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HP job cuts loom for Australian employees

A number of Australian employees of Hewlett-Packard are facing the loss of their jobs as the global computer giant looks to slash its worldwide workforce by up to 30,000.

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Sabre appoints former Oracle executive

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Airline software provider, Sabre Airline Solutions, has appointed Murray Sargant to regional vice president for Asia Pacific. Sargant has more than 15 years experience as a senior sales leader in the IT industry. Most recently he worked for Oracle across Asia Pacific/Japan where he achieved delivered complex enterprise application software to customers. Prior to the Oracle merger, Sargant worked for PeopleSoft for six years where he was responsible for winning some of the largest software deals across APAC. He also ran the data warehouse team for Tandem in Greater China based out of Hong Kong previous to his position at PeopleSoft, and spent several years as the head of Transportation Industry for AT&T GIS (NCR) in the early '90s.