While responding to people like Nancy or Kevin, I do so with a great degree of reverence and admiration. They have set high standards for transparency and helpfulness that many of us have greatly benefited from. You have infinite patience and no newbie would ever feel uncomfortable interacting with you. My programmers and I have found your responses so very helpful. Others in the Hardhats community are not far behind and we are indeed grateful.
But there are issues that we should not shy away from discussing. Nancy spoke about the pros and cons in choosing Cache or GT.M. I would always prefer GT.M as most of my target clients cannot afford expensive systems. But I struggle to understands the why there is an almost exclusive preference for Cache by most vendors there. But what are these pros & cons in the context of VistA? The robustness of GT.M is unquestioned, but the issue here is the completeness with which the Hui did the porting. In the final analysis, would it prove cheaper to use Cache rather than the free OpenSource GT.M, if there have been serious problems with the porting. If the limitations are documented, it may be easier to better understand the pros & the cons. If it proves to be a truly comparable solution technically, I am sure that people will be willing to buy support for GT.M. The only problem is that while Cache has a dealer in Delhi, GT.M as far as I know will need to be supported from the US. I am sure that once we do get some clients using GT.M, Bhaskar may not mind visiting his old homeland once again. Perhaps he could help build the really Indian "Indian Health Service" here. I am in full agreement with Nancys that we will need to .contract with someone with a great depth of expertise in this area . . But with the ground realities in India and the kind of prices that are acceptable to the Voluntary hospitals that I am targeting, such support will have to be heavily be complemented by our own local team. I am working on building such a team and when we do get an order, we will certainly contract with some of those who have so generously helped us. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
