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British Health System Looks at Linux
DanBrusca writes "The Observer is reporting that Britain's biggest employer, the National Health Service, may ditch Microsoft due to mounting licence costs. 'Richard Granger, NHS IT director, has ordered a trial of a Linux-based system from Sun Microsystems as part of a UKP2.3 billion computer modernisation plan. The plan could see Java Desktop software rolled out across the NHS's 1 million staff and 800,000 computers to replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office suite of programmes.'"
They will be un-assimilated
The patient with the heart condition, the doctor can't understand the man page for the defibrillator!
Yeah I didn't see
Windows is a 'closed-source' system for wrecking computers stolen by a young American student in the early 80s and rejected by thousands of programmers working together across the internet.
SCO: 800-726-8649
Verisign: 800-361-8319, 888-642-9675
Diebold: 800-433-VOTE (8683)
Right, unlike our capitalist system of HMOs, and we all know that HMOs are about Choice, Choice, and more Choice, not to mention great service and care for clients. Thank god for Freedom!
The Free desktop that Just Works
He called me complaining that I should have tried harder to convince him to switch away from Windows.
..........FULL STOP.
The story was supposed to read:
;-)
"British Health System Looks at Linux; Tells it to Quit Smoking and Exercise More"
The last thing you want is an obese penguin giving you health advice.
I wonder what Clippy would think about them considering Linux. When they try to delete him, we might try to shut down the ICU just to remind 3v3ry1 that bi11 0wnz j00.
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Even when that happens, people still won't because people are stupid.
Without viruses, many Hospital employees would be obsolete!
Cover your eyes and click this link!
Wait a second, they're turning to Sun to save money? *Scratches head*
It's because when he pressed the wrong key, he got dumped into vi and couldn't get out.
Wait, i thought Australia was a camp for riff-raff.
is exactly what the peguin recommends!!!!
See my journal, I write things there
" In a hospital like situation, where a machine does one thing and is expected to do one thing. Why does it need to be upgraded?"
Well, when the inspector comes round you really need the machine that goes "Bing!".
graspee
In so many places, the IT staffers make the 'Central Services' technicians in the movie 'Brazil' look professional.
It's just how things go in large bureacratic organizations.
A Good Intro to NetBS
Remember, you're the guy who's supposed to assist them in doing their work
Nice theory, but that's not how it works, IT runs the company/organisation.
You should read BOFH more often.
Clearly there should also be some boilerplate text included about the distinction between the Linux Kernal and the GNU system that makes up the body of the operating system. Perhaps a prominent mention of Richard Stallman and a sidebar on the GNU philosophy.
A Good Intro to NetBS
Indeed. Money is power. This is the Information Economy. Therefore the one who controls the Information has The Power. The BOFH controls the Information. He has The Power.
Try not talking with your mouth full.
Or: does she understand the difference between a loudspeaker and a hifi system? You could explain that as loudspeakers are for audio, so a monitor is for light.
If she doesn't understand the function of a loudspeaker, then you might want to give up.
I find lot's of people just aren't interested in understanding how things work. They just want... to go on holiday^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvacation and stuff. Not saying your mum's like this, so don't take any offence!
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
They're both enormously bloated and inefficient, plagued by hard-to-stop bugs and apt to absorb gigantic amounts of money in return for very little...
(starting with the ^$!* Universities!)
You know that you're a geek when you spend some time wondering what that regexp does.
To paraphrase Lewis Black...."Doctor's have the power because they often carry a rectal thermometer".
If you don't understand anything I post, please accept that I ate paste as a small boy...
Oh, in that case
R E S I G N !
That was classic intercourse!