kuang oon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03/04/2007, at 7:01 AM, Tim Churches wrote: > > > > > Well, that's its name. It is a new, open source, Web-based EMR for the > > US market, based on Zope and Plone, which are intriguing but probably > > quite sound choices for infrastructure (uses an object database, not a > > relational database - makes much sense for clinical data). See > > http://www.uemr.com/index.html > Hi TimC, > Thanks for bringing to our attention the above. > At the above url, it talks of "commercial open source" and different > pricing levels. > Can you/anyone elaborate on the above - as this is slightly > different from my ruby/rails/mysql experience of open source.
No different. All that it means is that they offer paid support for instances of the software that they host for you. Open source is not antithetical to making money - look at Red Hat, who are doing very nicely selling support packages for software which you can download and redistribute for free (and their competitors do just that eg Oracle, CentOS). The key difference is that there is no monopoly on who can offer support for the software, and no monopoly on who can enhance and improve it. Unless you happen to live on Park Lane or Mayfair, monopolies tend to be bad. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
