On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:20:13PM +0300, Peter Damoc wrote: > Well I *know* I'll have none of that in my software. I'm the first user of > my future software and this puts me in a privileged position of not having > to take that kind of crap... Lucky you.
> Developers should spend some time seeing their product used, I do. I *am* using (testing) my software in practice :-) > Recently I've been approached by some colleagues working in a hospital in a > small town about some advice for a EMR system... they in turn were > approached by a romanian software company that offered a 40k EUR per year > package of about 10 workstations if I remember correctly and their software > with a 20k EUR per year maintenance fee after the first year... and I was > thinking to myself... that's a lot (actually I was thinking something like > "too much"). Is the system you are using just as expensive or is it > something free? Not sure as my employer foots that bill. But tell you what, 20k EUR per year maintenance may be just about right ! 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
