Blue screen of death : Literally now
March 6th, 2007
After a big dilemma debated here, I’ve stumbled upon an interesting topic three days ago. I understood you are not going to trust Vista with your life, but will you trust Linux?
This is another area where the two major operating systems are struggling into gaining as much terrain as possible in front of each other. It’s a commonly known fact that health care is one of the fields with a strong resistance towards IT automation. Red Hat, the biggest distributor of business-oriented Linux distributions got allied with McKesson, a well known company in the health care field. This means that Red Hat will provide the Linux core and some additional software in order for McKesson to run its applications.
On the other hand, the Redmond giant introduced a suite of health-care-focused software a week ago. Like I said health care is one of the few fields that are not using the technical improvements of IT&C at their full capacity, but Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft predicted a quick change in the upcoming period of time.
“Health care is one of the greatest opportunities our company has seen in basically our 30-plus years of existence” Ballmer told 24,000 health care professionals at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems conference in New Orleans last week.
I am not going to talk about this topic further here, because health care is none of my interest of activity, but you can read the full article here.
Is the term of “Blue screen of death” ending up on a literally perceived conjuncture?
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Virtually every uptime statstics source suggests better relaibility from GNU/Linux. So given choice, Linux is both more secure and more resilient.
Y’know, what worries me most is that first time someone calls a doctor with a really bad flu virus and after the doctor looks up a good specialist, returns accidentally with the number for Norton Anti-Virus’ technical support.
I can imagine the support desk employee at that point explaining why his customer died wearing a robe and steel-toed boots on a treadmill, with a CD strapped to her arm and a 112-degree (about 45 Celcius) fever… :)
all I said was that it’s a known problem, I’ll send her a patch CD in the mail, ‘boot up,’ make sure she closes all open windows, then get running and ‘apply the patch’ and keep running until the symptoms clear up
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