Posts by Clive MacDonald

Met Police to slash hundreds of IT jobs, hands £216m outsourcing gig to Steria

Re: What did happen to May's grand vision for the bizzies 'puters?

A very bad idea. One force means one ossified organisational culture with no cross-fertilisation of best practice, knowledge, etc, and no meaningful local accountability.

The concept is not playing out well in Scotland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34072703

HP settles lawsuit after Mad Leo's WebOS and PC biz shenanigans

Shareholders are paying to reimburse themselves for what their own company did to them.

Shenzhen wage hike causes supply chain jitters

ODM?

EDS hits TfL with restraining order

Re - "this is the only smart card project EDS can boast of"

see http://www.eds.com/news/releases/3075/

Irate sysadmin locks San Francisco officials out of network

Denial of Service Attack?

I thought that denial of service attacks were launched by an external agents.

Work and pensions IT projects £315m over budget

Central Payments System - Update

See this: DWP fires Siemens from late project

http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/FrontpageRSS/CC0B1CA7888BE4C88025740A003DFA07!OpenDocument