"John S. Gage" wrote:
>
> How do I respond to critics who say that, if CorbaMed is the how of EMR,
> then it is just another OS/API that has to be written to? I remember
I'm sure Dave Forslund will eloquently address this. <s>
> If we measure programming languages along a variety of axes, then two
> stand out: interoperability and ease-of-use. Corba does not speak to
> ease-of-use. In fact, Brian and Tim wrote Web CorbaScript specifically
Point of fact here: I had no part in developing CorbaScript or
Web CorbaScript. I wish I could claim it, but I have not risen to
that level. <g>
I have used Web CorbaScript.
> I don't think so. I think that when price competition starts to hit
> medical software, programmers will settle on a singel OS and a single
> database model, which will be dictated in large part by the excellent
> standards work going on in the domain. The OS will be Linux (does IBM
> agree with me?) and the database will be something that does
> XML/Objects/SQL all at once.
>
> I'm sorry this is controversial, but I would like to at least have this
> point of view dismissed effectively.
The only problem is that you're seeing 10 years from now. We
have to get there first.
My 0.02 cents.
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