IT PRO Podcast: Sarin leaving Vodafone, Dell joins the Eee PC craze
Aftr five years at the helm of the UK mobile phone giant, Arun Sarin is leaving. We debate whether his tenure in charge was a success or not.

Arun Sarin has confirmed he plans to step down as chief executive of Vodafone. Five years after he replaced Sir Chris Gent, can his time in charge be called a success, a failure or just enough to get by?
In addition to the Vodafone news, this week the team discusses IT problems at the NHS as a major contract with Fujitsu is ripped up, another Eee PC rival in the works - this time from Dell, the beginning of the end for week-long delays in transferring money between bank accounts and high-capacity solid state hard drives.
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