October 2004

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Sainsbury's writes off £260m as supply chain IT trouble hits profit

  Sainsbury's has written off £260m IT spend and is renegotiating a major outsourcing contract after it blamed supply chain...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Bristol plans to move 5,000 to open source

  Bristol City Council could begin one of the UK's biggest roll-outs of open source desktop applications if a proposal to adopt...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  CRM helps ING to make extra £2.8m in first year

  ING Direct said it has achieved a 400% return on investment from customer relationship management software used by its call...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Abbey monitors VoIP call quality

  High-street bank Abbey, a pioneer in IP telephony, has begun implementing service level monitoring to ensure that IP-based calls...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  IT headcounts to plummet, says Gartner

  Six out of 10 IT departments will cut staffing levels in half by 2008, according to analyst firm Gartner.  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Oracle users need clarity on grid computing

  Support, software quality and cost will be the among main issues discussed at the annual conference of the UK Oracle User group...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Adobe and IBM join the Liberty Alliance as Passport role is limited

  Adobe and IBM have joined the Liberty Alliance, the global consortium which is developing an open federated identity standard and...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Avis takes £28m hit to cancel ERP project as costs escalate

  Avis has cancelled a major enterprise resource planning project because of delays and higher than expected implementation costs.  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Microsoft gives multi-core pledge

  Microsoft gave a major boost to the development of multi-core processors and threw down a challenge to other software suppliers...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Revenue and EDS in talks on IT woes

  The Inland Revenue and supplier EDS are locked in legal discussions over whether and how much the company should pay in...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Users welcome software suppliers' commitment to Basda quality code

  The Business Application Software Developers Association (Basda) has received a cautious thumbs up from users for a wide-ranging...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Committee chairman vows to keep fighting for Gateway publication

  Archy Kirkwood, chairman of the House of Commons' Work and Pensions Committee, has vowed that MPs will continue to fight for more...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  MPs given little comfort on state of Child Support Agency systems

  Members of the MPs' Work and Pensions Committee praised only one part of the government's response to their report calling for...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Council IT not ready for Freedom of Information

  With less than 10 weeks left to go, local authorities are still not ready to meet the demands of the Freedom of Information Act,...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Government snubs MPs over IT project secrecy

  The government has snubbed proposals from a committee of MPs to publish details of its risky IT projects in the same week as it...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Microsoft more vague about Exchange road map

  After removing the 2006 "Kodiak" release of Exchange Server from its product road map earlier this year, Microsoft's plans for...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Japan's IT companies say no major damage after quakes

  Japan's major electronics companies had found no serious damage to their facilities after a series of powerful earthquakes shook...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  Intel switches off LCOS TV chip

  Intel has decided to cancel its project to develop a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) chip that would bring down the cost of...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  EU court ruling on Microsoft could come by mid-November

  The European Union judge ruling on whether to suspend sanctions against Microsoft could deliver his verdict as early as...  Continue Reading

• October 25, 2004 25 Oct'04

  US IT pay to rise by 15% by 2007

  An improving economy in the US and heightened demand for US technology workers with certain skills will help drive 10%-15% salary...  Continue Reading