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RSS top ciosOracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 We have been conducting surveys of software vendors for some years now and, in those surveys, Oracle is always at or near the top of vendors that concern users [over issues like price]," he said. [24 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 Psst! MI5 is on the hunt for techies with killer design skills. The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in... [23 Jun 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 If IT is to plug its skills gap by attracting graduates from other disciplines the industry needs to convince students the work can be as exciting as its potentially wallet-fattening pay packets. [23 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment The UK's leading CIOs revealed… Instead he relies on the CIOs of each government organisation to fulfil the strategies he lays down. CIO50 2008: Top 10 Government CIO John Suffolk is number five in this year's silicon.com CIO50 list. [23 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing delays?
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 New mobile phones being developed by Google and more than 30 partners based on software called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule that some carriers and program makers are... [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. [23 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 The government is gambling with the UK economy by removing funding for graduates who want to retrain in IT, the British Computer Society (BCS) has warned - at a time when the industry is crying out... [20 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 Online shopping is continuing to grow steadily across many ranges in May but the lack of a home nations team in the Euro 2008 football championship means sales of electrical goods and alcohol has... [20 Jun 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of its electronic trading platform TradElect with promises of exponential increases in volumes over the next... [20 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much more robust infrastructure with capacity to expand. [20 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 Red Hat's new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners. Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user... [20 Jun 2008]
Top 10 Reasons to Automate Your IT Run Books
White Paper This white paper explains the top ten reasons why CIOs, IT managers, and IT production support teams are adopting run book automation. Many of the largest, most sophisticated IT organizations are adopting run book automation, an emerging technology. [20 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment CIOs: high-fliers or heads in the clouds? The first thing we do is take soundings from dozens of CIOs to build up a long list of who they think are the best business and technology leaders in the UK, which our expert panel then sifts to come up... [19 Jun 2008]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News The UK's leading CIOs revealed… CIO50 2008: Top 10 The Ministry of Defence (MoD) expects to save £35m per year through an online travel service set up and managed by Capgemini. The service, which will support the travel needs of 300,000 Army, Royal... [19 Jun 2008]
UK CIOs beaten to boardroom by French
News Bottom of the heap for boardroom promotion is Sweden, where just 26 per cent of CIOs sit at the top table, followed by Germany (42 per cent) and Spain (44 per cent). CIOs in the UK are far less likely to be appointed to the board than their... [19 Jun 2008]
