EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

Apart from many of us being 'stimulated' by the recent cash payments, IT folks might also be interested to know what goes on in the backend to make these payments possible.

Centrelink provided some great insight at CeBIT09 yesterday. A graph showed just how big the spikes in traffic were around the two stimulus packages - and how even telling people the system is down for maintenance won't stop them trying to log in.

Also today, Opposition broadband minister Nick Minchin steps up his campaign for the failed NBN RFP documents and Oracle buys someone else!

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Ry Crozier | May 14, 2009

Centrelink had almost 250,000 people log onto its self-service portal on the Monday after the first stimulus package was announced.

By Brett Winterford | May 13, 2009

Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin gave Senator Conroy until 6:50pm yesterday to make public the NBN Panel of Experts report and an associated report by the ACCC.

By Gareth Morgan | May 14, 2009

Forrester Research is advising companies to pressure their software suppliers to lower their maintenance charges, accusing vendors of persisting with "customer-unfriendly practices that wouldn't be accepted in other spheres".

By David Neal | May 14, 2009

Oracle has added to its virtualisation product line-up with the acquisition of Virtual Iron, which specialises in virtual systems management tools for use in data centres.

By Ry Crozier | May 13, 2009

Mosman City Council has called Twitter participation its "biggest win" in social networking engagement with residents over the past nine months.

By David Neal | May 14, 2009

Apple has released the latest version of its Leopard operating system, offering improved performance and fixing a number of bugs and security issues.

By Iam Williams | May 14, 2009

Networking giant Alcatel-Lucent has taken the wraps off its new virtual private network (VPN) service, which aims to help service providers offer assured quality and performance for enterprise applications.

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