Amen.
The drek that we use here every day is criminally wrong. We have products
from every major medical software vendor or have had in some cases and
universally the quality is very low and the cost is very high. Your idea
about a business plan is very useful since in certain quarters the money
talks. I know that savings of over a mill a month could be possible with
open-source assuming that the open-source didn't work any better then the
software we have now. I really don't want to go to far with this, but
support costs and license fees for a certain software provider are very
large. If the open-source worked better and provided a superior workflow
and efficiency then soft-dollars could climb even more.
Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: John S. Gage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I am just
>adding my voice that the whole trick is to get highly talented,
>motivated people to create medical software in an open source
>environment. In contrast to Linux, I believe that these highly
>talented, motivated people will not have a "day job". I return to my
>questions from months ago about a business plan for medical open
>source.
