Infrastructure

Ever heard of the Irish Potato Famine?

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) has much to sing about. After nearly five years of construction, GTAA opened the doors of Toronto's newest terminal at Pearson International Airport.

IBM Corp. has agreed to buy the business continuity services unit of Schlumberger Ltd. in a move to shore up its global services division in Europe and help companies comply with new data protection regulations.

Enterprise software vendor BEA Systems Inc. has teamed with management consultancy Accenture Ltd. to streamline the management and creation of Web portals for customers, employees and partners.

Manugistics Group Inc. and IBM Corp. have entered into an alliance to market supply-chain management software, hardware and services.

The next major challenge for e-government in New Zealand is to focus on the needs of the customer rather than government agencies, says new e-government unit head Laurence Millar.

Looking to boost its presence in enterprise applications, MySQL AB on Wednesday will make the clustered version of its open source database available in a preview version, with the production version set for release in the third quarter of 2004.

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