IT gets big slice of Victorian budget
The Victorian Government has allocated more than two-thirds of its $268.6 milllion IT budget to education and training.
Stories by Angelina Forsyth
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HiServ switches to Triaton
Global systems integration company HiServ has been renamed Triaton to reflect the merger of the company with the IT business wing of its parent company Thyssen Krupp Information Systems. HiServ was acquired by German-headquartered Thyssen Krupp Materials & Services AG in May.
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Opportunity amidst market slowdown
The maturity of the printer market in Australia is bringing both advantages and disadvantages to distributors and resellers. First the bad news. The sale of printers through the channel, according to research company Inform, has been slow, growing at a dismal rate of 1 per cent in 2000 over 1999 unit sales. Besides the maturing market, the millennium, GST and the Olympics distraction are factors for the slowdown, said Chris Herbert, research manager at Inform.
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Central TAFE to offer e-Learning
WA software developer, Netsource, has teamed up with the international operations division of Central TAFE to offer e-Learning across the Internet.
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Swish's little ray of Sun-shine
Victorian Internet services company, The Swish Group, has formed a partnership with Sun Microsystems which will see it become a Sun value added reseller.
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VivaNET lists below issue
Internet infrastructure service provider (IISP), VivaNET, listed at 19 cents per share on the Australian Stock Exchange last week, slightly below its issue price of 20 cents.
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Swish becomes a little ray of Sun-shine
Victorian Internet services company, The Swish Group, has formed a partnership with Sun Microsystems to become one of its value added resellers.
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Paritech goes public, as an unlisted company
Melbourne-headquartered distributor and software developer Paritech plans to raise $2.5 million from floating as an unlisted public company.
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VivaNET lists slightly below issue price
Internet infrastructure service provider (IISP), VivaNET, listed at 19 cents per share at the Australian Stock Exchange yesterday, slightly below its issue price of 20 cents.
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Integrators partner over CRM
Melbourne-based systems integrator Australian Information Processing Centre (AIPC) and UK systems integrator Logica have formed a partnership to deliver CRM product and service solutions.
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Clicks and bricks to succeed over pure-play e-tailing
Clicks and mortar, or dot-cam retailers, will win out over pure e-tailers or dot-com retailers, according to Tony Standley, general manager of sanity.com.
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Retailers slow on e-commerce uptake
Only 6.7 per cent of Australia's traditional (bricks-and-mortar) retailers have cited developing an e-commerce strategy as a major business concern, according to Rod Mewing, industry director of Telstra Retail.
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Management software vendor launches B2B trading site
Retail management software vendor Retek launched its business-to-business "trading community" called retail.com last week at the Retail Business 2000 show in Melbourne.
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Systems integrators partner over CRM
Melbourne-based systems integrator, Australian Information Processing Centre (AIPC) and UK systems integrator, Logica, have formed a partnership to deliver CRM product and service solutions.
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WebEx heralds Web meeting future
If WebEx has its way, Australian businesses could be meeting on the Web instead of travelling across town or interstate for meetings.
