There is still plenty of local work for skilled IT staff despite a global financial crisis, according to one of Australia's largest technology staff recruiters, but not much room to move in terms of higher salaries.
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.
Telstra this week said its IBM-led supply chain overhaul had helped shed 400 staff, cut its inventory centres by half, and cut out 2,000 suppliers.
British efficiency expert Sir Peter Gershon has castigated the federal public sector for poor governance mechanisms on technology projects and a spending model which gave individual departments and agencies too much autonomy.
The Australian government late yesterday released Sir Peter Gershon's report into federal public sector use of information and communications technology.
Plane manufacturer Airbus has issued new guidelines to carriers operating its A330 model, after Australian investigators blamed a computer fault for causing a terrifying mid-air plunge.
Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst arrived in Australia yesterday for the first time, with plans to meet major customers and government representatives.
HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.
Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis lead to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?
Global software giant Oracle has commenced a recruitment drive for specialists to help deliver on a contract it inked several months ago to deliver the first step of a new core banking system to the National Australia Bank.
Accenture UK has confirmed it is to cut 300 to 400 jobs in the wake of the downturn in the financial services sector.
IT services firm ASG Group has acquired ASX-listed Oracle database firm AD-B Group for $3 million, claiming it gives the company an in-road to lucrative defence contracts.
Melbourne healthcare provider Austin Health has moved key applications from a legacy Reality-X platform, which developers had not touched in 10 years, to a modern system by software company Intersystems.
Dimension Data has begun the search for a new CIO to join its ranks, but not to replace the current internal one.
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