Contracts and Middleware for Safe SOA Applications
White Papers The paper seeks an approach to building such SOAs based on the specification of service requirements as declarative contracts, and the enforcement of these contracts at the level of the middleware. This position paper concerns formal methods for...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Hitman: Contracts patch
Downloads This patch corrects a number of issues with Hitman: Contracts for PC. It is intended for the English language version of Hitman: Contracts, and it should be used only on either the U.S.or U.K.versions of the game.
[June 2, 2004, 7:54]
MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top to Bottom (Part 02 of 15): Contracts (Level 200)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast provides practical guidance for designing service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts - showing one when and how to employ each. Clients communicate with services by exchanging messages that are serialized...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
Achieving Agility: Take the Right Steps to Ensure Agility in Outsourcing Contracts
White Papers Outsourcing can hinder or enhance agility, depending on how contracts are structured. Use these best practices to ensure that all details are in place to support agility before signing an outsourcing contract.
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Checklist to Assess Security in IT Contracts
White Papers This paper provides a checklist for system owners and security professionals to assist in reviewing current contracts and aid in planning for new acquisitions. This whitepaper examines the security threats and Information Technology (IT) security...
[June 4, 2009, 0:00]
HP, EDS clients advised to review contracts
News HP and EDS customers should look at renegotiating existing contracts to push for price reductions and improved services following the $13.9bn (£7bn) deal between the two outsourcing giants. Compass Management Consulting, which helps broker...
[May 22, 2008, 9:13]
Why compensate it is common public knowledge before any contracts are signe
Talkback Once elected by the UK population assuming we still have a UK and population by then, they will be carrying out the will of the people by implementing a decision already made before contracts are signed.
[May 30, 2008, 14:59]
PCG offers help with IR35-proof contracts
News The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has created a series of draft contracts that it believes self-employed workers could use to avoid falling foul of IR35. The PCG has updated the draft contracts following its recent unsuccessful judicial...
[September 25, 2001, 10:20]
IBM scrutinising Sun contracts, says report
News IBM is reportedly wading through Sun's contracts and documents for potential conflicts or problems, as it works its way through the due diligence process toward a merger, according to a report on Friday in The Wall Street Journal.
[March 23, 2009, 7:31]
A Formal Account of Contracts for Web Services
White Papers It then extrapolates contracts out of processes, that are a recursion-free fragment of CCS. The paper finally demonstrates that a client completes its interactions with a service provided the corresponding contracts comply.
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Criminal justice IT contracts up for grabs
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs is set to replace its main IT contracts covering key projects in the modernisation of the criminal justice system, it has emerged. The department is planning to issue a tender notice in the spring for the...
[January 19, 2005, 15:50]
IBM, CSC win ID card biometrics contracts
News IBM and CSC have been awarded contracts to run some of the technology behind the government's ID cards and passports schemes. These contracts bring ID cards and more secure British passports a step closer, taking advantage of the best technology...
[April 7, 2009, 16:30]
Compaq scores two mammoth contracts
News Compaq Computer has snared two mammoth three-year contracts, one with defence contractor Raytheon for $200m to $250m and one with Swedish cell phone maker Ericsson for $150m. Blackmore hopes two more major contracts will be announced by the end of...
[December 20, 2001, 14:45]
ID-card contracts allow suppliers to be searched
News The government will be able search the premises of companies working on the National Identity Scheme under the terms of their contracts. A leaked Home Office document states that, if suppliers do not comply with the strict security requirements of...
[December 10, 2008, 7:14]
Software vendors bid for schools IT contracts
News Open-source vendors are among the companies bidding for schools IT supply contracts worth approximately £80m. The tendering process, which finished last Wednesday, was part of Becta's Software Licensing Framework.
[August 18, 2008, 17:16]
Candidates for new NHS IT contracts revealed
News Connecting for Health has published a candidate list of 116 companies for a series of "framework" contracts aimed at creating access to a broader base of ICT suppliers. CfH expects that most of the final contracts will be awarded at the end of the...
[August 15, 2007, 15:51]
Ad groups come to terms on Web contracts
News Two top advertising industry groups on Monday issued guidelines for interactive ad contracts, the latest effort aimed at untangling the Web's marketing woes. The new contracts include guidelines for working through opposing ad counts if they differ...
[April 30, 2002, 12:38]
BT nails down contracts for next-generation network
News The telco announced on Monday that it had reached agreement with Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu over contracts for the 21st Century Network (21CN). The four companies were initially awarded their contracts in April 2005, along with Lucent...
[March 7, 2006, 15:55]
Accounts and Contracts in IBM WebSphere Commerce V5.6.1
White Papers This paper gives a broad understanding of the use of contracts in WebSphere Commerce. It pays particular attention to business accounts and contracts that are only available in IBM WebSphere Commerce Business Edition.
[December 23, 2005, 0:01]
NHS awards big contracts
News Both contracts, which cover different regions, run until 2013. Accenture and Computer Sciences announced contract wins on Tuesday, with the British government making their holiday seasons cheerier. Both information technology services companies...
[December 24, 2003, 8:10]



