Computerworld UK "Editor's blog"

NHS IT how much is the government paying to keep suppliers sweet?

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:58:00 GMT

There is something obscene about the political manoeuvring around NHS IT and, amidst the weasel words, opportunism and dissembling, some important questions are not being asked.

IT strikes, a sign of the times?

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:27:00 GMT

The end of the strike over pay, redundancies and pensions at Fujitsu services raises a host of questions.

Waledac gets whacked, Linux gets valued

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:53:00 GMT

Microsoft is not getting the credit it deserves for winning a court order to take down the Waledac botnet.

Getting it right

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Computerworld UK and Techworld have pulled a number of articles by Randall C. Kennedy, a contributor to our US-based sister title Infoworld.

Dell buys Perot: Following the money

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:01:00 GMT

How valuable is your IT department? How much should you do yourself and how much should you outsource or contract out?

Let's stop knee jerk cuts in IT spending

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:31:00 GMT

There are increasingly loud voices being raised demanding cuts in public sector IT spending.

Some good stuff on ComputerworldUK today

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:25:00 GMT

MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee slammed Government IT projects for ‘repeating’ basic errors.

Climate change: Unlike the airline industry, IT is part of the solution

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:42:00 GMT

I'm not complacent. I don't believe there is a technology solution to every problem. But this morning's news from the government’s official advisers on climate change made me angry.

Orange, T-Mobile, Oracle and Sun: Sweet and sour mergers?

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:07:00 GMT

The merger between Orange and T-Mobile’s UK networks has probably sparked most conversation among IT professionals today, but the possible link between two food giants may ultimately prove more interesting

Getting rid of shelfware

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:51:00 GMT

Ray Wang, the esteemed Forrester analyst, has some sound advice over on his Software Insider personal blog about how to negotiate with suppliers over licenses you no longer need or want.

Is Oracle repeating SAP's mistakes?

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Is Oracle about to make the same mistake that SAP did last year, and take its users for granted?

Learn from the vendors

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:21:00 GMT

EMC’s battle with NetApp for Data Domain is one of the few real bidding wars the IT industry has seen.

Cloud computing and employment rights

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:54:00 GMT

Very interesting note by Philip Carnelley on the techmarketview.com site on Software as a service, cloud computing and employment rights.

Too lazy to lie

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Why did I expect any better? Why am I so annoyed, I have written my first blog entry in months?

Open source software's second coming in the enterprise

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:40:00 GMT

Open source software is the primary enabler of developer tech populism. That is the one of the interesting conclusions of a new Forrester report, Open Source Software Goes Mainstream

Windows 7 and what it says about end users

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:43:00 GMT

I was amazed to learn that Microsoft is, for the first time, releasing an application compatibility testing kit before the release of a new Windows 7 operating system, which will be launched later in the year.

Where have all the virtualisation savings gone?

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Everybody is virtualising their infrastructure. Go to any gathering of IT professionals, and you’d be hard pressed to find an organisation that isn’t in the throws of a project.

Gary McKinnon and the minister who ran away

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:32:00 GMT

The decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge NASA hacker Gary McKinnon and instead leave him to be extradited to the US highlights the mass of contradictions around the government’s attitude to hacking and cybercrime.

Worth a read

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:42:00 GMT

Some of the stories on ComputerWorld UK and elsewhere that caught my eye today.

Are your suppliers making 80% margin from you?

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:36:00 GMT

How much does your enterprise software supplier make on maintenance contracts? Are their margins 30%, 40 % or 80%?

How much damage will software as a service do?

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:31:00 GMT

We all know the economic downturn is driving IT organisations towards software as a service.

Will the Tories really turn the public sector open source?

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:28:00 GMT

I’ve heard of small government, but are the Tories really serious about open source and public sector procurement?

Offshoring loses its USP

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:00 GMT

The Satyam debacle calls into question many of the assumptions behind offshoring.

Offshoring looses its USP

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:25:00 GMT

The Satyam debacle calls into question many of the assumptions behind offshoring.

Will Microsoft give us a virtualisation headache?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Microsoft is about to change the way it licenses its software for virtualisation.