Michael Hendry wrote:
> Indeed, but the active assistance of Atos is necessary for the separate (set
> of) server(s) to get access to the database, and experience of colleagues
> who went on to the Manager Servers was that it was hard enough to get them
> just to get the basic GPASS application to run reliably over the network.
Absolutely.
This is the business model - best thought of as acquiring the ability to
_prevent_ anyone else adding services although it has been described
otherwise - which I referred to as a mistake to purchase, and a mistake
to repeat a purchase of.
The value of GPASS now to those with control of it is not in producing a
good, or improved GP system, but in retaining their position of being
the people who understand things about it and their customers, so that
when the whole mess is sold to another company they will be bought along
with it.
Open Source solves some, but not on its own, all, of the problems around
that.
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