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NHS Awards Contract to Microsoft
ChocLinux writes "Microsoft has won a £500m nine year contract to supply software to the NHS, a week after the OGC (the government procurement body) released a report describing Linux as a viable desktop alternative for the majority of government users."
Who is making the corresponding effort for Linux?
IBM? RedHat? How the hell should I know?
IAAUD -- I Am A Usability Designer/HCI major.
Why do you feel the need to not only post your job, but also the acronym for it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean you'd have to type MORE than you would've anyway, thus taking away any point using the acronym had in the first place.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Grow up, and look up flamebait in a dictionary while you're at it.
And by the way READ MY POST ***BEFORE*** you trash it. Its 2004. You shouldn't need to be an experienced sysadmin to run a desktop OS.
And by the way if you think only sysadmins troubleshoot windows desktops you're living in fairy land matie.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
If you could actually cite some clear specific reasons (as opposed to vague "everything is unstable/broken/hard" or anecdotes of something not working right for you that usually works fine for everyone else) people might actually listen.
Typical!!! You don't like my post because its not a detailed but report????
I'm talking vanilla Debian Woody, and Fedora Core 2 under VMWare. Not brain surgery. Picking options from the installer.
I installed on a total of 4 machines, under both emulated and stand alone environments. My experiences were not good. My point was it isn't getting better. Its actually taken a step back in the last few years.
To anyone with mod points, mod me whatever the hell you like. I'm going to call it as I see it. If you think I'm writing this to flame that's your problem.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer