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Re: [K12OSN] Changing Jobs, email changing as well



Jim Kronebusch wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:26:22 -0400, Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote
Congrats on the new job...but it's a shame that they've got the MS
blinders on.  Hopefully you can, through example, show them that there
is a better way.

My folks are in the medical profession, and several control programs for
their gear are MS Windows-only.  On top of that, your new colleagues'll
probably say, "hey, this is a hospital, lives are at stake here, we
stick with what we have!"  Yes, I know, the actual EEG's, etc. don't run
on Windows.  But that'll be their excuse not to consider a change,
despite GNU/Linux's greater stability.  Just be aware.

--TP

Thanks.  I still try and follow the lists but likely won't be as active with posts.  I
do see some places already where they could benefit from Linux and Open Source, but I'm
not holding my breath.  There seems to be a few rules as well where stuff can only run
on certified hardware with certified operating systems and such.
We'll see :-)


Maybe you can squeeze an SME server in for something non-critical. If not, I'm sure IBM and Sun have certified stuff, probably with RHEL as one of the options - and any unix flavor will look very familiar.

--
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell gmail com



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