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]
Newham CIO Wins Award
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at Newham Council - which was at the centre of a major row between Linux advocates and Microsoft in 2004 - has won Public Sector CIO of the year award in the UK Technology Innovation & Growth Awards.
[March 16, 2005, 10:10]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
Talkback all fighting over which is best aside. It is a case of open source is just another piece of software. One you can control if you should so wish or that you can pay somebody else to control for you.closed source, well that only comes with one flavor...
[October 23, 2006, 14:20]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
Talkback "It's the biggest show on earth," Steel said. I don't want to be risking new technology. This statement sums up the whole argument and proves that this was stunt for a Microsoft discount. Steel went into the evaluation with his mind already made up.
[October 20, 2006, 14:43]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
Talkback It's part of the.understanding' between Microsoft and Newham that Newham executives will promote Microsoft at the expense of Open Source. Yes, well, he would wouldn't he. A fact that would be plain to all if the 'Memorandum of Understanding' was...
[October 20, 2006, 11:22]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
Talkback Comments like this confirm why public sector IT is so highly regarded and respected in the UK and elsewhere.
[October 20, 2006, 10:03]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
Talkback Open Source is more than just whether or not you want to upgrade to linux. Of course it's just software, but for me it is a way of getting what you actually need from software, rather than what the vendors think you ought to buy.
[October 20, 2006, 9:46]
Newham CIO Sees Open Source As 'red Herring'
Talkback Full and uncensored publication of the memorandum of understanding between Newham and Microsoft would settle this issue once and for all. Richard Steel: words are cheap.
[October 20, 2006, 9:14]
Newham CIO Wins Award
Talkback In old days I think receiving "personal" money from vendors was called bribery, or something.
[March 17, 2005, 7:38]
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]
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]
No Regrets For Newham
Talkback If we were so keen to hound Newham, I guess we wouldn't have reported last month that their head of ICT had won the title of Public Sector CIO of the year.http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39191518,00.htm
[April 4, 2005, 9:21]
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]
Who's In Charge Of IT In London?
News Phil Hope, parliamentary undersecretary of state, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, delivering the keynote at the conference, said a trial conducted by Newham council into electronic procurement estimated the technology could save the public...
[July 6, 2004, 17:05]
CIOs: Encryption Only Part Of Data-security Solution
News Richard Steel, chief information officer for the London Borough of Newham, added that encryption should be used "where the data must be mobile, and [should be] combined with two-factor authenticated access".
[December 10, 2007, 7:49]
Norway's Second City Embraces Linux
News We asked an audience of 250 or 300 business people today if they thought that Linux was a free option, and no hands went up," said Nicholas McGrath, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, speaking at the first Microsoft Linux event in the UK...
[June 15, 2004, 15:15]
CIOs Give Windows Server 2008 A Cautious Welcome
News Some early adopter customers include General Motors, Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines. ZDNet.co.uk sister site silicon.com put together a 12-strong CIO user panel to gauge reaction to the launch.
[February 29, 2008, 9:10]
