[SGVLUG] When big medical company IT starts to get it about Linux

[Matt Campbell]

Wow Robert,

With the 'Censored' note you made this message look just like spam!  How do
you do it?  ;)

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
> Behalf Of Robert Leyva
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:01 AM
> To: sgvlug at sgvlug.org
> Subject: [SGVLUG] When big medical company IT starts to get it about
> Linux
> 
> Reading memos like the one I am going to mention warm my heart, as it
> came
> from the office of the chief architect at a very large national
> healthcare
> company in July. It makes me think that more and more mainstream and
> non-dot-com companies are starting to 'get it' ==>
> 
> 
> "There are two primary business value propositions in driving CENSORED
> toward a LINUX standard environment:
>   (1) LINUX is an open system platform that is supported across all
> tiers
> of compute hardware including mainframe, midrange and x86, providing
> the
> business greater flexibility for compute power in an 'on demand'
> environment as opposed to platform-based silos for each application
> need
>   (2) LINUX has the potential to provide significant cost savings to
> CENSORED by enabling the 'commoditization' of server hardware and
> reducing dependence on vendor specific hardware solutions. "
> 
> 
> 
> --
> "Knowledge is Power" -- Francis Bacon
> 
> Robert Leyva
> mrflash818 at geophile.net