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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]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
Talkback George Lazarette :" But it is either corrupt or stupid for a borough like Newham to use Microsoft when there are better and cheaper/free alternatives. Newham Borough is neither corrupt or stupid as you yell out.
[January 8, 2004, 22:04]
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]
Cyberangels Preach Online Safety To East London Teens
News Underprivileged children in the London borough of Newham are being trained to teach other teenagers in Internet safety. Representatives from other organisations such as Microsoft, the Internet Watch Foundation, the Internet Society and NetNanny...
[January 23, 2002, 17:53]
No Regrets For Newham
News The London Borough of Newham has unveiled the first fruits of its controversial deal with Microsoft. Newham’s head of ICT Richard Steel told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com he has no regrets about signing the deal: "We are pleased with Microsoft’s...
[April 1, 2005, 9:25]
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]
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. For Newham, Thursday's announcement was not just about Vista. According to Geoff Connell, head of ICT at Newham, the...
[December 1, 2006, 14:50]
Orange Push Email Trial Nearly Complete
News Newham began trialling Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 last year, in conjunction with Orange. So far everything is working nicely, we haven't quite finished the trial — we are still in discussions with Orange for the best way of pricing the service...
[March 22, 2006, 11:30]
Linux Club Helps Firms Hide From Microsoft
News Microsoft scored something of 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 plans to move to open source in favour of a new deal...
[February 10, 2004, 16:30]
How To Talk To Microsoft About Linux
News One of these was the London Borough of Newham, which has upgraded its desktop and server infrastructure. After a long consultation process, Newham eventually decided that Microsoft offered better value than open source.
[June 14, 2004, 15:29]
Newham
Talkback Mr Steel and Newham have indeed have had an interesting past and have their critics in the open source community which we have covered on ZDNet.co.uk.http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39238434,00.htm
[April 30, 2008, 18:12]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
Cynicism Over Newham Linux U-turn
Blog The controversial CIO at London's Borough of Newham brought on more controversy this week as he branded open source as a "red herring" in front of dozens of senior IT professionals. Critics say Steel only evaluated Linux so he could obtain greater...
[October 20, 2006, 17:12]
Solution Provider Helps Local Government Cut IT Costs, Expand Customer Services
White Papers To help meet a governmental mandate to cut costs and enhance services, the London Borough of Newham enlisted Microsoft Partner Artemis Corporation to replace an open-source solution with one based on Microsoft technologies.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
