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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."
Just watch. 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.
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?
Yea, right. These are the same people that fired my stepbrother in Memphis for unplugging a refridgerator that he was told to unplug (and in the process destroyed 5 million in medical chemicals) and got fired for doing what he was told to do thanks to ignorant management. I wouldn't trust these fuckers as far as I could throw their 25,000 sq.ft. building that's located at the corner of Shelby Drive and Hickory Hill.
Hell, even the cane they had "custom made" for me is a fucking joke. It's already broken within two months, and they're refusing to replace it. Makes me want to shove said cane up the supervisor's ass(es) and beat them senseless with my wrist brace.
If you trust McKesson, you trust idiots and you deserve what the fuck you get. End of story. Buy McKesson and you support DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I just installed Fedora 8. My system is now screwing up royally. I'll probably lose the network again before I can submit this (if the machine doesn't lock up first).
I work for a McKesson competitor and I must say I welcome their pushing Linux, since it will mean more disgruntled customers and more sales for us.
The sad truth is that Linux has by far the worst uptime of all platforms we support. Yes, much worse than Windows. It is so bad that we actually discourage customers from running Linux for their database server.
"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.
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