>> General practice isn't moving to Linux en mass. Sorry. > > From where I sit, I can't see why not.
Hi John, Because of my chick and egg argument. Chicken - Most practices won't/can't consider moving to Linux because there is a limited selection of Australian-centric Practice Software. Egg - Most vendors won't consider porting or writing new software for Linux because there is a limited existing customer base. Rooster - There doesn't appear to be any of these because no one wants to to dig themself a several million dollar hole "building it and waiting for them to come". The development and cost of supporting the early adopters would likely take 10+ years to recoup, remembering that when Linux users turn up, they tend to leave their cheque books at home. > I use it 100% at home, and it seems > natural to me. I don't doubt it is a good OS or has many uses in many environments. If MacOS X wasn't better for my purposes, I'm sure I'd use it. The home user market, small office market, corporate market, government market, education market etc are all large enough globally to support Linux developers (commercial and FOSS) - the Australian GP/Specialist market isn't, and unless 500 Linux GP/Specialist sites dropped out if the sky, I don't see this changing. > Well, one well-known chap has started a new medical software suite in the past > couple of years, built ostensibly "from the ground up" and had the chance to > differentiate it'self and become cross-platform.. And he chose to develop his product for an OS with.....customers! www.pmsc.com.au (which launched about a year ago) also went the Windows route (using FireBird), and I haven't seen anything to suggest www.stathealth.com.au will buck the trend when they launch "in the second half of 2007". Kind regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
