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Public Sector IT
Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.
November 2010
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EC slapped over open source contract
30 Nov 2010 -
DirectGov spunks £200m
25 Nov 2010 -
EU keeps schtum on Microsoft prices
22 Nov 2010
The European Commission has been scolded for wrongdoing over a quasi-open source software system.The European Ombudsman reprimanded the Commission after buying the system without holding a public ...
Has DirectGov really spent £200m producing websites, Jerry Fishenden, LSE fop, former Microsoft suit, and general man about town, asked last year.
The reason Microsoft's EU numbers don't add up is that the EC has spent only half the total amount it had alloted under its €49m contract for desktop software. But was it a good deal?
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Open data sop or not
17 Nov 2010 -
Microsoft EU numbers don't add up
11 Nov 2010 -
Procurement perversities stifle Bristol's IT
05 Nov 2010 -
Papers please!
01 Nov 2010
Is the public sector really sowing the seeds of its own demise with the open data initiative? Like a swimming pool with no sides, if you let it all go free it may just all go: snapped up by ...
In the conflict between proprietary software Smaugs like Microsoft and open source hobbits like Linux, money really matters. The open source lobby must therefore have been dismayed to learn that ...
Thought you'd heard all the obstacles preventing Bristol City Council implementing an IT strategy based on open source and open standards? Now you can hear about one more.
The House of Lords has been scrapping Identity Cards this last fortnight. Sort of. This ID scrapping bill won't be enough to stop the development of a 'papers please' culture in Britain.