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Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets

Publication:ComputerWorldDate:Dec 12 2007
Reporter: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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