Someone has got to keep those back end systems running The beleaguered UK Post Office has begun conversations with suppliers to help support its controversial Horizon system in a set of contracts which could total 100 million ($131 million) as it works to replace the EPOS and back-end finance technology....

Europe boss also speaks of 'nervousness' in any extension to the use of the controversial, ageing system Fujitsu's Europe boss has told a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal - one of the widest miscarriages of justice in UK history - that the company does not trust the UK public body in its use of Horizon system data to support future police prosecutions....

State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says Fujitsu has said it continually told the Post Office about problems with Horizon, the computer system at the center of one of the UK's widest miscarriages of justice, as its client prosecuted branch managers for accounting discrepancies....