The CodeWeavers thread (why do I keep thinking of a music group?)
actually raises a larger question. It may well be that there simply
isn't that much open software available in the health information
systems space, but there may be a lot more than we realize if we take
into account that different types of technologies are being used:
MUMPS/Fileman/VistA, Cache and COS, relational databases (MySQL,
PostgresSQL, perhaps others), web service based applications, Java,
J2EE and EJB (e.g., JBoss), C/C++ (lest we forget the obvious), dynamic
languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc.), functional languages
(Scheme, Common LISP, ML, Haskell, Erlang, etc.) If we look across the
whole sweep of implementation technologies, just how much work is being
done?
Whatever you might think of running Win32 applications on Linux (and,
to be honest, it's not something that really appeals to me on a gut
level), it's an innovgative idea, and it raises an interesting
question: How much work going on out there isn't on the radar screen of
the VistA community simply because it doesn't fall in the right
technological space? And for that matter, what possibilities are there
for cooperation between groups with different areas of expertise? Could
we perhaps accomplish a lot more in a relatively short time than we realize?
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Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"It is foolish to answer a question that
you do not understand."
--G. Polya ("How to Solve It")
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