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Stories by Byron Kaye

  • Kaz IPO floodgates finally open

    The rush to acquire shares off Australian IT outsourcing company Kaz Computer Services' IPO was scheduled to begin this week amid calls for an Internet stock reality check from the company's managing director. Peter Kazacos warned, less than a week before the company's IPO was due to open on February 14, that many pure-play Internet company stocks are `grossly' overvalued.

  • Australia sees red on e-Valentine's day

    It's Valentine's Day and "anything red is walking out the door" at AdultShop.com, according to Internet manager Will Parker. "Whether it's red vibrators, red lingerie, red whatever, it's been going. We're very short of red stuff in the warehouse."

  • ASP nowhere near its Peak

    Only 2 per cent of all software will be sold via ASP by 2003, says ASP startup CEO David Harrington. In fact, he speculated it would take as long as 10 years before ASP became the dominant mode of software purchasing. To date, existing ASP systems, including the emerging standard, Citrix, had been "clunky", he said.

  • Kaz slams Net stocks

    Less than a week before Australian IT outsourcing company Kaz Computer Services' IPO, managing director Peter Kazacos says many pureplay Internet company stocks are "grossly" overvalued.

  • CRM boosted by checkered flag

    After 12 months project development, Melbourne integrator Kwiltek has completed a comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) software overhaul for hotel chain Flag.

  • Compaq: Resellers are redundant

    Compaq has announced its intention to boost its direct sales to 40 per cent of all global sales, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Compaq CEO Michael Capellas said in the report that the vendor expects 40 per cent of global corporate sales and 60 per cent of North American corporate sales will be direct by the end of the year. The announcement followed the company's reported loss of $US448 million on sales of $12.2 billion last year, the report said.

  • Telstra will not target Eisa: Budde

    After posting revenue losses of $13 million for 1999, Internet company Eisa is a prime target for acquisition, but not by Telstra, says analyst Paul Budde. In an ASX announcement last week, the Internet company attributed revenue losses for the year ended December 31 to "lower sales volumes than originally forecast".