On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:06, David de Bhál wrote: > The people with the money are not making these objections and those who > object are not prepared to pay for anything -- except Medical Director, of > course.
It was my experience so far that business and belief systems don't mix well. Customers don't always share your very own view of the world, nor do they always appreciate our own hard won insights. Since you might depend on your business income, maybe something worthwhile pondering over? I haven't heard of successful businessmen yet who thrived by ignoring a substantial number of potential customers unless they were in the multi billion dollar ballpark and had quasi monopolies. But just take a look at Telstra and even MS share prices to see where this behaviour gets them. While I praise the virtues of open standards and open source software, I have been working in the past as Oracle and MS SQL DBA, sysadmin on Novell, SCO Unix and NT systems etc. - even if I never would consider touching such systems for my own use. Even worked for the pharmaceutical industry writing software (Astra and Knoll) despite my ravings against pharmaceutical marketing. After considering all this I made the decision, retrained and went into private medical practice so that I don't have this constant conflict of interest and ethical dilemma any more. Took me almost decade to regain my financial status, but it was worthwhile in terms of personal satisfaction and happiness Maybe you would be happier if you make a decision too? Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
