Darling to shelve NHS IT system

[AtW]

My point is that no one pays for hardware/software these days. Service is all that counts.

We pay for hardware - buying it outright, over 3+ years it is the best value-for-money strategy rather than leasing it.

[Mr.Whippy]

It's not 50 million though and you know that.

Of course, large datacentres are almost free to build and commission these days

And high end, enterprise class UNIX servers from IBM and/or HP are given away in boxes of cornflakes too....

£12bn cost is a joke, but so is £10m or £100m.

This will be my last post in this thread. I can't be bothered reading those ill-informed posts any more.

[AtW]

Of course, large datacentres are almost free to build and commission these days

There are plenty of DCs in London area and also around Manchester, cost is very cheap compared to cost of hardware and value of data you'd host.

And high end, enterprise class UNIX servers from IBM and/or HP are given away in boxes of cornflakes too....

Why would you need such high end boxes? Most storage of database will be used to store images (Xrays), the rest is simple text data that can be compressed well and won't take much space.

Is £10 mln quote a joke? Maybe, but I'd rather see such cheap joke than £12 bln one.

[minestrone]

Of course, large datacentres are almost free to build and commission these days

And high end, enterprise class UNIX servers from IBM and/or HP are given away in boxes of cornflakes too....

£12bn cost is a joke, but so is £10m or £100m.

This will be my last post in this thread. I can't be bothered reading those ill-informed posts any more.

You could buy SUN for 4 billion.

The 100 million was a joke on AtW but you never picked up on that.

[pzz76077]

We pay for hardware - buying it outright, over 3+ years it is the best value-for-money strategy rather than leasing it.

However you want to pitch this, the cost far outweigh the benefits.
Private health care would fix this debauchery.

Its crappy, I dont want to pay for it!

PZZ

[AtW]

You could buy SUN for 4 billion.

What for? Sun is now reselling x64 boxes, Sparc is dead end - the main reason Oracle bought them because Sun bought MySQL.

[minestrone]

Is £10 mln quote a joke? Maybe, but I'd rather see such cheap joke than £12 bln one.

I'm siding with the russian on this one.

[AtW]

However you want to pitch this, the cost far outweigh the benefits. Private health care would fix this debauchery.

Well, you need some quality hardware to host database, etc - £1 mln would be ok price for system for the whole country (let's say £10 mln - multiple redundant locations), or in other words one off cost of just around 15 pence per UK patient. Now that's SKA-efficient way

[AtW]

I'm siding with the russian on this one.

Pity I forgot sasguru password, had to create new "adversary" to increase my post count quickly...

[minestrone]

What for? Sun is now reselling x64 boxes, Sparc is dead end - the main reason Oracle bought them because Sun bought MySQL.

Well why did you pick up on sparc and not Oracle or MySql.

Can you read this thread please...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...t=mysql+oracle