<p>news Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads has kicked off an extremely wide-ranging refresh of its underlying desktop IT infrastructure which is slated to see legacy products such as Lotus Notes, IBM Sametime, Windows XP and Novell's file, print and application deployment software replaced with more popular and updated equivalents.</p><p>The department one of the largest in Queensland, with a large central office in Brisbane and branch offices scattered throughout the state recently released tender documents for a project which it terms its Productivity and Collaboration Improvement project (PCI). In the documents, the department noted that it was currently running a large number of software platforms currently considered to be outmoded by most enterprise IT departments around Australia.</p><p>For example, the department currently runs Windows XP on most of its desktop PCs. It will replace Microsoft's decade-old operating system with Windows 7/Windows 8. Microsoft Office 2003 will be updated to Office 2010 or 2013, SharePoint 2007 will be updated to SharePoint 2010, IBM's Sametime collaboration platform will be replaced with Microsoft Lync, and Novell's File and Print and ZenWorks platforms will be replaced with Windows File and Print , as well as Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).</p><p>One of the other significant upgrades the state is planning to implement is a replacement of IBM's Lotus Notes platform with Microsoft's Outlook/Exchange platform; although the department noted that it could move to a "cloud" platform, pending guidance from Queensland's central whole of government office of the chief information officer on the issue.</p><p><a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2013/02/27/qld-transport-in-huge-it-infrastructure-refresh/">Keep reading...</a></p>