On Mon, Sep 15, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: ... > >Our very large hospital system (5 hospitals) is an all windows shop, >except for systems bought from and maintained by outside vendors, like >a pathology or radiology system. All desktop OS's and software used by >individuals is MS. I believe our servers are also MS.
Have these hospital people heard of HIPPA (sp)? Do they know that anybody with a bit of knowledge can get anything off a Windows who has access to it via a network? ... >So, having cheap IS people may look good on the IS budget, but, my >experience is that cheap IS people are very expensive. But, the losses >caused by such people appear on other people's budgets. I did a major development job for Microrim about 12 years ago, writing a converter from their old R:Base to R:Base 3.0, and my hourly rate was almost double what they were paying other consultants. I did all the development under SCO Xenix, cross-compiling for DOS. At the end of the project, the folks at Microrim said that I was the least expensive person they had doing development because what I wrote generally worked the first time, and I didn't introduce a ton of bugs every time they changed the specfications. People who really know and understand what they're doing are often able to diagnose and fix problems in far less time than the ``inexpensive'' people who only learned enough to pass a certification test. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
