Neil Merrett

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Microsoft Eyes Hybrid Open Source Approach to Public Sector Work

Neil Merrett | Government Computing | October 24, 2016

Microsoft is increasingly looking at a hybrid approach that takes advantage of both proprietary enterprise IT and open source technologies for public sector projects to better meet the needs of customers in a multi-platform technology environment. Michael Wignall, national technology officer at Microsoft UK, said that despite being a company long associated with proprietary software and technology changing user needs had facilitated a switch towards providing solutions that offer at least some open source components in the area of Android devices and other platforms...

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UK's Bolton NHS Trust Plans on Broader Open Source Eye Care Record Uptake

Neil Merret | Government Computing | May 9, 2017

Having this year gone live with OpenEyes software devised by another trust, hospital body now looking to expand functionality and user base among other trusts Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is committed to integrating a growing number of paper-based processes for optical care onto the OpenEyes open source patient record software that was initially developed by Moorfields Eye Hospital in London...

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