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    The global economic crisis has made the Federal Government's National Broadband Network plan an expensive and risky proposition which end users won't have the money to pay for, one analyst said this week.

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    The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week.

  • Sun remains silent on ANZ staff cuts

    Sun Microsystems, which recently announced it was shedding up to 6,000 jobs globally, is still unsure if or how its 640 staff based in Australia and New Zealand will be affected, according to the company's managing director.

  • Avoiding the new IT crisis

    Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen says that the IT world must reinvent itself to face new business realities, or suffer the consequences.

  • Customs CIO: When vendors say 'innovation', run

    Australian Customs' CIO, Murray Harrison, says service level agreements (SLAs) don't work in outsourcing arrangements and when vendors use the term "innovation", their suggestions generally works against the interests of the customer.

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  • 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.

  • Crisis strikes: What do you do next?

    The corporate Web site is gone and a hacker has made off with the database. The company's reputation is at stake. What crisis management tactics should be employed?

  • How to save an overwhelmed e-mail server

    Find out how to persuade upper management to deal with an e-mail server crisis.

  • 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

    As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

  • Centrelink: John Wadeson, CIO

    Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.

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  • Annoying software: a rogues' gallery

    Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.

  • Mobile phones fail calamity test, again

    Mobile phone services once again failed to step up in the face of calamity. The failure of the mobile networks, perceived by many to be especially useful in times of emergency, forced callers back onto land lines.

  • IBM to help AMD on future chips

    Big Blue will team with Advanced Micro Devices to develop future chip technologies, an alliance that will better insulate AMD from the growing risks of making processors.

  • IM still not secure

    The safest way to exchange instant messages (IMs) is to stay within the enterprise, but in most cases the IM cat is already out of the bag, and security staff are playing catch up.

  • Is the iSeries make-over enough?

    IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?

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