Leon covers enterprise technology and start-ups from ZDNet's Sydney newsroom.
British mainframe player Micro Focus has finalised a $1.2 billion deal to merge with rival company The Attachmate Group, with the proposed post-merger entity expected to claim combined revenues of $1.4 billion.
Australian technology service company, AWA, has been sold to Cabrini Health Limited, with the iconic 105-year-old company to be integrated into a new group, Cabrini Technology Services.
Former LinkedIn and Microsoft executive Tony Ward has been picked to head up SurveyMonkey's Australian and New Zealand operations, as the company works to ramp up its enterprise growth.
Mozilla has ramped up its geolocation service in the latest version of its Firefox browser, released on January 13, with version 35.0 able to share mobile device Wi-Fi and cellular signals for improved geolocation functionality.
Atlassian has unveiled its new enterprise offering, JIRA Data Center, which it says provides high availability and performance at scale for teams building mission-critical software, and is designed for use in customers' own data centres.
Virgin Australia revealed today that it snapped up AU$53.8 million of capitalised software amid the acquisition of assets costing AU$73.7 million during the financial year ending 2014.
The combined impact of cloud, mobility and big data on enterprise applications has piqued the market’s taste for speed and agility. Now, enterprise software vendors big and small are racing to feed the market’s growing appetite.
The NSW Liberal government has pledged to spend AU$300 million on the state's e-health initiatives over the next four years if it is re-elected for another term on Saturday's election.
An increase in licence fees has played a central role in driving a 15 percent profit boost for Australian software company TechnologyOne for the 12 months ending September 30.
Australian-founded enterprise software development and collaboration platform provider Atlassian has acquired French video conferencing player Blue Jimp.