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By Computerworld UK reporters | Published 10:00, 17 August 07
Elsewhere, Microsoft's August patch release was the biggest for six months - no less than nine sets of patches covering 14 vulnerabilities. Take our poll and let us know how Patch Tuesday was for you.
In his daily blog, public sector CIO Richard Steel writes that London's Olympic borough Newham has created bite-sized online training modules to integrate its back office team with its ICT team.
Editor's highlights
Three must-read articles on Computerworld UK this week:
Bombings inquiry slams police Airwave radio contracts
Contracts did not stipulate radio should work inside buildings...
Goldman in £1.5bn bail-out after computer models fail
Automated trading unable to cope with unpredictable markets
Linus Torvalds discusses Linux
Linux daddy talks about Microsoft and open-source future
Readers' choice
Novell: 'We're not SCO' and we won't sue
Novell promises no legal action after its patent victory
Dell users face heavy premium for Vista
Dell's launch of open source PCs reveals Vista cost
Marks & Spencer signs up IBM for in-store systems refresh
Big Blue set to implement Beanstore Epos application
iSoft system brought down at NHS hospital
HP hardware failure caused two-day outage, says iSoft
Seventy staff to transition across to CSC
Seventy staff to transition across to CSC
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"...Novell is currently embedding tons of proprietary [Microsoft] code into its SuSE distribution and other third party Open Source packages. If everything works out for Novell, they will be the lone commercial Linux distro available - they won't need to sue. Goodbye Linux; so long Open Source; fare thee well oh Freedom."
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Digging deeper: Public sector
Seventy staff to transition across to CSC
Costs mount as justice IT progress stalls
C-NOMIS future in doubt
Police data stolen in server heist
Break-in prompts security review at forensic investigations firm
UKVisas slammed over security hole in outsourced website
Inquiry finds 'inadequate central control' over outsourcing contract
Government says no to NHS IT review
But prepares to award major new contracts
Digging deeper: Financial services
Faster banking payments launch delayed by six months
Tricky testing scuppers November deadline
RBS offers 13 million customers mobile banking
Signs up to Monilink/Monitise service
Digging deeper: Olympics
Olympics organisers reject Windows Vista
Microsoft XP-based PCs preferred by organisers
IT at Beijing Olympics to cost more than £200m
With a year to go, testing begins in earnest
Government left IT costs out of Olympic bid budget
Blunder only rectified 16 months after games awarded to London
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