9 Jun
2016
9 Jun
'16
5:13 p.m.
On Fri, 27 May 2016, Dave Wade wrote:
What would you expect. Properly maintained, managed enterprise and locked
down Windows/7 is solid and reliable.
In the UK it is hard to use Linux in the "Public Sector" and in the UK most
Hospitals are Public Sector.
You can use Linux BUT you must have a support contract in place and run a
supported distro.
Having costed this it brings the price up way beyond that of a Windows
desktop.
You can surely get a proper Linux support contract -- proper as in: if
you trigger a bug (which may be anything from a protocol violation,
through a security hole, to a crash) in the kernel or other core
component, then you can log it with your support provider's bug tracking
system and get it fixed with an update release of the offending component
provided within an agreed reasonable time frame, having live access to the
bug status throughout the cycle.
Now can you get it with Windows? This is a serious question -- I've been
asking various IT people about it many times over the years, and only got
evasive answers (if any), but perhaps I asked the wrong people.
Maciej
It makes me
wonder how many patients have had to wait on care or didn't
get
proper care because of an IT screwup related to
Windows. I have to say
just
_seeing_ Windows on machines in the ER made me
livid. I found it
breathtaking
they were that caviler about getting people
checked in, keeping records
straight, etc... I guess I shouldn't have visited the sausage factory, so
to
speak...