Big job at Big Blue

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Australian-born Doug Elix's challenge as senior vice-president of IBM Global Services is to turn the company into a fast-reacting global service provider.

Elix, Doug, IBM Global Services Corp.

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Frank Blount Inc

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Frank Blount, the former chief executive of Australia's Telstra, continues to have business interests in the country and has joined the boards of several Australian companies, including Jtec, Techniche and the Australia National Bank.

Interview, Blount, Frank

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Technology on tap; an old idea in computer outsourcing has returned, and it has multi-billion-dollar potential

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With an interest in keeping information technology training and systems costs down, many Australian companies are looking to application service providers (ASP's), which manage and host a company's software applications offsite. The popularity of this concept among Australian companies promises to mean great profit for ASP companies.

Australia, Prepackaged software, Software Publishers, Applications Software Pkgs (Micro), Statistical Data Included, Innovations, Computer software industry, Software industry, Information technology, Applications software

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