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Linux club helps firms hide from Microsoft

...a win over Netproject in January, in the London borough of Newham. Newham Borough Council had been trialling Netproject's Linux product, but eventually abandoned... Read more

10 February, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Vista gets a cautious welcome

Early adopters of Vista see advantages in the new OS, but some remain cautious over its potential impact Read more

1 December, 2006 by Colin Barker

Orange push email trial nearly complete

Newham Council has been testing Windows Mobile 5.0, and it says it's happy with the results Read more

22 March, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Newham to lead CRM rollout

As part of the overall e-government push, the council is to run a project aimed at demonstrating the benefits of CRM Read more

19 August, 2004 by Kable

Microsoft chases London councils after Newham victory

Microsoft will use Newham Council to show how it can help deliver improved social services in London Read more

16 August, 2004 by James Sherwood

Newham CIO sheds light on Microsoft relationship

Richard Steel, the chief information officer of Newham Borough Council, and president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm... Read more

3 March, 2009

Public-sector bodies sing Windows Vista's praises

...customers who are both upgrading to Vista and happy with the benefits. Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public-private partnership set up to... Read more

2 June, 2008 by Julian Goldsmith
Socitm names new president

Socitm names new president

...of Information Technology Management, the professional association for public-sector IT managers. Newham Borough Council's chief information officer was confirmed in the role at... Read more

30 April, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

New president takes the reins at Socitm

Newham Borough Council CIO gets the nod... Richard Steel has been named president... Read more

29 April, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

Microsoft extends public-sector discount deal

...The extension is "great news", said Richard Steel, chief information officer at Newham Borough Council, in a blog post. Steel said the initial timeline would... Read more

6 July, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Socitm president rethinks open-source 'lag' comment

...to the Socitm presidency from his job as chief information officer for Newham borough council. "Newham uses Apache as a web server. Most organisations do... Read more

27 February, 2009 by Tom Espiner

CIOs give Windows Server 2008 a cautious welcome

...next refresh or upgrade cycle. Some early adopter customers include General Motors, Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines. Gavin Whatrup, group IT director at marketing... Read more

29 February, 2008 by Andy McCue

Analysts: Windows Server 2008 will please users

Microsoft has listened to users, with many tweaks to its latest server OS making for a significant improvement over its predecessor, say analysts Read more

27 February, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

Open source is 'below the radar' of local government

...open source is not shared by all local government bodies in London. Newham Borough Council recently went through a high-profile tendering process involving both... Read more

8 October, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft touts Linux 'facts'

...Monster. Microsoft's campaign will no doubt be boosted by London's Newham Borough Council's decision to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft after... Read more

7 January, 2004 by Andy McCue

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pjc158

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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