Big players begin taking up open source
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| IBM and Sun have recently made separate moves into the open source database
| market, creating a buzz for up-and-coming vendors EnterpriseDB and MySQL
| respectively.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23501580-24169,00.html
Open-source group tackles e-health interoperability
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| A 25-member international group of government agencies, standards
| organizations, universities and industry vendors has formed an open-source
| software development effort called Open Health Tools (OHT) to tackle the lack
| of interoperability between health care products and services.
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| There are 15 founding industry members, including IBM, Oracle and Red Hat.
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http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350300-1.html
Open-source global IT health programme launched
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| An open-source specialist has launched an international project between
| national health agencies and government-funded organisations to develop
| interoperable platforms for electronic healthcare products and services.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39381837,00.htm
Related:
MySQL's Mårten Mickos on Sun: "We Feel Like We Have Joined a Giant Startup"
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| MySQL's Mårten Mickos has been speaking out on the deep background to his
| company's decision, instead of pursuing an IPO, to allowing Sun to acquire
| it. "We feel like we have joined a giant startup," Mickos gushes, before
| singling out Jonathan Schwartz's "brilliant" CEO charisma as one of the chief
| tipping-points: "Who wouldn't want to work for him?"
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http://linuxbusinessnews.sys-con.com/read/497444_p.htm
Linux in Healthcare
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| Linux in healthcare is a tale of things seen and unseen. Linux/Open
| Source have enjoyed tremendous popularity in embedded systems and
| networks for major technologies used in healthcare that healthcare
| providers may not even be aware of.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3215/
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