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A rare opportunity to implement effective change?

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:36:26 GMT

MOD spending gets slammed in enquiry (again)... Government IT Policy gets yet another revamp after seeing no change in practices... Unprecedented budget cuts and staff reductions looming across UK government... The winds of change in political leadership... Whenever you implement...

Labour government has succeeded in lower gov IT costs

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:20:13 GMT

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. Last year the UK Government...

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

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:13:13 GMT

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...

CIOs can avoid costly database price increases with open source

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:31:57 GMT

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...

EU objecting to Oracle Sun deal wastes tax payers money

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:38 GMT

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)...