Linux Australia have spoken out about their concerns over the proposed Australian-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), warning that the legal framework of the intellectual property clauses will put the entire Australian software development industry at risk.
The latest node in the European Software Institute's international network of centres of software excellence opened in Melbourne yesterday.
Victorian software developers will soon be eligible for financial assistance from the state government towards the cost of gaining Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2 accreditation.
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