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Computer Weekly\'s editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy.
February 2011
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Whitehall open source plan heralds a behaviour change for suppliers
- Editor in chief 25 Feb 2011 -
IT leaders are ready for the cloud - but are their suppliers?
- Editor in chief 24 Feb 2011 -
Obama woos the tech crowd - Mr Cameron, take note
- Editor in chief 18 Feb 2011
Has anyone kept a count of the number of times the government has said it is going to move to open source software? It's been a favoured goal for many years without ever seriously looking like it ...
Now here's an irony. After two or three years of vendor cloudwash and relentless marketing to IT leaders about why they should move to the cloud, it seems those CIOs have accepted their suppliers' ...
Last night, President Obama hosted a dinner with the leaders of the US technology industry in California. It was certainly the IT equivalent of the best celebrity bashes, and a rare event to bring ...
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David Cameron, meet IT reality (part two)
- Editor in chief 17 Feb 2011 -
Cameron & Co finding that government IT needs more than good intentions
- Editor in chief 11 Feb 2011 -
Could the cashless economy finally be here?
- Editor in chief 04 Feb 2011
Only last week, I wrote on this blog that David Cameron and Co are quickly learning that the problems of government IT are more intractable than their pre-election good intentions are likely to ...
A new government is learning that being in power is a different game from being in opposition when it comes to IT policy. It's not the coalition's fault - it's what happens when you get a new bunch ...
Since the first stirrings of the dot com boom, we have been told that cash is on its way out, and electronic money is around the corner. Next week, on 14 February, is the fifth anniversary of the ...