[KLUG Advocacy] Secretary of State computer problems

[John Bridleman]

* Wesley Leonard (linuxbox@NOSPAM.pacdemon.org) wrote:
> Does anybody know the nature of teh S of S's computer problems
> yesterday?  I'm hearing about them on the radio and I wonder if they
> have anything to do with the blaster worm.

I hadn't heard about it although last time I was in there they announced to the room that they had a state wide SOS computer outage. That was last month.

> Maybe the state of Michigan will get mad like Ernie Ball and start
> busting on the Linux.

The one thing that stuck out on my last visit to the SOS was that they had 14 flat screen monitors on the counter - and 4 employees behind the counter.

On a recent trip to NYC I asked a friend of mine, who works for an investment house out there, about dropping MS and looking at alternatives. Her response was that MS was such a small fraction of their overall IT budget that it wasn't worth looking at.

My guess is that the State of Michigan is in a similar position.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org