Even in a market beset with a severe shortage of skills the IT professional who takes that extra course and gains that extra qualification gets the edge in the employment stakes. While ongoing learning might be vital to an individual, employers who cry out in fear If you train them won't they leave?', may be mollified with having upskilled staff who repay the fees if they cut and run.
Philip Sim surveys the players
Services and e-tail, more than ever before, have become the new channel buzzwords, and those that ignore them will surely be left behind. This feature analyses what has been a remarkable year for the Australian IT channel
Forget environmental concerns about our planet running out of fossil fuels and such nonsense. Mankind is quickly running into a much more pressing concern - a desperate shortage of words
The tradtional Internet service provider market is slowly changing shape to accommodate the influence of competition, and it appears that the once well-defined roles of vedor and reseller, ISP and distributor are becoming more and more blurred. Phillip Sim reccounts how this new direction in service providers has created a market encommpassing both the old and the new . . .
With the intense demands on their time and resources, IT managers are choosing to delegate some of their headaches
Today, 'e' totally dominates the new economy. If a business doesn't have some sort of e-strategy, it's seen as nothing more than a dinosaur, wasting away until it will by eaten up by a more powerful e-business.
Systems integrators watch out. Here come the telcos!
In what could be a sign of things to come, up-and-com-ing network integrator FTA Solutions has been snapped up by Nomad Telecommunications.
Sun is taking another crack at the network computing market with the launch of its Sun Ray network appliance.
In this first ARN Channel Verdict special, Philip Sim investigates what resellers should look for in networking hardware vendors and, vis-a-vis, what the major vendors can offer resellers.
Express Data is hoping that by providing online resources and services through its newly relaunched Web site (www.expressdata.com.au), resellers will treat the site as "their primary resource for doing business".
Aiming to plunder what it sees as a prosperous market for new networking equipment, 3Com last week launched the Education Industry Program (EIP) and began recruiting resellers as EIP Business Partners.
It really says something about the IT industry when you consider that it hasn't already had its butt sued off
Philip Sim is sick to death of nagging paperclips and would like to destroy each and every single one
There's a reason why it seems like it was only yesterday when Web sites were the latest and greatest. It's because it was. But today, is today, and the Web site is passe
Risking life and death, intrepid reporter Philip Sim has tracked down and gained an exclusive, world-first interview with that most notorious of terrorists -- The Millennium Bug