[ILUG] Open source software in Irish hospitals?

[Philip Creevy]

Beaumont is presently running Staroffice7 on NT4
and are testing FC1 for all of its desktops

Philip

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:01, Conor Lennon wrote:
> There's an article on The Register about whether SCO is impacting on the take-up of linux at
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/21/big_linux_debate/
> 
> The last paragraph in the article is:
> 
> 'Tony Kenny is IT manager at Beaumont Hospital Dublin, where
> he has overseen a major shift, with major savings, to open 
> source software. He said it had a big impact on his IT 
> department when they realised applications they had 
> developed would be taken up by other hospitals. He
> said: "Giving out applications meant my IT department 
> realised other people would see their mistakes - that 
> changed things."'
> 
> Anyone know anything about the use of open-source software 
> in Irish hospitals?
> 
> Conor
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Philip Creevy <tiger98 at iol.ie>