From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 5:30:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C39A14EC0 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 05:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id IAA20858; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:30:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA20398; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:16:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:16:59 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jameso@elwood.net Subject: Re: Clinical Software In-Reply-To: <199903072316.SAA10107@lakes.dignus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Quick question, I work at a Nursing home and have been working with > > FreeBSD to replace out our NT servers. A thought entered my mind today, > > all the users ever use is Excel, Word, Powerpoint, web, e-mail and the > > clincal/financal package for nursing homes. We are looking to replace our > > current package now, and I was wondering if there is any that will work on > > Unix. > > > > If we were able to find one, it would not be too hard of a step to move > > off of Windows alltoghter. The clincal software is all thats really > > holding us back. > > > > If anyone has any ideas, I am all ears. > > > > Thanks. > > Jim > > I believe StarOffice would be a good alternative for everything > except the clinical/financial package... > > I understand it has a nice word processor, and "power point"-like > presentation software... Fellas - I run a network for the Dept of Psychiatry - St Vincent's of Richmond (Sisters of Charity). You could run an X Server with staroffice and/or applixware to address the word processing... That leaves the clinical reporting. For that I use PostgreSQL on both Linux and FreeBSD...I use perl (DBI::DBD-Pg) as the pseudo 4GL and it works nicely. I ported a FoxPro db recently (500,000 tuples in a handfull of tables...) Works well. Jim - if you are interested in joint development message me offlist. (We run a few nursing homes as well - maybe we could kill two birds?) All code is artistic licenced. ;-) BTW, I am also working on an accounting database with a web interface (again using perl). http://www.simtax.ca/acc Cheers, Tom ---- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center Thomas Good Information Systems Coordinator E-Mail: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 Empowered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message