Hi Dr. Simon Read, you wrote on 8/4/2000 7:23:13 PM:
>Folks,
>
>I am a Computer Science professor at American University in Washington
>D.C.
>
>I want to recommend that we replace Solaris in our Computer Science
>department with Debian. In doing so, I know that we will encounter
>problems wuite specific to the public (as in non-profit, public
>sector) and academic nature of the enterprise. I want to advocate
>Debian over RedHat and TurboLinux who are trying to sell into this
>market.
>
>Is there anyone else out there in this kind of organisation, who is
>using Debian in this kind of environment? Contact me and let's band
>together!
I was in your {very pleasant} city this week for the APA convention.
I watched a DOD presentation regarding the practicality of video
conferencing for medical uses {saves the military expenses and seems to be
fairly efficient} Unfortunately, I had to listen to the folk running the
thing speak glowingly of things like ms access, ms office, viatv{.com} and
pcanywhere {for remote control} They're also using procomp+ for remote
biofeedback... {www.thoughttechnology.com} The experiments were pretty
impressive aside from the chosen platform. :}
It occurs to me that in a Democratic government... the government should
use Democratic {Of the people, etc} software and that linux seems a much
better solution given the importance of stability, low cost, etc to the
medical community and that medical software is the last thing I want to see
entrusted to ms.
So's you can lobby...
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/08/03/akamai.tamc.amedd.army.
mil/lean/info.htm
