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Microsoft To Shed Light On Newham Council's Linux U-turn
News The software giant has scheduled a press conference for Monday, 16 August, at which it will talk in detail about the London borough of Newham's decision to deploy a Windows-based desktop and server infrastructure.
[August 12, 2004, 17:40]
London Borough Of Newham Chooses Microsoft Solution Over Open Source As Best Overall Value Option
White Papers Newham Council, an innovative and leading-edge local authority in the United Kingdom, was faced with the need to lower cost and risk, while providing a financially predictable, stable, and innovative Information and Communications Technology (ICT...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Newham Council Denies Playing Dirty With Linux
News Officials at the London Borough of Newham denied on Monday that they had faked an interest in deploying Linux to force Microsoft to dramatically cut its licensing costs. Speaking at an event to launch a partnership between Newham and Microsoft...
[August 16, 2004, 17:15]
No Regrets For Newham
News The London Borough of Newham has unveiled the first fruits of its controversial deal with Microsoft. Newham also plans to use technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server to connect up services such as council tax, housing, environment, social...
[April 1, 2005, 9:25]
Vista Gets A Cautious Welcome
News Among the users who had come out in support were some predictable faces, such as Capgemini and the London Borough of Newham. According to Geoff Connell, head of ICT at Newham, the council has found many different ways to improve productivity.
[December 1, 2006, 14:50]
Linux Club Helps Firms Hide From Microsoft
News Newham Borough Council had been trialling Netproject's Linux product, but eventually abandoned plans to move to open source in favour of a new deal with Microsoft instead. Bleasdale, who expressed his admiration for the poker skills of Newham...
[February 10, 2004, 16:30]
Socitm Names New President
News Newham Borough Council's chief information officer was confirmed in the role at the society's AGM held at the British Library. Steel has been at Newham Council since 1989 and previously worked for Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank).
[April 30, 2008, 10:49]
Public-sector Bodies Sing Windows Vista's Praises
News Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public-private partnership set up to maintain the infrastructure of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly underground lines in London, are both part way through their respective Vista upgrades.
[June 2, 2008, 8:26]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
News London's Newham Borough Council has ditched plans to move to an open source environment and will instead concentrate on negotiating a new deal with Microsoft that could act as a model for other public sector bodies.
[January 6, 2004, 14:00]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
Talkback It's a big job, and it is unlikely that the ITstaff of Newham Borough Council would have much relevant experience. Nobody in their right mind would expect high quality decision making from a blighted borough like Newham.
[January 8, 2004, 9:14]
Local Gov't CIOs To Shape National IT Policy
News Members of the Local Government CIO Council include, among others: Peter Bole, head of ICT commissioning at Kent County Council; Richard Steel, CTO Council member and CIO at the London Borough of Newham; Dylan Roberts, head of ICT at Leeds City...
[April 3, 2008, 8:57]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
News Richard Steel, chief information officer at the Borough of Newham, made the comments to a large audience of senior IT professionals at London's IP'06 event on Wednesday. Newham is cited as a critical victory by Microsoft in its battle against open...
[October 19, 2006, 16:45]
There's A Surprise ...
Talkback "Newham Borough Council" For all those unfamiliar with Newham's track record see http://tinyurl.com/3jfw7o or http://tinyurl.com/4ldgwe Ironically Newham's "relationship" with Microsoft is so utterly reprehensible now that it's no longer news.
[June 2, 2008, 9:50]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
Talkback But it is either corrupt or stupid for a borough like Newham to use Microsoft when there are better and cheaper/free alternatives. Newham should be collaborating with other boroughs to rewrite all its specialist local authority software on open...
[January 8, 2004, 16:07]
Microsoft Can't Afford To Let Newham Fail
Leader But Newham -- one of the UK capital's more down-trodden areas -- really has reached for the skies. On the upside, Newham's social services team will soon be kitted out with Tablet PCs, giving the elderly and infirm a break from 25-page forms.
[August 17, 2004, 11:55]
Government Rewards E-innovators
News Projects covered include Liverpool City Council's text message service for frequently asked questions, an Internet TV scheme developed by the London borough of Newham and Westminster Council's wireless network.
[March 31, 2005, 9:40]
Telstra 'played Linux Card' To Lower Microsoft Bills
News In the UK, the practice of pushing Microsoft for lower licensing costs by threatening to go with Linux instead is becoming known as 'doing a Newham', after the London borough council that took part in an open-source desktop trial before eventually...
[August 2, 2004, 15:35]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
News In this aspect it is very different to the London borough of Newham, which recently chose Microsoft over Linux. Steel insisted that Newham genuinely considered a move to Linux -- contrary to some claims that the council only used open source as a...
[November 8, 2004, 15:28]
Europe And The US Philosophically Divided On Open Source?
News Newham considered migrating from Microsoft to open source desktops, but later changed its mind and was accused of using a Linux trial purely to force a better contract from Microsoft. The London Borough of
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Microsoft Touts Linux 'facts'
News Microsoft's campaign will no doubt be boosted by London's Newham Borough Council's decision to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft after finding in open-source trials that a migration would pose "unacceptable risk" to its services.
[January 7, 2004, 9:45]
