On Tuesday 29 August 2006 23:31, Tom Bowden wrote:
> Provides copy to facility

so does email, big deal

> Supports HL7 or PIT delivery

but it does not interoperate with other systems and does not use standard ways 
of message delivery and it depends on proprietary software that has to be 
installed on ones system ...

> Fully integrated with the major GP practice management systems

which only a majority of GPs use, but not all of us. Practices like mine would 
be excluded - your system cannot be all inclusive by definition, condemning 
us yet again to the current incompatible non-interoperable mess

> Provides your laboratory  with a free web-based viewer so that you can
> see where your messaging is at any one time.

Why would anyone want to do that? What we want to know is what messages have 
*failed* to be delivered, that's all, and all systems can do that.

> Not interoperable with SMTP based systems (this is actually a big plus
> because SMTP systems are inherently unsuited to large scale messaging)

Ah, that must be why next to all network based messaging on this planet 
happens via SMTP. You are the tiniest of dwarfs compared to messaging giants 
like GMail - which of course use SMTP.  Because it *does* scale. Even my own 
rather humble servers can handle several hundreds of thousands of messages 
every hour of every day - by SMTP.

Horst
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