Public Sector IT
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Questions over open standards lobbyists
13 Feb 2012 -
Downturn undermines flagship government outsourcing deal
02 Feb 2012 -
Cosy cloud coterie snuggles into top nob govIT jobs
27 Jan 2012
The power of large software corporations is demonstrated by the immense trouble an elected government has when it attempts to act in a way that doesn't put their interests before the public good.
IBM's flagship local government outsourcing deal is still failing to deliver savings it promised in 2007. The problems have dragged on so long that one council has been forced to reschedule debt it ...
Mmmmmits snug at the top. Especially for Julian David, IBM's top UK salesman, who was picked last week to be the next Director General of Intellect, the ICT oligopoly's trade association.It's only ...
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Hope shines through crack in lid of open standards coffin
12 Jan 2012 -
Microsoft hustled UK retreat on open standards, says leaked report
06 Jan 2012 -
What a NHSIT year for CSC
31 Dec 2011 -
Open standards rift tears UK policy to shreds
22 Dec 2011 -
Suppliers got sweeteners in MOU deals
19 Dec 2011 -
Never-ending megadeals embarrass gov ICT strategy
13 Dec 2011 -
HMRC rethinks £8.5bn megadeal as large suppliers resist flagship IT reforms
30 Nov 2011
Woah there, cowboy. The UK hasn't broken its open standards pledge quite yet.
The British government withdrew its open standards policy after lobbying from Microsoft, it has been revealed in a sensitive Cabinet Office brief obtained by Computer Weekly.
Tuesday was a good day to bury bad news. With 60m Brits digesting their Christmas Bank Holiday feasts in front of crap telly, news outlets were running skeleton crews. The most work done anywhere ...
Cabinet Office scrapped its open standards policy before opening it to consultation last month, opening the way for a major policy U-turn.
Systems integrators got contract extensions in return for cutting costs in their government contracts when they did their bit for the UK austerity drive by signing memoranda of understanding with ...
Ten days before Cabinet Office gave a recent progress report on its flagship ICT policy to end oligopolistic megadeals, it signed two such megadeals worth over £1bn combined.
HM Revenue & Customs has begun reassessing its £8.5bn IT deal with Capgemini in advance of it expiring in 2017.The rethink will shed light on how tough it is proving for the government to push ...
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Oracle has 70 per cent of software licences in central government
29 Nov 2011 -
CSC elevates moustachioed mesmerist from Kingston University
15 Nov 2011 -
CSC bags phone support for cyber warriors
08 Nov 2011 -
US military issues agile and open standards orders after ERP disasters
03 Nov 2011 -
Open standards: UK dithers over royalty question
26 Oct 2011
Central government buys the majority of its standard software from just one supplier: Oracle.
A few losers may have scraped through their time at Kingston University, but surely few have reached as high as Michael Shove, precariously appointed global head of Managed Services at Computer ...
Troubled US outsourcer Computer Sciences Corporation has been offered $145m to do telephone support for US cyber warriors and other grunts connected to an overseas extension of the Navy Enterprise ...
The world's most muscular military machine is still operating on creaky old computer systems after a decade of modernisation by systems integrators and ERP software suppliers whose problematic ...
UK and Portugal are both about to decree a list of open standards that must be used in all public computer systems. But while the UK is still trying to decide what an open standard is, Portugal has ...