“Apple Australia has landed a deal within federal government for its storage and server systems by selling 14 RAID storage systems and five Xserve G5 servers to the Australian Sports Commission (ASC),” Rob O’Neill reports for The Age. “The deal is on Apple’s home-turf of multimedia, with the boxes being used for a digital video repository to consolidate access to sports video material. However, it comes on top of other federal government deals with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australian Federal Police and a number of wins in state government and education, including one at Swinburne University.”
“ASC CEO Mark Peters says the repository will ‘provide a means of further enhancing the competitive advantage of Australia ‘s elite athletes and provide vastly improved information services to sports.’ According to a statement, the facility will enable improved performance analysis of athletes; allow collaborative access and the sharing of corporate digital video information; provide much greater storage capacity and ensure greater protection of video data,” O’Neill reports.
Full article here.
Apple only needs to step in in these institutions.
I hardly see how in few years these installations will fail to inject even more Apple IT solutions.
Never looked back.
Finally someone in Australia wakes up!!
Throw another shrimp on the ‘barbie’ !!!
Mines a large tinny!
Fourteen RAID storage systems and five Xserve G5 servers don’t exactly signal a sea change in government policy. This seems more like a pilot project.
Stay tuned for more.
Hey, Macs have been approved for government usage in Australia. The door is open.
In Canada the bastards are totally in bed with Microsoft.
Apple much more appreciative than MS but still not good enough. Corporate systems baH.
Our roads and traffic department already uses Macs. It is certainly not the start for Macs in goverment use in Oz.
And their called prawns, not shrimp.
up yours bruce!
They’re called shrimp as often as they’re called prawns in Australia, Bruce. And the expression is most certainly, “Throw another shrimp on the barbie” – no mention of a prawn !!
I believe our Attorney General’s Department has for some time been Macintosh users; I remember them buying several thousand a year or two ago.
VanillaSpice
St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia.
Hey Gavin! Why bother to insult Bruce, he can’t even write proper English. “And their called prawns”, what a joke.
Obviously the big ones, like the king prawns we Aussies love, are called prawns.
The little ones, that US folk love, are called shrimp.
(Jumbo shrimp is an oxymoron!)
Obvious ehh?
Hmmm … I’ve a cold bottle or two of Cascade in the fridge. But perhaps a bit early to drink …
It’s good to see Apple make more market penetration in Oz. Also by the way, the ANUSF (hosting site of Oz’s main academic supercomputer APAC NF) (anusf.anu.edu.au) has been increasing the population of Mac’s, primarily G5’s and Powerbooks, despite the number of PC-near-blind folk (I was harassed about my Mac preference while I worked there!). Almost ironic!
I don’t think they’re yet brave enough to make the next supercomputer out of Xserve G5’s but maybe they might try a small cluster. Pricing by Apple Australia is probably not as cost effective as in the USA! Sigh!
Not to mention the whole iTunes Australia thing, which is bullshit BTW. For crying out loud, even if Americans speak a bastardization of the queen’s English, there’s no reason Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa can’t have stores released at the same time as U.S. aside from some kind of government regulation. Hell, any country with English as an official language should be able to buy from the iTunes music store. Just my $2 x 10 ^-2
VanillaSpice, I disagree entirely. The expression “Throw another shrimp on the barbie” was coined around the time of the success of the movie “Crocodile Dundee”. It was the catch phrase for a series of tourism commercials, starring Paul Hogan, aimed at the American market. Marketing pundits were concerned that Americans wouldn’t know what a prawn was because they’re called shrimps in the US so this coloquial Australian expression was “translated” for the overseas market. At the time, this series of commercials caused quite a stir in the media for that very reason and was seen by many as an attempt to Americanize Australian language and dilute our cultural heritage. Sadly, it seems to have worked in your case. But fortunately, in Sydney at least, you won’t find shrimps on any barbies, restaurant menus or for sale any fish shops – they are always prawns! Perhaps St Arnaud is more Americanized than Sydney.
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The purchase of Macs by the ASC is indeed welcome …. it’s just a pity that Optus (telco) have recently dumped Macs in favour of intel boxes ….. fools! I switched to a more Mac friendly telco when I heard this!
Well said Colonel Panic …
see e.g.
http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/barbies.htm
“Throw another prawn on the barbie has become as much of an Australian icon as vegemite on toast …”
I don’t think I could stomach a shrimp … sounds too small … kind of shrimpy!
ColonelPanic:
i) The Americans frequently used the term “prawn” for “large shrimp” long before Hoges and the commercials came along – they weren’t unaware of the word.
ii) We Australians colloquially have called most shrimp “prawns” yes, but not in the culinary world; Australian chefs are au fait with both shrimp and prawns.
iii) You are asking me to believe that prior to the Hoges commercials, not one Australian EVER used the word “shrimp” in the phrase “Throw another prawn on the barbie.” I don’t believe you; I have several older relatives who’ve told me that prior to the tourism ads, they frequently heard “shrimp” in that exact phrase.
Finally, barbeques themselves are American – they designed them and popularised the idea of eating in your own yard, cooking on a barbie. You seem to have forgotten this in your misplaced zeal to “correct” me of my non-existent Americanisation.
You write that the “shrimp on the barbie” was seen as an attempt to “Americanize (sic) Australian language and dilute our cultural heritage. Sadly, it seems to have worked in your case.” I would like to re-iterate that BOTH words were in use in BOTH countries, so saying “shrimp” is NOT an Americanisation.
And you accused me of being “Americanized” ? – That’s an Americanised spelling, ColonelPanic ! Hoist by your own petard, I’d say.
Settle down boys.
Actually … (forgive me for yet another OT post!)
Prawns are edible shrimp-like crustaceans; in Britain the name is applied to any large shrimp, usually Leander serratus; in the United States the word prawn usually indicates a fresh-water, rather than salt-water, shrimp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn
The usage of the common name “shrimp” also varies: zoologically, all crustaceans belonging to Natantia (or to a corresponding list of families) are called shrimps, but in common usage, especially in relation to cooking, some of the large ones are known as prawns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp
So if you want to stick to the large ones, as in Oz, buy prawns! 😎
Regarding usage, prawns far outnumbers shrimp in Oz, except for the growing bit of Americanisation in recent years – as with many other Australian icons.
Sidestepping the semantics of barbequeing versus grilling, the origins of BBQ’s are much more ancient than the USA … e.g. Koreans (and others) have been doing it for ages!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbeque
Geez guys…
I apologize for the international incident I caused…
No offense was intended…
When I read the story, I was elated at the fact that some Mac Xserves were purchased by our Aussie friends… and it just happened to be the first (and the most) “Austrailian” thing that popped into my head at the time…
Prawns, Shrimp, WHO CARES!!!
The fact of the matter is the Aussie’s are going Apple in a strong way and us Yanks are going to be left holding the bag with MicroShit.
Are we going to let those ex-convicts beat our royal English fannies?
What are you doing to about it?
Huh?
mac dood, don’t worry about it, shrimp/prawn they all taste good. one I get sick and tired of hearing of is the anti-american “America is Americanising our culture” crap.
I find this fear of a loss of our culture quite funny condisering that our culture was actually born out of the forced destrutcion of another culture.
Prawns, shrimps, who cares?
A rose by any other name….
Now when it comes to beers, that’s a completely different story.
Bud Light versus Fosters is like Noddy versus James Bond
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PS For my fellow Americans who don’t know who Noddy is (who was my favorite childhood character growing up in South Africa) don’t worry, “Noddy in Toyland” is coming to a TV station near you soon
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mac dood, don’t worry about it, shrimp/prawn they all taste good. one I get sick and tired of hearing of is the anti-american “America is Americanising our culture” crap.
I find this fear of a loss of our culture quite funny condisering that our culture was actually born out of the forced destrutcion of another culture.
mac dood, don’t worry about it, shrimp/prawn they all taste good. one I get sick and tired of hearing of is the anti-american “America is Americanising our culture” crap.
I find this fear of a loss of our culture quite funny condisering that our culture was actually born out of the forced destrutcion of another culture.
mac dood, don’t worry about it, shrimp/prawn they all taste good. one I get sick and tired of hearing of is the anti-american “America is Americanising our culture” crap.
I find this fear of a loss of our culture quite funny condisering that our culture was actually born out of the forced destrutcion of another culture.