What a NHSIT year for CSC
Open standards rift tears UK policy to shreds
Suppliers got sweeteners in MOU deals
Systems integrators got contract extensions in return for cutting costs in their government contracts when they did their bit for the UK austerity drive by signing memoranda of understanding with the Cabinet Office last year.
Government claimed to have won 
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Never-ending megadeals embarrass gov ICT strategy
Ten days before Cabinet Office gave a recent progress report on its flagship ICT policy to end oligopolistic megadeals, it signed two such megadeals worth over £1bn combined.
At £525m a-piece, the two...
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HMRC rethinks £8.5bn megadeal as large suppliers resist flagship IT reforms
Oracle has 70 per cent of software licences in central government
CSC bags phone support for cyber warriors
US military issues agile and open standards orders after ERP disasters
The world's most muscular military machine is still operating on creaky old computer systems...
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Open standards: UK dithers over royalty question
The limits of Agile: Emergn CEO on Universal Credit
The Department of Work and Pensions set out in January to achieve the seemingly unachievable: develop a £2bn Universal Credit system in two years. An Agile software development methodology would make it possible, said the DWP. But its Agile credentials are questionable.
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