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Re: [News] Veterans Health Administration Seeks Open Source VistA Replacement

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:37:20 +0100
<2658908.Nfi8MbgRoL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> VHA eyes open-source replacement for VistA
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is examining whether to base
> | its next-generation electronic health system on open-source software such
> | as the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology
> | Architecture (VistA) system...
> `----
>
>                 http://govhealthit.com/article94945-06-19-06-Web&RSS=yes

Oh for the love of ... The good news for Microsoft: the
VHA has no standing to sue for trademark infringment as
it's a government agency. :-)

The bad news: if VHA is considering this, Microsoft
has some work cut out for them in selling Vista (Server
Edition, presumably) to implement VistA.

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