Thanks a lot ! That does bring the thing much more into perspective. > The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. > A great challenge. I could not disagree less.
> The product we have an agreement to use > has a significant number of man years of development behind it and has > had millions of dollars invested in it. We are doing the exact opposite > of starting over from scratch. This could work, indeed. Seems like that for vertical markets you need a huge chunk of working code that can be changed here and there by the few tinkerers while for horizontal markets you are better off with a simpler piece of working code and lot's of good technical taste as the tinkerers will come in droves. > The system is designed and implemented to service the > disparate needs of individual physicians as well as large integrated > health systems. This is the only technical point presented here that I am sceptical about. > - the core of the system is a community-based, Exactly what is meant by that ? If it means a network of managed servers "provided to the community of practicing physicians" then this ... > massively scalable, ... may work. Actually that would be the only chance to make "massively scalable" work, IMHO. > - the entire system can run n-tier with client-server speed over an ASP > infrastructure using simple dial-up (56K or less), or can be configured > standalone to run on a single PC or within a LAN, WAN, or VPN Again, that's the part I will have to see before believing it. Everything else sounds (hype aside) quite pragmatic and reasonable AFAICT. More power to them. > To that end David and I would be very interested in taking this > opportunity to open up an international dialogue and cooperative > coordination of efforts. Show me the code and I'll make my best effort to bring about collaboration between "this" and GnuMed. Regards, Karsten Hilbert, MD -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
