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= Introduction = | = Introduction = | ||
| − | Medsphere is a company initially established by physicians to provide an open-source version of the public-domain VistA platform. Due to early management and organizational problems, a proprietary version was developed instead, and a significant backlash developed against the company. | + | [http://medsphere.org Medsphere] is a private company that was initially established by several physicians to provide an open-source version of the public-domain VistA platform. Due to early management and organizational problems, however, a proprietary version was developed instead, and a significant backlash developed against the company from the open source co-operative community which had been instrumental in developing OpenVistA. |
| − | Medsphere soon realized that without the co-operation of the VistA community at large and a return to the values of the open source community, its support was in jeopardy. | + | Medsphere soon realized that without the co-operation of the VistA community-at-large and a return to the values of the open source community, its support was in jeopardy. |
| − | It has therefore again started to develop | + | It has therefore again started to develop a "community" open-source version of OpenVistA. |
| − | While Medsphere has integrated the proprietary Cache version of the MUMPS database | + | While Medsphere has integrated the proprietary Cache version of the MUMPS database into its enterprise version, it has begun to package the open source GT.M version of MUMPS into a new version (as WorldVistA had previously done). |
== OpenVistA with GT.M == | == OpenVistA with GT.M == | ||
* See [https://medsphere.org/community/project/gtm OpenVistA with GT.M] | * See [https://medsphere.org/community/project/gtm OpenVistA with GT.M] | ||
Revision as of 20:24, 30 January 2010
Introduction
Medsphere is a private company that was initially established by several physicians to provide an open-source version of the public-domain VistA platform. Due to early management and organizational problems, however, a proprietary version was developed instead, and a significant backlash developed against the company from the open source co-operative community which had been instrumental in developing OpenVistA.
Medsphere soon realized that without the co-operation of the VistA community-at-large and a return to the values of the open source community, its support was in jeopardy.
It has therefore again started to develop a "community" open-source version of OpenVistA.
While Medsphere has integrated the proprietary Cache version of the MUMPS database into its enterprise version, it has begun to package the open source GT.M version of MUMPS into a new version (as WorldVistA had previously done).
