Adrian Midgley wrote:
>On Friday 30 July 2004 07:01, Mary Hawking wrote:
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>>PS anyone any idea on how the Veterans Administration (freely available)
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>WorldVista is an NGO/not-for-profit that is preparing OpenVista for worldwide
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>It'd do very nicely.
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>Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
>GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/
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I looked into the possibility of such as a consortium with 3 companies
for a Trust in the home counties a few years back. The basic outcome was
that there were too many risks as there was too tight an integration
between modules (ripping out the US specific stuff and interfacing with
UK PAS etc). IT can be done of course (look at countries like India) but
in the timescales that are currently being imposed... the
companies/banks didn't want to take the risk (being 'Open Source' and
hence a new way to do things didn't help).
How exactly WorldVista would change the above I have no idea...
Sean
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