Comment Re:I love the smell of burning bridges in the morn (Score 1) 703
The "anyone is replaceable" mentality is, IMO, one of the most organizationally destructive in America.
AMEN TO THAT! Well said.
Comment You might try MIT's Scratch (Score 1) 1095
Since you said he is a young teenager, you might try the MIT Media Lab's Scratch project: http://scratch.mit.edu/
Switching Hospital Systems to Linux 305
jcatcw writes "Health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which can then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes. A deal with Red Hat allows McKesson to offer its software in a top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems."
