Switching Hospital Systems to Linux

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."

Comments

Re:Affordable health care

[fat_mike]

Are you 13 years old or something? 60% of health costs aren't IT related you retard. Do you really think a Linux based system is going to decrease your health insurance costs? HMO+Insurance Company*Lawyers/*+-Lobbyists decide your medical costs. Don't like it, move somewhere else, break a bone, get a disease and see how many months it takes before you get in.

Why do these kind of stories even get posted on Slashdot. Stick with IT about IT stories. "If this catches on", I've heard that before:

"If this catches on, Linux will rule the Desktop!"
"If this catches on, KDE and Gnome will put Microsoft out of business!"
"If this catches on, OpenOffice will put Microsoft out of business!"

Also, what's with all the chest-beating, ball-grabbing, flabby it guy trying to be tough Linux crap lately. Also, where did all the ads go?

Re:No!!!

[rbanffy]

"he pulls up the MUMPS command prompt and writes 2 lines to do stuff that would probably take me alteast 50 lines of Java code."

Big deal. A Hello World in Java takes up 50 lines of Java code.