Business Management

Inside the San Fran network lockout

A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears. Read more »

The value of IT in tough times

It has been said that in the face of adversity one can determine the true character of an individual. I believe the same can be said of an organisation's senior leadership. Read more »

Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates

Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »

Big trouble for little white IT consulting lies

A prospective client describes the problem. It seems easy enough for your abilities but what happens when the client says: "Oh, and we use technology X. How well do you know technology X?" Read more »

How open source is losing the charity battle

Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft. Read more »

Sanity check: Five reasons to centralise your IT department

This article takes a look at the top five arguments for centralisation of your IT department. Read more »

Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

10 ways to be more persuasive and win your case

This article shows 10 tips on how you can persuade people. Read more »

The 10 biggest headaches of 2007 for CIOs and IT managers

IT is largely about solving problems and keeping the business running, and the higher up you are in the IT department the bigger the problems you have to solve. Read more »

You say you want a revolution?

Failure to innovate on your part will lead me to innovate with you (by force), without you, in spite of you, in lieu of you Read more »

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  • Staff Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support

    Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Renai LeMay Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?

    Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

  • Renai LeMay Is Streem just Scopical take two?

    When I wrote about Sydney-based social news start-up Streem earlier this week, the group was less than forthcoming about the real history behind its operations. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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