Stories by Rodney Gedda

Nuclear scientists dump Telstra, call on VoIP

Telstra is set to be the first casualty of a move by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) to upgrade to IP telephony.
With its migration to a VoIP-enabled network infrastructure all but complete Russell Tuckwell, ANSTO's chief information officer, confirmed the organization will go to tender next year.

Written by Rodney Gedda11 Oct. 05 09:03

Electoral commission eyes open source voting

If bringing total democracy to electronic voting can only happen via software source code that can be viewed by all, the Australian Electoral Commission is happy to oblige with its next-generation election application.

Written by Rodney Gedda16 Aug. 05 07:41

Defence adds more protection

With an existing mixture of mainframe and proprietary Unix systems, the Department of Defence has chosen the x86 and IA64 architectures over Sparc for its new $450,000 security management application.

Written by Rodney Gedda25 July 05 09:32

ABC begins digital archive conquest

Nearly two and a half years after announcing it would digitize its entire film and radio archive, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's data conversion work starts this month.

Written by Rodney Gedda19 July 05 08:19

SBS tunes into Linux

Viewers of government broadcaster SBS Television will see news reports created with the help of the open source Linux operating system following a system upgrade last month.

Written by Rodney Gedda08 July 05 07:47

Federal government agency eyes server virtualization

The federal Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources has begun an infrastructure consolidation project one year after severing ties with its outsourcing provider.

Written by Rodney Gedda22 June 05 08:34

NT govt eyes Linux in $35M desktop overhaul

Northern Territory's department of corporate and information systems (DCIS) has issued a white paper requesting proposals for its second generation whole of government desktop outsourcing contract which includes provisions for an open source solution.

Written by Rodney Gedda11 May 05 11:14

HealthInsite mends IT with open source

Federal government health portal, HealthInsite has been gradually adopting open source software as the best way to fix point problems, and pocket huge savings in the process.

Written by Rodney Gedda20 April 05 13:56

Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org

Open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org may be touted as a viable alternative to Microsoft Office, but there are claims its pace of development and adoption of new features is being stifled by a "monolithic" code base and a developer community still largely controlled by Sun Microsystems.

Written by Rodney Gedda19 April 05 11:21

First NSW executive council formed to consolidate IT

NSW CIO-elect Paul Edgecumbe is wasting no time looking for ways to streamline the state's IT inner workings. A newly-formed executive council will begin regular meetings as early as June.

Written by Rodney Gedda18 April 05 09:34

Govts on path to 'demystify' open source procurement

State and federal government representatives are preaching education to overcome uncertainties around procuring open source software to ensure agencies can reduce total cost of ownership.

Written by Rodney Gedda18 April 05 15:34

Home grown integration solution nears production

After three years of development and six months of testing, the locally-developed Health Data Integration (HDI) application will go into production at the end of May to help analyze health information in Queensland.

Written by Rodney Gedda07 April 05 07:42

Centrelink picks up Eclipse on road to SOA

To enable greater application interoperability and a migration path for its abandoned middleware, Centrelink has started developing a service- oriented architecture with the open source Eclipse development environment.

Written by Rodney Gedda23 March 05 13:08

Government's own 'Napster' project clouded by integration

The federal government's ambitious National Data Network (NDN) distributed research library is set to go into demonstration mode this April but must overcome integration problems before external organizations can participate.

Written by Rodney Gedda17 March 05 08:12

Queensland Transport surveys road to Linux

In an effort to consolidate its server architectures and platforms, Queensland Transport will evaluate migrating some 300 NetWare, Solaris, and Windows systems over to Linux, according to the department's IT innovation and planning unit leader Sam Higgins.

Written by Rodney Gedda22 Feb. 05 08:07
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