CIO UK Blogs: Entries for July 2008
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Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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July 31, 2008
Spend, spend, spend even into a downturn
“We’re going to zig while others zag,� said the boss of one of the largest public relations companies in the UK to me just the other day
"We're going to zig while others zag," said the boss of one of the largest public relations companies in the UK to me just the other day. He meant...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 28, 2008
IBM skirts ERP with ILOG buy
IBM is continuing to dance around the margins of enterprise applications
IBM is continuing to dance around the margins of enterprise applications with its move to buy ILOG , a maker of business rules management...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 22, 2008
Brocade-Foundry deal can't hide majors' dominance
The established order is becoming very hard to change
So Brocade's agreement to buy Foundry Networks is "a move that could challenge Cisco's dominance in the network equipment market" (San Jose...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 21, 2008
SAP shuts down ill-fated TomorrowNow venture
SAP bowed to the inevitable today, saying it would wind down operations at its TomorrowNow subsidiary that provides third-party maintenance for...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 17, 2008
Telegraph CIO on swapping Google in for Microsoft
Might the news that the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving to Google Apps and phasing out Microsoft Office and Exchange be in future...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 16, 2008
Broadband Britain - are we there yet?
Hard to believe that 10 years ago even many of the most advanced UK digerati were confined to ISDN
Long before his his current incarnation as antigallican Eurocrat - in the days even before the version of him that allegedly whispered about...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 16, 2008
Outsourcing's win-win formula for success
A reminder of outsourcing’s ability to remain buoyant
The news that Computer Science Corporation has received a $391m order from the US Department of Homeland Security is a reminder of outsourcing's...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 14, 2008
Microsoft's persistence usually pays off
Persistence, as Robert Bruce knew well, is a virtue
Some stories seem to have been around forever and reports of renewed interest in Yahoo by Microsoft feel like an ancient saga such as Beowulf, a...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 09, 2008
Maritz to bring MS nous to VMware
Avram Grant was ousted at Chelsea after taking the club to within an ace of the Premiership and Champions League so perhaps we shouldn’t be...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 07, 2008
Kill the fatted calf
In the late 1990s, Burlington Coat Factory became famous in IT circles for being the beacon of commercial Linux volume deployments – the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
July 02, 2008
Eee but the PC is changing
Asus’s Eee PCis fast becoming technology’s Shakira, a crossover hit that covers more than one demographic audience. The Eee...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
About the author
Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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