> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john hilton > > I still can't work out why any of the "from the ground up" > medical software major redesigns didn't consider a linux > development. If it is well known that Australian GPs are shy > of paying for things, the savings on the OS, Office, > Database, Antivirus, would surely be an enticement to paying > th medical software developers proportionally more for their product. > jh
I wonder that myself a lot. With the likes of WXWidgets it should be relatively painless to produce C++ core modules and/or WXPython modules that are easily distributable to multiple platforms. Open source gaming is a prime example of this, with a lot of Windows-only 'shareware', compared to a lot of open source games that were developed on or for Linux but also have a Windows build released, just cos they can. I know if I was still writing software (as opposed to writing about writing it) I would go for WXPython myself; I am not convinced that the web-server/web-browser based model is necessarily the best, when a more powerful user-interface can be developed in a cross-platform toolset, and can also make use of web-service architectures when needed. -- Les Ferguson Business analyst / Health IT (yeah you know where I work) _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
