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It would be much easier to covert AWAY from Cache... I've already done it for several hospitals.And in the process one could always try to convert them to the open source methodology...
A little history... there used to be several M vendors, then Intersystems (makers of Cache) purchased all of them...
So did MySQL (part of the Berkely DB engine,InnoDB, SAP DB, etc.) >... they gouge pricing and support options. So does MySQL
Intersystems boasts the fastest database speeds,
That is interesting... so did MySQl. Do we have a pattern here?
I do feel however, that Cache is a bad platform to consider.
All proprietary systems aim to lock-in their customers.
Some of them try hard to sweeten that with... better support, documentation, development tools.
Others don't even bother to try.
The healthcare industry has been (traditionally) an easy catch for opportunists.
When thinking of healthcare information systems (HIS) one must keep it simple and straightforward. If we need a database management system to reliably support a HIS we can go either:
a) proprietary with Oracle or IBM db;
b) open source with postgreSQL
Of course, there will always be people ready to convince other people to spend insane amounts of time and money with the most strange things (I have even seen someone trying to convince a small clinic to dive into dBASE/Clipper... and that more then 10 years after those applications official death).
Best regards,
J. Antas
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