Horst Other smaller medical software companies with a much smaller staff numbers than HCN, tested their software on Vista at least 6 months ago and found it worked perfectly. I realise the programmer(s) must be more superior, which is why with minimal effort, theirc software worked. If they could do it, others could do it. After all, XP-pro still frequently had patches and millions used it for mission critical work (not to mention Win95 & 98)
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horst Herb Sent: Sunday, 11 February 2007 1:03 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Open letter to Medtech On Saturday 10 February 2007 11:11, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > The question is why did HCN not test their products with Vista long > ago. Some medical & non medical software companies did test theirs > many many months ago. MS made available beta copies to any developer > to test their products. Only now is HCN doing the testing etc. As little sympathy as I have for HCN, I wouldn't blame them for this one. Currently I would rate Vista as "experimental" - suitable for gaming only, most certainly *not* trustworthy for business use Even if I would contemplate using a MS product for business purposes, I wouldn't dream of using the Vista flavour of those for the next year - seems to much like a kamikaze endeavour to me. I am with Ash - if you must use some Windows flavour, go for something where the worst problems have been ironed out and understood already, eg W2k Those doing practice IT should understand such simple principles, hence it would be unreasonable to expect from health IT software providers to support Vista for at least another 6 months Another way to see it: testing takes time. Even if you started testing with the earliest available "stable" Vista beta, you couldn't possibly support it yet with confidence for something as "mission critical" as practice software Hey - even the worlds number one graphics card company (nVidia) still has trouble with their drivers for Vista, blaming MS for undocumented last minute changes. Horst _______________________________________________ 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
