Thanks, Greg. Comments below. -- Bhaskar
Greg Woodhouse wrote, on 07/20/2006 06:07 PM: > VA medical centers generally run Caché/VMS on the Alpha, so if this is > the direction you want to go, you won't exactly be breaking new ground. > On the other hand, there are quite a few people on this list who want > to focus on purely open source solutions from the OS up. Regardless of > the OS and MUMPS implementation you choose, the *VistA* source will be > freely available. If you want an open source operating system, your > choices are Linux, FreeBSD (or its close relatives OpenBSD and NetBSD). [KSB] Yes, GT.M for x86 GNU/Linux has been reported to run successfully on FreeBSD using the compatibility library. > On the Power PC (but not the Intel platform), Darwin (the OS X kernel) > is also publicly available (but not under a standard open source > license so far as I know). There may be other options I'm not aware of. > The two most common options for the MUMPS implementation are Caché (an > InterSystems product, and not open source) and GT.M (which Fidelity > makes available as open soure on IA-32 but is not generally available > as open source on other platforms). [KSB] It is also available as FLOSS for Tru64 UNIX & OpenVMS on Alpha/AXP. The latter source code has not been uploaded to Source Forge yet, but will be when the binaries for V5.1-000 are ready. Binaries for the previous release are available today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
