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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 08:59:10PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6644919.ece >> >> Seems that Microsoft or Google could end holding NHS data under a tory >> government, >> > > Private companies managing vital parts of the healthcare system? What > could possibly go wrong? > > True - There's no chance of anyone asking for something exactly like the internet, calling it the NHS backbone and then wasting £16Billion on not achieving it, or an ID system that could have been implemented using LDAP but they sensibly wasted £16 billion trying to adapt Microsofts DS with a huge amount of MS help - and seemly failed. No chance of those things happening again - MS will write the government side of the contracts better this time. Google will not be allowed to succeed - too embarrassing for others... 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