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CSC Reacts To 'hostile' CA Bid
News Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has reacted strongly to a takeover bid by Computer Associates (CA) saying that "any suggestion that there have been negotiations or agreements between the two companies is absolutely false.
[February 13, 1998, 9:54]
CSC Scuppers ISoft Sale
Blog CSC, the primary contractor subcontracting work on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to iSoft, has blocked iSoft's proposed sale to the Australian healthcare firm IBA. Apparently it feels the sale would be bad for NPfIT.
[May 30, 2007, 13:09]
CSC Date Calculator
Downloads CSC Date Calculator counts the days before, after, and between selected dates. You tell the program which days not to count, such as weekends and vacations, and it counts the days with precision. Don't waste time counting and recounting days on...
[April 1, 2004, 8:16]
CA Hostile Bid For CSC Appears Doomed
News Wang said that he had grown concerned about the impact of CSC's defence tactics on his business, his family and the technology industry. Based on revenue projections released by CSC, CA's bid looks to have been undervalued as well as unwelcome.
[March 5, 1998, 14:28]
RSA SecurID User Authentication - Standard Security Strategy For CSC And Its Clients
White Papers CSC's stated mission is to solve client problems using information technology, and its preferred route is to test any potential solutions internally first. RSA SecurID user authentication technology proved up to the challenge and, as a result, has...
[September 18, 2003, 1:21]
CA Gets Heavy In Bid For CSC
News The $108 price is significantly lower than the $114 the company had reportedly offered CSC in friendly negotiations. CSC apparently rejected this bid, prompting CA to launch its hostile rejoinder. CSC has undertaken a "poison-pill" shareholder...
[February 17, 1998, 13:52]
ISoft Takes Legal Action Against CSC
News It has claimed that Computer Sciences Corporation's (CSC) objections to the takeover are unreasonable, according to a report in The Register. When the move was announced in early May, it was seen as a boost to the NHS's National Programme for IT...
[June 5, 2007, 12:44]
ISoft Halts Legal Action Against CSC
News Last week Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) announced it had refused to give its consent to the deal, which would have given iSoft a vital cash injection.iSoft claimed that the contractor had backtracked on an earlier decision to approve the...
[June 7, 2007, 16:59]
Airbus Flies High With VERITAS Software And CSC
White Papers Airbus is one of only two aircraft manufacturers in the market for large commercial airliners. Airbus deployed VERITAS ServPoint NAS to create a single storage array across its Network Attached Storage (NAS) environment.
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
CSF Rejects CA Bid
News CSC chairman Van Honeycutt sent a letter to CA chief executive Charles Wang calling the bid, "hostile" and referring to it as "ill considered and unwelcome. CA said it will continue with the bid despite CSC's objections.
[February 20, 1998, 10:27]
Nasa Signs Up Supercomputing Support
News Nasa has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for the provision of supercomputing support over the next decade. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) will provide support services to Nasa's Advanced Supercomputing Division at the...
[July 25, 2007, 9:19]
Computer Sciences Corporation Saves Time And Money With A Centralized EPM Solution
White Papers Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading IT services provider, wanted to reduce its overhead costs in managing the large outsourcing engagements increasingly critical to its business. CSC faced difficulty in keeping pace with stakeholder...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
NHS Computer Systems Take A Sickie
News NHS Connecting for Health (CFH), the agency responsible for health service IT, said services provided by CSC Alliance for the NHS in the North West and West Midlands had been affected since 10:00 (BST) on 30 July.
[August 1, 2006, 9:55]
Isle Of Man Snubs ISoft
News In the island's annual budget on Tuesday, it was confirmed that iSoft software, as offered by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), had been turned down in favour of that offered by System C, a UK systems integrator that is itself working on CSC's...
[March 23, 2007, 12:19]
Review Raises Doubts Over Plans For Key NHS Software
News The review of troubled healthcare software company iSoft's development roadmap for the Lorenzo clinical records software was compiled by NHS IT lead contractors Accenture and CSC.iSoft is currently developing an interim version of the product for...
[August 22, 2006, 16:30]
EDS To Land £4bn Military Deal?
News The EDS-led Atlas consortium with Fujitsu Services, EADS, General Dynamics, IBM and LogicaCMG is competing against the CSC-led Radii consortium which includes BT and Thales. And reports in the Sunday newspapers claim EDS has beaten off competition...
[February 28, 2005, 9:30]
ISoft Was Central To Accenture's NHS Pull-out
News With the exception of its role in moving medical imaging services to a digital platform in the North West, Accenture's work will now all be handled by Computer Science Services (CSC), another of the major NPfIT contractors.
[September 28, 2006, 16:30]
ISoft Acquisition Saga Nears Conclusion
News In May, IBA seemed certain to buy iSoft for £140m, despite a threat by CSC — the NHS contractor which is subcontracting iSoft — to block the sale. Accenture had — like CSC — been subcontracting iSoft for much of its NHS IT work.
[August 29, 2007, 13:32]
NHS Chief Promises Delivery Of Lorenzo
News He said there had been a lot of speculation about the financial problems and corporate structure of iSoft, the supplier of the system, but that local service provider CSC is in the "latter stages" of ensuring the "appropriate funding and...
[June 15, 2007, 15:24]
Royal Mail Cautious Over Outsourced Security
News The Royal Mail signed a £1.5bn contract with outsourcing company CSC and telecoms giant BT in 2002 for the management of its general IT services. The Royal Mail sold some of its IT assets to CSC to help cover the cost of the contract, Lacey added.
[April 28, 2005, 15:10]
