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Because essentially every large hospital in the USA does?


This is the result of vendor lock-in and the lesson for all businesses not to use Microsoft servers. Linux/*BSD are rock-solid and open source.


It's not just that. A large portion of IT people who work in these industries find Windows much easier to administer. They're very resistant to switching out even if it was possible and everything the company needed was available elsewhere.

Even if they did switch, they'd then want to install all the equivalent monitoring crap. If such existed, it would likely be some custom kernel driver and it could bring a unix system to its knees when shit goes wrong too.


I mean crowdstrike has a linux equivalent which broke rhel recently by triggering kernel panic




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