From: Ellen K. 

I did extensive programming on benefits rules at Kaiser, let me know if you
need any insights into that area.

On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:47:51 +0100, Adam
 wrote in message
:

>Rich wrote:
>
>>    Can't you even remember the noise that you post.  If you statement
>> "if compiled for windows then it requires windows" then
wine could not
>> work, right?
>>
>>    As for your claims "once spat out by the compiler it has verious
>> expectations which only a given OS (& usually only on a given cpu
>> arch)can provide.", well this is false too.  I can't speak for other
>> vendors but the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler and linker and used to
>> target multiple environment from Windows to Windows CE to the .NET
>> Framework and other ECMA/ISO standard compilant environments to EFI, a
>> boot environment supported by Intel and others.
>>
>>    I thought you were working for sun.  Did I misunderstand something or
>> are you just no longer with them?
>>
>
>I have a new job. One which I can talk about. I have had it since before
>the (UK) election.
>
>I was having to be a sun person to all extents & purposes when I was
>going into online gambling, credit card, mobile phone etc. companies to
>have a little look about. Personal information rich companies. I even
>had a desk etc at GMP & got t wander along to some of scott's boster
>speeches. Maybe it's just me but corporate enthusing US style.....ummm
>anyway...
>
>However I have done my Bob the Big Brother Builder (B4) stint & while
>the ppl in the donut in Cheltenham were keen, I've done all the FCO &
>mil & home office stuff I want to do for a long long time.
>
>So now I'm pulling together the NHS progam for IT which is nice coz
>
>(A) I can talk about things.....now that the election is over as I was
>given a "if you think what you were doing before was sensitve then you
>ain't seen nuthing compared to your post in an election campaign" talk.
>Apparantly health is a major electoral issue & I was not to talk to
>anyone about anything wrt what I was up to till the votes were counted.
>
>(B) It's actually helping people rather than seeking to control them. I
>have become jaded wrt power.
>
>Fairly chunky project 70 odd million punters, 700 million prescriptions
>every year, huge medical imaging files etc.etc.
>
>Oh & a budget somewhere between.....well to quote the an old article coz
>obviously I still have to work off the "already public domain
only" rule:
>
>http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,97140,00.html
>
>"Last month, the U.K. government's Department of Health announced that
>its 10-year estimate for the cost of the project had jumped from $11.4
>billion to between $27 billion and $55 billion."
>
>It's a long story but in essence I was involved a while back in
>specifying & trying to stop people b*ggering up a wholly new sort of
>ID'ing called LRS (Legitimate Relationship Service) which looked at what
>  your need for the information was etc. e.g. just coz I'm a doctor that
>doesn't mean I can look at my wife's records etc.
>
>Job done & back to B4 or....possibly LRS is part of B4 but I couldn't
>possibly comment.
>
>Oh & I get to work in Leeds which is nice for the wife rather than
>bizarre places down south or "on site".
>
>Now I just have to drag health care out of being the "world's largest
>cottage industry" & luckily given the budget pointed to above, I can get
>a lot of people's attention.
>
>I should point out that while I can say more than I used to be able to,
>I can not talk specifics & if you wish specifics I have to direct you to
>a pr/communications office.
>
>
>Adam

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