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is CIO of Newham, a London borough in transition. It will be home of the 2012 Olympics and is rapidly leaving behind its legacy of decline following the closure of London’s Docklands IT is at the centre of the area's efforts to reinvent itself as a centre of commerce and culture. This blog spells out some of what is going on. This blog appears on the Newham Counil intranet as part of CIO RIchard Steel's communications strategy with his team. It is repeated on Computerworld UK a week later.
Latest post: Benefitting from colleagues' MBA studies
The Microsoft Agreement Project Board met today. Rob Anderson presented the options that have been identified. I agreed with the preferred option, which is essentially a role-based model covering desktop, client access and server products.
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Green Monk
I am the co-founder of analyst RedMonk, the community-based analyst firm. I'm 36 and married with a boy. I talk too much, but i do actually listen.
http://www.greenmonk.net
Latest post: Microsoft expands its Connector bus service
Microsoft operate a private bus service called the Connector service for employees to get to work at its headquarters in Redmond.
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HART of outsourcing
Martyn Hart, chairman of the National Outsourcing Association, looks at the lessons to be learnt from the IT and business news
Latest post: NHS moving forward
According to recent news reports, health officials are considering a £100m payout to BT to take over eight NHS sites once Fujitsu leaves the £12.7bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT). This consideration of further spending comes as the Fujitsu £1bn contract comes to an end.
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Open Enterprise
Glyn Moody's look at at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them (or not, as the case may be).
Latest post: Ubuntu's Balancing Act
One thing that has always struck me in the free software world is the power of example. Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise. Similarly, MySQL's adoption by just about every Web 2.0 company meant that it, too, could no longer be dismissed as underpowered.
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Editor's blog
Editor Mike Simons' take on the news with the occasional wry insight thrown in for good measure.
Latest post: The gilt comes off virtualisation – or does it?
Virtualisation has been a no brainer – until now. The stupid blunder by VMware in leaving a “time bomb” in the code of its latest upgrade should give us all pause for thought.
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Enterprise OS: How hard can it be?
Written by staff at Sirius Corporation, the Open Source services group, this blog seeks to dispel any FUD around the use of Open Source software in the Enterprise and provide perspectives on business, economics, politics, philosophy and the environment.
Latest post: Linux triumphs in UK schools as hell freezes over
This post comes hard on the heels of an important piece of news... at least two Open Source companies have become part of the Becta's official list of suppliers to the education sector. The new procurement frame work under the aegis of the OGC relaunches the supply of ICT to education. The emphasis is clear: deliver value for money to UK schools.
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Test Driven
David Evans is Director of Methodology at software quality and testing consultancy SQS. These are the ruminations of a software quality methodologist, and friends.
Latest post: Test Driven Development as high-jump
I thought it would be far too corny to put some kind of Olympic-themed testing analogy blog entry up during the last fortnight, but with the closing ceremony well and truly behind us, it must be safe to do so now.
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Open source unleashed
Alex Fletcher is lead industry analyst at Entiva Group, a research and analyst firm which specialises exclusively on the open source software industry. Before becoming an analyst Alex was a consultant, software engineer and start-up founder.
Latest post: Learning French...a lesson in open source acceptance
I don't know how I overlooked this article (originally) in InfoWorld (and reproduced on ComptuerworldUK) last month about open source in France but it is an interesting read. My only qualm was that the article should have taken regional realities into account, i.e. North American.
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Tech_sceptic
Hype busting thoughts from the Editor in Chief of CIO magazine.
Latest post: Microsoft edges closer to a supercomputer under your desk
Microsoft today announced that the latest version of its Windows HPC supercomputing stack has been sent to manufacturing as the software giant continues to advance on a broad front at the very high end of computing capabilities.
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The final front tier of SOA
Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is currently the acting CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Latest post: Web development does not have to hit the rails
As I have stated before, better application interaction across different devices should be the web standard we all aim for.
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Open...
Glyn Moody has been a technology journalist and consultant for a quarter of a century, covering the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995. One early feature he wrote was for Wired in 1997: The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was. His most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionising Science, Medicine and Business. He can be contacted at glyn.moody@gmail.com
Latest post: Visualising the End of an Era
Good analysis - and don't miss that embedded video :
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Open source hearts and minds
Dr Ian Howells is chief marketing officer of Alfresco the open source content management company. He has 20 years of enterprise software marketing experience in content management, service oriented architectures and relational database systems. He publishes the pioneering Open Source Barometer.
Latest post: 7. Why CMIS?
In a nutshell - "Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP" is the answer.
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It’s the requirements, stupid
Understanding the business requirements is always the key to successful IT projects. After 20 years in local government IT, James Archer aims to highlight the lessons that are still being learned and re-learned.
Latest post: When is recycling not recycling?
Many projects fail due to a lack of clear requirements. One of the reasons for unclear requirements is that any project will have its own unique vocabulary. Those names and the agreed meanings of those names should always be recorded in a project.
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I told you so....
Cassandra is a highly experienced IT manager with more professional certificates than any sane person would put down on a CV, and who no one listens to until the things they were warned about really do go wrong...
Latest post: HMRC data: Could it happen to you?
We can all have a laugh at sending personal records through the post and then losing them.
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MicroChick
Siobhan decided that the world would be far better off if she stuck to writing about technology, rather than trying to fix it as she can't even work a toaster without a touch of fire. When she's not cursing her computer, Siobhan can often be found racing around conference halls. Her philosophy degree has helped her to ponder the future of technology and its place in the business world.
Latest post: Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, all fighting for our mobile screens
Yahoo has a couple of ostrich feathers to its mobile internet telephony cap today with a flurry of with the news of a deal with T-Mobile, usurping Google, and the launch of a social networking tool, OneConnect.
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