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

["Seth Woodworth" <seth@isforinsects.com>]

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@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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