Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> > Review criticises software for NPfIT
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> >| Troubles at software supplier iSoft are set to further delay
> >| the implementation of components of England's NHS National Programme
> >| for IT (NPfIT).
> > `----
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/22/npfit_software_criticism/
> >
> > It would be safe to assume that it's Windows-oriented.
> >
> > http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.isoftplc.com
> >
> > They should just use some of the tens of thousands of freely-available Open
> > Source projects instead of (mis)using taxpayers' money.
>
> I couldn't agree more! I'm sure that a lot of pockets are being lined
> with our hard-earned cash. Sooner or later, it'll all come home to
> roost, though, I'm quite sure. As time ticks its way on, the closer the
> reckoning comes. Sometime in the not-too-distant future, there'll be
> some red-face tests to see who was trousering the cash which should've
> been used to cure people of illness and disease, when open-source
> alternatives were under their little noses.
Keep an eye on isoft, the organisation writing the Lorenzo software for
the NHS.
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Peter
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