News NHS trials Sun Linux - 800k user defection from MS?

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  1. GreatOldOne

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    From el Reg (I know it's yesterdays news, but I missed it. OK? ;))

    The UK National Health Service is to run a trial of Sun's Java Desktop System, with the prospect of rolling it out across 800,000 desktops. The trial was pointedly announced in a statement by Richard Granger, NHS director general of IT, who said that successful implementation of the system would save "many millions of pounds."

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    So I wonder which of Bills Army of Darkness will sally forth from Fortress Redmond to stave this defection. It'll proabably be handled with stunning amounts of bri... I mean stunning amounts of discounts for the NHS :eyebrow: :)
     
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