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[News] Microsoft Vista Gives a Bad Name to VistA

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The *Other* Vista: Successful and Open Source

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| The is a clear pattern to open source's continuing rise. The first free 
| software that was deployed was at the bottom of the enterprise software 
| stack: GNU/Linux, Apache, Sendmail, BIND. Later, databases and middleware 
| layers were added in the form of popular programs like MySQL and Jboss. More 
| recently, there have been an increasing number of applications serving the 
| top of the software stack, addressing sectors like enterprise content 
| management, customer relationship management, business intelligence and, most 
| recently, data warehousing.       
| 
| But all of these are generic programs, applicable to any industry: the next 
| frontier for free software will be vertical applications serving particular 
| sectors. In fact, we already have one success in this area, but few people 
| know about it outside the industry it serves. Recent events mean that may be 
| about to change.    
| 
| The basic program is called VistA; the name was chosen well before a Certain 
| Other Company copied the move, and the code began life as an electronic 
| health records system for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...  
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/other-vista-successful-and-open-source


Related:

Reporter's Notebook VistA: A look back and a look forward

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| WorldVistA members, with funding from the Honolulu-based Pacific
| Telehealth and Technology Hui, a partnership between the VA and
| the Defense Department, had developed a branch of VistA that
| runs on open-source versions of MUMPS and the Linux operating
| system
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http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770118002
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