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    The Australian government late yesterday released Sir Peter Gershon's report into federal public sector use of information and communications technology.

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    Storage is a presumptive business. After all, if employees can buy a new 8GB iPod for the kids for Christmas, why is it apparently so costly for the company to throw in a measly new hard drive or two?

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    If someone gave you AU$93.5 million to spend, would you forget it? I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives.

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    Never have I seen a stranger vendor "testimonial" given than that by the NSW Department of Primary Industry's Warwick Lill of Sun Microsystems at Gartner's datacentre summit last week.

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    If recent reports are anything to go by, CIOs and senior IT executives are taking a closer look at Linux as an enterprise solution. But how do you educate management about the pros and cons of the open source alternative?

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    Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.

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    We put two of the toughest chip makers up against each other to see which has the biggest heart for notebooks.

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