On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:41:57 -0800 Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem is that they have massive funding, approved personally by
Blair, which is burning a hole in their pocket - and each day that
Blair's political fortunes worsen, the faster the hole is burnt. I am
sure they feel that they need to sign contracts which lock-in that
health IT refurbishment expenditure as quickly as possible.
An issue I hadn't considered.......
The question
is, could any vendor have come up with a contract offer to swap 500,000
NHS desktops from Microsoft to Linux and OpenOffice and other open
source within 3 years, including the porting of all the Windows-specific
health software.
Sure, IBM could suck up such amounts of money for a morning snack and do it all with OSS.
-- IV
