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Red Hat goes vertical (healthcare)
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February 26, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Red Hat goes vertical (healthcare)
Here's an interesting tidbit: McKesson and Red Hat have announced an end-to-end open source healthcare solution:
The Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform packages the Red Hat suite of open source products and services, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates via the Red Hat Network. It also includes dedicated customer support and services, as well as other open source technologies such as JBoss Enterprise Middleware. This complete solution provides superior levels of stability and performance as well as predictable maintenance cycles.This is not the first open source healthcare solution (MedSphere's OpenVISTA arguably holds that title), but it's a good start on open source's road into vertical industries. It sounds to me like this is open source (the Red Hat stuff) with a proprietary healthcare application (the McKesson stuff) running on top of it. As such, it's not quite as compelling as it could be, but that's McKesson's fault, not Red Hat's.
In the interim, here's hoping that we'll see more and more open source in the vertical world.
Posted by Matt Asay on February 26, 2007 07:09 AM
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