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How Microsoft's Azure and cloud services are shaping up

How Microsoft's Azure and cloud services are shaping up

...Web Manager, to develop and deliver cloud applications. ZDNet UK spoke to Mark Taylor, the company's director of developer and platform evangelism, about Microsoft... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Toby Wolpe

Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

...inflexible price elasticity is adding to incentives to move to open source. – Mark Taylor, Sirius Corporation A Cabinet Office spokeswoman declined to say how much... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...be managed and controlled and all the risks evaluated," she said. For Mark Taylor, chief executive of SME Sirius and head of the New Suppliers... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

G-Cloud application framework deadline extended

...them SMEs," Stephen Allott, crown representative for SMEs, said in statement. However, Mark Taylor, chief executive of Sirius and head of the New Suppliers to... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Ben Woods

Facebook and Cisco back IT skills drive for kids

...open source, not black boxes with proprietary [software]," Sirius's chief executive Mark Taylor told ZDNet UK. "If the government were serious about the UK... Read more

16 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Government IT is a 'recipe for rip-offs'

Government departments have 'wasted an obscene amount of money' on IT projects that do not deliver, in part because contracts go to a 'de facto cartel' of big suppliers, a committee of MPs has found Read more

28 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs'

...the idea of mandating open standards as a "key enabler for interoperability". Mark Taylor, chief executive of the open-source systems integration firm Sirius, said... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

One in four state IT contracts to go to SMEs, says Cable

...that." Small businesses have struggled in the past to win government contracts. Mark Taylor, chief executive of open-source software company Sirius Corporation, welcomed the... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner
Bursting the proprietary-software bubble

Bursting the proprietary-software bubble

...financial crisis to the true price of software, argues open-source expert Mark Taylor. When I heard the now-victorious Barack Obama make his 'lipstick... Read more

5 November, 2008 by Mark Taylor
Open source makes inroads into education

Open source makes inroads into education

...open source get a foothold in schools, according to Sirius chief executive Mark Taylor Read more

27 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Legal experts split over cloud effect on open source

...said Charlesworth. "The big question is whether companies will stick with GPLv2." Mark Taylor, chief executive of open-source company Sirius Corporation, said there was... Read more

17 February, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Industry welcomes Chrome as 'business as usual'

...applications and pose an open-source challenge to Microsoft's dominant Windows. Mark Taylor, founder of the Open Source Consortium, welcomed Chrome, telling ZDNet.co... Read more

2 September, 2008 by Colin Barker and Tom Espiner

Row erupts over schools open-source project

...as a sham, empty spin covering 'business as usual' political sleaze," wrote Mark Taylor, who, in addition to his role as chief executive of Sirius... Read more

16 June, 2008 by David Meyer

Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition

...to make it appear that Open XML has "pseudo-grassroots" support, argues Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium. "In the open-source... Read more

5 April, 2007 by David Meyer
The issues making IT a political hot potato

The issues making IT a political hot potato

...IT will become a significant political battleground at the next election, says Mark Taylor. With an election on the horizon, Labour and the Conservatives are... Read more

27 August, 2009 by Mark Taylor

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