Let's not forget that the NHS is the largest employer in Europe [www.nhscareers.nhs.uk] and the third largest in the world - it would be a brave IT manager (or more likely, team) who made that decision. On the other hand, if anyone can...
Let's not forget the indirect costs to the workers. People have Windoze machines at home, and they take stuff home to work on it there. They would be using different programs / interfaces at home and work.
The program I work with the most (SPSS) is not available for Linux (or Macs, or anything else). (I have made attempts to switch people in my department to the open source R http://www.r-project.org/ as as alternative, but when they saw the interface, they laughed.
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Let's not forget that the NHS is the largest employer in Europe [www.nhscareers.nhs.uk] and the third largest in the world - it would be a brave IT manager (or more likely, team) who made that decision. On the other hand, if anyone can ...
Let's not forget the indirect costs to the workers. People have Windoze machines at home, and they take stuff home to work on it there. They would be using different programs / interfaces at home and work. The program I work with the most (SPSS) is not available for Linux (or Macs, or anything else). (I have made attempts to switch people in my department to the open source R http://www.r-project.org/ as as alternative, but when they saw the interface, they laughed.
But it's only going to be a breeding ground if it can get those viruses from somewhere. My guess would be it won't be connected to the internet.
As the article says, the research was carried out by Andrew Monk, and reported on by Jakob Nielsen.