Red Cross Needs Hardware & Software!

[Mrsinster]

*taken from www.thescreensavers.com

The New York American Red Cross is in dire need of technology equipment and services. The field workers and sites have little, if any, means of communication and the central office is processing way too much on completely paper systems. Your help in acquiring these resources would be greatly appreciated.


If you can help, please do at least one of the following:


Contact Dorothy Webman, resource coordinator in New York, at 1.917.549.7037 or dwebman@webmanassociates.com.
Contact Joe Leo, assistant IT director for the Red Cross, at 1.212.875.2409 or jleo@arcgny.org.

Following is the list of equipment that the Red Cross needs for its field workers and expanded Emergency Operations Centers. It also needs certified Citrix engineers and Microsoft-certified consultants.


40 IBM computers and laptops (with NICs)
Monitors (with desktops)
Any storage solutions
25 10/100 hubs (8+ Ports)
100 Cat5 cables (All lengths)
50 power strips
Any IBM-compatible memory
Any 3Com wireless NIC cards and LAN products
30 desktop-size UPSs
15 LaserJet printers (HP 1100 or faster) and printer supplies
20 external Zip drives and disks
Any diskettes and R/W CDs
5 external CD burners
5 duplex document scanners
25 extension cords
any colored tie wraps
any Velcro cable wraps
50 Citrix client licenses
12 PCMCIA LAN cards for IBM P20 ThinkPads, preferably 3Com (in addition to those in the new PCs)
50 Microsoft Exchange CALs
35 Microsoft SQL CALs
50 Microsoft Office Professional licenses
15 PC Anywhere licenses
DSL lines
PDAs with wireless capacity and service
Nextel cellphones and service

Thanks in advance for your generous assistance. Any donation will help greatly.

[Craig McPherson]

Isn't it great to know that with tens of thousands of people in hospitals, hundreds or possibly thousands of people still trapped alive under rubble, tens of thousands of people homeless due to evacuations, and an entire nation in shock, the relief and rescue workers still have to buy licenses for their Microsoft software?

Gee, thanks Microsoft.

I think thhis is going to make me vomit.