Stories about: Solution 6

Symantec seems to be one of those companies that toiled for 25 years to become an overnight success. The company has grown rapidly through mergers and acquisitions, not the least of which was systems management company Altiris in April 2007. Now in 2008, Symantec is a powerhouse player in security, systems management, application virtualization, storage management and compliance.

Lenovo Group will release a new centralised management hub for its PC productivity tools worldwide on September 15. The LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage Technologies, announced Wednesday, will consolidate the company's ThinkVantage Technologies software for IT administrators.

Alphawest will gain access to the upper echelons of the managed services space if Optus completes a proposed $25.9 million buyout of the WA-based services company. But a leading analyst has warned it could sour the telco's other partner relationships.

Accounting software vendor, MYOB, has swallowed up the accounting, compliance and training divisions of fellow ASX-listed software vendor Solution 6, in a deal worth more than $230 million.

Brownbird IT administrator Shannon Pace shares his IT experiences with Computerworld.

Australian software and services provider Solution 6 Holdings said today it had reached an in-principle agreement for a management buyout of its IT services division Alphawest 6.

The NSW Government's selection of a winning bidder for its e-marketplace project will see the county's biggest online procurement system commence within months.

Vendors vying for Federal Government outsourcing contracts are operating in an "acute" competitive space, forcing them to deliver "minimum" customer expectations.

Enterprises will turn to the ASP (application service provider) model by the end of 2002, generating almost $50 million in revenue in Australia and New Zealand, according to a study by researcher Frost and Sullivan.

A Melbourne legal firm has approached taxation software vendor MYOB seeking greater support for customers struggling to meet tax lodgement deadlines because of software glitches.

Glitches in, and the lack of tax software are hampering accountants from meeting electronic taxation lodgement deadlines.