Isoft: Hard on iSoft

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is playing hardball with iSoft. The US IT company has put the kibosh on the troubled UK software company’s efforts to sell itself. This potentially sets up CSC to scoop up iSoft on the cheap. But the game is hazardous. CSC uses iSoft as a subcontractor on the multi-billion pound programme to upgrade the computer systems of the UK’s National Health Service, run by the British government. Unfortunately for iSoft, programme delays and faulty accounting by prior ...