Computerworld UK "Enterprise OS: How hard can it be?"

Branding Open Source moves heaven and earth to beat Microsoft

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Google's and Amazon's 'homes in the clouds' are to have a new neighbour, the good ol' boys from Seattle.

Interview with Gary Clawson, CEO of the North West Learning Grid

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:08:00 GMT

Can you tell us a little bit about your background and your role at the North West Learning Grid?

Obama, global recession, proprietary software and pigs

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:17:00 GMT

When I heard Barrack Obama use the proverb 'lipstick on a pig' the other day it got me thinking about language, and how it can be used to deceive as easily as to explain.

Becta..the first UK quango to go Open Source?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:07:00 GMT

I am writing this late at night not too far in the future; Google is refusing to send my e-mails until I answer some dumb maths questions and my Sat Nav is so critical of my driving that I dare not venture out in my car.

The Universal School Desktop

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:21:00 GMT

The one thing that you really need when teaching something to a group of children, students, adults, whoever, is to ensure that they are 'singing from the same hymn sheet'. Put less metaphorically, they all need to be accessing the same text book or work sheet during the lesson.

Linux can save UK schools billions: Part 2

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:10:00 GMT

It's true, free open source software can and will save schools a small fortune. But why schools in particular?

Linux triumphs in UK schools as hell freezes over

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:16:00 GMT

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.

Open source in the enterprise

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:58:00 GMT

Bernard Golden is a renowned expert on open source software and author of the excellent Open Source in the Enterprise recently published by O'Reilly. We caught up with him at the HP financial services industry Open Source Advisory Council to ask him how Open Source is changing the way Enterprises use software.

Chrome plated change management

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:46:00 GMT

I have become increasingly interested in what can only be described as the Windows XP effect.

Linux feels the need for speed

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:21:00 GMT

I've been musing on the question of speed and the end of a relationship. Since this is IT we are talking about, let's ask a simple question but on that is difficult to answer: "How do you get folk who are perfectly happy with Windows XP to change to something else?"

Linux fights Creationism in UK schools

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:36:00 GMT

It hurts to say this, but in the early 2000s you knew where you were when it came to school PCs. We all used Windows 2000 Pro.

Open source in an economic downturn

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:00 GMT

We are in an economic downturn, perhaps even a full-blown recession. Any doubts I had about that were removed by two related, recent phenomena.

Beware geeks bearing gifts

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:17:00 GMT

Recently I attended a presentation given to all the major UK suppliers of ICT goods and services to schools.

The Future of ICT in Schools

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:56:00 GMT

The future of IT in UK schools is a subject which pre-occupies me, as any reader of this blog will know already.

Has Becta presided over the collapse of the UK PC industry?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:48:00 GMT

Last summer the list of ‘thriving’ UK PC manufacturers contained a very familiar list of players. These were RM plc, Akhter plc, Evesham Computers Ltd and Viglen Ltd.

Can we give every school child in the UK a Linux notebook and still save money?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:54:00 GMT

The simple answer is 'yes' we could do it now and we will save the taxpayer millions of pounds.

Netbooks are the future

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:48:00 GMT

ICT spending in UK schools is unsustainable but it could be cut by 90% with the help of Open Source software and the latest innovations in personal computing dubbed NetBooks.

When Office and Windows are given away

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:43:00 GMT

If you are looking for an Office suite, let me inform you that Open Office 2.4 rocks; it's smart, easy to use, supports open standards, is free, can be distributed freely to your friends works on virtually any computer and now you can even get free training through the QCA approved INGOTs.

When Office and Windows are given away

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:43:00 GMT

Who destroyed IT in UK schools?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:42:00 GMT

This post is prompted by some outstandingly depressing UK statistics:

Who destroyed IT in UK schools?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:42:00 GMT

This post is prompted by some outstandingly depressing UK statistics:

Interview: Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Steve McIntyre is the recently elected Debian Prioject Leader. He is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the Debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images.

Interview: Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:00:00 GMT

The future is green, open source and Nintendo

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:58:00 GMT

My main interest has always been the use of Open Source thin-client solutions in an educational context. Its worth stating, again, what is really the blindingly obvious - thin-client work stations use one twentieth of the power of a typical PC (10-20 watts versus 200-400 watts), require no maintenance or technical per-machine support and Open Source software is free of licence costs.

The future is green, open source and Nintendo

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:58:00 GMT

My principle interest has always been the use of Open Source thin-client solutions in an educational context. Its worth stating, again, what is really the blindingly obvious - thin-client work stations use one twentieth of the power of a typical PC (10-20 watts versus 200-400 watts), require no maintenance or technical per-machine support and Open Source software is free of licence costs.