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On Wednesday 19 December 2007 08:56, Clare Shepherd wrote: > On 19 Dec 2007, at 07:53, Dave Berkeley wrote: > > Just another example of inept Government IT projects. > > > > https://www.healthspace.nhs.uk/cbintroduction.aspx > > > > You can't book an NHS appointment online unless you are running IE. > > > > There should be a collection of these sites somewhere. A rogue's > > gallery. > > > > Dave Berkeley > > Firefox connected on my Mac, is it at the booking stage it fails? If > so I agree with you entirely. However, maybe the recent losses of > data will make the government rethink spending our money on yet > another lousy Windows oriented database, i.e. the identity one. Who > now is going to trust any government with more data than you > absolutely have to. I'm afraid the problem is due to the lie that M$ sold themselves on. Windows does not make problems easier. It helps with a few things but doesn't help you think. As a result the last twenty years has produced a glut of IT consultants who 'no nothing' but can format it well and maybe do a mail merge. I'd be happy with the Government using W$ databases - I just wish they would contract a company who had more engineers than lawyers so they might actually attempt to create useful systems rather than make sure their legal arse is so well covered that they don't need to write a line of code to get paid! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html