On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:13:34 +1100
David Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Ignacio Valdes wrote:
| On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:41:57 -0800 Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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|>> 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.
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|> 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.
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| 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
IBMers are quite good. In fact, IBM UK has some of the best software
engineers in the world. Mike Cowlishaw is one of them. -- IV
