Blogs

Haapy Birthday PLoS

Enterprise Readiness Of Cloud Ratcheting Up

La Bell'Italia

Digital Inclusion Action Plan Launched for Consultation

Linus Up Close and Personal

The EPO's Reductio ad Absurdum

More on Labour's Data Delusion

I don't like Mondays

AMQP's Long Spoon

The Facebook Approach to Open Source

Libelling Larry Lessig

Verified by Visa - As Valueless

Microsoft's Future

The best software is green!

Microsoft's new security update - urgent vulnerability affecting millions of PC users

A more productive day

The Mirror

Think online and offline to avoid getting stuck in the clouds

*All* Russian Schools to Use Free Software

Don't Start Here, StartHere

Feedback from the Socitm conference

Andrew Keen is Right...

GreenMonk talks to General Motors about the Chevrolet Volt

The True Value of Nothing

Governments influence internet evolution

The Universal School Desktop

Outsourcing slowdown?

Clouds on the cloud horizon

Economic crisis leads to loss of flexitime reforms

Why OpenOffice.org Failed – and What to Do About It

Surely Shome Mishtake?

Councils debate bounced emails versus spam

Under the Aegis of AEGIS

The Real Story Behind GNU/Linux

Event Report: Inforum 2008 Highlights Transition from Acquirer to Builder

Hoon Mines the Moron Meme

What Comes After “Embrace, Extend”?

Ultra-Portables Creep Towards £100

The Forecast Looks Good for OpenOffice.org

My speech at Socitm Conference 2008

Socitm Conference 2008 round-up

LSB 4 For Whom?

The Elephant in the Library

Open Source Business Does Not Scale

Citigroup set to sell Global Services to TCS

Birth of a Meme: the O(o)pen Web

Birth of a Meme: the O(o)pen Web

Celebrating Open Access (Day)

Symbian's Patently Terrible “Triumph”

Linux can save UK schools billions: Part 2

More Data Losses? Yes, Please....

Ready for the Annual Conference!

Sawing Off the Branch on which We Sit

Ubuntu's Balancing Act

Visualising the End of an Era

Symantec's acquisition of MessageLabs

Linus and the Art of the Kernel Release

"I've Never Voted Tory in My Life..."

Benefitting from colleagues' MBA studies

What about analysts?

First, Catch Your "War on Terror"....

Oh Irony, Thy Name is Labour

Oracle acquires Primerva

Enter the Socitm Conference Photo Competition!

NHS moving forward

The Perils of Intellectual Monopolies, Part 6574

Why Mono and Samba Are Patently Different

Climate Change: It’s The Economy, Stupid. Half a Bail-out

Linus Has a Blog???!?

Get Real, People: Get *Real* People

Nanny Google

You Can Bank On It

Having Lots of Fon

IBM Storms Into Cloud Computing With an ISV Friendly Pricing Model

Opening Up ISO's Can of Worms

You Know You're Getting Old When...

Green Answer Time

In Praise of that Damn' Richard Poynder

The Marvellous Mr. arXiv

NAC Results Make Waves

OpenOffice.org Breaks Records Everywhere

The Late Arriving Guest of Better Connected!

Googling the Genome

Microsoft's OOXML Endgame Revealed?

What a Nasty Piece of Work is...

Not that Vista isn't selling...

Byte Night

Microsoft expands its Connector bus service

HP Acquires LeftHand Networks, Virtualized iSCSI Storage Vendor

Haggling in the Bazaar

Norwegians Get the Blues

Is micro (home) generation good for the environment?

Chinesepod's Milestone

Getting Connected

CeBIT Opens Up

Opening OpenPandora's Box of Openness

A Survey of Open Source Surveys

Clear Climate Code project needs your help

Get "Synthing"...

Europe gets ready for tighter security and telco regulations

The Second Life of Philip Rosedale

Federated SOA definition update

Egosurf - in the past

Will offshored jobs return home?

Reflecting on the way ahead... and how not to be "Clueless"

Haque Really Hacks It

7. Why CMIS?

Xohm Unveiled In Baltimore, not BAWA

Android Gets a Hand

What Microsoft Still Does Not Get

Let's Frame This...

Monday at home...

Schwarzenegger sends "a strong message"

A Question of Perspective

Ready for PSMP?

6. What will be the Impact of CMIS on the ECM Market?

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, We Salute You

What is "clickjacking" and should you be concerned about it?

Beware Non-Evil Companies

Web development does not have to hit the rails

Discussion & Debate

Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment

Google and GE joining forces on clean energy

"Three Strikes and You're Out" is Out

Federated SOA - What does it mean to you?

Linux triumphs in UK schools as hell freezes over

5. Which Vendors are involved in CMIS and how long have they been working on the Draft Specification?

Google's First Open Source Product

90% Open Source Lightning

Put That in Your Intellectual Monopolies Pipe...

Could it Get Even BECTA?

Networking...

Mergers, acquisitions and the crisis

Proof That Authoritarianism Leads to Insanity

Clever Old Cleversafe

What's your Crazy Green Idea (for $25,000)?

Microsoft edges closer to a supercomputer under your desk

What's important to you? Forrester wants to know!

IBM Fires a Shot Across the ISO's Bows

Another big day

McAfee's acquisition of Secure Computing

Avoiding the "Data Security Survey Rips Government" Pitfalls

Urgent: Telecoms Package Vote *Again*

Urgent: Telecoms Package Vote *Again*

Two Views of Enterprise Open Source

Space-based solar power?

Open source in the enterprise

Cisco Reduces Messaging to Just Jabber

Home working, legal settlements and ministers

4. How does CMIS relate to other Standards?

The *Other* Vista: Successful and Open Source

Open Source Giraffe

How to make a hosting company carbon neutral - René Wienholtz of Strato

Top Secret

3. What Functionality Does CMIS Address?

Banking chaos likely to feed BI, governance tools

St. Bruce Nails it Again

Back to My Roots

Is Sir Tim B-L Distancing Himself from the W3C?

Enterprise Open Source 2.0

If you go from SaaS to PaaS you need CaaS

2. What Problem Does CMIS Address?

Don’t buy management tools for exoneration

Barking up the wrong tree...

CMIS Top Ten Questions

A Breath of Fresh Air

European outsourcing

Chrome plated change management

BECTA Back in Play

Cloud Courting: Round 1

The network is the computer

"Written Declaration" on Open Source in the EU

Proving the pivotal role of ICT

How Open is the Open Video Player Initiative?

How Open is the Open Video Player Initiative?

To Be Or Not To Be...Anonymous

Specialists can be better than jack-of-all-trades

Why Patents Are Broken, Part 4783678

Should Mozilla Rebrand Itself as Firefox?

United Airlines shows perils of web news

Linux feels the need for speed

Vices and virtues of virtualisation

Content gets a Standard - A Big Week for Content Management

Another Expert Group Gets It

Who Is For Sale This Time?

Spore? 'S Poor....

Would you buy a car if you had an option to (electric) car share?

De-Fanging Microsoft

Judgement day

The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday

Large Hadron Collider? Our priorities are way off!

Thirst!

How Healthy are the Views of the BCS?

A2K Goes ODF

The What & Why of Web 2.0

Maybe it is good this August was so wet in Ireland

LSE et al prove computing now utility-like

The Road to World Domination

The Road to World Domination

Give One, Get One: I Still Don't Get It

Learning French...a lesson in open source acceptance

When Will They Ever Learn?

The President's Dinner

Microsoft's green announcements

Credativ Picks up the (Open Source) Phone

McCain-Palin - the oil industry's dream ticket

Credativ Picks up the (Open Source) Phone

How do you think Technology Populism affects companies?

OS/2: the Open Source Laboratory

Innovators '08: The winners are...

Asterisk Discovers Again Why Open Source is a Star

Asterisk Discovers Again Why Open Source is a Star

Open Source Surveillance

Can you help RedMonk/GreenMonk become carbon neutral?

Sharing is Part of the Human Condition

Cracking the GNU/Linux Security Cliché

All about Events

Why the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Doesn't Really Deliver

Trilliant's Bill Vogel on Smart Grids, Demand Response and Investment

Working with our peers

A day of innovations

The Networked NGO

Cardiff Council Welshes on Welsh Culture

Linux fights Creationism in UK schools

Obama’s outsourcing assault

The next step for open source revenue models?

Chrome: Google's Anti-Browser

Chrome: Google's Anti-Browser

Why don't we already have a real time market for electricity?

A Prototype for Public Sector Supplier Engagement?

Web2.0 is the way for Socitm members to go

The Beginning of the End for the ISO?

Wanna Job?

Rich Web Poor Web

Write to Them: European Interoperability Framework v2

Sticking with Gartner

YouTube: A Video Commons?

The Greening - and Maturing - of Boris

Demand response - how to get more wind energy onto the grid

"Piracy" Is Not Theft

Open Access Day

Open source in an economic downturn

Sorting out Socitm's feedback mechanisms

Google Backtracks on Eclipse and Mozilla Licences

Words Fail Us

This week in history - volcanos, hurricanes, and the risk of Black Swans

Ignoring open source will put companies at a serious competitive disadvantage - Gartner

Open source overview

Mozilla Gets Google's Moolah for 3 More Years

A Tortured Relationship

Why Firefox Will Be Ubiquitous

“Open for Business” Open for Business

North of Watford

Test Driven Development as high-jump

Tactical open source for now...strategic open source later?

Could Microsoft's Photosynth Have Been Free Software?

Any questions for Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel?

Home Office data security blunder shows importance of SLAs

Xforms to the fore?

Beware geeks bearing gifts

IT and assisted living

Attack of the GNU/Linux Ultraportables, Part 2

The Operating System as Prison

Stop European Software Patents (Again)

IBM Raises The Stakes In Business and IT Continuity Services

IT is not always to blame for security failures

PA Consulting? Pah!

Can open source continue its charge up the application stack?

Net Neutrality Explained for Old Technologists

Measuring the right thing with Socitm's benchmarks

Opening Up Democracy's Source Code

Linux Foundation Interview with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker

Going Green?

My first visit to Socitm's office

Open Source Pro-Tibet Protest in Beijing

The growing security skills shortage

The UK Super-Snoop DB: DOA

Why can't we have energy labels for all electronic devices?

Ubuntu + Dell = The Ultimate Ultraportable?

Open Source (Still) Seeds the Startups

Organised or what?

ID Cards Break the Laws (of Identity)

What The Olympic Games Are Teaching Me About Maturity

Canonical Joins the Linux Foundation

IBM's Vik Chandra on how software can help reduce your carbon footprint

Has YouTube Just Been Saved?

Determined Determinists

Another Reason Open Source Is Unbeatable

A refreshing change from talking to sales people

What Comes After the Windows Era?

One small step for mankind, a giant leap for Socitm

The gilt comes off virtualisation – or does it?

British Libel Laws Violate Human Rights - UN

To do lists? No problem

Basis of Free Software Licences Upheld in US

Data Snooping Mission Creep

Is Unit Testing on the Wane?

Dell stakes its claim to greenest credentials

Making London super fast

Is Huggers Hunkering Down to Openness?

ACTA-ion and ReACTA-ion

You, Too, Can Be a Kernel Hacker

The challenge of TUPE

Recycling Plastic Bags - What about Saving 35 million PC's from Landfill

Open source databases and the DaaS market...Where will it lead?

Desperately Seeking Chandler

What convergence really means

T-Mobile Gets the Open Meme

Online: Slander or Libel?

He that filches from me my good name

Email bouncebacks and IPv6

Towards the Holy Grail of Virtual Worlds

Microsoft and BearingPoint see space to play in the Enterprise GRC market

Why DNA Databases Are Doomed

Why DNA databases are doomed

Socitm and bringing IT suppliers closer

Cloud Computing on a Stick

Traditional disaster recovery services are dead

Morphic resonance?

Morphic Resonance?

The Trouble with Clouds...

Local implementation of the Employee Authentication Service

Big Blue is Back

Free Software Adds Some Polish (Schools)

Inflation: Offshoring’s nemesis?

Free Software Adds Some Polish (Schools)

Identity management and local government

The LiMo Has Arrived

Open Source and UK Politics

The LiMo Has Arrived

Carbonetworks and the open carbon platform

Open source and UK politics

Welcome to the Open Grid

Real convergence

Bananas About London Bananas

Bananas About London Bananas

Against Intellectual Property

Against Intellectual Property

The real Silicon Valley

Alfresco: the Samba of Enterprise Content Management

The Real Silicon Valley

Dell Hybrid hiding its (Green) light under a bushel!

Alfresco: the Samba of Enterprise Content Management

Test Driven Development as insurance

Plans for Government Connect

An Unclouded Analysis

An Unclouded Analysis

The Open Web: A New Old Meme

Client Side Session Management (part 2)- Sharing is good

Living the Open Source Life

Interview with Wind River's John Bruggeman

Microsoft and EEA deal starting to pay off

How local government can trade services

Open Domotics

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and...Vista

Green ICT for local government

Why Open Access for Textbooks is Inevitable

Act Now on ACTA

Why we should ditch the office and work from home

Turning BT's Ribbit into a Prince of Openness

Additional commentary on the open source database market

HMRC On The Road To Outsourcing Success

Smart grids and managing energy

Should We Fear the (Microsoft) Geeks, Bearing Gifts?

Paying the Price

Paying the Price

One Strike and They Miss the Point

Support and concerns about Government Connect

The Church of Openness

Socitm and supporting developers

War on Terror = War on Thinking

Microsoft, the Olympics and license costs

Convergence and the iPhone

Software that can measure supply chain footprint

BT Calls on Open Source

Why We Must React to ACTA

W(h)ither the UK Database Nation?

Criminal records and a sense of proportion

Thoughts on the open source database market

Medpedia: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Open Enterprise Interview: Doug Moran, Vice President of Community, Pentaho

Ready for a Spot of Drizzle?

Thoughts on the latest release candidate for MySQL 5.1

Copyright = Monopoly: UK Government

The Theory and Practice of the Software Forge

Settting the record straight

Public sector outsourcing doubles, but still not problem free

Copyright Moves from Reason to Emotion

Flavour of the Month: Executive Director

OpenDrive, Closed Minds

Telegraph CIO on swapping Google in for Microsoft

Do high oil prices underpin green investment?

Improving Socitm's business skills

ICT could deliver approximately 7.8 GtCO2e of emissions savings in 2020

The Future of ICT in Schools

Client Side Session Management…

Data centers as energy exporters, not energy sinks

Rogue IT and IT to the rescue

Broadband Britain: Are we there yet?

Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator now online

Getting the bus moving...The topic of inertia

Green IT - don't be cynical

Patent Absurdity Becomes...More Patent

The Android With No Brain

Building from the front to back

Outsourcing's win-win formula for success

The Android With No Brain

IT and corporate manslaughter

While I was gone...

Are Late Test Results as bad as Wrong Test Results?

End of development or end user development?

Making Clouds Open – and Secure

Modularity Gets Down to Business

True Open Source Quality

True Open Source Quality

In Praise of Modularity

The Burning Issues in Global Sourcing

EngLab: A Gift of a Program for Engineers

EngLab: A Gift of a Program for Engineers

Globalisation's Upside

O Tell Me the Truth about... the Telecoms Package

Come to the World eBook Fair

Abolish BECTA Now

Maritz to bring MS nous to VMware

Reasons to Be Tearful

Beyond Second Life: Virtual Worlds' Second Wind

Preparing for contract negotiations with Microsoft

A powerful reminder of what we do IT for

How to Get Rid of the "War on Terror"

Spelling out Socitm's information assurance policies

GNOME Gets Stormy...

Kill the fatted calf

Eeek: Kudos to the UK Gov, Part 2

(Still) Defending Openness in the EU

Biofuels - the bad and the good

Strengthening links with the NCC

Urgent: Please write to your MEP – Now!

Good news for database testing: DBFit is here

IDiotic or What?

Still trying to make central government listen

Biofuels "Prime Cause of Food Crisis"

ID Cards: Out Come the Jackboots

Feel Free to Twitter

Peak oil is here - now what are you going to do about it?

Cutting off the Digital Water

Someone else's problem?

Collaboration On A Grand Scale: Japan and Carbon Capture

Defending Openness in the European Union

On the road

Samba's Latest Moves

Sir Bill and Sir Tim: A Tale of Two Knights

RackSpace's customers 'won't pay a premium' for Green products?

Google Is Evil in a Flash

Sir Bill and Sir Tim: A Tale of Two Knights

Morphic Resonance of Our Times

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Don't believe the Windows 7 hype

Back to business

Open Enterprise Interview with Roy Russo, Loopfuse

Will the EU Ever Stand up for Its Citizens?

Why The Economist is Clueless, Part 2353

IBM reckons Green is where economic and ecological concerns converge

Fear, loathing and semantic search

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

ICANN Goes .bonkers

Paul Collingwood, Paul Coby and the art of the mea culpa

The “end of point and click”?

Homeward bound (eventually)

Sharing: "Totally Cool"

Cloud Computing's Undirty Non-Secret

Is the fire-fighting IT chief becoming extinct

Open Source Mobile Telephony Platforms Are Like Buses...

Gartner priorities don't tally with public sector CIOs'

Come On, IBM, Pull Your Socks Up

Lil' Dubya Puts His Fingers in His Ears

Fewer EU Patents: Good - and Bad

The FBI and IPv6

Symbian: (Lack of) business as usual

SLAs vs BOMs – which one will bomb?

NVidia's Unenviable Pariahdom

Hyperic Tracks the Cloud

Down on the boardwalk

Opening up Symbian – Good or Bad for Linux?

The bigger the name, the bigger the loss

Talend's Open Source Data Profiler

The Lurking Danger: Software Patents

What the Kernel Hackers Said, and Who Said It

No, Really: Spare a Fiver?

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

Linux is Subversive....

The American way

British Airways exploits technology and devalues passenger experience

Big questions, inadequate answers

CIO News View: CIOs don’t need to be on the board

Will you pay the price?

If Yahoo Implodes, What's the Effect on Open Source?

Of Honey and Tin

What's in a (domain) name?

Should councils sell adveritsing on their websites?

Netbooks are the future