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Wednesday October 22, 2008
ZDNet.com.au edit team
 
Munir Renai Alex Suzanne Liam Brian

Latest stories

VMware: Microsoft has 'no car'
Microsoft's virtualisation offering was like tyres without a car, according to Paul Harapin, VMware's Asia Pacific vice president, who today said his company's future direction would put it in increasing conflict with Redmond.
Installing Polaris datacentre generators: Photos
Yesterday workers installed six 22 tonne diesel power generators into one of Australia's largest datacentres prior to prepare it for its official opening early next year.
Q&A: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
In this candid interview with ZDNet.com.au, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses why he thinks rival VMWare will fail, how the financial crisis will be good for open source, and why cloud computing will be the future.
Gershon fallout: Contractor cuts realistic?
Two local ICT companies have raised concerns around Sir Peter Gershon's recommendation, released last week, that federal government agencies should cut IT contractor levels by 50 per cent over the next two years.
Defence starts ID-based war strategy
The Australian Defence Force is set to embark on an up to $100 million identity management project, which will support its network-centric warfare ambitions.
Intel demos ultra-mobile Moorestown
Intel announced this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei that its first working Moorestown platform for mobile internet devices (MIDs) had come out of fabrication.

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Good direction
Great to see someone looking at the reality of operational/structural separation rather than emotive marketing. - Posted by Anonymous on Weighing the price of separation
Crazy talk
The reason contractors are bought in is to supply skills that are lacking in-house. Get rid of the contractors and the whole thing falls over.
- Posted by Anonymous on Gershon fallout: Contractor cuts realistic?

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