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Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire

PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys

Public Sector13 Mar 2026 | 16

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration

US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract

Databases12 Mar 2026 | 18

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales

Databases10 Mar 2026 | 12

MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source

Databases09 Mar 2026 | 9

UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone

Opinion Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers

Databases09 Mar 2026 | 9

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding

Updated It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says

Databases06 Mar 2026 | 14

Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement

Databases04 Mar 2026 | 28

SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata

A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids

Databases02 Mar 2026 | 1

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download

Opinion Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

Databases28 Feb 2026 | 96

Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award

French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules

Public Sector27 Feb 2026 | 39

Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul

Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA

Databases27 Feb 2026 | 1

Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed

Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption

Databases20 Feb 2026 | 19

Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL

Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation

Databases17 Feb 2026 | 12

Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset

Databases16 Feb 2026 | 30

UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat

West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates

Databases06 Feb 2026 | 53

Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds

As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade

Databases05 Feb 2026 | 8

UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog

37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility

On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 37

Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud

Yes, it already had Unistore

Databases03 Feb 2026 | 2

Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics

Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in

Databases02 Feb 2026 | 2

SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown

Drop in customers' cloud conversion rate causes share price to plunge 22% – steepest decline since 2020

Databases02 Feb 2026 | 4

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Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants

State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targeted

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Obit Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Opinion Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying

Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs

China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds

Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it

Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI

Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition

Updated Out of the Copilot and into the fire

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data

Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered

Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud

International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries

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Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers

Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it

Databases30 Jan 2026 | 17

In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened

On Call 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it

Databases30 Jan 2026 | 101

Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working

Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold

Databases29 Jan 2026 | 86

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die

Updated AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline

Public Sector28 Jan 2026 | 20

Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate

Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system

Databases23 Jan 2026 | 20

As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options

As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control

Databases23 Jan 2026 | 67

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition

Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC

Databases22 Jan 2026 | 11

£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again

Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency

Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 17

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake

7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next

Databases19 Jan 2026 | 37

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red

Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.

Systems15 Jan 2026 | 33

Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die

ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment

Software15 Jan 2026 | 2

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board

Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster

Databases13 Jan 2026 | 31

Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts

Databases09 Jan 2026 | 51

No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric

AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house

Databases06 Jan 2026 |

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”

PaaS + IaaS18 Dec 2025 | 10

Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

Exclusive Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms

Databases11 Dec 2025 | 17

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors

But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming

Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15

SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics

February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration

Databases09 Dec 2025 |

DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote

But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for

AWS Re:invent08 Dec 2025 | 3

IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse

Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates

Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5

IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions

Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka

AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 18

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours

On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security

Applications05 Dec 2025 | 111

UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze

Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle

Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8

University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid

Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day

Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 1

MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL

CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system

Databases02 Dec 2025 | 13

Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival

Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits

On-Prem01 Dec 2025 | 29

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

Updated Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions

Databases01 Dec 2025 | 62

Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure

German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey

Databases25 Nov 2025 | 5

Clop's Oracle EBS rampage reaches Dartmouth College

Uni notifies 1,400-plus Maine residents as zero-day fallout continues

Cyber-crime25 Nov 2025 |

Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform

Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population

Databases20 Nov 2025 | 38

Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals

Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says

Databases19 Nov 2025 | 8

SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script

B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain

Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Databases19 Nov 2025 | 83

Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage

Databases17 Nov 2025 | 18

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared

Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure

Databases13 Nov 2025 | 28

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO

Databases12 Nov 2025 | 54

Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic admits data stolen on 10k current and former staff

Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech.

Cyber-crime11 Nov 2025 | 1

Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP

S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change

Databases05 Nov 2025 | 7

Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions

Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI

Databases05 Nov 2025 |

‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’

Who, Me? One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change

Databases03 Nov 2025 | 78

The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms

Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026

Databases31 Oct 2025 | 11

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online

Security29 Oct 2025 | 55

Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection

Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog

Public Sector27 Oct 2025 | 40

SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs

Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings

Databases23 Oct 2025 | 5

Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL

Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts

Databases22 Oct 2025 | 6

UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach

ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak

Security22 Oct 2025 | 31

Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit

NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype

PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3

SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA

A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

Databases17 Oct 2025 | 23

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Comment Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet

AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 36

Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust

Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads

Databases14 Oct 2025 |

Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner

On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing

Databases14 Oct 2025 |

Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again

Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off

Applications13 Oct 2025 | 9

Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine

Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies

Databases09 Oct 2025 | 16

AI devs close to scraping bottom of data barrel

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Global Institute say training is starting to hit its limits, enterprise info troves may be last hope

AI + ML03 Oct 2025 | 51

How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms

Analysis UK Treasury called time on troubled integration scheme after £240M sunk

Public Sector03 Oct 2025 | 7

Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

On Call Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid

Databases03 Oct 2025 | 115

Blockchain just became an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system

SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure

Software01 Oct 2025 | 30

Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis

Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching

Databases29 Sep 2025 |

Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push

Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream

Databases26 Sep 2025 | 4

SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused

Business Suite nostalgia unlikely to ease customers' public cloud journey

SaaS25 Sep 2025 | 2

Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops

Guidance follows privacy complaints over sharp increase in police searches of travel doc and visa pic libraries

Databases25 Sep 2025 | 18

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

System meant to go live in 2021 costing £20M awaits reimplementation with new £170M price tag

Databases24 Sep 2025 | 80

UK.gov ditching 'Red' risk data sharing project after slashing £0.5B budget in half

Meanwhile Lotus Notes still lurks in some Office of National Statistics systems, for now

Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 5

EV charging biz zaps customers with data leak scare

Names, emails unplugged in DCS support snafu – but 'billing is safe'

Security23 Sep 2025 | 8

Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint

Ratings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers

AI + ML22 Sep 2025 | 6

'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'

Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls

Databases22 Sep 2025 | 8

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment

Public Sector20 Sep 2025 | 70

User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder

Updated DSAG criticizes separate regimes for public, private cloud, says users need more time to upgrade in uncertain times

Databases19 Sep 2025 | 2

Microsoft weaves Oracle and BigQuery data mirroring into Fabric platform

And knits a graph DB out of LinkedIn cast-offs

Databases18 Sep 2025 | 1

Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot

Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026

Public Sector17 Sep 2025 | 12

Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison

Opinion As doubts grow over who will pay to stuff Oracle's cloud pipeline, the octogenarian spreads his wings

AI + ML15 Sep 2025 | 33

Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' at the extent of Oracle's MySQL job cuts

Original author of open source database 'not surprised' but 'saddened' as critics slam vendor's layoffs

Databases11 Sep 2025 | 4

Neo4j's 'property sharding' promises to overcome scalability struggle

Graph database fave also punts for transactional workloads

Databases11 Sep 2025 | 4

Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should

CedarDB pushed to the limit in improbable gaming experiment

Databases11 Sep 2025 | 11

Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up

Comment With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality

AI + ML10 Sep 2025 | 10

Johnson, Cummings met Thiel months before Palantir won NHS pandemic role

Meeting with former UK prime minister and his chief advisor withheld from official records, according to leaked documents

Databases10 Sep 2025 | 56

Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon

Big Red's profits are flat, but its order book is phat

Databases10 Sep 2025 | 22

Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio

Only a temporary reprieve until GitHub Copilot integration is up and running

AI + ML08 Sep 2025 | 6

Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models

Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb

AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 6

PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future

Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed

Databases04 Sep 2025 | 1

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