Public Sector: Private Challenge
SCL’s 2006 Conference, supported by Intellect, is to be held on 24 and 25 November in Oxford. It will deal with the critical legal issues of public sector IT procurement, regulation and management….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Staff Computer and E-mail Policies
Jeremy Holt takes a realistic look at staff policies on Internet and e-mail use and the like. He also offers a specimen computer and e-mail use policy….
Vin Murria – Changing the Landscape of Legal Software Suppliers
Laurence Eastham interviewed Vin Murria, the CEO of the Computer Software Group, who has recently acquired three prominent suppliers of software to the legal market….
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Brussels Wakes up to the Sound of Streaming
There is a draft revision of the TWF Directive which would see it cover AVMS. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is seeking comment. Alex Lundie tells you what you need to know about it….
Ten Green Bottles
Videss is acquired by Computer Software Group…
Open Source: History
Andrew Katz provides a companion piece to his article in the June/July issue of the magazine, Open Source Software: An Opening Resource, in this article outlining the history of open source….
Editorial
The public sector is under an enormous amount of pressure to be seen to be doing something about IT. That pressure has been applied for many years, by Government decrees and some wildly optimistic targets for e-government. But it also arises from real world expectations and the need to save money, which IT-related increases in…
Sourcing in a Multi-Vendor Environment
Duncan Pithouse considers some of the principal contractual issues arising when implementing a multi-sourcing strategy….
New OFT Guidance on IT Consumer Contracts
Nick Graham and Mark Young give the low-down on the OFT Guidance….
Controlling Time and Cost in IT Projects
Jonathan Westwell and Stuart Wilks discuss the role that the law can have in controlling time and preventing or managing delay. They also seek to promote the use of critical path methodology as a project management tool….