Hello Dr. Antas, I guess I need to jump in quickly right here.
On Friday 19 March 2004 03:25, J. Antas wrote: > Alexander H�lzel wrote: > > I suppose most Care2x clients will operate under MS-Win OS, so WDM will > > be the appropriate technology to use. > > That suggests that you have few, or no, previous experience with > hospital IT. Alexander H�lzel is a physician and at the same time the CEO of a Health IT corporation. He has long experience in both fields. > For years hospitals have not relied in Windows neither for their main > "heavy" software, nor for their (terminal) clients. In fact concepts > like "secure" or "reliable" are difficult to conciliate with words > derived from "Micro$oft". Im afraid I would be breaking your heart but 99.99% of the clients in the hospital where I work use a mix of Win98 and Win2000. I have not seen a single Linux workstation, although our backend uses SUSE for the server and Oracle for the database. This is the current reality in our hospital (and in many other german hospitals) but my mentioning of this has no political meaning. It is just the current fact. > Instead, I would expect that most Care2x installations would be made > over something much more secure, something like BSD or Linux. > [...] > from old, recycled, cheap hardware, starting from old pentium II 300 MHz > to high tech over 3 GHz Opteron 64. These are all valid and convincing arguments for Linux. But in case of our hospital (or many others) we cannot convince them easily to accept care2x (or even to try it) if we strictly require them to change their current system. They invested several million Euros for that and it is not easy to convince them to simply discard it and switch to linux overnight. Packaging Care2x strictly with Linux is not a clever marketing move. It is clever to market Care2x as "platform independent". I understand this as not only technical but also political independence. The crusade for Linux is legitimate but it should be waged on a separate battleground. Respectfully, elpidio ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
