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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: The Sith Lords' Homeplanet?
Talkback Nice Star Wars/Newham reference. For those who don't know Newham council was the UK local authority that famously flirted with open source but then became big supporters of Microsoft. Interestingly - Computer Weekly dug-up a story that Newham have...
[October 12, 2007, 9:37]
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
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 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
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]
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
Talkback In response to the first Talkback.yes, it would be truly astounding if we were hounding Newham Council. This article (written by silicon.com, incidentally) reports the work that Newham and Microsoft have carried out on several e-government projects.
[April 4, 2005, 9:21]
Microsoft To Shed Light On Newham Council's Linux U-turn
Talkback "launch Newham's unique partnership with Microsoft; a partnership which will see Newham and Microsoft working closely together on a range of projects that will directly benefit Newham and the public sector as a whole.
[August 12, 2004, 23:16]
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]
Microsoft To Shed Light On Newham Council's Linux U-turn
Talkback Newham were going to switch to Linux as far cheaper over long term. Microsoft fearing it could loose its total monopoly over the council/government desktop market gave Newham free software and service at cost.
[August 13, 2004, 12:09]
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]
Microsoft Chases London Councils After Newham Victory
News 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. At a press conference on Monday, Newham Council announced it is rolling out...
[August 16, 2004, 18:20]
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]
Newham To Lead CRM Rollout
News Newham LBC will run a project that is aiming to demonstrate the benefits of customer relationship management as part of the CRM National Programme, one of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's National Projects for local e-government, it was...
[August 19, 2004, 15:55]
No Regrets For Newham
Talkback Let me understand. Microsoft help you to share YOUR code between office since it's based upon his HIGH COST solutions.very bright! This is reallly a strange concept of the benefit that the Microsoft solutions gives over Free Software :)
[April 1, 2005, 23:29]
No Regrets For Newham
Talkback It would also be interesting to see comparetive case studies with solutions like WebSphere, Sonic, eXtend, DirXML, etc in place with reference to Newham. I wish them luck once all the redesigning, reprogramming, remodelling, resizing, re-inventing...
[April 2, 2005, 0:27]
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]
Microsoft Chases London Councils After Newham Victory
Talkback What the F**K di thses darn stupid councils think they are doing no doubt they are the labourite scumballs just like blair and Co . If this country wants to survive we have got to get this infestation out of government now whilst we still have a...
[August 20, 2004, 11:31]
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]
