by First off, yes, I realize I'm posting this using a crappy MS product. I'm
at work and don't feel like telnetting into my machine at home (ten hops
away) and running trn just to preserve a sense of ideological purity. If
you have a problem with that, bite me.
Anyway, to the point. I work for a teleradiology company in Nashville, TN.
We have fif* sites or so across the nation. Each site requires that we
put in several tens of thousands of dollars of imaging communication
equipment. Most of that cost is software. Right now the boxes are mostly
Sparcs running Solaris 2.5. There is a move to replace that with NT. I'd
much rather replace them with Alphas running Linux.
I don't want to see that happen. I would like to see us hire a developer
and start building our own PACS equipment that would more or less conform to
the Open Source guidelines. I have a meeting with our CEO in a couple of
weeks to pitch the idea. I'm sure I can sell them on hiring a developer;
I'm not sure about the Open Source part.
If any of you guys have done any development for medical apps, or if you
have general development experience with imaging applications and
client-server programming and would like to help me flesh out some ideas, or
if you want to send me a resume so that I can walk into this meeting and
say, "I've already found some people who might be interested in working with
us to develop and coordinate development" and show a stack of resumes, then
If we can pull this off, it could be a nice publicity win for free software.