On Monday 31 December 2001 14:20, Daniel L. Johnson, MD wrote: > Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > This is the sort of thing we need to collect if we wish to promote the > > use of OSS in health organisations. > Dr. Mike McCoy, Chief Health Information Officer at UCLA Healthcare, > replaced 18 Proliant Exchange servers with an S390 (running Linux), and > found it takes up less than half the floor space, uses about half the > energy, and involves no Microsoft licence fees. Very interesting. Looking at a tech.republic survey - which is probably valid for a reasonable range - the suggestion is that nearly half of firms moving to Linux do so for reasons of cost... and nearly half do so for reasons of reliability. I expect there is a n overlap, but did UCLA Healthcare, do you know, move becuase of existing reliability problems; anticipated reliability problems/expected increases; or cost? Did they/would they publish it? -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
