On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:46:45AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: > Yes. The target "market" of GNUmed is general prcatices and small > clinics, I thought. They will not be running multiple database servers. > If they do want to source data from other sources, it will not be by > connection to an SQL database, it will be via a Web service (most likely > SOAP in the real world, or HL7 v2.x wrapped in ebXML), A GNUmed service doesn't have to be an SQL database.
> the results would be stored or at least cached in the practice's local > database. So what is the point of distributed *database* capability. > Certainly the ability to source data from distributed services is > important, but not from distributed SQL databases. We can reduce that coupling when we start actually using services. The point is that some countries apparently actually offer a demographics server. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
