Re: Bird flu (was: Gartner spews more junk)

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Yeah, but how quickly everyone changes their tune:

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12933353/

:-)

- ferg



-- "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov> wrote:

> > Doesn't this say it all...
> > http://events.interwise.com/?p=500646&t=1&s=2EVUS 
>
> the "bird-flu" is a myth, a story to tell citizens of the 
> world that the "end is near".... Perpetrated by the media, 
> in all countries...  Although here in the States it's 
> probably worse then others....

However, the U.S. Government (both Federal and state/local) is throwing
money and time at this; see <http://www.avianflu.gov/> as one such
example. In fact, instead of getting calls from vendors saying "Our
product will help you solve your compliance needs", I am now getting
"Our product will help you during a pandemic/avian flu outbreak" cold
calls.


[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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