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Powerscroft

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    Comment #3022180

    You get what you pay for. How can they expect to get commitment and security on those sort of wages? How can they expect someone to resist a little temptation / extortion when they…

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    Comment #2990952

    Obviously hinting at something. Author is ex-Sun, disgruntled with Oracle. Oracle has been offering some open soruce stuff to foundations. Someone who knows more than me could prob…

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    Comment #2920692

    In house IT staff are getting made redundant while this is going on. Contractors deserve to get what the market will pay - but it doesn't say much about planning and skills develop…

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    Comment #2912183

    Lot's of peopel do good business in low margin, high volume markets. There is no sense that HP is or ever will be a great software hosue. I hoep Autonomy survives...

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    Comment #2902865

    How many times have you heard promsied of independence when an innovative software house is taken over by a a lumbering giant? I jsutdon't believe this.

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    Comment #2612229

    Lot of money for Raytheon riding on this. Lot of kudos for UK governmetn as well. if they get taken to the cleaners by Raytheon, what chance have they got of controlling other IT s…

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    Comment #2591246

    How did he get to be an exec if that's the best he can do?

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    Peer to Patent in the UK: Worth a Punt?

    The UK government commissioend Hargreaves Report essentially says software patents make no sense.

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    Comment #2563584

    Nice ot read of a success story

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    Comment #2536320

    Not what CSC said in its results call

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    Comment #2489309

    Agreed. I was trying to say that the develpers have talent and if Accenture can work with them, they can move them on to other projects. Also as Symbian declines the cvalue of the …

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    Comment #2488918

    A massive influx of developer talent, but with a lot of baggage - a managemetn headache for Accenture but the developers will be worht more than the OS in the long run

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    Comment #2332602

    Apparently the legal challenge was caused by The Cloud slipping down the google ranks... the perverse power of SEO?

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    Comment #2309408

    Some interesting stuff in there

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    Comment #2261730

    Where is the back up? Heads should roll

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    Comment #2257582

    How many organisations could stand having thier emails trawled through though...

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    Comment #2235676

    Another case of shooting themselves in the foot

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    Comment #2205977

    Interesting analyst comment here - baisc thumbs up but Nokia warned not to become a box shifter. HArd to se how they will avoid it.

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    Comment #2192573

    This is a really useful discussion on the potential pitfall of using Amazon's cloud service to run your Oracle apps.

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    Comment #2189625

    There is treasuer in those email archives. JP MOrgan and Madoff, Rupert Murdoch's henchmen and the UK phone hacking scandal. Keeping digging...