Re: [LUG] Cornwall Health Informatic Service moves to Novell/Linux

["DAVID BROOK" <david.brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was a technical analyst with CCC some years back during the days of proper
computing (mainframes) before the (mis )perception grew amongst the 'well
informed'  within the departments we served that microsoft products were the
way forward. I can tell you that it is a pure b..... miracle that, given the
petty inter departmental empire building and wrangling that occurred, they
could decide anything that didn't involve kick backs or Jehovas Witnesses. I
always said that if I ever got made redundant, I would offer the CCC my time
with no salary but to work purely for a cut of the savings I could make if a
corporate policy were adopted.  Unfortunately, the stress of watching the
good work we did within our team being undermined got to me first (as did it
all our team).

Just my opinions of course

David


----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Trevena <dclug@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: [LUG] Cornwall Health Informatic Service moves to Novell/Linux


> Spotted on Linux Today -- via pcpro --
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=58712
> NB - registration required.
>
> Cornwall Health Informatic Service moves to Novell/Linux, they dumped
> Active Directory and Exchange for Groupwise and NDS, which is fairly wise
> given that it provides services to netware, unix and other platforms.
> A lot of Cornwall NHS also uses GroupWise from what I remember when my
> mother was a middle manager for one the primary care trusts.
>
> At last Cornwall Council and LHA catching on that their MS habits aren't
> doing them any good - wonder how much longer before the CCC website is
> done by professionals rather than the kind of people who think requiring
> Internet Explorer (with vbscript enabled) for form validation is
acceptable.
> cheers,
>
> A.
>
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