Managed Services & Outsourcing

Telkom SA Ltd. has been ordered by the labour court to postpone its retrenchment process until it and organized labour have concluded consultation talks on the rationale to reduce staff numbers, says George Nkadimeng, Telkom's employee relations executive.

Fujitsu Asia Pte. Ltd. last week announced plans to become a key provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions for the local and regional markets as the company marked its 30th year of operations in Singapore.

Splits have appeared in the Australian government's position of offshoring Australian public sector IT jobs. The Prime Minister's office has refused to support comments made by the Trade Minister Mark Vaile and Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan backing the practice.

Novell Inc. earlier this month bundled the open-source, J2EE-compliant JBoss Application Server with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, giving application developers a built-in deployment option.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have launched a criminal investigation into the financial accounting practices of network gear maker Nortel Networks Corp. just days before the company is set to release some of its restated financial results.

Major vendors are getting better at donating source code to the public. But by and large, companies engage in code charity in safe and limited ways. They incorporate existing free code into their commercial products, giving their nonproprietary enhancements

Bell Canada customers need not worry about labour disruptions at their telecom carrier of choice, now that the service provider has hammered out a collective agreement with its 7,000 technical employees.

Officials at Sun Microsystems Inc., Javalobby, and Infravio Inc. last week revealed initiatives positioned as advances in either Java development or Web services consumption.