On Thursday 21 February 2008 10:34:18 Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:20:00AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
That's very young by Linux standards! I wonder what the problem is ... ??
I worked for the NHS briefly in 1999 doing y2k compliance, the main problem was that out of all their IT staff in the trust I was working for there was only 1 with any clue and about 40 of them causing more harm than good. Given the pay scales for IT staff in the NHS I think it is probably a staffing problem rather than a hardware/software problem.
...and this is exactly the sort of thing that makes me wince when I see people lauding Linux adoption by government-associated agencies.
It's all very well having a great bunch of Free and open software, but if it's implemented and maintained by people/processes that make a dogs dinner of it all, it does more harm than good.
A wasteful/incompetent/stupid application of something can be enough to scare people off.