[53840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spanning tree melt down ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Nov 29 12:39:19 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:31:25 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <20021129105201.W57482-100000@paradox.fdfnet.net> from "Daniel Golding" at Nov 29, 2002 11:22:45 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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