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Linux opens London's Oyster
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| Open-source software helped London's Oyster card system move past a
| proprietary roadblock, an open-source conference in London was told last
| week.
|
| [...]
|
| Deloitte built a web front-end that interfaces to the EDS back-end using web
| services. The new online system is based on open standards and open-source
| software, including the Apache web server, JBoss middleware and the Linux
| operating system, said Robinson.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39419829,00.htm
Elsewhere in the UK, there's the usual shenanigans.
Microsoft megadeal gets second chance
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| MICROSOFT has been granted a second six-month extension on the megadeal it
| struck in 2004 with the UK government, and which ran out in January.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/22/microsoft-megadeal-gets-second
The shills from Newham seem to be at it again. It's like Microsoft manages UK
IT decisions (links below).
Newham U-turns on Vista
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/22/newham-u-turns-vista
Recent:
Promoting Microsoft...
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| is written into his MoU with Microsoft.
|
| 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.
|
| This is the same man who, in line with Newhams MoU with Microsoft, starred in
| Microsoft's "Get the Facts" roadshow.
|
| As Dr John Pugh MP has stated, "Microsoft is *very* close to the UK
| Government, and they intend to stay there".
|
| Richard Steel's appointment as President of Socitm is a very canny play from
| the multiply-convicted monopolist.
|
| Of course the contractual obligation to promote Microsoft in the UK Public
| Sector will not affect either his credibility, or his bias-free ability to
| perform this new role, nobody could possibly think that, could they?
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39408136-39001084c-20093563o,00.htm
Newham has a cow over Microsoft MOU
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| However, Newham has supplied the INQUIRER with internal studies that it says
| do demonstrate that its decision to commit to Microsoft was justified. The
| studies were performed by Socitm, a private public sector consulting firm of
| which Newham COI Steele is a vice president. the INQUIRER will report on
| these findings in due course.
|
| Meanwhile, the original MOU is enlightening. As well as claiming the deal
| would enable Newham to achieve high rankings in Audit Commission assessments,
| it committed Newham to moving all "competitive technology" to Microsoft,
| regardless of the feasibility of such a move.
|
| It also required Steele to promote Microsoft software.
|
| See attached file: Memorandum of Understanding.doc
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/21/microsoft-newham-council-goes
Is This the Season of Porcine Aerobatics?
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| Two of the darkest moments for open source in the UK involved the loss of
| major public projects. The first was Newham Borough Council, which ran a
| high-profile trial of open source only to ditch it at the last moment, after
| magically receiving an offer it couldn't refuse from Microsoft – which cynics
| suggested was the main motivation for the open source exercise in the first
| place.
|
| This was bad news for free software, because it enabled Microsoft to do two
| things. First, it could claim that an independent body had tried open source
| and found it wanting, and secondly, it was able to use Newham as a showcase
| for its public sector technology.
|
| In some ways, the second defeat was even worse. It involved a massive
| contract with the NHS that was far-reaching in scope...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=728
London council dumps Microsoft, may go open source instead
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| NEWHAM LONDON Borough Council has scrapped the controversial 10-year
| Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) it signed with Microsoft in 2004 and drawn
| up a new agreement with a new set of deliverables.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/18/microsoft-flagship-flounders
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