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Re: The OSS Cure for What Ails Hospital IT
Posted by: Jack M. Germain 2008-04-11 07:07:15

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What does a systems engineer in charge of a computer network for a major medical facility do to trim expenses and administer much-needed performance medicine to mission-critical applications? In the case of Orlando's Florida Hospital, network administrators surgically removed failing proprietary software and hardware and implanted open source technology. That procedure took five years to flush out all of the costly proprietary apparatuses and phase in the replacement open source operating system and integration management software.

Excellent Article
Posted by: RipL 2008-04-13 17:16:37 In reply to: Jack M. Germain

I hope we will continue to see articles like this that highlight the positive effects of a switch to GNU/Linux and FOSS. Thanks for putting this one together.
Rip