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Ignacio Valdes wrote:
| 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.
... but wouldn't that have been the ultimate solution. IBM makes a squillion. Mr Blair still spends his half billion (because he really cares) and most importantly the foundation for a more rational health IT infrastructure is laid down.
David
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