Switching Hospital Systems to Linux 305
jcatcw writes "Health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which can then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes. A deal with Red Hat allows McKesson to offer its software in a top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems."
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:3, Funny)
It looks like they're taking a 4 month break from touring, but they'll be back on the road in February!
http://www.thecure.com/events/default.asp?Year=Upcoming [thecure.com]
(laughs so hard milk squirts out his nose) (Score:3, Funny)
(laughs so hard milk squirts out his nose)
Red Hat newbie, are we?
No!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Tuesday, Wednesday, RAID set's broke
Thursday, let out the magic smoke
but on Friday, I patch bugs
Monday, my xorg conf is toast
Tuesday, Wednesday, CPU roasts
Thursday, it won't even POST
but on Friday, I patch bugs
Re:(laughs so hard milk squirts out his nose) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lackluster vendor makes incremental, pitiful st (Score:5, Funny)
I remember sitting in on a presentation they once made to one of our directors regarding some new patient records management system they were trying to pitch to us. Not one single screen shot was shown nor were any technical people on hand so that I could ask the difficult questions. In the end, when she asked me my opinion, the conversation went like this:
Me: Remember application X that you used to use at hospital Y?
Her: Uh... yes.
Me: They wrote it.
We didn't buy the software.
Re:Just watch (Score:5, Funny)
The janitor will come by, type a few random key strokes into the terminal, and boom, no more linux box. *nix computers are just too easy too kill.
Yeah, that's the major flaw of Unix operating systems, and it still hasn't been solved in the 35 years Unix has been around.
If only there was some sort of system under which some special user with special powers could create user accounts deprived of these special powers so that they wouldn't be able to break everything...
Re:No!!! (Score:3, Funny)
OpenVista (Score:3, Funny)
As Michael Bolton once said "No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
Re:(laughs so hard milk squirts out his nose) (Score:3, Funny)
OBVIOUSLY you haven't been using Windows Vista.
Re:No!!! (Score:4, Funny)
public class YourWrong {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println("Hello Asshole. Yeah, this is 50 lines...");
}
}
That's five lines...
$ wc -l YourWrong.java
5 YourWrong.java
$ javac YourWrong.java
$ java YourWrong
Hello Asshole. Yeah, this is 50 lines...
Re:Affordable health care (Score:3, Funny)