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Newham Council Denies Playing Dirty With Linux
News Speaking at an event to launch a partnership between Newham and Microsoft, Richard Steel -- Newham Council's head of ICT -- insisted that a recent assessment of the various merits of Windows and open source had been fair and above board.
[August 16, 2004, 17:15]
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]
No Regrets For Newham
News 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 performance. The London Borough of Newham has unveiled the first fruits of its controversial deal...
[April 1, 2005, 9:25]
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]
Cynicism Over Newham Linux U-turn
Blog Critics say Steel only evaluated Linux so he could obtain greater discounts from Microsoft, and that the Newham Microsoft programme is now just one big publicity exercise for the Redmond giant. The controversial CIO at London's Borough of Newham...
[October 20, 2006, 17:12]
HP Wins $27m London Council Deal
News Newham head of ICT Richard Steel highlighted "a flexible per seat payment plan which ensures a fixed monthly charge… whilst reducing risks and maintaining flexibility and scalability" in a statement as a key reason for opting to work with HP.
[December 13, 2004, 10:05]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at Newham, told silicon.com that while the council will continue to monitor open source, the time is not right for such a switch given Newham's complex IT environment. London's Newham Borough Council has ditched plans to...
[January 6, 2004, 14:00]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
News Steel insisted that Newham genuinely considered a move to Linux -- contrary to some claims that the council only used open source as a way of forcing Microsoft's prices down. In this aspect it is very different to the London borough of Newham...
[November 8, 2004, 15:28]
Socitm Names New President
News Steel has been at Newham Council since 1989 and previously worked for Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank). Newham Borough Council's chief information officer was confirmed in the role at the society's AGM held at the British Library.
[April 30, 2008, 10:49]
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
Talkback How big is Newham IT department and what qualifications Richard Steel holds? If Richard Steel and Co can’t do their job right the council should outsource the job. For that amount of money (add salaries of Mr Steel and his unqualified cronies) a...
[January 8, 2004, 10:43]
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]
Microsoft Can't Afford To Let Newham Fail
Leader Richard Steel, Newham's head of ICT, told us that "if things go wrong, we'll say so". 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...
[August 17, 2004, 11:55]
Microsoft To Shed Light On Newham Council's Linux U-turn
News It has even been suggested that Richard Steel, Newham's head of ICT, put on his best poker face to persuade Microsoft that he was determined to choose Linux as part of his drive to cut IT costs, thus compelling the software giant to make him an...
[August 12, 2004, 17:40]
Microsoft Chases London Councils After Newham Victory
News However, Richard Steel, head of ICT at Newham, denied allegations of dirty tricks. Microsoft unveiled ambitious plans on Monday to encourage the use of its products across London councils, using Newham Council to showcase what its software can do.
[August 16, 2004, 18:20]
Because They Are Contractually Obligated To
Talkback Newham signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft that *requires* them to promote Microsoft and Microsoft's interests. Imagine that - public money spent on a behind-closed-doors exclusive deal with Microsoft that *requires* Newham to...
[June 2, 2008, 9:54]
Promoting Microsoft...
Talkback This is the same man who originated the term "doing a Newham" - ie the process of feigning interest in Linux to get, ahem, 'preferential arrangements' with Microsoft. Richard Steel's appointment as President of Socitm is a very canny play from the...
[April 30, 2008, 9:47]
Sharp Rise Predicted In Local Gov't Tech Spend
News Richard Steel, chief information officer of the London Borough of Newham and vice president of Socitm, said his organisation plans to spend a similar amount on IT during the next 12 months as last year, but will focus on knowledge management and...
[January 4, 2008, 9:29]
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]
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]
