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Labour trumpets open-source success
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| Stephen Timms â currently the government
| minister in charge of Digital Britain â spoke
| to ZDNet UK to explain how the Labour Party
| stands on strengthening the digital economy,
| using open source in government IT and
| protecting consumer data, among other issues.
|
| [...]
|
| The NHS 'Spine' uses an operating system
| based on open source. At least 35 percent of
| NHS organisations covering almost 300,000
| users are supported by Linux infrastructure.
| GP applications running on Linux are being
| deployed â these are 'black boxes' that will
| handle key functions in GP surgeries.
| Hundreds of desktops across the NHS are
| running Linux.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/04/12/labour-trumpets-open-source-success-40088567/
Recent:
Why the NHS can't get its browser act together
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| Don't worry, said Microsoft a few days ago:
| the zero-day vulnerability that Chinese
| hackers exploited to infiltrate Google's
| network only affects Internet Explorer 6
| (released in 2000) running on Windows XP
| (released in 2001).
|
| The implication being that nobody uses that
| still, do they? Ed Bott, who has forgotten
| more about Microsoft than many people know,
| says in a vehement blogpost at ZDNet that:
|
| "Any IT professional who is still
| allowing IE6 to be used in a corporate
| setting is guilty of malpractice. Think
| that judgment is too harsh? Ask the
| security experts at Google, Adobe, and
| dozens of other large corporations that
| are cleaning up the mess from a wave of
| targeted attacks that allowed source code
| and confidential data to fall into the
| hands of well-organized intruders. The
| entry point? According to Microsoft, it's
| IE6."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/22/internet-explorer-nhs-vulnerability
Researchers up ante, create exploits for IE7, IE8
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9145958/Researchers_up_ante_create_exploits_for_IE7_IE8?taxonomyId=17
Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities Discovered by Experts in Microsoftâs IE
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| A renowned security research company has
| revealed that it has managed to discover yet
| another set to vulnerabilities in Internet
| Explorer, Microsoft's web browser, a mere day
| after the company patched the browser after a
| high-profile and highly-publicized attack on
| Google in China.
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http://topnews.us/content/210228-weaknesses-and-vulnerabilities-discovered-experts-microsoft-s-ie
NHS spend on IT - How would you make savings?
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| Here's another thought. If you were to put a
| Linux-based operating system on the 800,000
| or so workstations now in the NHS and some
| FOSS productivity software such as
| OpenOffice, which incidentally will interface
| with more professional database server
| systems than many proprietary packages, how
| much would that cost (other than the man-
| hours for the installs)? Zilch. Zippo. FA.
| What if the NHS were to donate 1 GBP for each
| machine to the Linux distribution developers
| of their chosen O/S, and 1 GBP towards each
| OpenOffice installation? That would cost
| Â1,600,000 or less than a third of one
| percent of the existing discounted Microsoft
| licensing. That relatively small donation
| would also ensure some future development of
| features needed by NHS staff in their chosen
| software.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014580o-2000673651b,00.htm
Troubled Â12bn NHS IT system to be scaled back
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| The government is to scale back its Â12bn NHS
| IT system in what the Tories are calling a
| "massive U-turn".
|
| Chancellor Alistair Darling said he would be
| delaying parts of the scheme in Wednesday's
| pre-Budget Report as it was "not essential to
| the frontline".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8397854.stm
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