August 2, 2011 at 10:24Linux doctor’s workplace
If the habrayuzer is an IT worker in a health care facility (clinic, hospital) with software licensing problems, and the head doctor does not want to hear about the millions of software costs, except for dismissal and “clogging”, you have a way out. Even the medical databases on MS Visual FoxPro will run on GNU / Linux, software licensing costs will be reduced by an order of magnitude according to the following method:
Unbelievable, but it is a fact. The need to output 1 report from the database in a proprietary format (doc / xls) arises from the doctor no more than 2 times a year, but why all this time to keep the last MS Office in the workplace for at least 7K? For 50 jobs, licensing a proprietary office suite will cost 350Krub.
Tests of a free office began even with OpenOffice 3.2.1 on windows and revealed a remarkable fact: all those completely dissatisfied with the “new office” did not work with any document or table for more than 15 minutes a day, and all fully satisfied with the office suite worked with documents for at least 3 hours a day. After eliminating some of the pitfalls, OO.org was quietly installed on all health care facilities, and just as quietly, MS Office was removed from almost all machines. Of the 50 jobs, 6 remained, where MS Office has been saved so far - the statistics department, which is forced to work actively with database uploads in closed formats and exchange closed format documents with external recipients, whose specialists now make rare uploads from the database for doctors.
Actually, Windows is not needed at the doctor’s workplace. It is not safe, what you can buy now is demanding on resources, the cost of licensing the OS for the "average" clinic for 50 jobs will be more than 300Krub. But most importantly - why can he be "everywhere" needed? Even MS Office 2010 can be installed under WINE, additional services are just as good at closing free Linux applications (browser, jabber client, VNC client, PDF viewer, etc), if it weren’t for the medical base on VFP - document management and browsing for internal resources, doctors can implement without Windows
/ me experimented with different distributions and a different set of software for a year, but settled on Fedora 14, which is centrally updated from the local repository of a closed "corporate network". High stability compared to other "user-friendly" distributions, Russification of interfaces, low resource requirements, support for a wide range of hardware, a small and radically free main repository.
The last step to the doctor’s workplace,almost without Microsoft, was just launching a file-server database on VFP6.
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It was possible to do this not only from a virtual machine, but from under WINE according to the following recipe: 1. Copy the databases to ~ / .wine / disk_c / 2.
Mount a network drive
su -c 'mount -t cifs -o defaults, uid = 0, gid = 512, dir_mode = 0775, file_mode = 0666, user = user, password = password // server / folder ~ / folder'
3. In WINE settings specify a network drive along the path ~ / folder
4. Collect and install fonts according to this recipe
corefonts.sourceforge.net Missing packages during installation - download,
chkfontpath - as a separate package for localinstall-a
5. Open in the terminal “wine cmd ", Go to the c: \ clinic folder and register the libraries:
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
regsvr32 mscomct2.ocx
regsvr32 msmapi32.ocx
If necessary, put msvcrt.dll oleaut.ocx
mscomctl32.ocx in the base folder and register the libraries
6. Run the database, check the performance Uploaded with ImageShack.us
Instead of 650K we are licensed for 50-100K, and we forget about licensing problems and MS products before the arrival of a single all-Russian medical base with multi-platform clients)
PS: I know that we need to add a couple more screenshots with a resolution less than the 14th Fedora. All will be
MS Office "everywhere" - not needed
Unbelievable, but it is a fact. The need to output 1 report from the database in a proprietary format (doc / xls) arises from the doctor no more than 2 times a year, but why all this time to keep the last MS Office in the workplace for at least 7K? For 50 jobs, licensing a proprietary office suite will cost 350Krub.
Tests of a free office began even with OpenOffice 3.2.1 on windows and revealed a remarkable fact: all those completely dissatisfied with the “new office” did not work with any document or table for more than 15 minutes a day, and all fully satisfied with the office suite worked with documents for at least 3 hours a day. After eliminating some of the pitfalls, OO.org was quietly installed on all health care facilities, and just as quietly, MS Office was removed from almost all machines. Of the 50 jobs, 6 remained, where MS Office has been saved so far - the statistics department, which is forced to work actively with database uploads in closed formats and exchange closed format documents with external recipients, whose specialists now make rare uploads from the database for doctors.
MS Windows “everywhere” - not needed
Actually, Windows is not needed at the doctor’s workplace. It is not safe, what you can buy now is demanding on resources, the cost of licensing the OS for the "average" clinic for 50 jobs will be more than 300Krub. But most importantly - why can he be "everywhere" needed? Even MS Office 2010 can be installed under WINE, additional services are just as good at closing free Linux applications (browser, jabber client, VNC client, PDF viewer, etc), if it weren’t for the medical base on VFP - document management and browsing for internal resources, doctors can implement without Windows
/ me experimented with different distributions and a different set of software for a year, but settled on Fedora 14, which is centrally updated from the local repository of a closed "corporate network". High stability compared to other "user-friendly" distributions, Russification of interfaces, low resource requirements, support for a wide range of hardware, a small and radically free main repository.
The last step to the doctor’s workplace,
Mount a network drive
su -c 'mount -t cifs -o defaults, uid = 0, gid = 512, dir_mode = 0775, file_mode = 0666, user = user, password = password // server / folder ~ / folder'
3. In WINE settings specify a network drive along the path ~ / folder
4. Collect and install fonts according to this recipe
corefonts.sourceforge.net Missing packages during installation - download,
chkfontpath - as a separate package for localinstall-a
5. Open in the terminal “wine cmd ", Go to the c: \ clinic folder and register the libraries:
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
regsvr32 mscomct2.ocx
regsvr32 msmapi32.ocx
If necessary, put msvcrt.dll oleaut.ocx
mscomctl32.ocx in the base folder and register the libraries
6. Run the database, check the performance Uploaded with ImageShack.us
Result
Instead of 650K we are licensed for 50-100K, and we forget about licensing problems and MS products before the arrival of a single all-Russian medical base with multi-platform clients)
PS: I know that we need to add a couple more screenshots with a resolution less than the 14th Fedora. All will be