On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 18:47 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > IMHO an end user should ask a service company to install his box with the > software he needs (at least for practice management systems).
This implies - demands - an ecology of such companies. Commercial ---------- In the UK, and to a degree in mainland Europe we now have the Open Source COnsortium, who would be a suitable source of such companies. www.opensourceconsortium.org I'm a contact for them and on the mailing lists. Public ------ In the UK there is the National COmputing Centre, in Manchester, which among other things maintains a testing lab for public bodies. These are specifically local government bodies - city and county councils - but health orgs can get in under sponsorship from one of them which would not be impossible to arrange. I have a contact at NCC... Task ---- So the task, whcih is part of productionising the system, and therefore a background task but one that needs to not be put off forever, is to construct that ecology, which implies making it easy for a company to discover what they need to know about installing and supporting the software, and the users. This is I think subtly different from producing an easy install for an only slightly experienced user. It is also a large task. -- Adrian Midgley _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
