On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:40, Ignacio Valdes wrote:

> >> 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.


Good point Ignacio.  
It was also pointed out to me that the NHS uses an x.400 email system.  
But, that shouldn't be an issue for IBM or Novell either.  Both have extensive 
experience in that area of networking.

Tim

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