I have addressed these points. Most of it is related to a pathologic hatred of anything to do with Microsoft. It is realistically hard to imagine that we would be where we are without Gates and the popular technology is not always the best nor the best the most popular - remember the Tucker car.
There used be the same arguments about cars - automatic versus manual. It was only when I could flog my mates in automatic cars that they accepted that it was better and that argument abated. Same over digital versus analog and CDs versus turntables - the only happy people were those with gold bars who got the speed right with paper and stroboscopes. At the end of the day it is about the experience of listening to the music not how you reproduce it. It is the principle of having quality software which helps patients and doctors achieve improved outcomes in the present environment. Our vision is that a visit to the doctor become as safe as an intercontinental flight. We can only hope. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Les Ferguson Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:30 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Details of Public Coag Outcome > Again, the vast majority of our clients are not too worried. > > We are market oriented as well as patient oriented. > Lets face it out there nobody cares as much as Horst. Wait, nobody other than Horst wants to use a non-microsoft platform, or even an alternative browser on their Windows desktop? Horst, you made the Mozilla foundation do all that work just for you? Come on David, there is significant interest in alternative browsers, and growing interest in the lower-cost Linux desktop, with the huge range of free software available for it. We have a number of clients running our database service on a Linux box by choice, even if our client app is still tied to Windows :( Another point, which I remember reading but don't have a URL to, is that Microsoft are apparently adopting the industry standard for XML handling in an upcoming release of IE, so that programmers can save themselves those extra couple of lines of code that are needed to provide a solution that works on different browser types. Anyway, I don't mean to be critical of your product David, it sounds like a good sound design, and I would go with web service oriented solutions myself if starting fresh... -- Les Ferguson Business Analyst Medtech Software Ltd Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
