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Mike Simons is the Editor of ComputerWorldUK and Techworld. He joined IDG in 2006 after almost a decade at Computer Weekly. An award winning IT and business journalist, Mike has a particularly focused on major IT projects and public sector IT. His fascination with the business and social impact of technology began at university, where he obtained an MSc at the Science Policy Research Unit of Sussex University.

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Orange, T-Mobile, Oracle and Sun: Sweet and sour mergers?

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The merger between Orange and T-Mobile’s UK networks has probably sparked most conversation among IT professionals today, but the possible link between two food giants may ultimately prove more interesting US-based Kraft (Philadelphia cream cheese, Maxwell House coffee, Toblerone)...

September 8, 2009 5:07 PM Read Full Post

Getting rid of shelfware

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Ray Wang, the esteemed Forrester analyst, has some sound advice over on his Software Insider personal blog about how to negotiate with suppliers over licenses you no longer need or want. Apply three shelfware maintenance fee reduction techniques, says...

July 27, 2009 2:51 AM Read Full Post

Is Oracle repeating SAP's mistakes?

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Is Oracle about to make the same mistake that SAP did last year, and take its users for granted? Oracle’s stealthy move to raise the price of some of its database management modules could be as damaging to its...

July 22, 2009 4:01 PM Read Full Post

Learn from the vendors

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EMC’s battle with NetApp for Data Domain is one of the few real bidding wars the IT industry has seen. There is always a lot of noise around mergers and acquisitions – with the company being bought trying to...

July 7, 2009 12:21 PM Read Full Post

Cloud computing and employment rights

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Very interesting note by Philip Carnelley on the techmarketview.com site on Software as a service, cloud computing and employment rights. Phil attended a briefing by lawyers Olswang on on SaaS and the Cloud. I have not heard a lawyer’s...

July 3, 2009 4:54 PM Read Full Post

Too lazy to lie

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Why did I expect any better? Why am I so annoyed, I have written my first blog entry in months? Today I returned to an old habit and had a look at what has been going on in parliament....

July 2, 2009 3:44 PM Read Full Post

Open source software's second coming in the enterprise

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Open source software is the primary enabler of developer tech populism. That is the one of the interesting conclusions of a new Forrester report, Open Source Software Goes Mainstream Analyst Jeffrey S. Hammond spells it out below. Developers have...

April 8, 2009 10:40 AM Read Full Post

Windows 7 and what it says about end users

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I was amazed to learn that Microsoft is, for the first time, releasing an application compatibility testing kit before the release of a new Windows 7 operating system, which will be launched later in the year. Why hasn’t this...

March 11, 2009 4:43 PM Read Full Post

Where have all the virtualisation savings gone?

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Everybody is virtualising their infrastructure. Go to any gathering of IT professionals, and you’d be hard pressed to find an organisation that isn’t in the throws of a project. Press a bit further and there is a wide disparity...

March 10, 2009 3:51 PM Read Full Post

Gary McKinnon and the minister who ran away

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The decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge NASA hacker Gary McKinnon and instead leave him to be extradited to the US highlights the mass of contradictions around the government’s attitude to hacking and cybercrime. Many IT...

February 26, 2009 5:32 PM Read Full Post

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