UCLA CIO 'Humbled' By Open Source Quality (LinuxMedNews)
[Posted November 20, 2002 by cook]
LinuxMedNews
reports on comments made by UCLA CIO Mike McCoy, MD on the
quality of open-source software.
"
...I am humbled by the quality of open source software. [Medical software] Vendors have awful software behind the scenes because they don't have a review process. Vendor companies frequently have 500 employees: 495 in sales, the rest in support...Most companies cannot afford to maintain quality sources themselves..."
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