During a media preview of the themes and predictions to be revealed at Gartner's E-Business 2000 conference to be held this week, Gartner's senior vice president of Asia-Pacific operations, Bob Hayward, urged capital-starved startups to refrain from racing to IPOs. Instead Hayward argued in favour of the stabilising effects of a non-listed growth period.
Enterprise business solutions provider Epicor has appointed Sydney-based Implementation Soft as its new alliance partner.
Bruce Davis the Asia/Pacific information technology director at Unisys reports that given the size and international scope of the company, the development of a centralised standardised internal security structures has been possible.
Linux retailer and support provider LinuxPlaza has snared a deal to become Australia's first certified Red Hat reseller.
Visual media manufacturers SGI and Intergraph have joined forces and amalgamated product lines.