However, here the supplier of the program and their support team couldn't
fix it.   Although open source has lots of advantages, if the seller /
supplier and his support team is stumped, as is the user, then no win at
all.

Cedric

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Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Argus question



I can't answer Horst's question, but can point out one special feature of
Argus, and that is that the source code is all available as open source from
their Subversion server, so if Horst or others encountered a problem such as
this in teh wee small hours of a Saturday evening or other similarly
inconvenient time, they could look at the code and work out the answer
themselves if push came to shove, or other suitably skilled persons (eg Syan
Tan, Peter Machell etc) could be enlisted to help find a solution. I am not
suggesting that Horst ought to be doing that in this instance, but the fact
that he *could* do it if he really needed to, thanks to the open source
nature of Argus, is a significant advance over other mission-critical
clinical software which is available to us here in Oz. Let's see more of it.

Tim C
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