Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 13, 2007 1:06 PM EDT
Computer World; By Todd R. Weiss
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In 2004, health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies began focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure for IT cost bloat: moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which could then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes.

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