IP: NT crashes? Put more stuff in it.

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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/