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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: Uncertainty and change at Socitm
You will have seen from Richard's blog that he and Chris are now in New Zealand for a well earned break as well as Richard attending the NZ conference.
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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: Smart Grids and unlocked Smart Meters
I have been talking to a lot of Smart Meter and utility companies in the last few weeks and it has been fascinating. I have learned a huge amount about some of the challenges and opportunities involved in rolling our Smart Grids.
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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: Public sector shared services get a boost
Recent research, conducted by Ovum, has forecast that the European public sector shared services market will be worth £4bn between 2007-2012.
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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: OpenX: the Unknown Variable
The open source company OpenX, which is behind the free ad server of the same name, is something of a mysterious beast.
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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: Branding Open Source moves heaven and earth to beat Microsoft
Google's and Amazon's 'homes in the clouds' are to have a new neighbour, the good ol' boys from Seattle.
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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: Yahoo's Yang finally walks
The news that Yahoo founder Jerry Yang is to step down from his chief executive role comes too late for the company’s investors or for those who thought that a Microsoft-Yahoo combination offered the best prospect of avoiding a Google lock-in.
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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: Make me work for my money
Many of you have sponsored me in the past, most notably for sleeping on the streets of London, and I thank you again for your past support.
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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: "Three Strikes and You're Out" Struck Down
Wow. I was convinced that the meeting of EU culture ministers yesterday was going to end badly; I was wrong - and I take my virtual hat off to them:
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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: Deploy on Linux or stay with XP - Hasta la Vista
It is important to note that SharePoint only runs on a Microsoft stack and some have speculated that SharePoint is the next operating system from Microsoft. One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of SharePoint and the Microsoft stack on the open source community.
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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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Organisations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models. Fortunately, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0—is providing a solution. -
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On the face of it, social software seems an unlikely example of enterprise collaboration. Aren’t social networks a fad? What does sharing photos or connecting with college buddies have to do with getting work done?
