[Am-info] When It's Life or Death, Some 911 Systems Turn To Linux

[Fred A. Miller]

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"The last straw for Sherman Stebbins was when one of his computers froze up
while an emergency dispatcher was directing an ambulance to a house where a
baby who had stopped breathing. "She was trying to give CPR instructions and
fight with her computer at the same time," recalls Stebbins, information
systems director for the St. George, Utah police department.

Shortly after that, Stebbins switched the department's six dispatch computers
from Microsoft Windows 95, which was crashing on almost a daily basis, to Red
Hat Linux."

<http://cin.earthweb.com/article/1,3555,10493_1497311,00.html>

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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