 BeerFiles is an in-your-face and sometimes irreverent blog concerning all things to do with IT, technology, people and the media from the point of view of a hard boiled technology journalist and commentator. Stan has been in the IT game for about a quarter of a century. In that time, he has seen and written about the rise and fall of more than a few IT players and made many friends, some of whom he has even crossed swords with on occasions. Everything in this blog is purely Stan’s opinion so if you agree, wish to expand upon, correct a post or tell Stan he’s a clueless know nothing, please feel free to do so.
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Tuesday, 04 October 2005 |
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By Greg Gianforte*
How would you feel if your mechanic handed you a 125-piece wrench set rather than actually fixing your car? What if another mechanic then walked up to you with his tools and started arguing with the first guy about whose tools were better?
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Monday, 03 October 2005 |
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The announcement last week, that National Australia Bank is to spend $1.8 billion to return the financial institution to its former glory days, provides some valuable lessons. One of the most important is that you can’t be a first rate organisation with second rate technology.
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Monday, 26 September 2005 |
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The recent announcement that EDS is to retrench 106 of its IT staff, just after the outsourcer’s very public stoush with staff over pay claims, highlights an issue that has been threatening to boil to the surface for some time. Is it time for IT labour to get organised? |
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Sunday, 18 September 2005 |
The imminent sale of promising Australian technology company Innovonics for what must seem to its US buyers a bargain basement price is a sad indictment on the local technology scene.
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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Whatever we make think about the current management of Telstra, the recent behaviour of trios amigos, and the politics of the extraordinary farce that is now taking place in the public arena, one thing is clear. Over the past five years, at least, Telstra has been one of the most poorly managed large public companies in Australia and that's not Sol Trujillo's fault. |
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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New research into the Australian hosting market has revealed a competitive but fragmented market, particularly within shared hosting and the mid-market sectors, with market consolidation a strong probability in the longer term. |
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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Well Communications Minister Helen Coonan asked for it and Telstra obliged in a most unconvincing and, for shareholders, painful manner. |
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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The dream of diskless computers with limited onboard intelligence being served with applications over high bandwidth networks is nothing new. In fact, the thin client vision is very retro given that dumb terminals and centralised processing was where IT was at 25 years ago. |
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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The past week has seen a couple of extraordinary events take place in the world of news media publishing. The two events, which concerned the irreversible decline in print news, took place on opposite sides of the world but both involved an Australian connection. |
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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It is with great sadness and trepidation but, unfortunately, not surprise that we greet the news of a massive ICT trade deficit blowout in 2004 to $19 billion. The greatest tragedy, however, is the deafening silence with which our policy makers have responded. |
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