Microsoft ousts Novell at Ag and Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will next month begin rolling out a major infrastructure upgrade based on a Microsoft platform to replace its existing Novell systems.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will next month begin rolling out a major infrastructure upgrade based on a Microsoft platform to replace its existing Novell systems.
There is a big shift in the ICT industry in the way applications are developed and deployed, says Hans Sparkes, Unisys’ worldwide head of enterprise open source.
A decision on the successful vendor to pilot the automatic border crossing programme at Auckland International Airport has yet to be made, according to the Customs Service. However, word around the capital is that a decision was made late last month in favour of Unisys.
When Mukul Agrawal was headhunted three years ago to establish an Indian off-shoring centre for Unisys, he had to pluck a number out of the air when asked how many staff he would need.
Just how badly Auckland’s power outage last month affected data processing may never be known but it took out Unisys’s datacentre at Penrose for at least an hour at a time when the centre was in the middle of a major upgrade. A decision was made not to switch customers to disaster recovery after discussions between their CEOs and Unisys managing director Brett Hodgson.
Following its loss of nearly US$28 million (NZ$44 million) for its first quarter, Unisys has announced 3,600 layoffs worldwide. Up to 150 Australian staff will be made redundant over the next three years. However, the situation in New Zealand is not so bad, says Brett Hogdson, managing director of Unisys New Zealand.
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