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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.
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| 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.
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| 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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