[ale] NHS moving to Ubuntu

[Jonathan Meek]

Sort of like STD standing for Senior Technical Director, which is the
position above me in my organization of my company, AT&T. They recently
renamed to it to Assistant Director and then abbreviated as Ass. Director.

Go figure a fortune 6 company can't figure how not to do abbreviations.

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:09 PM Lightner, Jeffrey <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

> [rant on]There ought to be a law about using acronyms and abbreviations
> requiring folks to spell it out on the first use rather than assume
> everyone knows it especially for news organizations.
>
> Maybe in the UK most folks know NHS is National Health Service like many
> Americans know CDC is Centers for Disease Control but why make the
> assumption.   Here in the US NHS = National Honor Society and probably
> various other things.   Is it really that hard to spell it out once?  WHO
> knows what kind of trouble misused acronyms might cause.[/rant off]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> DJ-Pfulio
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 8:40 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] NHS moving to Ubuntu
>
> Leeds hack 'weaponising' Ubuntu for NHS Windows take out
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/30/nhsbuntu_nhs_revolution/
>
> 750,000 smart cards, millions of PCs
>
> They want to use the "Power of community and collaboration".
>
> When they need paid support, the 100M/yr currently paid to MSFT will go a
> long way towards hiring small teams to tackle whatever issue might arise.
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