Articles about : SSA
The perils of dirty data
Few IT projects are more frightening than data integration and reconciliation. Actually, let us rephrase that. One thing is more frightening -- when data integration goes bad.
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2006: the summer of our content
By: David Braue
15/12/2006 13:58:21
In a year of unlikely alliances, a lengthening Internet shadow and big takeovers, IT went to market with new technologies, new impetus
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Cover story - 2005: Tech everywhere - but who will use it?
By: David Braue
14/12/2005 12:39:36
It was a year of mobility, wireless and virtual IT resources, the decimation of Telstra and the rise of big-money mergers. All reshaped the direction of the IT industry - but, David Braue asks, what does it mean for Australia's ICT industry?
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SSA Refocus Kills Most Unix Development
By: Craig Stedman
14/07/1998 17:09:00
Leaky application vendor SSA is sending out an SOS - and throwing software projects overboard to lighten its load.
Trying to end its money-losing ways, Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc. (SSA) this week halted development of its applications for all Unix systems except Hewlett-Packard Co.'s.
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Apocalypse Asia
By: Peter Young
01/03/1998 17:06:58
IT consultants packing their bags for home. Price hikes from some Australian IT vendors. Collapsed technology projects. These are just some of the short-term effects resulting from the currency devaluations sweeping Asia. But for IT in the long term, there could be a silver lining hidden within these economic storm clouds.The senior Indonesian civil servant smiled coldly at his Australian software vendor and dropped his bombshell.His Government would honour its US dollar contract with the vendor but was unilaterally pegging the exchange rate. It would be fixed at 4000 rupiah to the dollar, less than half the market rate, he told the vendor's account manager.
The Australian company could sue for breach of contract, the Indonesian added. But if it did, he shrugged, it could forget about ever doing business with the Indonesian Government again.
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