Executives at some IT suppliers say their companies have wasted money bidding in an open competitive tender when an NHS foundation trust had already chosen to buy the Cerner electronic patient records system.
Oracle's revenue for 2009 has grown 4% to $23.3bn, showing that businesses are still buying enterprise software licenses and renewing maintenance contracts...
The current economic downturn will drive new ways of providing and pricing IT outsourcingmuch likethe bursting of the dotcom bubbleincreased the take-up of offshore services.
Cloud computing's inherent security risks will prevent it from becoming dominant in the enterprise, says Gil Shwed, co-developer of the world's first...