Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 7:33 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Can open source save the doctor-patient relationship? Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 7:33 am Categories: General, Applications, Implementations, Enterprise Policy, Strategy, Infrastructure, management Tags: Open Source, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Wilder, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software Over at my health care blog, Im asking whether open source is the cure for what ails health care IT. Its not my question. Its really the question of Bruce L. Wilder, a 66-year old doctor, lawyer, and music lover who says the real issue here is control of the doctor-patient relationship. Wilders article was sent me by Fred Trotter, a consultant on open source health care software who has contributed code to lead...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 7:19 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Todays Debate: Is open source the cure for health care? Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 7:19 am Categories: General, Hospital IT, Medical Office IT, Payment Processing, IT Management, Open Source, Medical IT, Medical Records, Finance Tags: Patient, Electronic Health Record, Insurance Company, Health Care, Bruce Wilder, E-health, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn Open source is the cure for what ails health care IT, according to Bruce Wilder. Wilder, writing in Advance for Health Information Executives, notes that current Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems can cost $44,000 to install, and $8,500/year to maintain, per doctor. But his argument for open source goes well beyond cost. Wilder, a 66-year oldmusic loverand lawyer as well as a doctor, ...

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Posted by Jason D. OGrady @ 7:02 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 .Mac performance concerns in Europe Posted by Jason D. OGrady @ 7:02 am Categories: Europe, Dot-Mac Tags: Apple Macintosh, Performance, Europe, Apple Inc., Performance Management, Desktops, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Jason D. OGrady European users have been posting complaints on Apples discussion forums about poor download performance from .Mac servers. A typical post goes like this: Whenever I try do download a movie from my web gallery, or when the browser loads the movie for playing its much slower than my Internet line allows. Im on a 4Mbit line, but downloads are capped at around 78kb/sek (like a 768kbit line). The same is true for Apples demo gallery, and for files downloaded from my public folder using the filesharing pa...

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Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 7:01 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Coming Soon: Microsoft 2.0 the book Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 7:01 am Categories: Housekeeping, Corporate strategy, Web 2.0 Tags: Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Business Structures, Blogging, Construction, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley After years of insisting I had no interest in writing a book, Ive finally taken the plunge. I am writing a book about you guessed it Microsoft. It will be published in the Spring of 2008 by John Wiley & Sons. The title: Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era. (Amazon pre-order link for Microsoft 2.0 is here.) Why did I finally give in to the siren call of book authorship? The timing felt right. Up until now, Microsoft WAS Bill Gates. But at the end of June 2008, Microsoft chairman Bi...

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Posted by Larry Dignan @ 6:48 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Oracle vs SAP gets trial date Posted by Larry Dignan @ 6:48 am Categories: Software Infrastructure, Legal, SAP, Oracle, ERP Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Larry Dignan In Focus ? See more posts on: SAP, Oracle A judge has set a trial date for Oracles corporate theft lawsuit against SAP: Feb. 9, 2009. The trial date was disclosed by SAP. SAP indicated that the company and Oracle met with Judge Martin Jenkins of the Northern District Court in San Francisco to go over case management. Jenkins discussed scheduling, the process around discovery for evidence and alternative dispute resolution. For a quick recap: In March, Oracle sued SAP alleging corporate theft on a grand scale accusing SAPs TomorrowNow unit of stealing int...

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Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:12 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Odd bedfellows: Facebook and Windows Live Spaces Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:12 am Categories: Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Web 2.0, Advertising, Facebook Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Live Spaces, Sponsored Spaces, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley In all the coverage of Microsoft allegedly pushing for a five percent stake in Facebook, there has been next-to-no mentions of Microsofts own social-networking platform, Windows Live Spaces. Live Spaces, when it launched as a new and improved version of MSN Spaces, already had 112 million monthly unique visitors and stored 4 billion uploaded user-uploaded photos. In 2007, Microsoft says Live Spaces has 115 million mont...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:48 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 First-ever VoIP over iPhone app: say so long to huge roaming fees Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:48 am Categories: Apple Tags: Apple iPhone, TruPhone, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Wireless LANs, Telephony, VOIP, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless, Emerging Technologies In Focus ? See more posts on: iPhone Oliver Starr, a friend who is now offering his considerable expertise to Blognation, writes that he has witnessed the first ever VoIP calls made from an Apple iPhone. This has been accomplished by TruPhone, a softphone VoIP solutions provider based in the UK. Not even ready for beta, what I have just referenced is a rather pre-alpha cross-your-fingers-and-hope-it-works setup that, Starr writes in part: Currently requires the use of terminal o...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:31 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 In light of Patent woes, Vonage could be acquired by Sprint after all Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:31 am Categories: Vonage, SprintNextel Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Richard, Telephony, B2B, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet Opinions are starting to gather about what yesterdays court decision holding Vonage as infringer in six SprintNextel patents means. Noting Vonage stocks all-time low closing price of $1.30 a share yesterday, Om thinks it is only a matter of time before Vonage disappears, going the way of SunRocket. Mike at Techdirt thinks Vonage may not be able to survive. Mike says it is a shame because while Vonage holds no Patents, its figured out a way to market VoIP to the masses that ...

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Posted by George Ou @ 4:00 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Europes new monopoly tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO Posted by George Ou @ 4:00 am Categories: Servers, News, Vista, Hardware, Desktop, Linux, Processors, Intel, Technology policy, Microsoft, Development Tags: World Trade Organization, European Commission, Operating System, Market Share, Tariff, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Globalization Institute, EC, Microsoft Windows The European Commission has just levied a new $689,900,000 fine (read: tariff) on American software company Microsoft under the pretense of anti-trust which conveniently bypasses WTO agreements. The Brussels based think tank Globalization Institute has published a paper (PDF) where it recommends a ban on OS (Operating System) bundling for all PCs sold in Europe. At the end of the paper it ...

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Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 3:00 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Is conventional software built on bubble economics? Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 3:00 am Categories: Oracle, Business models, Concur Tags: Software, Transition, Software-as-a-service, Extensity, On-demand, Corollary, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright OK, Ill get back to some more serious points in a moment, but I couldnt help commenting on a jaw-dropping statement from SaaS blogger Bob Warfield. It comes in the middle of an interview with Concur CEO Steve Singh, just after Singh compares his own companys performance ? since switching to on-demand in the years after 2000 ? to its once near rival Extensity: Singh: In March of 2000, both [Concur and Extensity] were the same size. During the downturn, Concur went on-dem...

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Posted by Dan Kusnetzky @ 3:00 am   Year:September 26th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 26th, 2007 Can Operating Systems be Replaced by Virtual Machine Software? Posted by Dan Kusnetzky @ 3:00 am Categories: Virtualization, Virtual machine software, Virtual processing software Tags: Operating System, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky Coming out of VMworld, Ive run into many people whove been convinced that operating systems are becoming an endangered species and that shortly theyll be replaced by virtual machine software. I believe that many have been convinced to adopt this position by VMwares powerful, integrated marketing not by the facts at hand. Let me address the facts. Hypervisors are small operating systems or components of general purpose operating systems, such as Windows, Unix or Linux....

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