Steve Shine

Labour government has succeeded in lower gov IT costs

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:20:13 GMT

John Suffolk set e-government on the right path

As we warm up to a general election, I want to dwell on the positive moves we have seen from the current government in trying to achieving the cost savings in public sector IT spend.

3D TV, Android, In-flight internet, Tablet PCs. The future is not so far away anymore

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:13:13 GMT

Leaving on a jet plane

I write and send this message from a plane travelling to San Francisco on United Airlines using in-flight internet access. Getting on-line was ridiculously easy, the connection was actually pretty good and the charge for five hours connectivity is $13; cheaper than many hotels. I even made a Skype call to my family at home (although that was probably pushing the bandwidth somewhat).

Welcome to the new range of CIO Blogs

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:43:01 GMT

As part of the redesigned CIO UK we have relaunched our range of blogs.

CIOs can avoid costly database price increases with open source

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:31:57 GMT
Free software: You get what you pay for?
Last time I vented frustration over the effort invested into the Oracle/Sun/MySQL anti-trust case whilst the European Union ignores its profligate waste by paying whatever Oracle demands for its software. I finished off by commenting how glad I was that the private sector did not act like some Governments at which point I had to pause.

EU objecting to Oracle Sun deal wastes tax payers money

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:38 GMT
Fiddling while Rome burns…
In April of this year Oracle announced its intention to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn. Not long afterwards the European Union raised objections to these plans on the basis that MySQL (a tiny open source component of the Sun business) might in some way be in breach of anti-trust legislation. Last week it confirmed this position by issuing a "Statement of Objections".