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The article reports that Novell Inc. has recently announced that it would be providing security and systems management software for Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) through the National Programme for Information Technology. The new licensing agreement allows NHS-wide use of Novell Identity Manager for security and access control, and Novell ZENworks for desktop management. The company has specifically included Open Enterprise Server so that the large number of NetWare users in the NHS can transfer their existing deployments to a Linux Platform.

The article examines British government information technology contracts of Accenture Inc., and iSoft PLC. According to Accenture, a regional local service provider, it would lose between £63 million and £86 million on its National Health Service (NHS) contracts. On the other hand, iSoft, a sub-contractor for local service providers in the provision of hospital systems, claim that its revenues from the NHS for 2005 would be lower than predicted.

The article focuses on the introduction of information technology (IT) in the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain. The best project managers in the public sector have been hired for this huge IT project. 80 NHS trusts were affected by the collapse of the data center in Kent, England that supported their IT systems. That data center is operated by one of the 5 local service providers for the NHS Programme for IT CSC Alliance.