Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information

[Bhaskar, KS]

Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information

I have a bone to pick with the implication in Kevin's response that GT.M is not commercial.  We are very much commercial.  The difference is in the business model, which is based on not charging for the license, which is the GNU General Public License, but selling support contracts on a commercial basis for a fee.

<Soapbox>
When personal care companies give away the razor and charge for the blades, no one thinks of them as not commercial.  When Google gives away a free search service and gets money from advertisers who get money from people who occasionally click on advertisements and even less frequently buy products, no one thinks of them as non-commercial.  But when a software company gives away the license and source code but charges for support, why do people think it is not commercial?
<Soapbox>

Regards
-- Bhaskar
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-----Original Message-----
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To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thu Feb 16 08:41:55 2006
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information

I think we will all be happy to provide information.  But you have
asked a very broad question.  Could you be more specific?

Regarding #2, the hardware requirements are low.  I guess it depends
on the size of you facility.  But for our 15 physician site, I found a
$3000 server is more than adequate, and will be for decades to come.

Software requirements:  You can use GT.M, a linux free-license,
optional-pay-for-support model.  This is what I use, and it is very
functional.  Or you can use a commercial product, Cache' that is, by
all reports, also very good.  There are probably other mumps
environments you could use too.

Technologies: the server side is all written in M/Mumps.  The client
is a windows application that uses a RPC broker for communication back
to the server.  The client source code is available, and it is written
in Delphi.

Kevin T.

On 2/16/06, Wasif Toor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dearl All,
>
> I need general information about the following:
>
> 1) VistA network environment in VA Facilities
> 2) Hardware / Software Requirements
> 3) Technologies Used in Individual Modules.
>
> I'll be grateful to anyone who can help me out with this.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Wasif


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