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NHS IT schemes 'under-funded and over-ambitious', trust board is told (Computer Weekly)
A confidential paper issued to the board of the UK?s largest NHS trust says that new initiatives under the Ł12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are ?invariably under-funded and over-ambitious?.

Choosing a Framework for Web Development (WebProNews)
I recently had the opportunity to develop a small online booking system. This time around I was determined to make use of some development framework. The slow slog of writing all my code from scratch is not for me - surely we have moved beyond that now in web development? The big question was - which framework to use? Since the advent of Ruby on Rails, development frameworks have become

Talk About Travel (Washington Post)
Post travel editors and writers field questions and comments every Monday at 2 p.m. ET.

Simtrol Acquires Sole Ownership of Justice Digital Solutions (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NORCROSS, Ga.----Simtrol, Inc. , a leading device control middleware provider, today announced it has acquired 100% ownership of Justice Digital Solutions, LLC in an agreement with Integrated Digital Systems, LLC.

Job vacancy: Technology Innovation Centre - Senior Technologist/Lecturer B (PublicTechnology.net)
A wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE), the Technology Innovation Centre (tic) is a national centre of excellence providing training and support for individuals and organisations to develop their capabilities within a rapidly evolving, technology-based society.

A1-RES, a New Motel and Hotel Reservation System, Developed Using Alpha Five, PC Magazine's Editors' Choice for Desktop (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Alpha One Software has released a new software application for Hotel and Motel reservations: A1-RES.

Requiem for the packaged app (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
In a little more than a decade, BEA Systems built itself into a top middleware player and one of the leading lights in SOA.

University of Edinburgh invests in new software to improve business processes (PublicTechnology.net)
The University of Edinburgh is investing in new software from Tribal to enable it to implement major changes to radically improve its business processes and the way that it carries out student-related operations.