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Sun Bulks Up HPC Offerings

Sun Microsystems is lengthening its list of high-performance computer offerings with new hardware, software and services designed to let users quickly deploy the necessary technologies to build compute-intensive environments. The

U.K. Dept of Health: Prescription for Disaster

In late September, Accenture, the global management and technology consultancy, announced it was walking away from a $3.73 billion contract as an information-technology services provider on the world’s biggest non-military

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Patricia Hewitt Health Secretary, Great BritainHewitt has consistently backed the NPfIT and other National Health Service (NHS) reforms, stating recently that they were the only way to safeguard the future

Technologies That Promise a Cure

In structuring the world’s largest civilian I.T. program, the U.K.’s National Health Service is relying mostly on vendor-supplied software packages. Here’s a sample of some of the more important technology

IT Employment Numbers Show Some Slipping

With a loss of 1,800 workers, IT employment pulled back in October, according to a report released Nov. 10 by the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses. This .05 percent

Microsoft Invests Heavily in Swift Vista Deployment

REDMOND, Wash.—An important distinction between the Windows Vista rollout and previous Microsoft operating system upgrades is the amount of effort Microsoft has put into reducing both the cost and time

Prescription for an I.T. Disaster?

In 2002, the British government embarked on a $12 billion effort to transform its health-care system with information technology. But the country’s oversight agency now puts that figure at $24

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