Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] Pharmaceutical Industry Does SaaS with Linux

  • Subject: [News] Pharmaceutical Industry Does SaaS with Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:52:38 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
ValueCentric Uses Oracle(R) Database and Oracle Unbreakable Linux to Power
Software as a Service Offering for the Pharmaceutical Industry

,----[ Quote ]
| Oracle today announced that ValueCentric, LLC, a data management and 
| performance analytics company providing on-demand services to the 
| pharmaceutical industry, is using Oracle(R) Database running on Oracle 
| Enterprise Linux, backed by the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program, to 
| support the company's software as a service (SaaS) offering. The company 
| migrated to Oracle Database from MySQL to improve the performance, 
| availability, scalability, and security of its flagship data analysis 
| product, ValueTrak.       
`----

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM01721012008-1.htm


Related:

Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model

,----[ Quote ]
| Software is not the only field affected by open source; many fields of study 
| and social and political views have been affected by the growth of the 
| concept of open source. Advocates in one field will often support the 
| expansion of open source in other fields, including Linus Torvalds who is 
| quoted as saying, "the future is open source everything."    
`----

http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/


Pharmac publishes directly with open source

,----[ Quote ]
| The team used Python, libxml/libxslt and TeX, running on Debian GNU/Linux, 
| and the open document standards TeX, XML, MathML, XHTML, and Xlink, says 
| Geering.   
`----

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/25F72F231ABF8F5ACC2573630083A579


Red Hat scores Swedish pharmacy contract

,----[ Quote
| Apoteket, the pharmacy network, will convert to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
| running on Intel hardware, Red Hat said. Financial terms of the deal were not 
| disclosed.  
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070918/1522057.html?.v=1


Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model 

,----[ Quote ]
| "Open source" as applied to culture defines a culture in which
| intellectual property is made generally available. Participants
| in such a culture are able to improve and modify those products
| and redistribute them back into the community.
`----

http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/51/

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index