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Subject:

Re: RE: MediDesk

From:

[log in to unmask] (Adrian Midgley)

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Date:

Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:59:43 +0100

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[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 10:46 on 15/10/98 
about "RE: MediDesk":
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Sm stands for the late departed or at least moribund system Surgery 
Manager.
extended DOS, runs nicely under Windows, like Vision uses the rather 
elderly format of FoxPro data files, has a WIMP (Windows-like) CUA 
compliant interface (sort of semi-visual, which is different from 
half-blind) and has always been distinguished from other systems by 
having the shortest learning curve of any.
It has been described as the first sustem to actually be designed to 
a specification (which might be taken as a little unkind by David 
Markwell, who built Abies System 4 but I suspect without being there 
that there was quite an element of growing in that, and that also 
the needs were not so clearly defined as they could be when SM was 
written)

It was produced by MicroSolutions.  RHI bought Micro, GOK why, it 
has been suggested that this was in order to secure Icon Fundholder 
- also at that time owned by Micro, but given the prompt if unduly 
drawn out demise of fundholding to suggest that RHI had done that 
would be to suggest that they had committed an act whose commercial 
idiocy would be hard to follow - unless by telling all users of SM 
that they would be supported in parallel to Vision and the other 
legacy Vamp product... which nobody I have met believed except some 
people still working for RHI say they did ... for two years before 
then telling them that it would not be and _buy Vision_ 

>Excuse my ignorance, but what is SM?

You asked - OK.

Bitter?  Me?  Yes!!  And a majority of SM users as well, who would 
regard the best offer that RHI culd make as being an offer to dry up 
and blow away, or at least release the source code into the hands of 
somebody both competent and inclined to maintain it (even one would 
be a step in the right direction)

It was a nice system, I enjoyed using it, and it is interesting to 
observe how much the necessity to do the couple of things one _has_ 
to do clears ones mind about the merits of RFA 1234+

Meditel took over AMC.  I seriously doubt if they made any money at 
all out of it.
I doubt that Vamp have made any money out of taking over Micro/SM.  
EMIS certainly have made money out of both takeovers, but not 
necessarily satisfied customers.  Basically nobody comes out of it 
well.
No doubt it was sheer coincidence that RHI shareprices dived a while 
afterwards, and I understand that the move of the MD was purely 
inroder for him to tackle the challenges of introducing the Euro, a 
promotion or at worst a move sideways.

So, my advice to GPs and to PCGs.  Own your system.  Own the source 
code so that you can fire one company and hire another to maintain 
it.  Don't (and I stress that this is purely personal advice based 
on my own observations and experiences) buy one from Reuters, and if 
you have one of those, get rid of it as soon as you conveniently 
can.  But you will of course make your own decisions based on your 
own needs or pereceptions of them.
--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley


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