Linux club helps firms hide from Microsoft
News According to Eddie Bleasdale of Netproject, an IT consultancy firm that runs The Incubator Club, Microsoft has repeatedly tried to stop potential Linux migrations -- sometimes with notable success. Whenever we've gone public about a client moving...
[February 10, 2004, 16:30]
Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?
News Microsoft's expensive licensing terms and its push for customers to speed their software upgrade cycles are driving the European Union's interest in open-source solutions, said Eddie Bleasdale, Netproject's chief executive officer.
[November 4, 2002, 12:11]
Police to investigate Linux desktops
News Valiant's work includes looking into desktop software, and has commissioned a report into Linux desktops from netproject, a consulting body run by open source lobbyist Eddie Bleasdale, which will argue that Linux desktops are a necessity owing to...
[January 23, 2002, 10:03]
Battle continues over true cost of Linux
News But Eddie Bleasdale, the director of open source consultancy Netproject, said the report does not sufficiently consider the importance of desktop security. The main concern is the lack of security if Microsoft is on the desktop," said Bleasdale.
[April 7, 2005, 13:00]
Linux firms rubbish Microsoft's customer win
News But Eddie Bleasdale, the director of Netproject, said that by not evaluating it RICS has "not given Linux a fair trial". Netproject's Bleasdale said he was surprised that RICS was moving to proprietary Web technologies, as the Web is one of the...
[March 22, 2005, 13:30]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
News It is important to protect intellectual property to allow innovation to happen, according to Eddie Bleasdale, the director of open source consultancy Netproject. If someone has put intellectual effort into developing anything then their copyright...
[April 20, 2005, 17:40]
Microsoft: 'Linux is more of a threat than before'
News Speaking in January after Newham had made their decision, netproject's director Eddie Bleasdale said that "whenever netproject demonstrates an open-source solution to a Microsoft customer they suddenly find Microsoft's approach much more amenable.
[June 11, 2004, 15:00]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
News Eddie Bleasdale, the director of open-source consultancy firm netproject, told ZDNet UK that he was not surprised by the news as NHS infrastructure is based on Microsoft technology and it would not make business sense to change it.
[November 3, 2004, 11:08]
Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project
News That's ridiculous," said Eddie Bleasdale, the owner of open-source consultancy NetProject and an early participant in the project. Criticism is mounting over the termination of a large-scale Linux project in Birmingham.
[November 17, 2006, 14:59]
Secure open source desktop gets public funding
News Eddie Bleasdale, director of netproject, said that the Secure Open Source Desktop was suitable for organisations that want guaranteed trusted computing through a centrally managed system. A UK company is using a six-figure sum from the UK...
[May 31, 2005, 18:15]
Europe extends open source resource
News Eddie Bleasdale, owner of consultancy NetProject, said: "I would question the need for a government initiative to manage the source code for open source projects. The European Commission is launching a resource for public sector organisations to...
[October 12, 2006, 17:25]
