Public Sector IT
Recent Posts
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Universal Credit on-track - and thanks to agile, says discharged IT boss
13 Nov 2012 -
How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft - 1999: Reseller cartel makes it cosy
02 Aug 2012 -
How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft - 1996: Only Microsoft can do Microsoft
27 Jul 2012
Universal Credit is not turning into a car crash, the programme's discharged boss has told Computer Weekly.Speaking out after he and other managers were moved off the unfinished project, Steve ...
While prosecutors in Europe and the US struggled to restrain Microsoft's monopoly in the late 90s, their own compadres in the European Commission's Information Directorate demonstrated in ...
The European Commission gave up pretending there were alternatives to Microsoft in 1996. It side-stepped new laws designed to keep public money honest, claiming exceptional circumstances. It gave ...
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How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft-1993: EC rubber-stamps Microsoft monopoly
25 Jul 2012 -
How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft - 1992: Open standards doomed from outset
24 Jul 2012 -
Universal Credit possible if politicians don't interfere, says IT chief
12 May 2011 -
Government to end ICT "oligopoly"
30 Mar 2011 -
IT openness is coming - Cabinet Office
21 Jun 2010 -
iSoft issues market update, and its share price rises
15 Jun 2010 -
Life made a misery after IBM took over congestion charge
15 Jun 2010
Europe's ill-fated 1993 migration to Microsoft Office was rubber-stamped by a committee that failed to see how it would get locked into buying Microsoft without a competition for the next 20 years, ...
The European Commission has been trying - and failing - to avoid being locked into proprietary Microsoft technical standards since 1992, it has been revealed in official documents released to ...
DWP can manage the massive reorganisation of computer systems demanded by Universal Credit as long as politicians don't move the goalposts and over-complicate matters for departmental techies, said ...
The government has promised to bring down the ICT oligopoly as part of a strategy that may have seismic consequences for the public and private sectors.
Government CIO John Suffolk and his colleagues are preparing plans for the publication of IT-related documents that have always been secret and difficult to obtain even under the Freedom of ...
iSoft, an important supplier to the NHS IT scheme, issued a market update today, which appears to have been well received by the market as the company's share price rose by about 16% to 28.5 cents. ...
"Since IBM took over the 'auto-pay' system my life has been a misery" - Bryan Thompson, Operations Director at car rental company Miles & Miles.There are plans to extend the problematic ...
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Will Coalition scrap opt-out model for summary care records?
09 Jun 2010 -
Early-day motion calls for immediate halt to summary care records uploads
09 Jun 2010 -
£6bn of savings - some of the impact on IT
24 May 2010 -
Would Tories create raft of new IT-related projects?
05 May 2010 -
More cracks in the NPfIT - or an unlocking of Trust restraints?
21 Apr 2010
Pulse magazine says the BMA is confident it can convince the new government to order a new opt-in model for summary care records. Opt-in is likely to mean that patients would give their consent to ...
A new Liberal Democrat MP has put down an early-day motion that "calls on the Government to halt all SCR [summary care records] updates, effective immediately, pending its promised comprehensive ...
The Treasury outlines in a statement today (24 May 2010) how the government will save £6bn in 2010/11. There's no detail, only headline figures. This is what the statement says: "Government ...
Board directors of major Government IT suppliers have good reason to vote Tory Plans for major outsourcing deals already underway in private? Sir Peter Gershon, adviser to the Conservative Party, ...
Smarthealthcare.com reports that the Department of Health is allowing some trusts in the north of England to use an alternative to the Lorenzo software they were going to install from their NPfIT ...