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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: Microsoft's Suse Linux franchise
There are 336 delegates to the KommITS Conference, of whom 156 are Members of the Society, which is a record.
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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: Definitely sack the chancellor
I am watching Alistair Darling's statement to the House of Commons on the UK’s biggest data breach ever with rising anger.
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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: Who destroyed IT in UK schools?
This post is prompted by some outstandingly depressing UK statistics:
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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: IPv6: Towards a Greener Internet
As you probably know by now, we're very interested in the idea of what might constitute a green API or protocol, so I was very interested when I received a link via twitter from @Straxus (Ryan Slobodan).
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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: TCS and ‘free’ outsourcing
I’ve been reading articles in the media this week suggesting that TCS is set to offer ‘free’ outsourcing contracts. However, on closer inspection this is clearly not the case. Some service providers are taking on board the cost of ‘transitional change’ from end users to make signing a contract with them more appealing.
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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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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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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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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: Death of a Meme: GPL Wins in Court Again
One of the favourite anti-open source memes used to be that the entire free software edifice was built on sand – to whit, the GNU GPL. This licence, which uses copyright law to give users extra freedoms provided they accept its conditions, was regarded by many in the software industry as so counter-intuitive as to be self-evidently impossible to enforce in the courts. After all, they reasoned, how could any sensible judge contemplate enforcing copyright law in a way that undermined itself?
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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: DreamSpark, Microsoft and the way to create great programmers
Microsoft has announced DreamSpark. The project is described as follows - “Microsoft DreamSpark provides professional-level tools that we hope will inspire students to explore the power of software and encourage them to forge the next wave of software-driven breakthroughs.”
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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: Pursuing a middle ground
I have been unable to view newly posted comments through my TypePad administration console since earlier this year. I was unaware of the fact until after a recent maintenance outage for TypePad I was able to see the deluge of comments that have been posted. I have yet to determine exactly why this was the case, but am looking into it.
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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: Viva El Software Libre!
When you think of groups promoting the adoption of free software around the world, you do not probably think of staid old UNESCO; and yet this organisation is actually quite active in this field. Here's one of its latest moves:
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