[ILUG] Beaumont CEO wants to reverse use of Linux

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Sean Mac Suibhne wrote:
> http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2005/0609/2082363642HM8BEAUMONT.html
> 
>                                         Irish Times 
>                                        9 June 2005
>                 Dispute over plan for new IT at hospital
>                Eithne Donnellan, Health Correspondent 
> 
> An internal row has erupted at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital over plans to 
> introduce a new computer system which the IT manager at the hospital 
> estimates could cost €2 million and which he believes is unnecessary.
> 
>  Internal hospital correspondence, seen by The Irish Times, indicates IT 
> project manager Tony Kenny has "serious concerns" at the plan. He claims 
> "nothing resembling a clear business case to justify" the plan has been 
> produced.
> 
> The hospital moved to an "open-source" Linux IT system approximately four 
> years ago. The system was free of charge. Now the plan is to move to a 
> Microsoft system which Mr Kenny claims, in the correspondence, could cost €2 
> million.



Wow non-reflexive pro-Microsoft press from the McMedia.

You just know, this didn't come from enn.ie !