[news.eclipse.technology.ohf] Re: Contributors?

[Jesse Kuhnert <jkuhnert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:) That's going to be a hard sell, especially to our investors...Heh. 
We'll see.

Aghh...I wrote a few paragraphs of text before deleting after feeling 
guilty about divulging company assets or generally sounding like an 
arrogant ass...I'll bring it up with one of my managers and see what the 
reaction is...I'm sure it will be a big "pfffffffffffftttttt" but we'll 
see. :( Damn ...The only open source project that I can actually commit 
a reasonable amount of time to as it pertains directly to work and for 
some reason I think it's going to be a conflict of interest...I don't 
know how everyone else does it. Maybe their employers just have bigger 
pocketbooks. :)

(I guess I could say one thing, since it's talked about on our website, 
and that is the importance of getting the actual EMR gui/interactivity 
between clinician and system down right...We've found the wysiwyg 
presentation has done exceptionally well, and as far as I know has 
probably been the largest reason why we've never lost a sale in a 
vendor-off for any reason having to do with the actual product, again at 
least from what I know of, I'm sure they don't tell us all the 
humiliating sales where we look like monkeys typing code in a lab, but 
it sounds good. )

jesse
> Is there any overview doc you can make available? That would help to make
> the discussion more tangible. In terms of convincing your employer, everyone
> has to make their own call on that.  In my experience most companies get
> involved because they see the open source train coming and decide it's
> better to be on the train than on the tracks<grin>.