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Construction needs cloud flexibility

Australia’s embattled construction sector could benefit from cloud based information systems that can be switched on and off in lockstep with individual projects – with the exception of those organisations based in remote areas like the Kimberleys.

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Vista take-up slow in 2007: Gartner

IT Industry - Market

The take-up of Microsoft's newly released operating system, Windows Vista will be painfully slow according to newly released figures for IT research group Gartner.

By the end of 2007 Vista will only be installed on about 9% of PCs, while less than 30% of PCs will have the new operating system installed by the end of 2008, Gartner's figures say.

If gartner's figures are to be believed, however, 2009 and beyond will be the turning point, with half of all PCs running Vista by the end of 2009 and more than two thirds with Vista installed by the end of 2010.

Meanwhile Gartner does not believe either Linux or Mac OSX will increase their market share at all during the same period. Linux will be bogged down at less than 2%, while Mac OSX will remain constant at 2.4%, according to Gartner's set of numbers.