11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
7:31 a.m.
At 11:33 AM +0200 6/11/09, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Probably yes - and the frightening thing is that they
are partially
right. There _are_ definitely hospital databases running on Windows
machines. If you count ATMs, then yes, there are Windows machines that
Even worse than hospital databases is the critical monitoring
equipment running on Windows. When our first child was born the
fetal monitor crashed. It was running Windows NT, and guess who had
to get it back up and running when none of the Hospital staff could.
I was not amused. I was even less amused by how ancient of a version
of the OS they had running on a very modern Dell box.
Zane
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