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On 15/07/10 12:11, Gordon Henderson wrote:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/07/15/nhs_microsoft/ So they've come to the end of their 9-year special deal which helped earn Billy Goats a knighthood... Now they may have to pay the full whack or do some serious re-negotiating it seems, as by now they're too deeply in the depths of Microsoft to make a change... Or are they? Who knows, but if only they'd stuck to their guns 9 years ago. Corwards. One intersting quote: "Our source said the only alternative - a move to open source software - was unlikely to overcome reluctance from staff to move to less familiar systems." I'm sure a good team of programmers could make something look familiar if they really needed to... And anyway, what's wrong with change? Gordon
I was just thinking the same, if they'd made the switch instead of going for the Microsoft option then everyone would be over the fear of switching to a new system. Maybe it's about time that the government said enough is enough and switch to FLOSS, sure there will be a cost to implement it but I bet in the long term it'll be a whole lot cheaper than paying up to £205 million on licensing costs which it looks like they might well have to find if they stick with the Microsoft option. Heck even if they couldn't replace everything with FLOSS, it would certainly save them a huge amount in the long run.
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