On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:05, Barry Lollo wrote: > I think this is great news. Standardisation has got to be a good thing. > That of course is irrespective of Vendor. But I see no good reason why > this shouldn't be a successful strategy based on the choice of Vendor > alone.
Standardisation as in adherence to public standards certainly is a good thing. Monoculture is not though, and there is an obvious difference. A government institution playing into the hands of a proprietary "monopolist" with a track record of destroying and subverting public standards is a sheep banging at the doors of the slaughterhouse begging for admission. Stupid, stupid, stupid. But at least one can say it is consistent with the rest of our government's usual policy and the abysmal state of IM&T in NSW public hospitals and similar health institutions (which have been 100% Microsoft shops anyway for many years, at least in my neck of the wood where the hospital IT managers wouldn't recognize a solution even if it danced naked amid flashing neon sign pointers in front of their noses) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
