On Wednesday 28 March 2007 9:11 am, Simon James wrote: > Hi Horst, > > This is all fine if you're starting from scratch, but the vendors with > approximately 95% of the Australian GP/Specialist market have products that > date back into the early-mid nineties. Unlike now, I doubt there was as > much separation between the database and development environments back in > the day, or any quality FOSS SQL servers. > > Even if these "legacy" vendors did the programming to allow > mysql/postgres/firebird to be used instead of proprietary database > applications, the task of migrating practices and supporting dozens of > extra combinations (SQL flavour x clinical software version) would be huge > and the payoff to the vendors negligible. > > Regards, > Simon > >
How negligible would it be if the software vendor saved the user $10K in database fees, some more in "office' fees and further down the line, some more in OS fees; --and teh user was happy to pay half the difference to the software vendor? Is there an unspoken standover tactic by a major OS seller to developers? jh _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
