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Microsoft pushes out ASP. Net web apps tool

Second release candidate offered for ASP.Net MVC 2

Oracle boosts Fusion project with AmberPoint purchase

Oracle is to acquire SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint to add further weight to its middleware product set. Terms were not disclosed.

Oracle kills Sun Cloud, promises new life for Java

Oracle's plans for Java and the proposed Sun Cloud public computing platform became clearer when Oracle executives gave a Java vendors jumpy over Oracle strategy big thumbs-up to Java but a thumbs-down to Sun Cloud.

Socitm: Council IT at ‘breaking point’

Socitm: Council IT at ‘breaking point’

Councils are at “breaking point” as they attempt to fund cutting-edge technology changes on much smaller budgets, according to the industry body representing local government IT managers.

British Library signs £2.3m contract with Capgemini

The British Library has selected Capgemini UK to design and implement a new system for its website to help improve its online ordering services. Integration of disparate existing systems will be key to the project.

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Barclays drops £400m Accenture deal

Barclays drops £400m Accenture deal

Barlcays has decided not to renew a £400 million, six-year application development deal with supplier Accenture.

Lancashire planning £1.9bn shared services framework

Lancashire planning £1.9bn shared services framework

Lancashire County Council is on the lookout for suppliers to provide up to £1.9 billion worth of IT services, which will be shared with its twelve borough councils, Cumbria County Council and other local bodies over a ten year period.

Business process modelling spec set for 2010 adoption

The Object Management Group (OMG) will have a final version of the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 specification, featuring capabilities such as collaborative process modelling, ready for mid-2010.

Shared services and offshoring ‘will transform’ Whitehall

Shared services and offshoring ‘will transform’ Whitehall

The planned rollout of shared services will transform the government's operations over the next 10 years, alongside the controversial takeup of offshoring.

Labour and Tories in bitter row over IT strategy

Labour and Tories in bitter row over IT strategy

The government was last night accused of being “thoroughly complacent”, over the detail in leaked plans to slash billions of pounds from IT expenditure.

IBM offers Amazon Web Services cloud monitoring

Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM’s Tivoli Monitoring software.

Socitm: Whitehall ignoring benefits of local council IT investment

The government’s Operational Efficiency Programme ignores the financial benefits that IT investment offers to local councils, according to Socitm.

Amazon adds .Net application development to cloud computing

AWS (Amazon Web Services) unveiled this week an SDK (software development kit) intended to make it easier for developers to build Microsoft .Net applications that can access the AWS platform for cloud computing.

Cloud storage vendor integrates collaboration, backup and sync

Syncplicity unveiled an enterprise online service that gives users a central repository for storing, sharing and backing up all their information.

IT jobs market sees tiny upturn

The IT jobs market experienced a small upturn in October.

After Sidekick disaster, Microsoft talks security for cloud

Microsoft wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services.

Dell stresses efficiency at OpenWorld conference

The multifaceted plan for driving out IT inefficiency and boosting innovation is championed by Dell and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison

SPEC looks to set SOA benchmark

A standards body is looking to address one of the major problems with SOA, that of measuring performance.

Microsoft joining up Java and .NET apps

Noelios' Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services leverages REST to join the two platforms

Java vendor SpringSource acquired by VMware

VMware has completed its acquisition of enterprise Java vendor SpringSource, a $362m (£219m) deal designed to help customers build, run and manage applications to be run on cloud-based platforms.

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