EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

A slightly different start to the morning edition today as we get a first-hand account of 'outplacement' - the transfer of staff to an outsourcer.

When the assets of BHP IT were sold to CSC in May 2000, some 1,700 techies became CSC employees overnight. Neil Rowsell tells us about it and about the early days of working in BHP computing.

Also today, it looks like NetApp have a battle on their hands for dedupe specialist Data Domain...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Ry Crozier | June 03, 2009

When the assets of BHP IT were sold to CSC in May 2000, some 1,700 techies became CSC employees overnight. Nine years on, a staffer subsumed by the American giant tells iTnews of the culture shock in becoming part of an outsourcer and the early days of working in BHP computing.

By Ben Grubb | June 02, 2009

The Australian Government will fund up to $50 million over four years for research into bionic science and technology.

By Rosalie Marshall | June 03, 2009

EMC is competing with NetApp for the acquisition of deduplication storage firm Data Domain, after EMC made a US$1.8bn (A$2.2 bn) all-cash offer this week.

By David Neal | June 03, 2009

Red Hat has announced additions to its application server offerings, along with a number of enhancements to its JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio.

By Shaun Nichols | June 03, 2009

HP is showing off a new printing system which can place electronic screens on multiple devices as a thin sheet.

By Rosalie Marshall | June 03, 2009

Google has today unveiled the next edition of its enterprise focused Google Search Appliance (GSA), which it claims can search and scale billions of documents.

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