Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

Hospital software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is curing IT bloat by moving 50 of its 70 most popular health care applications to Linux instead of mainframes, thereby reducing cost for hospitals and medical offices. At first it was challenge convincing hospital executives said Simpson. “It took them time to understand that open source is safe, that open source has support”.

“Red Hat estimated that health care facilities that have switched have been able to save as much as 60% on IT costs compared with what they were spending before.”

Perhaps one of the more interesting quotes from the article also came from Simpson.

“Our hospitals aren’t ready yet for Linux on the desktop, but it’s coming” in another three or four years, he said. “If you look at the total costs of hospitals and the pressure on hospitals to continue to lower their costs, it’s coming.”

I have seen this scenario happen time and time again. Its not quite mainstream yet, but will be soon.