[OLPC library] [Re] 'OLPC-Health' takes off !!

[Seth Woodworth]

Is it MUMPS that is closed source, or it's commercial fork?

"OpenVistA is written in the GtM version of MUMPS, from Sanchez, which makes
high-reliability financial applications that power about 60% of the world's
major money market transfers. (Sanchez is now owned by the Fidelity life
insurance company.) It runs on Linux. MUMPS has only about 28 or 29
commands, is extremely fast, powerful and reliable, and has been taken
proprietary ('forked') by Intersystems under the name Cache', which has over
100,000 users for hundreds of applications outside health care. MUMPS is an
acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming
System."



On Feb 6, 2008 12:04 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>
> > MUMPS underlies the commercial closed source software which has been in
> use
> > in a grprportion of UK general medical practices over the last 20 years
> or
> > so.
>
> What about
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm
>
> formerly known as GT.M
>
>
> http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/FNFIS/Markets/NonFinancialIndustries/Healthcare/
> GTM/
>
> > It, EMIS, now holds the general medical practice records, whcih is to
> say
> > essentially all orgnaised primary care records, for around 40% of the UK
> > population.
> >
> > We are not short of M expertise in the UK.
>
> Great.  Do you have any idea what might be the straightforeward way to
> build Debian packages from it.  While I think we might be perfectly able
> to follow the install instructions to assemble files in the right place
> but some basic testing should be done as well and I have no idea what to
> do regarding this aspect.
>
> Kind regards
>
>          Andreas.
>
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