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As HP inches closer to sealing its deal to acquire EDS, rumor has it that executives at EDS may be putting the finishing touches on severance packages for a significant number of its staff.

The day Randy Mott left Dell for Hewlett-Packard in 2005 it caused a stir in the IT world. At the time, HP was a company in transition. Its CEO Carly Fiorina had been ousted following the most tempestuous period in the company's history, and the new CEO Mark Hurd recognized immediately that a major change was necessary to stabilize the company.

The incessant waves of corporate governance legislation, industry codes and various other rules and regulations that have been passed in recent years might have been bad news for many, but they have been a blessing for companies operating in the field of enterprise content management, or ECM.

Until recently, many CIOs didn't know how much electricity their IT equipment used, and they didn't care.

What do CEOs want from their CIOs, and how can CIOs build on the power gains they've built up, even as everything around them is changing?

As the dynamic duo steering Microsoft together for the past 28 years, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been a near-unstoppable team, combining Gates's technical vision and will to power with Ballmer's salesmanship and rousing, if polarizing, personality.

The Tasmanian government has standardised its entire server farm architecture on a single virtualisation platform thanks to a deal struck with VMware.

Soon after the declaration of war in September 1939, London Zoo put down all of its poisonous snakes in case they escaped during an air raid. Some 400 million sandbags were deployed in front of shops and public buildings and 827,000 children were evacuated from town to country. Apart from that, nothing much happened during what the British came to know as the Phoney War. By the time Hitler invaded Scandinavia on 9 April, 1940, people had stopped carrying their gas masks around with them.

Six months into the job, Kevin O'Brien, head of information systems at Comet, is brimming with excitement. O'Brien arrived fresh from helping to turn around ailing retailer Mothercare, and is now responsible for defining the IS strategy in line with Comet's business plan.

CEOs will increasingly demand that IT leaders excel in leadership, strategic thinking, marketing IT, business and communication. Prepare for the change

Outsourcing, has in the last decade, taken on an almost religious zeal among believers. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the public sector. In the 1990s local authorities had to begin market testing to define whether services would be better provided by external suppliers. But in outsourcing, all organizations can be at risk of throwing the baby out with the bath water. There are, however, notable success stories from the world of outsourcing, but Lancashire County Council in the UK is an example of successfully measuring the value of the services it offers and discovering that outsourcing is not the best option.