Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed needs your help

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 22:21, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >> I'm afraid of the effect that other practice management systems
> >> are drawing many developers on their side just because they make
> >> much noise.
> >
> > MySQL + PHP
> >
> > No need to say more.
>
> This is a quite egocentric approach.  The same is valid for exactly
> the same reason for the tools used.  Observe the general MySQL hype
> compared to other DBs.  I'm currently suffering from the decision of
> people in our institute who are complete Linux newbees but have the
> power to decide the distribution we will use in the future (SuSE).
> The same people will decide for MySQL and PHP once it will come to
> the tools we will use and will ignore other experiences.
>
> So, you need to say more for your target audience ...

Karsten's statement is a pretty incomplete satement. Can lead to many 
different interpretations. 

The technical reasons should be named and maybe stored in our Wiki for other 
projects to reference. From a broader perspective your boss will always 
choose what most other CIO chose before him before then he cannot be wrong. 
This implies that those other people were wrong.

Anyway GNUmed might one day be able to make use of the PHP, MySQL hype. By 
allowing developers to use just that for the benefit of GNUmed.

Let's wait and see. PHP is definetely possible, why not. MySQL I don't know 
but for a MySQL pro Postgres shouldn't be that big a problem.

Sebastian
>
> Kind regards
>
>            Andreas.

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