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IP: NT crashes? Put more stuff in it.
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:09:40 -0500
I am distributing this for two reasons. One is the note itself and th other to suggest you take a peek at Jamie's home page (see end). Especially the Tin Drum story djf Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:57:17 -0500 From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie () mccarthy org> To: farber () cis upenn edu The Healthcare Informatics website ("The Business of Healthcare Information Technology") has an article on how Linux helped a hospital. Microsoft's manager for that market segment proposes an interesting response. http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/issues/1999/01_99/news.htm The problem? Quote: The CIO at Huntsville Hospital System in Huntsville, Ala., was getting fed up with his Windows NT firewall and Internet Web servers crashing... Two days later, Huntsville Hospital had a firewall and Web server running on Linux and was busy converting others. Walls was a convert himself. "Not only did it meet my expectations, it exceeded them." The response? Quote: John Carpenter, Microsoft's worldwide healthcare industry marketing manager, admits that Linux has their attention. "It will certainly drive us to put new stuff into our products." -- Jamie McCarthy jamie () mccarthy org http://jamie.mccarthy.org/
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