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..."