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Baby boomers choking AU$11bn IT outsourcing

IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems Read more »

South Australian companies miss out on outsourcing contracts

Initiatives designed to teach small local IT providers how to engage with the South Australian government have been described as nothing more than pre-election sweeteners. Read more »

IBM named IT services kingpin

IBM has maintained its role as the IT services kingpin, coming out on top of a league table from analyst Gartner. Read more »

EDS: Linux 'strategically important'

The outsourcing specialist said it was "proactively engineering" Linux into its product portfolio, backtracking on previous statements that the open-source software was not suitable for large enterprises. Read more »

Victoria sends ICT trade mission to India

Some two dozen local and multinational IT companies will attend the BangaloreIT.COM 2004 trade fair in India this month with the financial assistance of the Victorian government. This is India's largest ICT trade event, attracting 185,000 visitors last year. Read more »

IT services giants face slowing growth

But smaller and India-based players on the up. Read more »

IBM retools Global Services

Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services. Read more »

Big Blue moves to 'off the rack' services

Seeking fatter profits, IBM's Global Services consulting arm is changing the tune of its familiar "Have it your way" refrain. Read more »

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Outsourcing overseas

Sending software development tasks overseas is the latest cost-cutting phenomenon, but is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'? How can you optimise offshore development? Read more »

10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. Read more »

Microsoft builds up server tools

At its TechEd conference, Microsoft will try to convince businesses to revive spending on technology as it will drop names such as Yukon and BizTalk. Read more »

Why open source is bad for Australia

Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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