A lack of a suitable record-keeping Web content management system has led one Queensland local government council to develop its own application which has since been released as an open source project.
The former CIO for the state government of South Australia, Grantly Mailes, has added himself to the long list of IT customers defecting to vendorland by joining the ranks of IBM's global services division in Melbourne while Andrew Mills has been appointed as his replacement.
The PostgreSQL open source project has announced the release of version 8.3 of its flagship database management system, which includes a number of performance and feature enhancements.
In what may be the country's first comprehensive survey of the open source industry, the Australian Open Source Industry Census has revealed IT professionals working with free software earn more than the national average.
ERP and accounting software may be split between the big multinationals and the personal and small business desktop application, but one local company is scaling to both ends of the business spectrum.
Banks may be closing branches to the disgust of many customers, but for one local IT services company, a disused bank vault became the ideal secure site for a new data centre to enter the hosting market.
In a rare showing of future developments, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has announced a roadmap for its public-facing applications - from new portals to digital certificates - aimed at helping businesses and individuals fulfil their payment and compliance obligations.
Linux and open source IP telephony system, trixbox Pro, is now available in Australia and New Zealand and is being touted as an enterprise-grade phone system for between five and 500 extensions.
Open source professional services automation software, allocPSA, has had a new version release that improves usability and information management.
The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released a summary of the findings of its investigations into the use of free and open source software (FOSS) within federal government agencies indicating most expect to increase its use over the next five years.
RailCorp NSW will spend upwards of $4 million on maintenance and support for its two data networks over the next two years as its existing support contract expires in March.
With multiple disparate applications managing customer interactions, Sydney Water will invest in a fit-for-purpose CRM system to improve its levels of customer service.
Tasmania's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will purchase 1000 thin client application delivery software licences to support the delivery of two new state-wide hospital information systems for patient administration and pharmaceuticals management.
NSW government rail infrastructure department RailCorp is calling for resources to assist with the development and implementation of an enterprise ICT solution for its $3.6 billion "Rollingstock" public-private partnership (PPP) to replace some 500 ageing train carriages.
Domain name and hosting company NetRegistry has selected the locally-developed Freeway open source e-commerce system to resell to its customer base.
