Dump Microsoft, Use Linux to Save Money, U.K. Officials Suggest

Re:Dump Microsoft, Use Linux to Save Money, U.K. Officials S... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday July 10, 2010 @08:15PM (#1504585)

Given that the NHS alone has spent 400Million on an unfinished unified medical records system (for real, 400Million GBP!) then I'd have thought having a UK Linux OS created by the gov and used throughout all gov departments, schools, etc. and given away free for private and business use would be a drop in the ocean of UK gov IT spending.

Guess it's too communist looking.

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Re:Dump Microsoft, Use Linux to Save Money, U.K. Officials S... by rbanffy on Saturday July 10, 2010 @10:38PM (#1504801)

I seriously doubt that, if the NHS system were to be developed "in the open" with public access to daily builds and in-progress documentation, a 400M GBP disaster would have happened.

Light is a great antiseptic.

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