[Bradford] NHS Microsoft License

[Nick Rhodes]

May also cost the tax payer more money if the NHS budget holders
decide to keep purchasing MS products as the discounts wont be so
good.
But lets hope common sense prevails and cheaper options are used where
appropriate, if they are FOSS, then bonus.
I know there are a lot of frontline staff that would not care less
what their systems run or change to as long as it works and minimal
retraining needed.

Would love to talk about MS/Foss technology used where I work in the
NHS, but this is a public mailing list.

Cheers, Nick

On 19 July 2010 13:06, Alice Kaerast <kaerast at computergentle.com> wrote:
>
> I wouldn't be so sure; there's a lot of software piracy going on here.
> We've seen promotional images of operating theatres where if you look
> really closely at the monitors you can see big error messages stating
> "This version of Windows may not be genuine".
>
> The license extends to staff's home computers, and there certainly was
> some discussion on how all of these people would now have to start
> using Open Office (and that's an awful lot of people if they're all
> actually using NHS licenses).  In reality how many of these people do
> you think will actually switch and how many will just continue using
> what they've always used?
>
> From experience most people just continue using the software they
> always have, regardless of what actual license they have.  Case in
> point, laptop came into repair today with "this version of Windows may
> not be genuine"; it has a perfectly valid COA sticker, the person who
> last reinstalled Windows just decided to use a VLK rather than OEM
> install because it's easier and that's what they've always done.
>
> So yeah, eventually we may see larger uptake of Open Office in health
> sectors.  And the increased uptake, particularly from such a large
> organisation may lead to quicker bugfixes.  But Microsoft Office is
> still going to be the de facto standard elsewhere for quite some time.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:48:46 +0100
> Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This could be good news for openoffice.org and other 'replacements'
>>
>> "TelegraphTech: Microsoft loses NHS contract http://tgr.ph/cJD1c0"
>> --http://www.twitter.com/TelegraphTech/status/18905474208
>>
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>> Dick
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