Spanning tree melt down ?

Fri Nov 29 17:31:25 UTC 2002

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Daniel Golding said:
> 
> 
> "It was Dr. John Halamka, the former emergency-room physician who runs
> Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's gigantic computer network"
> 
> It appears what really happened is that they put an emergency room doctor
> in charge of a critical system in which he, in all likelyhood, had
> limited training. In the medical system, he was trusted because of he was
> a doctor. The sad thing about this is that there seems to be no
> realization that having experienced networking folks in this job might
> have averted a situation that could have been (almost certainly
> was?) deleterious to patient care.

Did you, in fact, read Halamka's resume? He sounds to me like
he has more smarts in the networking area than many of the
RedmondWorshipers I encounter regularly.

Was he Sean Donelan or Randy Bush? No. 

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