Re: NHS privatisation + IT (was [Sheflug] Computing)

[Graham Spearing <nospam [at] tux.uklinux.net>]

Richard wrote:
[StarOffice Minimum Specs]

> I'd say that 300MHz with 128Mb of RAM is somewhere close.  Although,
> there are people who have said to me that 256Mb and a 450MHz chip are
> more useful.
> I use it with 128Mb of RAM and a 450MHz AMD cpu.  Works very well.
> Loads quickly.

That's appaling! Nay embarrasing...

Perhaps theer are lighter alternatives that are functinaly good which
allow a shallower learning curve from MSoffice than going straight to
Vi? Perhaps KOffice?

And if the vest we can do is Vet software and bloated spreadsheet
packages then I'm less than suprised that Linux has made few inroads
inot health. I could see benefits for server apps such as apache - but
no real life web apps using postgresql and php? With the impemding move
to electronic patient records there should be an excellent opportunity
to create linux alternatives.

G
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