Switching standout performer, while hubs and NICs decline
It won't come as a surprise to anyone, but LAN switching was the big growth market last year, according to IDC's final 1997 figures.
It won't come as a surprise to anyone, but LAN switching was the big growth market last year, according to IDC's final 1997 figures.
In the lead-up to the Sun-sponsored developer event Java@Work, the Australian Java Users Group (AJUG) has announced it will become incorporated nationally.
Com Tech Education Services has been appointed by Cisco as a national provider of authorised Cisco training courses.
As part of its drive to increase retail market share, 3Com is using the immense popularity of real time strategy games to lure buyers to its US Robotics 56K Voice/Fax Modem.
The Federal Government has opened its investment purse-strings to form the Information Industries Consultative Group (IICG) in a bid to woo Australian organisations which are looking to push ahead with R&D and investment attraction activities.
The innovative use of virtual reality in the classroom was one of the reasons that Jim Pye, of New Zealand firm TechTonics Computer Networking, took out the 1998 Certified Novell Instructor (CNI) of the year.
A new software tool from Reckon Intuit in the area of payroll management could be a double-barrelled winner for Australian IT retailers.
The Tech Pacific Group yesterday sold the shares of its two telecommunications organisations - switch telecommunications and Frame Relay (formerly known as Interlink Services Australia) - to Telegroup for a total of $36 million.
In an industry dominated by international corporations, one Australian family company is surviving and delivering products with obvious market allure.
There is nothing like a good give-away to get people inter-ested in a product and Adobe have introduced a timely one that may keep the latest version of Pagemaker ticking over at the sales counter.
Global call automation systems supplier InterVoice has announced a distribution agreement with Compaq in Australia and New Zealand.
With Christmas plans now well and truly underway for retailers, Australia's leading distributors of software titles are now rolling out some of their biggest product announcements of the year.
Channel players reveal revenue windfall
Building on the platform of its blossoming Toshiba notebook business, Melbourne-based distributor CHA has signed with NEC to deliver notebooks, PCs and servers
Webster Publishing this week launched its Australian Sport Through Time multimedia reference CD-ROM which is sure to have considerable appeal to consumers from all sorts of retail outlets in the lead-up to Christmas.